Okinawa Chapter

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Okinawa Chapter Events in 2004

Events archive by year:
2008 [11]; 2006 [5]; 2005 [7]; 2004; 2003 [5]; 2002 [12]; 2001 [3];

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

JALT Okinawa Executive Board Meeting

Speaker: New officers
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., January 18th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): This meeting is closed to non-members.
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: Policy and planning meeting to chart the course for Okinawa JALT in 2004/2005.

Sunday, March 21st, 2004

Drama Techniques for Language Teachers

Speaker: The Covenant Players
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 21st, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: The Covenant Players have presented their popular drama workshops at various JALT chapters throughout Japan, as well as internationally. Their presentation promises to be fun, as well as provide language teachers with ideas and exercises to use in the classroom. This presentation will be of interest to EFL teachers at all levels.

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

Teaching and Testing: A Debilitating Divide

Speaker: Randolph Thrasher, Okinawa Christian University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., April 25th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (first time guests: free)
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: Participants will be encouraged to rethink the role and nature of testing. Dr. Thrasher argues that measurement should be an ongoing part of the teaching and learning process.

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

Communicative Competence: Can we Really Teach and Assess It?

Speaker: Masanori Tokeshi
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., May 16th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: Dr. Masanori Tokeshi reviews the literature on communicative competence: Can communicative competence really be taught and assessed?

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

Pause, Prompt and Praise

Speaker: Steven J. Donald (Junshin University)
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 20th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: Professor Steven J. Donald (Junshin University) will give a presentation on extensive reading techniques and the PPP (Pause, Prompt, Praise) Method of teaching reading, which was first popularized in New Zealand and is recently being successfully introduced in Japan. He will discuss how to implement this method in junior-senior high school English classes, as well as how to adapt it according to the materials being used.

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

Annual Family Beach BBQ

Speaker: Prof. Keiko Yonaha, Meio University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., August 8th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Miyagi-jima
Description: Come relax and mingle, and bring your family and friends. Free hot dogs and drinks while supplies last!
For more information and directions, please visit http://www.okinawateacher.com

Sunday, October 17th, 2004

Making Effective Use of Textbooks and Other Teaching Materials

Speaker: Keiko Yonaha, Meio University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., October 17th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: (To be announced)
For up-to-date information on this event, please visit the "Upcoming Events" section at our message board site: http://www.okinawateacher.com

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

End-of-Year Party

Speaker: It's a party!
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., December 19th, 2004)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: TBA
Description: Okinawa JALT's Bounenkai (Location TBA)
For up-to-date information on this event, please visit the "Upcoming Events" section at our message board site: http://www.okinawateacher.com

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