Author: LiLT SIG

Dear LiLT SIG members, I want to say thank you for being members of the Literature in Language Teaching SIG. I would also like to quickly introduce myself as the new President of LiLT. My name is Camilo Villanueva, and I took over from Suzanne Kamata this January. I would like to send a big thanks to Suzanne for all of her hard work at LiLT and especially for her help in easing my transition to this new role. As part of my duties representing all of you members of the LiLT SIG, I attended, virtually, the February EBM (executive board meeting) and met with other leaders of SIGs and Chapters, along with the directors of JALT. Below are some of my notes that may be of relevance to you and others. The call for presentation proposals for JALT National in Nagoya on 11/20-22 is open now until March 8 @ 11:59pm. See the details here: https://events.jalt.org/event/73/ There is a call for nominations...

On November 29th 2020, Tokyo JALT and LiLT SIG held a collaboration event through Zoom. All of the following talks were recorded. If you would like to request access to the recorded talks, please contact us at liltsig@gmail.com ...

JALT International Conference, 16th-23rd November, 2020 LiLT SIG Featured Speaker:  Dr. Christian Jones (Liverpool University, UK) Sponsored by JALT Literature in Language Teaching SIG Literary Texts: Access, Activity and Awareness Saturday, Nov 21, 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM This workshop will illustrate an Access, Activity and Awareness methodology (Jones and Carter, 2012) and show how we can apply this method to any piece of literature. This interactive workshop will demonstrate that literary texts are rich in both spoken and written language by asking participants to work directly with a range of sample texts. It will also show that such texts can develop student engagement and language awareness at different levels and age groups. Dramatised Literature & Spoken Language Awareness Sunday, Nov 22, 5:55 PM – 6:20 PM Recent developments in corpus-informed materials (e.g. McCarthy and McCarten, 2018), have greatly improved the dialogues learners encounter in textbooks but many can be unnatural. As a result, there is a need for more realistic and motivating models of speech. Dramatised literature offers...