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Himeji Chapter Events in 2004

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2008 [4]; 2007 [7]; 2006 [5]; 2005 [4]; 2004; 2003 [3]; 2002 [7]; 2001 [4];

Sunday, February 1st, 2004

Communications Strategies

Speaker: Ayako Nakashima (Thomson Learning)
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 1st, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: Ms. Ayako Nakashima is the Kansai Representative from Thomson Learning. Ms. Nakashima will focus her presentation on developing Communications Strategies, which will allow higher-level basic and intermediate students to communicate effectively in general topic areas using newly-acquired language thoroughly. Communications strategies can be geared to students of all levels to help them to develop the confidence necessary to understand and use vocabulary and expressions effectively. Pair and small-group activities are very important in these kind of activities.

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

Techniques for Language Planning

Speaker: Steve King (Longman ELT)
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 7th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: Steve King describes and demonstrates various techniques and activities involving Language Planning. Language Planning gives learners time to think about the task they will do. The learners focus on what they will say and how they will say it. Although Language Planning is rare in textbooks, you can easily add it to nearly any book or lesson you are teaching.

Sunday, April 18th, 2004

Storyboards For All Occasions

Speaker: William Balsamo
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., April 18th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 300 yen
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: Storyboards are useful teaching tools for activities in the ESL classroom. They can be used for writing classes as well as term projects. They can be assigned either for individual or group work. Storyboards elicit a creative response from students because they encourage the use of imagination. This presentation demonstrates how storyboards can be used by students making filmscripts about their own lives or club activities; the students then narrate the storeline video excerpt shown in class. They can then create their own movie video. In this workshop, participants will be asked to create their own storyboards.

Sunday, June 13th, 2004

Teaching Children

Speaker: Julian Warden, Oxford University Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., June 13th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free (sponsored by OUP)
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: Julian Warden from Oxford University Press will hold a lively two-hour workshop on teaching children. The content will include guidance on teaching children, including useful classroom language and management, ideas on teaching conversation, vocabulary and grammar, and storytelling techniques.

Sunday, July 4th, 2004

Learning to Read; Reading to Learn (Hijime)

Speaker: Steven King, Longman Publishing
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., July 4th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free (sponsored by Longman)
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: Graded Readers are a great tool for motivating language learning, and this lively presentation by Steven King from Longman Publishing looks at a range of techniques for exploiting their potential in the classroom. Get your students on the road to reading and vocabulary building.

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

Successful Student Presentations: From the Self, to the Culture, to the Content, to the World

Speaker: Patrick Dougherty, PhD
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 12th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 300 yen
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: This presentation will give detailed lesson plans, examples, and rubrics for four student presentation units: The Me Box, The Culture Box, The Content Box, and The World Box. The central idea is that students will progress in self-confidence, and language acquisition, if they are provided with the opportunity to use the target language to explore quadrants of importance to the self. Qualitative support of the efficacy of this approach will be offered.

Sunday, December 5th, 2004

Having Fun with English Activities

Speaker: Ayako Nakashima from Thomson Publishing
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., December 5th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: Ayako Nakashima will present activities which will help to motivate students to use their English skills and allow them to have some fun at the same time.

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