Nagasaki Chapter

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Nagasaki Chapter Events in 2007

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

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

A Practical Workshop on Using Your iPod in the Classroom.

Speaker: Bill Pellowe, eltpodcast.com, eltcalendar.com, Kinki University.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., February 10th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: If you don't have an iPod, please feel welcome to attend and observe, but if you DO have one, please bring it and your laptop for an informative afternoon workshop of practical tips on how to use an iPod in the classroom. Specifically, we'll start with hands-on tutorials in the following: recording your textbook CD onto your iPod; putting in a DVD movie; making a picture slideshow for teaching vocabulary; adding an mp3 or video from an Internet search; learning how to attach your iPod to a TV or video projector to show slideshows, music videos and more. This is a practical workshop for both Windows and Macintosh users. All welcome for our first meeting of the year!

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Psychology Games for Language Learning.

Speaker: Ian Munby, Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., March 3rd, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: Communicative tasks for language practice or fluency training play an important role in the language classroom but they often lead to "so what?" outcomes. This presentation will introduce some communicative tasks for learners of all ages and levels with surprising or amusing outcomes which purport to reveal something about our personalities and values. Training in these strategies provides a basis for further language practice and further active and personal learner involvement in classroom communication. The presenter will also suggest how such tasks can be structured around a TBLL (task-based language learning) model of second language acquisition and lesson procedure. All welcome for our second meeting of the year!

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

The Place of Placement Tests/Annual My Share Session

Speaker: Melodie Cook, Siebold University of Nagasaki
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., April 7th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: This month, we will have two different sessions. In the first part of the meeting, Melodie Cook will explain her university's experiences as they employed three placement measures to group first-year college students into four sections of a course in oral communication. These measures consisted of the TOEIC test, a self-assessment and an oral interview test; it was found that there were incongruities between test scores and learners' self-evaluations. In the second half of the meeting, we have our annual My Share session: we invite all of you to bring any interesting, motivating ideas for the start of the new school year. All welcome for our third meeting of the year!

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Using Graded readers in an Extensive Reading program

Speaker: Steven Donald, Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., May 26th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 5F, Free Space (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.
Description: This presentation will introduce its audience briefly to Extensive Reading theory with an explanation of what graded readers are and their relationship to extensive reading. Following this, the presentation will show how the two work together forming a reading program drawing upon examples of the presenter's own work and that of other successful programs currently in use in Japan. Finally, it will conclude with some simple activities that can be done in the classroom that not only help students with their reading comprehension and fluency but also encourage students to form a habit of reading.

Please note that Julian Warden of Oxford University Press will also be present to explain, display and distribute certain materials and samples. Free admission to all this month!

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Experiences with Action Research: seeking effective ways to do Japanese writing and English grammar lessons

Speaker: Howard Doyle, Kochi University; and Fumiko Ishinuki, Sasebo National College of Technology.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., June 30th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: Doyle's presentation presents the inspiration and dynamic of an action research project focusing on evolution of a holistic approach to doing grammar in the language classroom, and will be related to syllabus and materials development and other issues. Part of the presentation takes on a workshop form, so participants can be drawn into an holistic approach to doing grammar. In the other session, Ishinuki's presentation presents the study outcome conducted in the Year 8 class at the Sydney Saturday School of Japanese in 2005. This study took the form of action research and investigated strengths and weaknesses of a genre-based approach to "Dokushokansobun" (literally, post-reading reflective essays) for improvement of students' writing through the teaching-learning cycle. All welcome to our fifth meeting of the year!

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Gender in Language; and Giving Peace Studies A Chance.

Speaker: Clem Hiemstra, Sasebo/Imari, and Tim Allan, Kwassui Women's College.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., July 28th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: Our summer meeting will be about Global Issues and Content-Based Instruction through two perspectives. In one half of the meeting, Hiemstra will guide us through a session on the topic of gender and language. Working in small groups, we will list some of the obvious examples where we can see gender at work in language, comparing the Japanese examples with the English ones, and then discussing some of our underlying values. In the other half of the meeting, Allan will introduce some activities, rationales, and materials for local peace studies classes applicable for Nagasaki as well as for anywhere else. All welcome for our sixth meeting of the year! Please note that this meeting coincides with the weekend of the Nagasaki Port Summer Festival...and is our last meeting until October 14!

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Using Online Video Slideshows as a Tool for English Learning; and Teaching the Strategies of Speaking.

Speaker: Sergio Mazzarelli, Kwassui Women's College; and Alastair Graham-Marr, Tokai University/ABAX Publishers.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., October 14th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: In the first part of the meeting, Mazzarelli will report on his own experiences in letting college students create video slideshows and sharing them through the Internet with students in other countries. He will also introduce a website he has created for teachers interested in sharing their students' slideshows. In the latter half, Graham-Marr, author of Communication Spotlight, a new text that teaches students how to use certain strategies, will examine the reasons for teaching strategies and examine the sort of strategies he argues should be taught.

P.S. ABOUT ELECTIONS FOR 2008: from August through October, we are interested in hearing from you if you are a JALT member, and would like to help as a partner in our local chapter executive in 2008. Yes, nominations, recommendations and persuasions are now open. Please contact us anytime for more information or to submit names! Please see our current list at http://www.kyushuelt.com/jalt/nagasaki.html

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

End of Year Party

Speaker: Various
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., December 15th, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Wharf
Description: Greetings from Nagasaki JALT! After the Conference in Tokyo in November, we are planning to finish 2007 with a mid-December end of year party on December 15, 6-9 PM. This will be at the Attic Restaurant/Cafe at Dejima Wharf, on the main level near the Prefectural Art Museum. This is an all you can eat/drink plan for Y4000 each. If you are interested in coming and absolutely sure you can attend (yes, we had a bit of trouble last party time around!) please contact Melodie Cook at m.cook@sun.ac.jp

Our next real meeting will be our first of 2008, on January 26 at Dejima Koryu Kaikan. For more information about these and other future events at our own local chapter, please check us again in the future at our websites, or sign up for our monthly e-mail newsletter. P.S. We are very happy to announce the start from October 29, 2007 of our new "Nagasaki JALT and Friends Facebook Group" - please feel free to join us anytime! More information at the group site, or please contact us directly at allan@kwassui.ac.jp All welcome!

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