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Kitakyushu Chapter Events in 2002

Events archive by year:
2008 [10]; 2007 [13]; 2006 [9]; 2005 [13]; 2004 [15]; 2003 [13]; 2002; 2001 [9];

Saturday, January 12th, 2002

Charting the future: Kitakyushu JALT in 2002 and beyond

Speaker: Roundtable discussion (Chairperson: Paul Collett)
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., January 12th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: 2001 has been a busy and trying year for Kitakyushu JALT. The local team took on the challenge of hosting an international conference, which to the surprise of no-one but a few non-local skeptics proved to be a roaring success. Building on the strengths and skills we have gained from hosting PAC3 at JALT2001 is one of the goals of Kitakyushu JALT for 2002. To that end our first meeting of the new year will be a roundtable discussion focusing on the future of our chapter and it's relevance to our members. All chapter members and guests are invited to attend and put forward their visions of how Kitakyushu JALT can help with their teaching and development as educators. For those unable to attend the meeting, a questionnaire will be available on-line to allow a sharing of opinions - check back for the URL in a few days.

Saturday, February 9th, 2002

Deconstructing TLT
(The Language Teacher publication of JALT)

Speaker: Various speakers (Moderator - Kana Higashijima)
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., February 9th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: Kana Higashijima of Meiji Gakuen will moderate a discussion of Nguyan Thi Hoa An's "Cultural Effects on Learning and Teaching English in Vietnam," which can be found in the January 2002 issue of The Language Teacher or posted online at http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/02/jan/an.html. Please read the article before coming to the meeting.

Saturday, March 9th, 2002

English in Elementary Schools: What Will It Mean for Secondary School Teachers?

Speaker: Kensaku Yoshida, Sophia University and Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., March 9th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: Please join the Kitakyushu JALT chapter for a talk on how changes to the elementary curriculum may affect English education in secondary schools.
The speakers will share their knowledge and experience from working on Monbukagakusho committees to revise English education. Topics covered will include the current state of English education and teacher training in elementary schools, proposed options for elementary English education and how these changes may affect secondary English education.
This presentation will be sponsored in part by STEP and should be of interest to teachers at the elementary and tertiary levels as well. Bring a friend.

Saturday, April 13th, 2002

On the Edge: Integrating Technologies in the Curriculum

Speaker: Paul Collett, Nigel Stott, Malcolm Swanson
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., April 13th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: Technology is always embraced in the classroom, but the current wave of Internet and multimedia-based tools make it easy for teachers to fall behind. The presenters will introduce ideas for utilising these appealing technologies. Collett discusses creating wireless content-based sites students can access through portable devices, particularly cell phones. Stott looks at creating and using multimedia software. Swanson describes a course on multimedia technology used in a junior college. The session will end with a Q&A session with participants.

Saturday, May 11th, 2002

Homework -- A Panel Discussion

Speaker: Patricia Kasamatsu, Erika Matsui, Tony Ruiz, Andrew Zitzmann
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., May 11th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: Like many things our teachers and parents made us do, homework is never particulalry enjoyable though deep down you know it's got to be good for you. So how do you convince students of this? Panelists representing different facets of English teaching will discuss their philosophies of homework, after which the meeting will be opened to questions and discussion from the floor.

Saturday, June 8th, 2002

Homework - My Share

Speaker: Christopher Carman, Judith Johnson and Mike Vrbanac
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., June 8th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: As a follow-up to the May meeting, members will share successful homework projects / systems / strategies. We are still looking for volunteers who can share such projects with a 10- to 15-minute explanation and handout.

Saturday, July 13th, 2002

Deconstructing TLT, Part II

Speaker: Various members (Moderator - Kimiko Murata)
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., July 13th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: Led by Kimiko Murata, we will discuss the article "Biracials and Bullying: Preparing Kids for School" from the May 2002 isue of The Language Teacher, published by JALT. Be sure to read the article before coming to the meeting.

Saturday, August 3rd, 2002

Kitakyushu JALT 1st Annual Summer Event

Speaker: All Welcome
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Sat., August 3rd, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): 3,000 yen per person
Fee (One-Day members): 3,000 yen per person
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Kitakyushu
Venue: TOEI Kaikan Beer Garden, TOEI Kaikan, Kokura
Description: Kitakyushu JALT invites you to our 1st annual summer event. This year we will be enjoying 2 hours of drinking and eating at the TOEI Kaikan Beer Garden, which offers over 90 dishes from 13 countries and a long list of drinks. The price for this feeding frenzy is 3,000 yen per person. Family and friends are most welcome. If you have any queries or wish to reserve a place please contact Andrew Zitzmann by email at andrew.z@jcom.home.ne.jp.
NOTE this will not be in the regular venue! The TOEI Kaikan Beer Garden is on the roof of TOEI Kaikan, located in downtown Kokura at 2-6 Senba Machi, on the same corner as the Yamaha building and the Mizuho Bank, near Izutsuya. All the buses coming and going in the direction of Yahata and Tobata stop in front of the building.

Saturday, September 14th, 2002

Shuffling Strategies

Speaker: Joy Jarman-Walsh
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., September 14th, 2002)
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: Unsuccessful communication classes can often be blamed on two obvious problems; students do not talk with each other in English or coorperate in doing a task. Jarman-Walsh found that the key for her classes was to make groups more effective by observing behavior and re-shuffling groups. In this presentation, she explains how she:

observed the students,
designated them by behavior types,
created new groups based on an idea of a "balanced" group and finally
observed them again to see if the groups had improved.

Saturday, October 12th, 2002

Non-verbal Communication for Language Teachers

Speaker: Stephen M. Ryan
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., October 12th, 2002)
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: Do you enjoy laughing? Do you enjoy good dry British humor that can make you laugh so hard that you are almost crying? If you do, then we are happy to say that Stephen Ryan from Osaka will be doing a presentation on non-verbal communication. Not only is he funny, but his presentations are filled with practical ideas for helping students realize the importance of non-verbal communication.

Saturday, November 9th, 2002

Creating Learning states With Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Speaker: Francesco Bolstad
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., November 9th, 2002)
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: This presentation will consist of an introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a hands-on experience of Anchoring, a technique to access states (emotions).

Monday, November 18th, 2002

Story-telling Activities in the Young Learner Classroom

Speaker: Jane Willis, Aston University (UK)
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Mon., November 18th, 2002)
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: To learn English, children need lots of experience of English in use. Teacher talk is excellent exposure to English, but teachers need to feel confident in using it and know how to make it comprehensible. This workshop will illustrate ways that teachers can use English in their classes to help children have fun learning English naturally. We shall hear recordings of teachers doing story-telling activities in their classes, examine the language they use, and look at how teachers can make story-reading both interactive and engaging. Please bring stories and story books you might use with your classes. Jane Willis is the author of Teaching English through English (Longman) and co-author of English For Primary Teachers: a handbook of activities and classroom language (Oxford) among other texts and activities. Her tour in Japan has been made possible by the generous support of the British Council.

Saturday, December 14th, 2002

American Headway

Speaker: Julian Warden
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., December 14th, 2002)
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: Oxford University Press celebrates the launch of American Headway! American Headway is a new multi-level four skills series for adults and young adults who want to use American English both accurately and fluently. Grammar and vocabulary are taught and explained thoroughly and all four skills are developed systematically. American Headway combines the best of traditional methods with more recent approaches to make the learning of English stimulating, motivating, and effective.

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