Matsuyama Chapter

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Matsuyama Chapter Events in 2007

Events archive by year:
2008 [8]; 2007; 2006 [10]; 2005 [10]; 2004 [10]; 2003 [7]; 2002 [8]; 2001 [9];

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Extensive Reading - the Whats, Whys, and Hows

Speaker: Ron Murphy, Ehime University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., January 14th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Pierce Building 3F (Parking NOT available)
Description: In an ideal world, teachers would be able to offer learners stimulating lessons with interesting content at an appropriate level for each student. Extensive reading programs claim to do just that. Murphy will review the claims of extensive reading proponents, and skeptics. He will also present lesson ideas, and results of a study of extensive reading classes at Ehime University.

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Task-based language learning through debate

Speaker: Eiko Nakamura, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., February 11th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F (Parking NOT available)
Description: Learners' language development through debate tasks observed in a high school English classroom is closely examined. The chaotic period, in which learners push themselves to paraphrase and improvise their speech taking a risk of increasing language deficiency, was seen during a debate task. This presentation explores crucial factors to push learners to make maximum use of their target language.

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Maturity Level vs. EFL Level (Japanese 5th & 6th graders)

Speaker: Harry F. Carley III, Imabari City Board of Education
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., March 11th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F (Parking NOT available)
Description: EFL instructors that are involved with 5th & 6th graders in Japanese elementary schools face many challenges due to the age of their students. Learners with a higher level of maturity may not be matched to their EFL level. This presentation discusses the problems and possible solutions of striking a balance between maturity level and appropriate EFL level.

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Skills for Global Communication (Seido Language Institute) textbook

Speaker: Patrick and Aya Dougherty, Department of Global Communication, University of Hyogo
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., April 8th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F (Parking NOT available)
Description: Skills for Global Communication is the first of a new multi-skill, student-centered textbook series. This workshop will be conducted by Pat and Aya Dougherty, the authors of the textbook, and will include hands on activities and illustrations of the myriad ways the textbook series will fosters student success and help maintain teacher sanity.

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Entry Level L2 Critical Thinking: Clear Communication

Speaker: Lawrie Hunter, Kochi University of Technology
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., May 13th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Second language learners need certain linguistic background knowledge and a number of foundation language skills before they can embark on the study of critical thinking. In this presentation Lawrie Hunter explains the structured content and graphical activity based materials that he has developed for foundation critical thinking at Kochi University of Technology. Participants will come away with a set of thinking tools for their own teaching and materials writing.

Lawrie Hunter has taught mathematics and English in Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Japan, and has been directing the critical thinking and academic writing programs at Kochi University of Technology since it opened in 1997. He is co-author of Critical Thinking and author of Thinking in English.

http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Prepare Your Students for Academic Studies

Speaker: Kayo Taguchi, Oxford University Press
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., June 10th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Students need preparation to enable them to enter a college or university armed with the strategies they need to listen, take notes and discuss ideas independently and confidently. 'Lecture Ready' is the only video-based series that trains students in the listening and language skills they need to understand and excel during lectures in their future studies.

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Motivation from natural resources: genuine communication through surveys

Speaker: Erin Peter Kourelis, American Language School, Matsuyama
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., July 8th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: How do you get your students motivated? The speaker will discuss the use of surveys to get real questions from the minds of Japanese students answered by native English speakers. It will be shown how this can be applied to all ages and levels. There will be opportunity for attendees to discuss their own ways of motivating students.

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Encouraging Holistic Communication in the Classroom

Speaker: Simon Capper, Professor, The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., October 7th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Many language learners (and teachers) have a tendency to overly focus on linguistic features, at the expense of the paralinguistic and nonverbal aspects of communication. Similarly, language teaching materials often fail to acknowledge the importance of these crucial channels. This workshop will demonstrate materials and activities that raise awareness of these important features.

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Developing Intercultural Competence: An Important Role for Foreign Language Teachers

Speaker: Dr. Alvino E. Fantini, Graduate Faculty, MA Program in Language Communication, Matsuyama University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., December 9th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Intercultural competence (ICC) is needed to transcend one�fs native language-culture to interact effectively and appropriately with people of other backgrounds. In this presentation, language teachers explore its multiple dimensions -- definitions, traits, components, levels, and the role of language proficiency for intercultural success. The importance of developing ICC in our students is also considered as an important aspect of the foreign language experience.

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