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Chiba Chapter Events in 2004

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Sunday, February 8th, 2004

ELT Materials Use and Design: Problems and Resolutions

Speaker: Kenneth Biegel
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 8th, 2004)
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: Kenneth Biegel will address some difficulties teachers often face while trying to find appropriate materials to use in the EFL classroom. He will suggest ways to solve these problems by utilizing published materials, or designing appropriate materials for specific situations. Biegel has written the McGraw-Hill series, What About You?

Sunday, April 18th, 2004

Know What I Mean? Explaining word meanings in the EFL classroom

Speaker: Eddy White
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., April 18th, 2004)
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: Eddy White examines why explaining meaning can be problematic for teachers and confusing for learners. White offers some guidelines for teachers, and discuss dictionary usage for L1 students decoding L2 lexicon.

Sunday, June 6th, 2004

Using Visual/Spatial Intelligence

Speaker: Jim Smiley
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 6th, 2004)
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: Jim Smiley offers two talks:

Kanji Through Associative Learning. Smiley introduces an associative, learner-centered, and extremely fun way of learning kanji. Discover your own learning type and develop a learning strategy for kanji.
Design Basics for English Teachers. Smiley will focus on the elements of good page layout design to enable teachers to produce good-looking documents quickly and easily.

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Top Up Communication

Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 26th, 2004)
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: Alastair Graham-Marr highlights the importance of developing both top-down and bottom-up processing skills to help students develop their communicative abilities. He shows how to break up the skills of speaking and listening into sets of sub-skills, which can then be a focus of classroom activities for monitoring achievement. Graham-Marr teaches at Tokai University, and edits for an independent ELT press, ABAX Ltd.

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

Monster Classes

Speaker: Charles Kowalski
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., December 19th, 2004)
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 workshop will explore strategies for teaching monster classes - large, required classes with widely varying levels of proficiency and motivation. Topics to be addressed include: setting the stage, lesson and activity design, dealing with written work, generating and sustaining motivation, and assessment. Partipants' own ideas and insights will also be most welcome.

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