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Iwate Chapter Events in 2001

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Sunday, February 25th, 2001

Language Strategies

Speaker: Anthony Rausch (Faculty of Education at Hirosaki University)
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., February 25th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate International Plaza, Morioka
Description: Mr. Rausch will tell us his ideas about the strategies students use to learn English and present data from his research on Language Strategies with Japanese high school and university students and teachers. Then, we will discuss how knowledge of Learning Strategies can help our own students.

Sunday, April 22nd, 2001

Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook

Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., April 22nd, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate International Plaza
Description: English instruction is about to become an option for the new "Period for Integrated Studies" in the Japanese public schools. Monbusho has published a "Handbook for Elementary School English Teaching Activities," to provide support to teachers. Merner, a member of the authoring committee, will introduce the handbook, share views about the direction public elementary school English seems to be heading, and introduce results of a survey about the current situation in schools which have already implemented English.

Sunday, May 27th, 2001

Dramatizing in the Classroom: Using Drama Techniques to Enhance Your Classes

Speaker: Shimizu Akiko and Mary Burkitt
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., May 27th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate International Plaza, Morioka (Phone: 019-654-8900)
Description: Shimizu Akiko and Mary Burkitt of the Iwate JALT chapter will discuss ways to use drama techniques in the classroom, for children through adults. Refreshments will be served

Sunday, June 24th, 2001

Teaching Culture Through Children's Literature

Speaker: Susan Unher, Morioka University
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., June 24th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Ueda Kominkan, Morioka
Description: Children's stories act as the stepping-stones into the realm of more sophisticated works to follow. Native speakers have this foundation of simplified but important humor, philosophy, and values of their society. The nonnative speaker lacks this advantage, making it more difficult to jump into the world of adult literature of a foreign culture. There are many examples of culture the presenter hopes to share through the use of children's literature.

Sunday, July 15th, 2001

Start Them Out and Keep Them Going

Speaker: Aleda Krause, author of SuperKids and SuperTots
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., July 15th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate Kokusai Koryu (Iwate International Plaza) in Morioka
Description: Krause, a well known English language textbook author for children with more than 26 years of teaching experience to EFL students, will be introducing lots of new, fun, exciting and age-appropriate activities, from her newest kindergarten course book, SuperTots, and from her popular primary course book, SuperKids. Come and join the fun! We will accept questions in Japanese, and bilingual handouts will also be available.

Sunday, August 26th, 2001

Bringing Music into Your Classroom

Speaker: Patsy Brown, Kunohe Board of Education
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., August 26th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate Kokusai Koryu (Iwate International Plaza) in Morioka
Description: If you're an EFL teacher in search of a wacky way to give practical force to seemingly impractical textbook lessons, why not try bringing music into your classroom? Using pre-listening activities, lyrical lessons, miscellaneous music materials, and music-based manuscripts, you can provide painless rehearsal and reinforcement of English structures, pronunciation, idioms, and vocabulary in a way that's sure to subdue the "sleeping student syndrome!"

Sunday, September 30th, 2001

What is Extensive Reading with Graded Readers

Speaker: Jeff Herman, Oxford University Press
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., September 30th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate Kokusai Koryu (Iwate International Plaza) in Morioka
Description: This workshop will demonstrate in complete detail the reasons for and the practical implementation of Extensive Reading with Graded Readers. We will then venture into reading extension activities to show how out-of-class reading readily leads to in-class oral communication. Teachers of all ages and levels will find this workshop useful for developing reading and speaking fluency, confidence and motivation, as well as being a remarkably time-efficient strategy. Participants will receive a free brochure, complete in both English and Japanese, based on research done by Dr. Rob Waring, further explaining the ins and outs of Extensive Reading with Graded Readers.

Sunday, October 28th, 2001

Suggestopedia

Speaker: Charles Adamson, School of Nursing, Miyagi University
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., October 28th, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate International Plaza
Description: Suggestopedia accelerates language learning by employing suggestion to free the students' functional reserves. A pure suggestopedic class consists of three phases:

the decoding of the material,
a concert session,
and elaboration.

Suggestopedia as an independent method will be described first and then suggestions will be offered concerning how these ideas could be applied to the participants' classrooms

Sunday, December 2nd, 2001

Mini Conference & Book Fair

Speaker: Ritsuko Nakata, Mary Lee Field, and many more
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Sun., December 2nd, 2001)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate Kyouikukaikan (across from Iwate Park)
Description: The 2001 Iwate JALT Conference and Book Fair is a perfect opportunity for ESL teachers, ALTs, and anyone interested in English. Check up on the latest English books and teaching materials while hearing some of the best speakers on English education the country has to offer. Don't miss it!! Nakata Ritsuko, author of the popular Let's Go! series will discuss teaching English to children (the presentation will be in Japanese). Ms. Mary Lee Field will talk about encouraging and developing reading skills. These presenters are sponsored by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, respectively, two of the many publishers and booksellers who will be present at the book fair. Other relevant presentations will be held throughout the day.

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