06/07/2025
On June 7th we had our first official workshop at Jeonbuk National University in the education building. We had new people attend and a large room.
Gabriela Villafradez presented Beyond the Classroom: Teaching English through Cooking and Art. She feels that students need human interaction to learn languages so she experimented using British ads and cooking to create group based interaction and both verbal and nonverbal communication. She also used task and project based learning. With authentic input, you get real life communication.
Our second workshop had Yuying Kang's How to Use PRAAT Software for Research and Teaching. She demonstrated PRAAT, which is a research application used to record voices. Her demonstration included many people speaking English, which we listened to, and then had to guess ethnic origins and countries. I felt like a version of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" listening to recordings of Eliza Doolittle and guessing where she is from.
We're making plans this summer for our autumn events. Stay tuned! Be on the lookout for our next gathering the first weekend of September.
In addition, The English Connection summer edition is out. Get in touch if you'd like to take a look at one.
You'll see within its pages that there's an article by one of our own JNJ members!
Also, head over to the International conference website (as can be found with the QR Code) to check out the Displays page. vendors are still open for business!
