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Toyohashi Chapter Events in 2002

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Sunday, January 27th, 2002

Facilitating English Language Learning

Speaker: Ruth Cohen, University of Technology, Sydney
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., January 27th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free admission for everyone this month
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: This presentation is about pedagogy as it applies to language teaching. This seminar will examine how using appropriate classroom learning and reflection activities can promote the development of communicative language by students and provide examples of activities that teachers can use. We will focus on the methods that can help facilitate learning by making it relevant and interactive and identify strategies that encourage students to use the target language in school and external settings. This seminar will also examine the use of peer learning activities. For teachers working in classrooms with JETS, this seminar can also consider ways to make that relationship more productive. This is a commercial presentation by the English Language Teacher Education Australia Project, which is sponsored by the Australia Japan Foundation.

Sunday, February 17th, 2002

Telling Stories in English Class

Speaker: Don Cherry, Hokuriku University
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 17th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: Don Cherry works with EFL students as they work on the language necessary to describe the events portrayed in a picture story. These language students operate at a fairly high level on, among other things, English sounds and melody, equivalent expressions, and phrasal verbs. All of this work is done by the students with a minimum of interference by the instructor.

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

Comprehension Checking: Finding Out What Your EFL Students Really Know

Speaker: Alan Bossaer, Sapporo Gakuen University
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 31st, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: This presentation deals with the skill of comprehension checking as it relates to the teaching and learning of vocabulary in English. The presentation will focus on some of the problems associated with comprehension checking, but more importantly, provide language teachers with a variety of useful comprehension checking devices they can use each and every day in the EFL classroom.

Sunday, April 21st, 2002

Textbooks: Who needs them?

Speaker: Simon Tanton
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., April 21st, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free for this meeting
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: Part one of today's presentation looks at language textbook selection for elementary school-age classes in the language school. Part two illustrates a basic lesson plan that is easily accessible to the new teacher in Japan, plus 5 or 6 supplementary games and activities for groups in the EFL classroom.
About the speaker:
Simon Tanton has been teaching English in Japan for 16 years. At present he is teaching at all of the junior high schools and elementary schools in Shinshiro and at Aichi Kyoiku Daigaku Fuzoku Junior High School. In the afternoons he runs a successful language school in Toyokawa with his two partners.

Sunday, July 14th, 2002

Conversational Storytelling in the Language Class

Speaker: Bob Jones
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., July 14th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: Andrew Wright says, 'Go to any pub or party and you will hear a constant babble of stories. The whole world is full of storytellers.' In this presentation, we will look at some of the typical features of stories told in conversation among adults. We will then consider how to make our students more aware of these features and how to use them to improve their own storytelling techniques.

Sunday, September 29th, 2002

Using Movies to Motivate Language Development and Critical Thinking Skills

Speaker: Beverly Gallagher and Shauna Waters
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 29th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: Movies provide an excellent source for motivating class content and an authentic context for language learning. By using content that is interesting and relevant to students' lives, it is easier for them to make connections between the content and their own thoughts and experiences and express an opinion about it. This not only promotes communicative competence through their interaction with a meaningful context, but also enhances critical thinking skills.

Sunday, October 13th, 2002

Supplemental Material Review

Speaker: Fumihiko Hara, Longman Publishing
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., October 13th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: Focusing on the importance of rapid reading skills for the university entrance examination, this presentation reviews how supplemental materials have been used to improve the students reading skill. It also shows how the students understanding for supplemental materials is checked.

Sunday, December 15th, 2002

Reports from JALT National, followed by Bonenkai

Speaker: Fred Lackmance and Patrick Davis
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., December 15th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: Members who attended the JALT National Conference in Shizuoka will report back on presentations that impressed or entertained them. Explanations of selected presentations will include hand-outs. Following the meeting, Toyohashi JALT will hold its annual bonenkai, and all members and friends are invited to attend.

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