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Hokkaido Chapter Events in 2004

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Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Strategy-Based Instruction

Speaker: Jerrold Frank
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., January 25th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: A combination of discussion and activities in a workshop format designed to illustate how strategies work and how teachers might be able to incorporate these methods in their classes.

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004

Adapting Textbook Activities on the Spot

Speaker: Rebecca Arthur, Poole Gakuin University
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 22nd, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: This workshop will demonstrate a variety of ways to adapt textbook activities in the classroom, on the spot, without almost any preparation. Although the workshop will be based on activities typically found in college and university textbooks for false beginners, the adaptations can be made to textbook activities of almost any level. Participants will experience the adaptations firsthand and will have the opportunity to share successful adaptations they have made.

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

Group Sensitive Teaching

Speaker: Tim Murphey
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Sat., March 13th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: This presentation, based on the 2003 book Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom by Dornyei & Murphey, offers practical advice on how to manage language learner groups in a way that they develop into cohesive and productive teams.

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Using Video in the Classroom to Teach Language and Culture: Methods and Technolgies

Speaker: Todd Jay Leonard, Hirosaki Gakuin University
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., May 30th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: In today's communicative-based English language classes, teachers strive to include task-based, student-centered activities to enhance their instructional techniques. In addition to the four skills, there is a need to expose students to cross-cultural ideas. A very good way to augment communicative language teaching and to foster cross-cultural understanding is to include videos in the classroom to demonstrate visually the actual language and culture of the language. In this presentation, Leonard will demonstrate a variety of techniques using videos to get the most out of the language class. (Doors open at 1:00, and the presentation begins at 1:30.) Todd Jay Leonard is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Hirosaki Gakuin University.

Sunday, June 27th, 2004

Current Affairs Using Newspapers

Speaker: Toshihiro Yamanishi, Tomakomai National College of Technology
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., June 27th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: Newspapers are a great resource for background on current affairs. Using newspapers at school provides students with a lot of information about this modern society in which they live. The presenter will introduce one of the lessons he has given about current issues (world politics & economics). (Doors open at 1:00, and the presentation begins at 1:30.) Toshihiro Yamanishi is an Associate Professor at Tomakomai National College of Technology.

Sunday, July 18th, 2004

Good Teaching Practices that help Students Learn

Speaker: Wilma Luth
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., July 18th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: Teachers make decisions about what and how to teach in every lesson they plan. The ultimate question is this: how can we organize our classes in the best possible way so that student learning is maximized? In this presentation we will examine the actions and activities that have been identified as good teaching practices in the School for International Training�s TESOL Certificate course.

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Are Your Kids Salivating?

Speaker: Steve Wright
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 26th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: The natural desire to make sense of the unknown is such a powerful force in everyone's lives...this presentation will be especially useful for those teachers with student motivation problems. Once you've experienced first-hand just what your students would be doing in a constructivist classroom setting, I'm betting you'll wonder why more teachers don't plan their lessons on constructivist principles. Prepare to get your creative juices flowing.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

CALL 2004 Workshop

Speaker: Various speakers
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sat., October 23rd, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): Everyone is requested to pay a 500 yen fee to cover costs of materials
Fee (One-Day members): Everyone is requested to pay a 500 yen fee to cover costs of materials
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Sapporo Gakuin University in Ebetsu
Description: This is a practical forum for all high school and university foreign language teachers interested in simple and state-of-the-art teaching via the internet and computers. Sessions will focus on training in software applications and demonstrations of successful classroom activities, presentations on new developments and research, and reports from active CALL developers in Hokkaido and beyond.

Sunday, October 24th, 2004

21st Hokkaido Language Conference

Speaker: Tom Merner (Featured Speaker)
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Sun., October 24th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 2000 yen, 1000 yen for who pre-register
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Sapporo Gakuin University in Ebetsu
Description: An academic conference with several streams of presentations addressing all levels of language teaching from primary through tertiary. The featured speaker will address the issue of English teaching in elementary schools and related activities. The main focus of presentations will be practical applications for the classroom. A detailed schedule will be posted to the Hokkaido JALT chapter website.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Activating the Lexical Approach and Making Vocabulary Memorable

Speaker: Susan Barduhn
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Tue., November 23rd, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: The Gender Equality Centre at Kita 8 Nishi 3
Description: The Lexical Approach is one of the latest methodologies in ELT. This workshop will explore its theory and execution. The age-old dilemma remains, however, of how to make vocabulary memorable for students. We will be looking at how memory is processed in the brain and considering how we and our students remember things.

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

Annual Bonenkai Potluck Party

Speaker: It's a party!
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Sun., December 12th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 2000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: Bring your favorite dish to complement the turkey and ham that Hokkaido JALT will provide for this festive occasion.

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