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Chiba Chapter Events in 2005

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Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Systemic Functional Grammar

Speaker: Chris Sullivan
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 13th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 1 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: Systemic Functional Grammar is an approach to language which challenges the traditional view of grammar as a set of rules to be obeyed or broken. This presentation will explain how language is classified under Systemics, and will also provide examples of how this system of classification can successfully be used in the classroom.

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

A Literacy Framework: Guided Reading Strategies

Speaker: Robert Baines and Ellen Kawaguchi
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., April 17th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 2 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: Guided reading is a structured reading activity for informational text that helps students make sense of information. Workshop format proceeds from presentation with completed samples to participant practice with graphic organizer templates currently used in USA high school and college English and ESL classes, with specific application to English-Japanese bilingual textbooks addressing vocabulary development and narrative texts.

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Magic in the EFL Classroom

Speaker: Ed Rapoza
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 26th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 2 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: You don't have to be a professional magician to bring magic or its principles into your teaching. Magic inherently motivates and is adaptable to many learning tasks. After a brief demonstration, participants will learn how to make props with everyday objects and brainstorm ways to adapt this art for their own teaching.

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Students beliefs about causes of their failure

Speaker: Chamreoeun Koun
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Thu., October 13th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Language Education Center (Room H-307), Josai International University, Togane-shi (Togane line to Gumyo)
Description: See Tokyo chapter information

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

JALT JSL SIG and Chiba Chapter Joint Meeting

Speaker: Roberta Welch, Fujie Hiroko and Sato Hiroko, Markus Rude
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., December 4th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Room G3-110, Josai International University, Togane-shi (Togane line to Gumyo). Access details:URL:http://www.jiu.ac.jp/englishsite
Description: Three presentations:

1. Individualized long-term reading (poster presentation, Welch, English);

2. How to use newspapers for upper-beginner and lower-intermediate Japanese learners (Fujie and Sato, English and Japanese);

3. How To create a vocabulary learning file with Excel (Rude, English)

Followed by questions, information exchange and network expansion

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