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Omiya Chapter Events in 2004

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Monday, February 9th, 2004

A Box of Delights: Stories for Extensive Reading

Speaker: Jennifer Bassett, Series Editor, Bookworms Library
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Mon., February 9th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free (sponsored by OUP)
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Omiya JACK 5F, 682- 2 Nishiki-Cho Omiya-Ku, Saitama-Shi 330-0853
Description: Stories have been told since time began, creating alternative realities to help us interpret our own world. Jennifer Bassett will demonstrate how reading good stories, at the right level, is a stimulating and rewarding part of learning a language. This presentation is cosponsored with Oxford University Press.

Sunday, March 21st, 2004

VEN: Volunteer Educational Network

Speaker: Nicole White
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 21st, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Omiya Chuo Kominkan (near Omiya Station, west exit)
Description: The Volunteer Educational Network (VEN) is a group of educational professionals dedicated to enhancing education in economically disadvantaged regions of South East Asia, by promoting sustainable educational development. Learn about VEN's teacher-training activities, recent workshops, and how you can participate. For more information about VEN, check their website at www.vol-ednet.com.

Sunday, April 18th, 2004

Beats! and Stories with The Oxford Picture Dictionary

Speaker: Mayuka Habbick
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., April 18th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Omiya Chuo Kominkan (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids introduces over 700 words in the context of 60 colorful illustrations, each of which tells a story. The stories are about five children and their families in various situations relevant to young students. Moreover, the Reproducibles Collection of OPD for Kids helps to organize your lessons with a variety of activities. About the speaker: Mayuka Habbick has been a teacher, teacher-trainer, and presenter in Japan for more than 17 years. In addition to producing educational events for kids and teacher-training, she does translation and materials development to make English education more accessible to Japanese English teachers.

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

Learner Opportunities Outside the Classroom

Speaker: Ken Biegel
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., May 16th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Shogai Gakushu Sogo Center (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: Teachers are often asked for ways to practice English outside the classroom. This presentation will focus on established organizations, the use of multimedia, and how best to develop Internet resources. Finally, developing language-learning cooperatives and networks through the Internet will be introduced. Feedback from the participants will be encouraged in this roundtable discussion.
Kenneth Biegel, author of the conversation series What About You? (McGraw-Hill), has taught in Japan since 1984.

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

Gaining a Better Understanding of Student Perceptions of University Education

Speaker: Mehran Sabet, Seigakuin University
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 20th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Shogai Gakushu Sogo Center (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: University teachers in Japan sometimes feel frustrated as to why their students do not take their studies more seriously and instead focus mainly on their interests, friends, and part-time jobs. About 800 students from two different universities responded to a variety of questions and the results reveal that students have different values and perception of university life in comparison with teachers. The gap may look wide, but a closer look at the society and its expectation of university education tells us that our students may not be far from what they are supposed to be doing. However, as teachers it may be helpful to know more about the students we are teaching, since a better understanding of the situation can result in adjusted expectations and better communication.

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

Self-Evaluation as a Tool for Learner Development

Speaker: Mary Christianson and Heidi Evans Nachi
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., July 11th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Shogai Gakushu Sogo Center (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: Whether your classroom style is more teacher-fronted or more learner-centered, you can easily make room in your lessons for students to engage in critical self-reflection. Whether your students are highly motivated or less invested in their learning, self-evaluation can be a tool for promoting critical thinking and learner autonomy, or simply a way to effectively communicate your expectations in the classroom. In this workshop, the presenters will discuss the benefits and limitations of reflective self-evaluation and demonstrate several practical techniques for using self-evaluation in a variety of language classroom contexts.

Sunday, October 17th, 2004

English Education at Japanese Universities for Technology

Speaker: Emiko Hirose Horton, Shibaura Institute of Technology and Sayuri Yoshizawa, Tokyo Denki University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., October 17th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: In this presentation, we are going to examine what kind of English education is expected, in general, according to MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology), and Engineering colleges and universities. In particular, we will examine the standards of JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education).

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

An Activity in a Communicative Language Classroom - Applying Research Methods of Pragmatics

Speaker: Sayoko Yamashita, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., November 14th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: Professor Sayoko Yamashita will introduce eliciting methods of speech acts which are frequently used for data collection of pragmatics, and suggest some hands-on activities using one of the tools, so English instructors from JHS to college level can use it in their classrooms.

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

My Share

Speaker: JALT Omiya members and guests
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., December 12th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: Give your fellow teachers a year end gift at a My Share Swap. Please bring 25 photocopies of an interesting lesson, technique, organizer, game, or other resource to exchange. Don't worry about planning a formal presentation, but get ready to talk about teaching ideas with your peers. Target age or level is not important: kids through adults, beginners to advanced.

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