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Ibaraki Chapter Events in 2008

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2008; 2007 [6]; 2006 [7]; 2005 [7]; 2004 [6]; 2003 [6]; 2002 [5]; 2001 [8];

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

How Did We Get Here? Understanding the Current Situation of Japanese Higher Education by Examining its History

Speaker: Joe Tomei, Kumamoto Gakuen University
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (Sun., February 17th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Tsukuba
Venue: Tsukuba Gakuin Universtiy, Tsukuba (formerly Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University)
Description: For those from the West, there are a large number of seemingly inexplicable features in Japanese education in general and Japanese higher education in particular. I would like to suggest that they are understandable when we examine the full history of Japanese education, which allows us to see that decisions made many decades earlier on the basis of far different circumstances have carried over into the present day. Viewing Japanese higher education in this way presents a middle course between the notion that a system that actively discriminates and a system free of any taint or blemish. The presentation will then end with some discussion on the best way to effect change within the system.

Teaching Phonetics for Multiple Purposes - One Approach

Speaker: Joe Tomei, Kumamoto Gakuen University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 17th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Tsukuba
Venue: Tsukuba Gakuin Universtiy, Tsukuba (formerly Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University)
Description: The large number of phonetic texts available suggests that there is no real consensus about what a phonetics class should teach. In this presentation, I will present the outline of my own phonetics course that addresses multiple needs in the university curriculum, needs which are often unaddressed, and include encouraging a familiarity with IPA and English dialects, coping with aspects of what a university course might be like in the West, and encouraging furtherinterest and research. I hope to show how a course that focusses on these multiple aspects can function in a university curriculum and some of the potential pitfalls it may face.

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Teaching Culture Ethnographically/Study Abroad Programs

Speaker: Elaine Gilmour, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., April 27th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Hitachi
Venue: Ibaraki Christian University, Hitachi Omika
Description: This presentation examines what an ethnographic approach to teaching culture is, and suggests components for a community based ethnography course. We'll also consider the point of such a course from the students' perspective, by looking at questionnaire response data provided by students who have participated in Study Abroad programs during their university experience.

Actually Teaching Listening

Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr, ABAX
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., April 27th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Hitachi
Venue: Ibaraki Christian University, Hitachi Omika
Description: Teaching listening effectively means teaching both phonology and knowledge of discourse. A working knowledge of the phonology of natural connected speech, elisions and liaisons, weak forms and reductions helps students with their 'bottom-up' decoding skills. Developing student knowledge of discourse,

particularly of scripts (those discourses in English that tend to follow a set pattern) helps them with their 'top-down' predictive skills.

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