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Matsuyama Chapter Events in 2004

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Sunday, January 11th, 2004

Ways of Using Narrative in the Language Classroom

Speaker: Jennifer Danker, Matsuyama University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., January 11th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Narrative can be approached in a variety of ways to promote language learning. Stories can be a stimulus to personalized response and discussion, act as a cultural vehicle, mark a starting point for writing, or be interpreted and dramatized. Lesson ideas will be demonstrated and participants will have the opportunity to try out some narrative activities adaptable to a wide range of learners.

Sunday, February 8th, 2004

Using Participation Points to Promote Participation

Speaker: Tamara Milbourn, Matsuyama University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., February 8th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Students need to use a language in order to acquire it. However, foreign language teachers in Japan often have a difficult time encouraging their students to "participate", especially to ask and answer questions. How can teachers motivate students to be livelier? This presentation will discuss a participation point system designed to promote more active student participation in the classroom.

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

Learning through Images & Actions

Speaker: Paul Shimizu, Intercom Press
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., March 14th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free this month
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Paul Shimizu will do a presentation using only images and actions. There will be no reading. The focus of the presentation is response before production. The presenter will take the participants through a variety of activities which elicit immediate non-verbal response from the students (OPR-Only Physical Response). These activities elicit more than just imperative language. The presenter will then, using the same images, take the participants through a variety of student-centered group activities with the emphasis on verbal production. Paul Shimizu has been teaching and developing educational materials for more than 30 years, 15 of them in Japan. His students have ranged from kindergarten to university and beyond.

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

Rating the Performance of Classroom Activities

Speaker: Richard Blight, Ehime University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., April 11th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: How can we determine the effectiveness of classroom activities? An evaluation system which has been developed to measure the performance of communicative activities will be explained. A series of learning activities for first-year university students will then be rated according to the evaluation system. The benefits and limitations of the evaluation system shall then be considered, and ideas for improving the performance of the activities also discussed.

Sunday, May 9th, 2004

The Care and Feeding of Sacred Cows: the Future needs of Foreign Language Teaching in Japan

Speaker: Will Jasprizza
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., May 9th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: What is language? How do people learn language? Why do people need to learn foreign languages? (In fact, do they?) Why do you teach what you teach? Do you consider social and economic factors? Will Jasprizza will ask lots of questions, poke at a few sacred cows and look to the future of foreign language teaching and learning in Japan.

Sunday, June 13th, 2004

Pair Discussions: Contextualizing Communication

Speaker: Barry Mateer, Tamagawa University, Department of Liberal Arts
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., June 13th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: The likely challenges of managing learning include empowering learners to participate and to interact in English. This presentation considers Pair Discussion-based courses in which textbooks are replaced by handouts created from students' ideas on various topics. These handouts provide students with the language needed for expressing those ideas. Teacher-fronted activities focusing on strategies empower learners to initiate and sustain enjoyable discussions; these strategies include seeking and providing needed language, clarifying and elaborating ideas, and negotiating complexities of face to face interaction.

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

My Share: activities that work

Speaker: K. Tanaka, G. Gray, T. Friedrich, & K. Shioiri
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., July 11th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Four teachers share lessons that they found success in their teaching situations.

2:15-2:40 Teaching Japanese using artwork to advanced learners, by Kimiyo Tanaka.
2:40-3:05 Teaching critical thinking to EFL students, by Gregory Gray
3:25-3:50 Classroom warm-up activities, by Tracy Friedrich
3:50-4:15 Teaching self-introduction, by Kiyoshi Shioiri

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

A Comparison of US and Japanese Group Discussion

Speaker: Suwako Watanabe, Portland State University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., September 12th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Dr. Watanabe reports findings from studies that compared US and Japanese group discussions, focusing on turn-taking strategy, procedural strategies, reactions to conflicting opinions, and the leader's function. In the Japanese group discussions, the participants tended to use non-confrontational strategies, and the framework of vertical hierarchy seems to play a role. It is also likely that the primary goals of group discussion are different between the US and Japan. The effect of culture in language usage appears to be significant and this has implications for foreign/second language education
About the speaker: Dr. Suwako Watanabe is an Associate Professor of Japanese at Portland State University.

Sunday, October 10th, 2004

Integrating Video into Classes

Speaker: Iain Macpherson, Ehime University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., October 10th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: This talk demonstrates several video-based lesson plans which have proved especially useful for the presenter over the past few years in Taiwanese and Japanese university TEFL classes. These activities are easily adapted for any adult-beginner large-group classroom. The presentation takes a workshop-style format, in which participants learn how to teach the lesson plans by actually working through each exercise (in an abbreviated form).

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

"Virtual" Intercultural Experiences via Videoconferencing

Speaker: Linda Kadota, Shinonome College
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., December 12th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: The presenter discusses setting up a videoconference project. Various kinds of videoconferencing hardware and software available are introduced and protocol for and pitfalls to a successful virtual intercultural interaction are delineated. Collaborative activities conducted through e-mail prior to the videoconference provide students at both institutions the opportunity for intercultural learning while simultaneously helping to foster relationship building.

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