ハタシタ　ケント   Kent D. Hatashita    所属   千里金蘭大学  栄養学部 栄養学科    職種   講師
発表年月日	2016/11/27
発表テーマ	2015 JALT Membership Survey
会議名	JALT International Conference 2016
主催者	Japan Association of Language Teachers
学会区分	国際学会
発表形式	口頭（一般）
単独共同区分	共同
開催地名	Nagoya City, Aichi
発表者・共同発表者	Co-presenter
概要	The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) is a non-profit organization run by volunteers, whose purpose is to improve and promote the teaching and learning of languages in Japan. While the avowed purpose of its geographically-based chapters and its Special Interest Groups (SIGs) is to serve their membership to those ends, the attitudes, wants and needs of this membership have hitherto been understood only anecdotally. This qualitative research sought to remedy this deficiency by giving members the opportunity to discourse freely about JALT. The main finding is that 95% of respondents are in JALT for professional reasons, but of considerably more interest is the increased understanding of the great breadth of member's professional interests, opinions about JALT, and the wide variety of personal concerns, such as gender issues and Japanese identity, that bear on their lives in JALT. Recommendations will be given regarding appropriate responses by JALT and JALT members.