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Nara Chapter Events in 2002

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Saturday, February 23rd, 2002

Implementing an Oral Proficiency Testing Program at Your School

Speaker: Dean Williams
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., February 23rd, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station)
Description: At the secondary level, foreign language instruction consists mainly of practice activities and taking tests. But there is often a mismatch between how we teach and how (and what) we test: practice is mostly oral and testing is in a written format. The ostensible goal of most foreign language programs is to increase communicative competence; if we are to actually evaluate our students\' progress and level, and oral testing regime would seem to be called for. This talk will focus on an oral proficiency testing program that this teacher has recently implemented. Related topics to be discussed include the exact manner of evaluation, the focus of the testing, and how often to do oral testing.f

Saturday, March 23rd, 2002

Making Effective Use of Multi Media in Project Work

Speaker: Simon Cole
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., March 23rd, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station)
Description: This presentation looks at the experience of a multi-media project at a private High School. In the project, students used a reader-response approach to study the lyrics of an English pop-song. They then used computer software to produce a visual for karaoke, then synchronized subtitles with the song. Students then produced a written justification for their visual with reference to the song's lyrics. The presentation will look at some of the lessons of the project and will attempt to make some generalizations about effective ways to use multi-media in the classroom.

Saturday, September 28th, 2002

Task-Based Learning

Speaker: Jason Moser
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 28th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station)
Description: Jason Moser will discuss task-based learning based upon a recent research project and how and why he uses student journals to support this methodology. Time permitting he will also discuss action research, which was the impetus for the original research project.

Saturday, October 19th, 2002

Practical and Psychological Aspects of CALL

Speaker: Eamonn O'Dowd
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., October 19th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station)
Description: Eamonn O'Dowd's presentation on computer-assisted language learning (CALL), is a demonstration with commentary (not a workshop),followed by a short lecture on the psychology of computers as a learning tool in language education, with reference to the following:

Use of CALL by the teacher.
Use of CALL for self-study.
Is CALL useful? Psychological aspects of CALL, with reference to motivation and learning.

There will be opportunities for questioning and discussion.

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