The First J-CLIL Annual Bilingual Conference at Toyama Campus, Waseda University, Tokyo: July 2018.

This conference was held on 14th July 2018 by J-CLIL (日本CLIL 教育学会)

It took place in the afternoon and I joined:

The Plenary Talk on 'Authenticity and Motivation in soft CLIL' by Richard Pinner (Sophia University)
followed by:
The Symposium on 'Chances and challenges for CLIL programme implementation in Japan,
with Makoto Ikeda and Corey Fegan, a professor and M.A. student from Sophia, as well as
Tatsuma Shirai, a secondary school teacher from Yokohama, who I had met at a J-CLIL event
at Waseda a year ago.

I then saw three presentations:
Teachers' and learners' language use and patterns of interaction in hard and soft CLIL classes in
a Japanese primary school, where Asami Yamanouchi (Sophia University) reported about her
research in CLIL Mathematics classes.

CLIL an an effective pedagogy for the teaching and learning of heritage languages, where
Barry Kavanagh (Tohoku University) talked about a supplementary Japanese school near Bristol
in England.

Getting the HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) for Math, where Brian Shaw talked about strategies
he uses as an advisor to schools.

The conference also gave me the opportunity to meet teachers who I met at a primary school in Sendai
earlier in 2018.

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