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Nagasaki Chapter Events in 2003

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Sunday, February 9th, 2003

Three Easy Pieces - Crossing Cultures

Speaker: Tim Allan, Kwassui Women's College, Nagasaki
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 9th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Center, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: Nagasaki JALT writes, "Please join us for our first meeting of the year, midway through the annual Chinese New Year Lantern Festival here in Nagasaki!"

This month's meeting is a discussion and demonstration of three cross-cultural tasks intended for lower-level to intermediate-level high school and college students. These tasks could also be adapted for various other ages, levels, and settings.) The first task includes an exercise connected to peace studies in Nagasaki. In the second, we will view a simulated gathering of anthropologists from different cultures. In the third, an exercise rooted in a semi-fictional Asian nation will attempt a corporate training role play and simulation. Finally, if you have any cross-cultural or inter-cultural exercises of your own, or material from the November JALT Conference in Shizuoka, please feel free to bring them along to share.

Saturday, March 8th, 2003

My Share

Speaker: various speakers
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sat., March 8th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Center, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: The first part of this month's Nagasaki JALT meeting is the annual My Share meeting. If you have any interesting teaching (or learning) strategy, idea, or material you want to share, please bring it to the meeting in order to show and try it out with our friendly group for a very short time! Photocopies are preferred, but not essential. For example, anything from children's teachers, ALTs, junior and senior high school teachers, private teachers or people who went to the JALT conference last fall are once again welcomed in a stress-free environment. In the second part of the meeting, we will plan and discuss the program for the remainder of the year.

Sunday, April 27th, 2003

Language Status in New Zealand: Some Educational Implications

Speaker: Roger Barnard, Waikato University, New Zealand
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., April 27th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Center, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Support Centre, 4F (#1 or #3 streetcars to Nagasakiekimae stop; across from AmuPLaza)
Description: Dr. Roger Barnard's appearance is being generously supported by Junshin Catholic University of Nagasaki. His last appearance in this city was in January of last year when he spoke about Vygotsky and SFL, and this month's session will certainly be interesting once again. This time, the purpose of this presentation is to explain the linguistic and cultural diversity in New Zealand and discuss how the status of the different languages affects educational provision. It will begin with an overview of the languages in New Zealand and will make a brief comparison with the linguistic context in Japan. It will then address a number of educational questions concerning the use of English and Maori as the media of instruction, the educational situation of other community languages, and foreign language learning and teaching. All are welcome, and we suggest that you combine our meeting with a visit to the annual Tall Ships Festival held at the same time here in Nagasaki.

Sunday, May 11th, 2003

Elementary School English: Teaching Through Songs and Games

Speaker: Richard Graham, Genki English
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., May 11th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free this month (sponsored by Genki English)
Fee (One-Day members): free this month (sponsored by Genki English)
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Center, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Support Centre, 4F (#1 or #3 streetcars to Nagasakiekimae stop; across from AmuPLaza)
Description: The presentation will discuss the Monbukagakusho guidelines for English at the elementary school level and how to implement those guidelines in a fun, motivating way. Education consultant Richard Graham will cover a range of topics including thinking like a kid, making use of games, how to use songs, class control, and motivation techniques. Everyone will be able to try the activities for themselves in this workshop. Following the hands-on demonstration, Graham will be available to answer questions.

Sunday, June 15th, 2003

Play-ful communication! Pop Stars/Drama In the Classroom Workshop

Speaker: Kristie Collins, Drama Works Group
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., June 15th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Center, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Support Centre, 4F (#1 or #3 streetcars to Nagasakiekimae stop; across from AmuPLaza)
Description: DramaWorks presents StarTaxi and PopStars, the innovative EFL books that make both learning and teaching easy and fun. The stories are told in 20 scenes of simple yet authentic dialogues and can be used as a complete course or as supplementary material. This workshop-style presentation will show participants how to block the scenes, and introduce language activities and warm-up games that reinforce language functions, vocabulary and natural intonation. No props, stage or acting experience necessary! About the presenter: Kristie Collins is currently a Research Fellow at Josai International University in Chiba.

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

Extensive Reading for High Schools and Universities; Focus on Form in a Communicative Context

Speaker: Steven Donald, Junshin Catholic University of Nagasaki; Chris Clancy, Sasebo Technical HS
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., July 6th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Centre, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: In the first presentation, Steven Donald briefly focuses on what Extensive Reading is, why he likes using Extensive Reading and how it can be used in the Japanese EFL/ESL context. Donald describes a programme that is currently used in a Japanese university. The focus of the presentation is on creating and using Reading Portfolios and how they can be adapted to Japanese High Schools. Donald also addresses ways to monitor and assess students' progress. Finally, the session will wrap up with a Q & A time at the end. In the second session, Chris Clancy looks at how CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) can incorporate different approaches.

Friday, October 24th, 2003

Putting Words in Their Mouths: Shadowing, Summarizing, and Dictogloss

Speaker: John Small, Kumamoto Gakuen University
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Fri., October 24th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Centre, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: This presentation will cover three activities that give students structured language practice: dictogloss (grammar dictation), shadow talking and summarizing. The presenter will also explain some variations on the standard dictogloss method. Finally, the presenter will provide extension activities that involve a picture story that corresponds to the dictogloss narrative. Shadow talking and summarizing exercises, which are easy to prepare and paperless, will also be explained. Summarizing an article with a mind map will also be covered. Presentation materials come from the presenter's self-published non-profit textbook, Nature Stories.

Saturday, November 29th, 2003

Current Concerns in Socio-Cultural Training in the Classroom

Speaker: Simon Greenall
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sat., November 29th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free this month (sponsored by the British Council and Macmillan Language House)
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Centre, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: Simon Greenall is one of the main speakers at the annual International JALT Conference held in Shizuoka from November 21-24. He taught extensively in England and France before becoming an author in 1982. He has since published over twenty course book series and CD Rom/Internet materials. He has acted as a consultant on a number of projects for publishers, examination boards and the BBC. He was President of IATEFL from 1997�99, and has given teacher-training sessions in 40 countries as well as plenary presentations at a number of national and international teachers' conferences.

Sunday, December 7th, 2003

Games and Materials for Young Learners

Speaker: Helene J. Uchida, Little America Schools/LATEM, Fukuoka
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., December 7th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Centre, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: Action-filled games are the vehicles by which English comes alive for young learners. British and American standards, especially adapted for Japanese, initiate and motivate students to think, listen, speak, participate and interact in English. Most students initially think winning is the goal, but the teacher knows those who participate are the real winners. All activities contain a systematic approach where everyone experiences success with English. The target for these games and activities are young learners, but the principles can also be applied to junior high and high school English lessons.
Helene J. Uchida is the founder of Little America English Schools and the LATEM series, lectures on early English education at Fukuoka University of Education and Temple University, writes for The Daily Yomiuri and eltnews.com, and is the author of The Challenge Book Series.

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