A Long Road to Becoming a Language Teacher

This post showcases a presentation from the Pigate gathering on March 13, 2021. In that presentation pab presented a sweeping retrospective on 60 years in education.

Questions and reflections are welcome in comments on this post.

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Classroom practice: Using instruction checking questions (ICQs)

This post showcases a presentation that Taishi Kaneko (KU, Fac. of Educ., M2) used for a demonstration and discussion of instruction checking questions (ICQs) at the PIGATE gathering earlier this month (2017.05.13). Taishi began to develop his interest in ICQs while studying overseas last year.

If you have comments or questions regarding ICQs and their use or potential, please feel free to spell them out in comments on this post. Suggestions of and pointers to related resources also are welcome.

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Study in Ireland!

I just received the following information about four-week scholarships to study in Ireland for English teachers:

The Embassy of Ireland in Japan is pleased to announce the 2015 Ireland Scholarship for teachers of English working in Japan. Please find attached details. Application opening date is Saturday 21st February and the closing date is Friday 20th March.

For more information about this, please look at this and this.