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Chiba Chapter Events in 2003

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Sunday, February 16th, 2003

cancelled Ideas on Using the Movie Mystery Train for English Teaching

Speaker: Michael Hnatko
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 16th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Chiba Community Center (Take JR mono-rail from Chiba Station to Chiba Shiyakkushomae)
Description: This event has been cancelled. The speaker will present a few scenes from the 1989 movie Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch and, using film criticism, show how these scenes can be highly interesting texts for students.

About the speaker: Michael Hnatko is a graduate of Brown University and Teachers College Columbia University and has taught English in many countries including Egypt, Greece, Spain, South Korea, Turkey, Syria, France and 10 years in Japan.

Sunday, April 20th, 2003

Learning from Movies & TV Programs: Do's & Don'ts

Speaker: Lyudmila "Linda" Fudzikata
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., April 20th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Bunka Hall at SATY, Room 2 (4th Floor), 3 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line.
Description: An English-speaking environment can be created in Japan without going overseas, through extensive recording, listening, and watching of American and British movies and TV programs -- . It's the best way of learning English for non-native speakers because it's relatively cheap and available for everybody -- both learners and teachers -- and helps to perfect pronunciation, listening, reading and nonverbal communication skills. The presenter will give selection criteria and demonstrate some of the most suitable video recordings. The criteria for using movies and TV programs are critical. These criteria and teaching methods will be presented with opportunities for audience participation. With these methods the presenter, who graduated from the University of Cinematography in Moscow, has increased her own English level over the years. She recommends her students to do the same.

Sunday, June 22nd, 2003

Creating Confident Creative Conversationalists With Communication Circles

Speaker: Thomas C. Anderson
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 22nd, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Bunka Hall at SATY (4th Floor, room 2), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line.
Description: This presentation will begin with an examination of four problem areas that exist for EFL teachers in Japan. We will then turn to communication circles, an easy to organize activity which has become the cornerstone of the presenter's Oral English classes. Functions and the effects of using communication circles will be examined. Variations and evaluation/testing will also be discussed. Audience participation/discussion will be warmly encouraged. Thomas C. Anderson has taught in various venues in Japan for nearly twenty years and is currently teaching at three different Kanto area universities.

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

Addressing Individual Differences through Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Speaker: Ronald Schmidt
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 28th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Bunka Hall at SATY (4th Floor, room 2), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line.
Description: Addressing individual differences in the second language classroom is an important factor in lesson planning. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences may serve as a way to address these differences. The workshop will begin with a description of Gardner's theory. The relevance of his theory to educators will be discussed as well as ways by which students may be assessed using a survey type questionnaire. The workshop will conclude with a description of a variety of language teaching activities which may be used to address individual differences in the second language classroom based on Gardner's theory.

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003

Rules, Patterns and Words: A Pedagogic Description of Language

Speaker: Dave Willis
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Wed., November 26th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Togane
Venue: Building H, Presentation Hall (3rd Floor), Josai International University, Togane-shi (Togane Line to Gumyo)
Description: Dave Willis will show how grammar and lexis, contrary to traditional notions, are indeed related. He will look at the implications of this interrelationship for language teaching. Willis has worked in ELT for almost forty years. He worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Ghana, Cyprus, Iran and Singapore as well as the UK. He recently retired from his job as a Senior Lecturer working on MA TEFL/TESL programmes at Birmingham University, but continues to be active in ELT writing and running consultancies. He has written extensively on discourse analysis, task-based learning and pedagogic language description. His latest book Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching will be published by Cambridge University Press in December of 2003.

Sunday, December 7th, 2003

Two presentations: Children, and Debate

Speaker: Ali Taylor and Nobuyuki Maeda, Longman ELT
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., December 7th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Bunka Hall at SATY (4th Floor, room 2), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line.
Description: Two presentations today. The first is Your Students will Cheer for English with Hip Hip Hooray! Children love and are comfortable with stories. They inspire the imagination and breathe life into the classroom. Yet this popular tool of language learning is often regulated to the role of supplementary or filler material. Exploring the benefits and practicalities of integrating story-based curricula with phonics, TPR, games, activities and songs, we will look at the Perfect Partner to make you students cheer for English -- Hip Hip Hooray!
Ali works at Longman as a Children's Material Consultant in the ELT Department. Throughout Japan she gives numerous Teacher Training workshops on Young Learner themes.
The second presentation today is Impact Values: Critical Thinking and Real Debate. Nobuyuki Maeda will show how teachers can select and present controversial high-interest topics to generate discussion by providing strategies to allow 'average' students to engage in real debate.

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