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Chiba Chapter Events in 2006

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Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Systems for Success

Speaker: Roger Pattimore
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., May 14th, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 1 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: Pattimore states that the teacher's job is to make a mini English-speaking world. He will present some of the activity systems he has developed that are designed to lead students to the ability to use natural English, and that have worked well in his junior and senior high school and university speaking classes. The systems empower teachers to generate activities independent of textbooks and resource books. His advice to participants is to adapt, adapt, adapt! Start building your systems tomorrow!

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Teaching pragmatics through consciousness-raising tasks

Speaker: Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 11th, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 1 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: This seminar aims to enable participants to become aware of issues in interlanguage pragmatics, focusing on cross-cultural differences in the use of language, as well as teaching pragmatics through consciousness-raising tasks while attempting to increase students' learning motivation. The seminar consists of two parts, theoretical consideration and pedagogical application.

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Activities that work

Speaker: Bill Dimoski and Tim Woolstencroft
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., July 16th, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 2 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: This workshop will look at communication activities that have worked in a wide range of teaching situations and that can be easily adapted for students of any age or level. If you have any lesson target or language point that is giving you a problem, come along and we will try to find an activity that works for you.

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Authoring your own autonomy by learning from change

Speaker: Stacey Vye, JALT LD-SIG Co-Coordinator, Meikai University
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 24th, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 2 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: The development of teacher and learner autonomy in language learning is often the consequence of critical moments of change. Participants will be invited to explore self-reflection techniques by recalling and retelling memories of autonomy-inviting experiences that would be suitable for young learners up to adults. The result of the explorations from the workshop and practical samples of classroom use should provide resources that participants can use in the near future.

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

"I can see clearly now" - Teacher discovery through reflection-on-action

Speaker: Andrew Boon - Toyo Gakuen University
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., December 10th, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 2 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: This presentation will provide a practical demonstration of how two teachers can work together using the supportive and non-judgmental interactional framework of Cooperative Development (Edge, 2002) or Instant Messenger Cooperative Development (Boon, 2005) to facilitate and sustain reflection on classroom action in order to find new perspectives about their teaching.

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