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March 2006

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Civil Rights in Japan

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: Arudou Debito
Time: 6:15 PM - 8:45 PM (Fri., March 03, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 1500 yen (Osaka JALT local membership now only 1000 yen!)
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: The sixth floor meeting room of the Osaka Ekimae Dai-2 Building's Lifelong Learning Center, Tel:06-6345-5000. www.manabi.city.osaka.jp
Description: As educators we have a responsibility to have some awareness of society at large. One measure of a society is how it treats or protects its weakest members. After a brief overview of the treatment ... read more

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Which should we focus on, form or meaning, in our language teaching? Insights from Second Language Acquisition research

Sponsor: Fukui Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Shinichi Izumi, Sophia University
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., March 05, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1.000yen
Prefecture: Fukui
City: Fukui
Venue: Fukui International Activities Plaza
Description: Whether and how to teach grammar has long been a contentious issue for foreign language educators. On the one hand, the traditional approach treats grammar as the main focus of teaching and spends a great ... read more

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Beat Generation Literature in America

Sponsor: Yamagata Chapter
Speaker: Chris Douthit
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sat., March 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Yamagata
City: Yamagata
Venue: Yamagata Kajo Kominkan Sogo Gakushu Center, Shironishi-machi 2-chome, 2-15, Tel. 0236-45-6163
Description: The 1950's was a revolutionary time in American Literature primarily because of a group of crazy, hip freethinkers from San Francisco called the Beats, whose style (in writing and life), candor and subject matter broke ... read more

Juggling and EFL.

Sponsor: Nara Chapter
Speaker: Andrew WOOLLOCK
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., March 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (At Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station, on the Nara Kintetsu Line)
Description: Whilst at first juggling and the study of English may seem unlikely bed-fellows, the former is a great tool in stimulating and facilitating the latter. For approximately four years, I have been teaching students how ... read more

Can IT Solve Age-Old Teaching Problems?

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Mark Cowan
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Sat., March 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Kitakyushu
Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center, room 31 (a 5-minute walk from the Kokura train station for shinkansen, JR train)
Description: How are teachers evaluated for their classroom performance? Does lesson preparation really matter? Can't I just wing it? How are students' abilities evaluated? Do 1 to 5 or Poor to Excellent scale systems have any ... read more

Methods to Conquer Pronunciation Difficulties

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Victoria Taylor, ECC Foreign Language Institute
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., March 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: In this interactive presentation, Ms. Taylor will demonstrate an outline for a 5-week course consisting of 10 separate lessons focusing on common pronunciation errors by Japanese speakers of English. Taken as a course, there is ... read more

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Music in the EFL Classroom

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Steven Morgan, Daito Bunka University, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the British Embassy Choir Tokyo and Director of Music at St. Alban's Anglican Church, Tokyo.
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 12, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan 5F (near Omiya Station, west exit,see map).
Description: The use of music as a tool in second language education has a long history in the folk pedagogy of the profession, and most teachers include listening to and/or singing songs in the grab bag ... read more

Fun Activities with Junior and Senior-High Learners

Sponsor: Yokohama Chapter
Speaker: Jonathan Robinson
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., March 12, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills & Culture Center) near JR Kannai & Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details & a map]
Description: Are you running out of ideas? Sure, we all do. Here's your chance to learn from and share your ideas with other teaching professionals. During this presentation you will learn how to make your activities ... read more

"Synergize your students'skills!" and "Read your way to better English!"

Sponsor: Matsuyama Chapter
Speaker: Euan McKirdy, Macmillan LanguageHouse
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., March 12, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Euan McKirdy examines student skills and discusses ways to use input texts as �espringboards�f to promote and encourage student interaction in the classroom. He also looks at graded readers and discusses the merits of implementing ... read more

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

My Share/Open Executive Meeting

Sponsor: Nagasaki Chapter
Speaker: Various
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., March 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F, Meeting Room #1 (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: For our second meeting of the year, we will have two separate sessions: "My Share" - this is a favourite format for many JALT chapters, i.e. "BYOI" - Bring Your Own Idea. You are cordially ... read more

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

The 2nd Annual Mini Colloquium

"Researching ELT in the Japanese Context"

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Theron Muller, Joel Thomas, Sue Fraser Osada, Tetsu Osada, Phil Brown, Takashi Matsuzawa, Atsuko Otsuki and Eddy Jones
Time: 9:15 AM - 3:00 PM (Sun., March 19, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagano
City: Nagano
Venue: Seisen Jogakuin College, Nagano
Description: The Shinshu ELT Research Group will be holding its 2nd Annual Mini Colloquium on the general theme of "Researching ELT in the Japanese context" in association with Shinshu JALT. This will be a day of ... read more

Teaching English to Children

Sponsor: Hiroshima Chapter
Speaker: Yukiko Shima (Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi) and Katherine Mackay (Pearson Education- Longman)
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 19, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Hiroshima
City: Hiroshima
Venue: Hiroshima Peace Park, International Conference Center 3F.
Description: During the first hour, Professor Shima will introduce "The Look and Listen Method." This is a scientifically-organized phonics approach for teaching reading to young learners. Professor Shima manages a teacher training course for elementary school ... read more

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Moodle Training Workshop

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Peter Ruthven-Stuart, Bob Gettings et al
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Wed., March 22, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free (you are encouraged to join JALT)
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Sapporo Gakuin University in Ebetsu
Description: Interested to build an interactive website with forums, chat rooms and more for your English class? Or as a way to give extra homework and handle grading? Try "Moodle", a free, open source learning management ... read more

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Understanding and influencing learners' motivational changes

Sponsor: Fukuoka Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Mark Sawyer, Kwansei Gakuin University & Temple University Japan
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., March 25, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Fukuoka
Venue: Fukuoka Jo Gakuin Tenjin Satellite Campus (9F), Tenjin 2-8-38, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi map
Description: In this presentation, Dr. Sawyer will discuss (1) the relationship between motivation and student behavior; (2) Dornyei & Otto's model of the temporal dimension of motivation; (3) his own data on the fluctuations of Japanese ... read more

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

How can we succeed in teaching English at Junior and Senior High Schools?

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: James Hall, Iwate University Faculty of Education
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Sun., March 26, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate University, Gakusei Senta, Room G21
Description: There is a consensus in second language acquisition that for students to learn a foreign language the following conditions must be met: 1) Learners should have plenty of exposure to the target language and the ... read more

Adapting the "Han" Group Organization for Use in College English Classes

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Cindy Edwards, Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 26, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkai Gakuen University, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo
Description: This presentation explores the group-based class management style of Japanese pre-school and elementary school teachers (Anderson 1988, Lewis 1985) and applies the concepts of peer-management, peer-cooperation, and shared responsibility to a first-year college upper-intermediate level ... read more

Title: A Magical Journey Through English Land

Sponsor: Toyohashi Chapter
Speaker: Lesley Ito
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 26, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: Sponsored by Longman, this is a complete course overview of English Land, featuring a unit walk-through from all six levels. Join the presenter on an adventure through carefully sequenced age appropriate activities, combined with the ... read more

Discussion: Issues in Language Teaching

Sponsor: Sendai Chapter
Speaker: Various Presenters
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 26, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Sendai Mediatheque map
Description: Details to be announced

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