Toyohashi Chapter

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Toyohashi Chapter Events in 2008

Events archive by year:
2008; 2007 [12]; 2006 [10]; 2005 [10]; 2004 [10]; 2003 [9]; 2002 [8]; 2001 [6];

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

A Treasure Chest of Songs, Chants & Games!

Speaker: Kim Horne
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., January 20th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: Ahoy there! Come one and all to explore songs, chants, dialogue games and other activities that will bring language and laughter to young learners. Experience many techniques to draw your students in and hold their attention. This energetic presentation will send you home with great ideas to supplement your curriculum and make learning fun for everyone!

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Incorporating Intercultural Learning into EFL Classes

Speaker: Jon Dujmovich
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 17th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: The presenter will share some short intercultural learning activities that can be adapted and applied to various EFL teaching contexts. Based in current intercultural theory and methods, each activity has the English language learner in mind, blending techniques and ideas in an experimental and creative way. This workshop-style presentation promises to deliver some unique ideas for your classroom regardless of age or ability.

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

SELHi Project: Enriching EFL through the teaching of pragmatics

Speaker: Jeremie Bouchard (Sapporo Sacred Heart School)
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 9th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: The presentation, a combination of lecture and group discussion, will focus on a SELHi (Super English Language High School) initiative involving two English courses: Comprehensive and Interactive. The Comprehensive course emphasizes a combination of sentence-based and discourse-based grammar teaching, and the Interactive course shifts towards the teaching of pragmatics. The presentation will also include a review of the Interactive English textbook created for high school second grade students, which was designed around the teaching of speech acts (language functions, e.g. compliments, apologies, requests, complaints, etc.). The general argument of this presentation calls for a change in emphasis in the EFL classroom, from English as the sole object of study to English as a tool for effective communication.

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Learner Training for the Japanese University Classroom

Speaker: Juanita Heigham
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Sun., April 20th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to show how teachers can facilitate students becoming successful English language learners and users by offering them the opportunity to build practical learning skills. In Japanese universities, students are rarely given the chance to participate in activities that can directly help them improve their learning skills. However, the knowledge and skills gained through such activities can dramatically improve students' learning success both in the language classroom and beyond. In this workshop, the presenter will explain the benefits of providing learner training for students; demonstrate how students who have developed learning skills and strategies become good language learners and users; and share some learner training materials and activities that are used at her university.

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Annual Picnic & Barbecue

Speaker: none
Time: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM (Sun., May 25th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Toyohashi Ryokuchi Koen (Takashi station, Atsumi Line)
Description: Toyohashi JALT will hold its annual May barbecue and picnic at the usual place, in Takashi Ryokuchi Park. Everyone is welcome - members, guests and visitors - and although barbecue will be provided, we would ask you to contribute something to eat and drink. There are stores located around the park, which lies to the south of the Aichi University campus.

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Toward a Synergistic Collaboration in English Education: JACET/JALT Joint Regional Conference

Speaker: Featured Speaker; Hideo Kojima (Hirosaki University)
Time: 9:10 AM - 5:20 PM (Sat., June 14th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (Students 500 yen)
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Chukyo University (Yagoto, Nagoya)
Description: Toyohashi JALT chapter is proud to be a sponsor of the first ever JACET/JALT Conference in the Chubu region, consisting of a variety of presentations and a symposium in Japanese and English. The featured speaker, Professor Kojima, has been active in introducing autonomous learning into the Japanese education system. As well as focusing on how autonomous learning is defined and facilitated in Japanese educational contexts, the conference will provide an opportunity for us to share ideas on collaboration between native and non-native English-speaking teachers in Japan.

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Learning Styles in the EFL classroom

Speaker: Jack Ryan
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Sun., July 13th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: This presentation will outline the history of research into learning styles and explain the most commonly recognized learning styles. The practical application of current research to the English language classroom in Japan will also be discussed. Participants will participate in discussing ways we may adapt our own preferred teaching techniques and classroom activities to better accommodate English language learners with tendencies toward particular learning styles.

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Learning from Errors

Speaker: Mark Rebuk
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 21st, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: Although typical errors by Japanese learners are sometimes covered in writing and other classes, little or no attention is given to those made by native English Speakers. The presenter, however, has collected errors made by native English speakers from talk-radio recordings. In this talk, some of these audio clips will be introduced and their value as a teaching resource discussed. The presenter will suggest that the corpus can not only help students (and teachers) learn more about language, but may positively alter how learners perceive their own errors.

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Language Learning and the Lexical Approach

Speaker: Gary Littlecott
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Sun., October 19th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: The lexical approach takes the view that lexis plays the central role in language learning and communication. It proposes that learning words and word combinations (lexical phrases or chunks) are the most important guarantor of conversational fluency. These lexical units are learned and used as single items. It is estimated that fluent speakers have hundreds of thousands of these prefabricated lexical units. Word collocations and word frequency are other important features of the lexical approach to language learning. This presentation will discuss the lexical approach and its practical application in the classroom. Materials will be presented and activities tried out, including whole class communicative exercises, listening tasks and self-study worksheets.

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Developing a Curriculum Enhancing Website

Speaker: James Venema and Bruce McCaughan
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., November 16th, 2008)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: This presentation will look at efforts to use a website to enhance curriculum. Specifically, the following needs were identified:

- An online database which would allow for the sharing of students' example sentences in a vocabulary course with future students in the same course.

- Online access of locally developed listening materials for a listening and speaking course.

- Online access of administrative and curricular files, for teachers as well as students, for all the courses in the language program.

In this presentation we will briefly outline the language program and demonstrate how the NWU curriculum website addresses specific program needs, those of teachers and students. We will also briefly outline some technical issues in developing the website and address any queries along that line that members of the audience might have. The audience will be encouraged to reflect on and contribute ideas on how websites can be incorporated into programs to enhance teaching and learning.

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