Our New General Service List (NGSL) Project has produced 7 different corpus-based lists of important vocabulary words for second language learners, as well as a host of online tools for utilizing them (all lists and tools are open-source and free). This presentation will introduce our latest list, the New Dolch List (NDL) for young learners, as well as the rest of our NGSL lists and resources.

Audience aimed at: Kindergarten and below. Elementary School Age Teachers. Junior High School. High School. Higher Education. General English. School Owners. Remote Teaching. Language of the Presentation: English

Promoting: www.newgeneralservicelist.org (all lists and resources are open-source and free)

A review of how the major brand IRT proficiency tests are prepared and how they score respondents. Find out why these tests are unable to provide meaningful feedback for improving one's English ability and what your students can do to efficiently increase their scores.

Audience aimed at: Junior High School. High School. Higher Education. General English. School Owners. Remote Teaching Language of the Presentation: English

This presentation will focus on how to use corpora to teach vocabulary. It will mainly focus on teaching collocations and connotations of words. The presentation will mostly focus on how to use Sketch Engine for Language Learning and a bit on how to use Coca Corpus to make lists for specific purposes.

Audience aimed at: Higher Education, General Englis Language of the Presentation: English

In stressful times we all need some escapism in our lives. Turning your classroom (even a breakout room!) into an escape room is easier than you think, and makes for lessons full of cooperation, competition and communication. Fiona has created escape rooms for adults and children and will share some of the ideas and activities that have worked for her.

Audience aimed at: Higher Education. General English. School Owners. Remote Teaching Language of the Presentation: English

Listening is a skill often neglected due to a lack of familiarity to the different ways that teachers can create lessons. This presentation will look at various tools (free or highly accessible) that teachers can use to create novel listening activities that can even surpass materials made by major publishers.

Audience aimed at: Elementary School Age Teachers. Junior High School. High School. Higher Education. General English. School Owners. Remote Teaching. Language of the Presentation: English

英語ネイティブではない日本人の講師が指導する、日本人の子ども向けの日本語と英語のバイリンガル教育について話します。

A talk on bilingual Japanese and English education for Japanese children, taught by Japanese instructors who are not native English speakers.

Audience aimed at: Kindergarten and below. School Owners. Language of the Presentation: Japanese with English translation if needed.

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