I'll be facilitating the following professional development workshop at the JALT2024 Technology in Teaching (TnT) and Professional Development (PD) Workshops at the Grandship Shizuoka on Friday, November 15 2024.
Using Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Encourage Bilingualism
Workshop Summary:
In addition to 2024 marking the 50th anniversary of JALT, it also marks the 50th year of the first tabletop role-playing game (Peterson, 2020) which has used role-playing and problem solving tasks (Jackson, 2022) to engage people of all ages since then. Come learn-by-doing this engaging game which can used to promote language learning with children of all ages. Of special focus will be on using tabletop role-playing to engage children of bilingual families.
Please note the following registration information and pricing. (https://jalt.org/conference/jalt2024/registration-fees). TnT/PD Workshops have an additional participation fees
Further information about JALT2024 can be found at (https://jalt.org/conference)
References
- Bottley, G. (2011). Advanced Fighting Fantasy: The Roleplaying Game: Quickstart. Arion Games. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/108092/advanced-fighting-fantasy-quickstart
- Jackson, S. & Livingstone, I. (n.d.) Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks. https://www.fightingfantasy.com/
- Jackson, D. O. (2022). Task-Based Language Teaching (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009067973
- Nobuoka, M., Isozaki, A. H., & Miyake, S. B. (2015). Starting your bilingual child on the path to biliteracy. Monographs on Bilingualism, 17. Available at https://www.bsig.org/monographs
- Peterson, J. (2020). The elusive shift: How role-playing games forged their identity. The MIT Press.