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Midnight, Monday, January 26th

The link to the ZOOM MEETING will be sent to you before the event.

THE THEME for the next event:

Identity: Language & Culture

Speaker: Elisabeth Fernandes

(Osaka Metropolitan University)

Bio

Elisabeth Fernandes has been teaching languages for more than 30 years in Canada, Thailand, and Japan. She currently resides in Hyogo and is teaching mainly at OMU in Osaka. Interests include intercultural communication, learner autonomy, and neuro-education.

Abstract

Questions such as “Where are you from?” and “What is your mother tongue?” have been recurring themes throughout my life. Although they may seem straightforward, providing concise answers to them has consistently proven challenging. In this presentation, I will discuss how my cultural and linguistic background has influenced my personal identity and development.
For fun, let's practice a few words of Portuguese.

Schedule:

Greetings 5 minutes

MAIN PRESENTATION

Breakout room discussions

Final Remarks & Goodbye 5 minutes

We are going to use ZOOM with breakout rooms for the different languages.

Languages may differ each time depending on the participants.

Previously, we offered French, German, Spanish, Tagalog, Portuguese, Persian, Russian, and Hungarian among others.

MOTIVATION:

JALT OLE SIG wants to provide a space to meet and share using languages other than English, creating a community of practice. This is the Multilingual Café: meet and chat in your favorite language. The languages available depend on the participants at the event depending on what languages the participants might speak.

Lingua Francas for the meeting:

English and Japanese.

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