Sendai Chapter

(Read the archived description for the Sendai Chapter)

Sendai Chapter Events in 2003

Events archive by year:
2008 [10]; 2007 [11]; 2006 [12]; 2005 [11]; 2004 [11]; 2003; 2002 [9]; 2001 [8];

Sunday, January 26th, 2003

Literacy in Language Education: What, Why and How

Speaker: open roundtable discussion
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., January 26th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free (also free for TALE members; TALE is Tohoku Association of Language Educators)
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for non-JALT and non-TALE members)
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Aibaku Chuo Shimin Center (formerly the Ichibancho Shimin Center) behind Maruzen
Description: In this discussion about literacy and its role in L-2 education, participants are invited to bring their knowledge, experiences, arguments and questions to the discussion. We begin by focusing on what literacy means in terms of L-2 training. We explore how it might relate to student literacy in L-1. We also look at why teachers should or should not be concerned with literacy in L-2. In addition, we cast about for ideas, theories and experiences in regards to how we can implement literacy in our classrooms. Finally, we contrast and compare what literacy might mean to three basic areas of language education - children, tertiary students and adult language learners.

Saturday, February 15th, 2003

Neurolinguistic Programming Weekend Workshop (day 1 of 2)

Speaker: Charles Adamson, Ph.D
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Sat., February 15th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): read the description of this weekend event for details
Fee (One-Day members): read the description of this weekend event for details
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Itsutsubashi campus of Tohoku Gaigo Gakuen
Description: The 2003 NLP Workshop is a weekend workshop in downtown Sendai on Sat. February 15 and Sun. Feb. 16. The presenter, Charles Adamson, Ph.D., is a certified Master Practitioner of NLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming.

For those who attended the successful 2001 NLP, rest assured that this year's program will cover fresh areas of the subject, as well as recharge stuff that we learned then.

What will you get from the NLP Weekend?
In this two-day workshop you will learn a series of these NLP techniques that will allow you to become an even better teacher. You will learn methods to elicit and maintain optimal states in both yourself and your students. You will become proficient at anchoring, a procedure for eliciting specific responses from your students by controlling physical, spatial, linguistic, and neurolinguistic cues. You will learn how to mirror your students, both physically and verbally, to insure increased levels of communication. You will master the use of embedded commands, which allow you to indirectly change you students' behaviors. You will develop the flexibility to control your own internal state when dealing with those problem students.

About the location:
2003 NLP will be held on the Itsutsubashi campus of Tohoku Gaigo Gakuen, also known as Tohoku Gaigokugo Senmon Gakko [Tohoku Foreign Language College]. This is a central downtown location. The school is located on the West side of Kamisugi Dori (the big street running past Sendai station) a few meters south of the intersecting street called Renbo. There is a koban on the north west corner, so you can't get lost. If you exit from the Itsutsubashi subway through the central west exit, you will be nearly on Gaigo's mezzanine floor and facing the reception counter.

Pre-Registration:

Members as well as NON-members of JALT/TALE - 10,000 Yen,
Students (attending a program of study recognized by Mombosho) - 6000 Yen,
Faculty and staff of Tohoku Gaigo Gakuen - free.

Registration at the Door:

Members - 12,000 Yen,
Non-members - 13,000 Yen,
Students - 7000 Yen,
Faculty and staff of Tohoku Gaigo Gakuen - free

Pre-registration must be made no later than Feb. 15th, 2003 and please note: Do not send money. All fees will be collected at the door. To preregister or if you have questions, please contact Lorne Spry

at (022)781-0750, or
E-mail marilorn@sh.comminet.or.jp

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

Neurolinguistic Programming Weekend Workshop (Day 2 of 2)

Speaker: Charles Adamson, Ph.D
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Sun., February 16th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): read the description of this weekend event for details
Fee (One-Day members): read the description of this weekend event for details
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Itsutsubashi campus of Tohoku Gaigo Gakuen
Description: The 2003 NLP Workshop is a weekend workshop in downtown Sendai on Sat. February 15 and Sun. Feb. 16.

For details, see day 1 of this weekend.

Sunday, March 30th, 2003

Language - What Is It That We Are Teaching?

Speaker: roundtable discussion
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 30th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free (also free for TALE members; TALE is Tohoku Association of Language Educators)
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for non-JALT and non-TALE members), students 500 yen
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Aoba-ku Chuo Shimin Center (formerly the Ichibancho Shimin Center)
Description: The March meeting will be a discussion the nature of language. Our individual models of language determine how and what we teach. Thus, it is very important that we, as teachers, have a clear and usable understanding of the nature of language, so that our teaching will be consistent and effective.
A pre-reading handout is available for participants to read before attending. To recieve this handout, contact John Wiltshier [johnw@sda.att.ne.jp]. We will begin the discussion with the points mentioned in the pre-reading: relative clauses, universal grammar (UG), learnability, the critical period hypothesis, access to UG, markedness, and cognitive versus linguistic explanations. Where the discussion goes from there will depend on the participants.

Sunday, April 27th, 2003

Taboo English

Speaker: Anthony Crooks, Miyagi University of Education
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., April 27th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free (also free for TALE members; TALE is Tohoku Association of Language Educators)
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for non-JALT and non-TALE members), students 500 yen
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Aoba-ku Chuo Shimin Center (formerly the Ichibancho Shimin Center)
Description: This presentation focuses on the issue of addressing Taboo English in the ESL/EFL classroom. It is felt that this linguistic area is a vital feature of English, but it is neglected in most language courses, often to the detriment of the students. The presentation discusses the results of an Action Research project conducted with adult participants who attended a brief course on Taboo English while in an Intensive English Program in Melbourne, Australia. The presentation will also address the question of presenting Taboo English in EFL contexts such as Japan, along with some of the issues involved for teachers, students and administrators when delivering such classes. ELT Materials for Taboo English will also be presented and discussed. Please note that due to the potentially sensitive nature of this presentation, participants should exercise discretion when choosing to attend. Please keep in mind that, in discussing Taboo English, explicit content will be raised during this presentation and therefore may not be appropriate to all individuals. About the presenter: Anthony Crooks is a lecturer in English Education at Miyagi University of Education.

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

Multiple Intelligences

Speaker: Keith Adams, Tohoku Gakuin University
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 29th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free (also free for TALE members; TALE is Tohoku Association of Language Educators)
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for non-JALT and non-TALE members), students 500 yen (but free the first time)
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Aoba-ku Chuo Shimin Center (formerly the Ichibancho Shimin Center)
Description: The afternoon begins with a half-hour demonstration by Charles Adamson entitled "NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) Skills Training". In this, which hopefully will be the first of many NLP Skills Training sessions, Charles Adamson, NLP Master Practitioner, will introduce an exercise for increasing one's ability to establish rapport with students. Rapport between teacher and students allows the teacher farmore flexibility in the classroom and improves the students' learning.

This is followed by the main presentation, Multiple Intelligences. The Theory of Mulitiple Intelligences (MI) was introduced by Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard University twenty years ago. The traditional view of intelligence is that intelligence is general in nature. In other words, our ability to function successfully in arange of domains comes from one central-processing unit. However,according to the MI theory, we actually have a number of relatively autonomous processing units. The presenter, Keith Adams, recently had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Professor Gardner in Tokyo. Drawing upon the content and questions fromGardner's presentation, Keith will discuss the theory and implications of MI for educational settings. Following Keith's review of Gardner's presentation, there will be agroup discussion on multiple intelligences and the possibilities it presents for the classroom.
About the presenter: Keith Adams is Associate Professor in the English Department of Tohoku Gakuin University.

Sunday, August 31st, 2003

World English - What is it and should we teach it?

Speaker: A roundtable discussion
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., August 31st, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free (also free for TALE members; TALE is Tohoku Association of Language Educators)
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for non-JALT and non-TALE members), students 500 yen (but free the first time)
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Aoba-ku Chuo Shimin Center (formerly the Ichibancho Shimin Center)
Description: The August meeting will be a discussion on World English. As always the discussion will go wherever the participants take it, we will as a minimum touch on these questions:

What are the various varieties of English, how are they defined, and who owns them?
Is there a single variety of English that can be styled as World English?
Do our students need to know this or should they learn a particular variety such as American, British, or Australian?

There is no pre-reading for this discussion but you might think about the subject so that you can add you ideas and questions to the discussion.

Sunday, October 26th, 2003

Testing: An Important Component in Language Teaching

Speaker: Brenda Hayashi
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., October 26th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen, students 500 yen (but free the first time)
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: AER 28F El Solar Kenkyushitsu 2
Description: Mention the word "testing" and many people grimace and groan. It seems that testing has a bad reputation, at least in some circles. Testing does not need to be viewed as a necessary evil; rather, it is an important component in language teaching, for both teachers and students. In this session, participants will first examine sample test items and evaluate them (e.g., What is being tested? How is a student being tested? Is the test appropriate?). We will then go over kinds of tests and test-making guidelines. Finally, we will do some item-writing, creating tests for our own various teaching situations. The presentation will finish at just before 4pm to allow for a short break before the Sendai JALT Annual Business Meeting. This is an important meeting where the officers for the next year will be elected.

Find Events

By chapter or SIG
By month
By prefecture

Front page