Kagoshima Chapter

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Kagoshima Chapter Events in 2003

Events archive by year:
2008 [28]; 2007 [21]; 2006 [9]; 2005 [13]; 2004 [13]; 2003; 2002 [9]; 2001 [9];

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

Book Fair

Speaker: several; TBA
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Sat., January 25th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1-4F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: Kagoshima JALT is co-sponsoring this book fair with Jelly Beans Educational.

Saturday, February 15th, 2003

Esperanto (Day 1 of 2)

Speaker: Alian Lauffenburger
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., February 15th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen (1200 yen discount for both days)
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1-4F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: What is Esperanto? The language and the movement. Learning, teaching, using Esperanto today. Research on Esperanto. The Kushikino project. If time permits, some viewing of a video-course.

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

Esperanto (Day 2 of 2)

Speaker: Alian Lauffenburger
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 16th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen (1200 yen discount for both days)
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1-4F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: If you missed the Saturday afternoon presentation and would like to make up a bit for it, or you would like to see the video again, be sure to attend the warming up session!

10:30 - 12:30: First steps: learning Esperanto with the newest video-course. Self-introduction. You will learn how to introduce yourself and members of your family, your friends, your pet(s), your house, whatever is dear to you, and clarify relations. Don't forget to bring along pictures!
12:30 - 13:30: Lunch break.
13:30 - 16:00: Round table discussion. Time for questions and answers, comments, critics and an open discussion with several Esperantists.
16:00 - 17:00: Tea/coffee exhibition (like Saturday).

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003

Planning Elementary School Classes

Speaker: Nick Walters
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 23rd, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1-4F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: In this presentation participants will produce a plan for a term's worth ofclasses. To do this, we will cover writing goals, contents of classes andactivities. Participants will be expected to give their ideas and work ingroups to produce plans which will be presented at the end of the session.

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

Teaching Young Learners

Speaker: Tibor Lucskai and Charles Rogers, Apricot Publishers
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., May 31st, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1-4F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: Representatives from Apricot Publishers will demonstrate activities and materials for teaching English to young learners.

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

"Play-full" Communication!

Speaker: Kristie Collins
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., June 14th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1-4F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: DramaWorks presents StarTaxi and PopStars, the innovative EFL books that make both learning and teaching easy and fun. The stories are told in 20 scenes of simple yet authentic dialogues and can be used as a complete course or as supplementary material. This workshop-style presentation will show participants how to block the scenes and introduce language activities & warm-up games that reinforce language functions, vocabulary and natural intonation. No props, stage or acting experience necessary!

Saturday, July 12th, 2003

Active English, A Practical Approach to English Teaching: Why-How-Try!

Speaker: Stephen Culhane, Kagoshima University
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM (Sat., July 12th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1-4F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: Outline:

Why?
- Goals for teachers and learners;
- Current approaches in Second Language Acquisition.
How?
- Practical methods for everyday classroom teaching:
- Evaluation of active learners.
Try!
- Try the methods, talk with each other...
- try them again..

(This is a mini-demonstration. The complete workshop is four hours long.)
Background:
Communicative language teaching is more than 25 years old. Yet, many instructors are still searching for practical techniques to make their lessons active and communicative. One reason is because teachers learn from watching other teachers. But, if few or no other teachers are using a communicative approach, we have no models to learn from. This workshop provides teachers with simple methods for making their English lessons truly active and communicative. Workshop participants can become their own models for current teaching methods.

Saturday, October 18th, 2003

Haiku Composed in English as a Japanese Language

Speaker: David McMurray, The International University of Kagoshima
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., October 18th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: David McMurray will be doing a book reading and signing of his new book. We welcome you to come along. David McMurray is Associate Professor in the Humanities Department of the Intercultural Studies Faculty of The International University of Kagoshima.

Language Learning Games for All Ages

Speaker: Bill Pellowe, Kinki University
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., October 18th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 1F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: Many well-known card games can be adapted into language practice activities. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn some games and ways of adapting them to different ages and levels of ability. You'll also learn two magic tricks! The focus of the afternoon is on fun, practical activities that students enjoy.

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