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Akita Chapter Events in 2004

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Saturday, February 28th, 2004

Learning Maps

Speaker: Dave Ragan
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., February 28th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: Joinus in Akita City near Senshu Park
Description: In this workshop we will learn the basic rules of creating Learning Maps, also known as mind maps. We will create Learning Maps as a group and then discuss how this skill can be used for teaching or learning English. If time permits we will then do a quick small group learning map from a reading about learning maps.

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

ESP (English for Specific Purposes) - Adapting an American High School Science Textbook for the ESL/EFL Classroom

Speaker: Stephen Shucart
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., March 27th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: Joinus in Akita City near Senshu Park
Description: In this talk, Stephen Shucart explores how to use an American science textbook in a university-level English class. He used the Active Reading series of textbooks by Neal Anderson as a basis for the adaptation. He first gives a detailed explanation of his Active Reading methodology, then shows how it can be used to generate various exercises for a General English course. Shucart also explains how each class is organized. The talk is illustrated with handouts of examples from the textbook, as well as samples of the activities he created based on this Active Reading methodology.

Saturday, April 24th, 2004

Using English in Thailand: Is It Different from Japan?

Speaker: Nantarika Chansue
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., April 24th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: Joinus in Akita City near Senshu Park
Description: Nantarika Chansue will describe English language education in Thailand at all levels and discuss the use of English in commercial and professional life, with a final focus on this question: Why is the use of English in Japan and Thailand - two Asian countries with similar histories - so different? Dr. Chansue is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Thailand's leading national university, Chulalongkorn University.

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

The SETS program

Speaker: Brad Blackstone
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., May 29th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: B103 Akita International University
Description: Brad Blackstone, assisted by the multimedia wizardry of David Weaver, will describe the Summer English Teachers' Seminar (SETS) held in Yokote in August 2003 for approximately 60 Akita secondary school English teachers. Topics include program goals, preparation and organization, the innovative methods used for presenting seminar topics, skill areas covered, and participants' reactions. The review of the program will be followed by a panel discussion of SETS trainers and participants.

Saturday, June 26th, 2004

Two for One (Two one-hour presentations)

Speaker: 1) Mary Brooks 2) Mark Landa
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., June 26th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: B103 Akita International University
Description: Mary Brooks will talk about Online and onsite: the American ESL classroom. She will share her reflections on teaching language and educating language teachers in online/onsite environments.
Mark Land will talk about A Pronunciation Workout. English pronunciation is often seen as a major obstacle for Japanese students. Get ready for a refreshing look at pronunciation work with the presenter.

Saturday, July 24th, 2004

Viva! Japanese Teachers of English!

Speaker: Michiko Sugita
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., July 24th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: Akita International University library
Description: Michiko Sugita's talk today has two themes: Monolingual classes vs Multilingual classes, and Native speaker teachers vs Non-native speaker teachers. As a Japanese teacher of English for a high school, Sugita has come to the conclusion that Japanese teachers of English (JTEs) are better at managing English classes in high school. The classroom in Japan is quite unique, given that JTEs have monolingual classes and a large class size, as well as the fact that that JTEs spend most of the time being together with their own students as homeroom teachers. Sugita videotaped some classes to show as a starter to today's speech. Sugita will also talk about her day-to-day work, analyze some classes of hers and of other teachers, and then she'll discuss her goals as a teacher.

Saturday, September 25th, 2004

Using Short Texts for Integrated Skills Practice in Second Language Acquisition

Speaker: Christopher Hoskins
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 25th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: Room B103 at AIU (Akita International University)
Description: This presentation will begin by first presenting a selected list of listening, reading, speaking and writing activities, all of which can be done separately, or in combination with a short text of one to three paragraphs. Participants can then experience the activities from the standpoint of a student using the materials a student would use.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

An Overview of Moodle: Course Management System for Language Teaching

Speaker: Thomas E. Blair
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., October 23rd, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: AIU (Akita International University)
Description: This will be a brief overview of the various components (or modules) of Moodle, a free, multilingual course management system (CMS) or virtual learning environment (VLE) with which the presenter and his colleagues have been experimenting over the past 2-3 months. These modules include assignments, forums, glossaries, journals, lessons, quizzes, resources and surveys.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

The Lexical Approach and Making Vocabulary Memorable

Speaker: Susan Barduhn
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Wed., November 24th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for students)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: AIU (Akita International University)
Description: The Lexical Approach is one of the latest methodologies in ELT. This workshop will explore its theory and execution. The age-old dilemma remains, however, of how to make vocabulary memorable for students. We will be looking at how memory is processed in the brain and considering how we and our students remember things. Dr. Susan Barduhn is an Associate Professor at the School for International Training and the former President of IATEFL.

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