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Matsuyama Chapter Events in 2005

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2008 [8]; 2007 [9]; 2006 [10]; 2005; 2004 [10]; 2003 [7]; 2002 [8]; 2001 [9];

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Cross-Cultural Communication: Difficulties and Strategies Utilized by Japanese Students at an American University

Speaker: Jennifer Feyen, AMIC English Center
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., January 9th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: The presenter will discuss difficulties that Japanese international students at an American university may have when engaging in cross-cultural communication in a variety of classroom encounters. In addition, the strategy types that this population indicates utilizing will be discussed.

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Communicative Tests

Speaker: Keisha Larkin, Ehime University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., February 13th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Testing in the communicative classroom is often a challenge for instructors. Traditional ways of testing such as testing of vocabulary through memorization often do not measure a student's ability in English but rather his or her ability to take tests. She will demonstrate through examples of written and spoken tests that have proved successful how to test students in a strictly English environment with an emphasis on communication. This type of testing is an arguably superior measure of the students' actually ability to communicate in English verses students' ability to take tests. Some techniques that will be shown include English definitions of English words, sentence completion, presentation tasks, and multiple choice. All of these techniques allow teachers to test effectively even in an open book classroom or for take home tests.

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Developing a textbook to improve the ability to use kanji

Speaker: Rumiko Mukai, Ehime University International Student Center
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., March 13th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: In order to improve the ability to use kanji, of course one must learn the characters, but it is necessary to know how they used in sentence structure before one can really begin to read and write kanji. Until recently, this aspect of teaching kanji has received no attention and, as a result, students have had trouble using kanji. The textbook developed by Machiko Kushida, Nobumi Tsukiji, Makiko Kanno and the speaker, Rumiko Mukai, solves this problem has proven to be effective. The speaker will introduce the textbook and their different approach to teaching kanji.

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

OUP Graded Readers

Speaker: Tonja McCandie, Oxford University Press
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., April 10th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: This presentation focuses on Graded Readers. Tonja McCandie will discuss the types of readers, incorporating readers into the curriculum, the advantages of using graded readers, and selecting appropriate levels. She will present lesson plan ideas and activities for using graded readers in class. McCandie will finish by answering questions that teachers may have about readers.

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

Some methods of teaching English that have developed in Japan after World War II

Speaker: Kiyoshi Shioiri, Shinonome College
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., May 8th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Four major methods of teaching English have risen in post-war Japan; eigo de kangaeru (thinking in English) by Toru Matsumoto, shikan rodoku (reading out loud) by Masao Kunihiro, kangaeru eigo (English through thinking) by Michihiro Matsumoto, and contrastive analysis between English and Japanese in historical order. In this presentation, Shioiri will examines the advantages and disadvantages of each method, and tries to figure out what is a better method of teaching English to the Japanese learner of English.

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

Creating Learning Communities Through Reading and Portfolio Assessment

Speaker: Barry Mateer, Tamagawa University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., June 12th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: A working definition of reading must include a problem-solving process. Such an approach can be initiated by each student writing one question which comes to mind while reading. By students sharing their posed problem with a partner and seeking a solution and through teacher-fronted classroom interaction, language awareness and critical thinking can be focused on and a learning community can be created.

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

From an idea to a textbook: getting published in Japan

Speaker: Simon Capper, The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:25 PM (Sun., July 10th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Text book writing can be an immensely challenging, frustrating and exhausting activity, but it can also be very rewarding (creatively at least!). This talk will describe the genesis and development of a textbook typical of many published for the Japanese market, and will offer suggestions for prospective authors regarding proposal writing and submission, pitfall avoidance, and project planning.

[Presenter biography]

Simon Capper arrived in Japan 17 years ago, has taught for 16 years in tertiary education, and amazingly, still enjoys it. He lives in Hiroshima with his wife and three kids, and works at the Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing. So far he has published 3 textbooks, 'Building Bridges' and 'Questions Please' (Eichosha) and (with T. Kadoyama) 'English with Hit Songs' (Seibido). He has two more projects in his computer and three more in his head.

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

An Evaluation of English Textbooks from the Viewpoint of Culture Based on the 2003 Ministry of Education's Course of Study Guidelines

Speaker: Nobuko Yamanaka, Ehime University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., September 11th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: In English pedagogy in Japan, Mombusho-approved English textbooks have played a major role in providing the information on culture in the classroom. Therefore, the particular examination of those English textbooks has been conducted in understanding a clear picture of what aspects of culture are being taught at schools. The result of it will be discussed in the meeting.

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

How can we complain? Appropriate and effective strategies in English and Japanese

Speaker: Carol Rinnert and Yoko Nogami, Hiroshima City University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., November 13th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: What if your professor made a mistake, giving you a lower grade than what you deserved? Or, what if your roommate has been making too much noise that disturbs your sleep late at night? Even though saying something can risk offense, sometimes expressing a complaint is necessary to solve such problems. The presenter will share results of on-line questionnaires that investigated what complaint strategies are seen as most appropriate and effective in English and Japanese in those two situations, and what strategies are seen as potentially rude or ineffective in the same situations.

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Short and Simple: Discussion, Presentation, and Debate Activities for Low-Level Learners

Speaker: Charles LeBeau
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., December 11th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Abstract:

Charles LeBeau, best selling author of Speaking of Speech, Discover Debate, Getting Ready for Speech, and the new Discussion Process and Principles, will present for the first time in Shikoku. The author will show how the complex communicative activities of discussion, presentation, and debate can be broken down into simple, manageable skills that can be taught in fun activities. In this workshop, participants will sample a variety of short speaking and listening activities for pairs, small groups, and classes.

Bio:

Charles LeBeau was once an aspiring jazz musician a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Since landing in Japan in 1982, he has taught in both the university and corporate worlds. He has been writing textbooks for the university market for 10 years. In 1995, he toured Kyushu on the Distinguished Lecture Circuit. As a presenter, he was awarded Best Of Jalt Awards for his presentations in 2001 and 2002. Most recently he was a member of an international panel invited to Shanghai to participate in the 2004 National High School English Speaking Competition.

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