West Tokyo Chapter

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West Tokyo Chapter Events in 2005

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2008 [3]; 2007 [5]; 2006 [5]; 2005; 2004 [5]; 2003 [7]; 2002 [6]; 2001 [5];

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

Pizza Party / Listening Skills Workshop

Speaker: Karl O'Callaghan, ELT Consultant for Oxford University Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sat., April 16th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University, buiding and room TBA
Description: In daily life, we listen twice as much as we speak and four times as much as we write. Unfortunately, as important as this skill is, Japanese students through high school are rarely trained beyond the simple level of listening for specific information. Karl will open with some ice-breaking activities followed by an overview of the listening process. He will then move on to sampling a few listening activities and exercises designed to give learners tactics for listening that will encourage them to become better thinkers and thus better language learners. Free pizza will be served during the workshop compliments of Oxford University Press

Saturday, May 14th, 2005

The JALT Pan-Special Interest Group Conference 2005

Speaker: Dr. Curtis Kelly (Osaka Gakuin), Dr. Michael Bostwick (Katoh Gakuen)
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Sat., May 14th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 4000 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 5000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University, Kokubunji Campus. [map]
Description: The theme of this year's Pan-SIG Conference is 'Lifelong Learning'. The featured speakers will be: Dr. Curtis Kelly of Osaka Gakuin University on adult teaching methods, learning contracts, needs assessment and learning theories; and Dr. Michael Bostwick of Katoh Gakuen who will give a presentation entitled "Myths vs. Reality: What We Know About Early Language Learning". For more information, visit http://www.jalt.org/pansig/2005/ or contact pansig2005@yahoo.com.

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

The JALT Pan-Special Interest Group Conference 2005

Speaker: Dr. Curtis Kelly (Osaka Gakuin), Dr. Michael Bostwick (Katoh Gakuen)
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Sun., May 15th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 4000 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 5000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University, Kokubunji Campus. [map]
Description: The theme of this year's Pan-SIG Conference is 'Lifelong Learning'. The featured speakers will be: Dr. Curtis Kelly of Osaka Gakuin University on adult teaching methods, learning contracts, needs assessment and learning theories; and Dr. Michael Bostwick of Katoh Gakuen who will give a presentation entitled "Myths vs. Reality: What We Know About Early Language Learning". For more information, visit http://www.jalt.org/pansig/2005/ or contact pansig2005@yahoo.com.

Friday, May 20th, 2005

Language Learning and Identity: From Learner Variables to Co-Construction

Speaker: Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawaii)
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Fri., May 20th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Temple University Japan Rooms 206/207
Description: The talk by Dr Gabriele Kasper will take a conversation-analytic perspective to examine identity at work in interactions between L2 users and their co-participants. The relationship between L2 learning and learners' identity has been a topical concern in SLA from early on, yet widely differing proposals have been offered to theorize this relationship - and, indeed, the notions of 'identity' and 'L2 learning' themselves. While earlier approaches favored correlational or causal models, the last decade has seen an upsurge of accounts that view language use, learning and identity as mutually constitutive, situated, emergent, and inextricably intertwined with the participation structure of specific activities. The many proposals that subscribe to this understanding have as their common denominator a view of language learning and use as social practice and of identity as something a person does (and does differently in different contexts) rather than something a person 'is' or 'has'. But the various social practice approaches differ considerably in their specific theoretical assumptions and research methodologies, with attendant consequences for their analytical capability to demonstrate rather than merely postulate the link between identity and L2 learning. The talk will take a conversation-analytic perspective to examine identity at work in interactions between L2 users and their co-participants.

Spaces are limited for participation in this seminar. If you are interested in attending please contact Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska at jaltwesttokyo@yahoo.com

This event is co-sponsored by JALT Tokyo Chapter, JALT West Tokyo Chapter, JALT Pragmatics SIG & Temple University Japan.

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Micro-Conference #1: DIY CALL: eLearning on the Cheap

Speaker: Andy Boon, Timothy Gutierrez, & Peter Ross
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sat., October 29th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 2000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University (near Kokubunji Station on the JR Chuo). Map: http://www.tku.ac.jp/ ~koho/english/campus/access.html. Bldg. 3, LL2 (on the 2nd floor)
Description: West Tokyo Chapter announces the first in a new series of micro-conferences, each featuring several presenters exploring a particular topic for a whole day. October's theme is CALL. Presentations include: "Why CALL? Integrating the Internet into Business English Classes," "A Beginner's Guide to Online Collections of eLearning Materials," and "Simple, User-Friendly Groupware for Facilitating Four Skills Interaction".

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Micro-Conference #2: Writing from Within and Without

Speaker: Chris Gallagher, Peter Ross, Andrew Boon, and Simon Stevens
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sat., November 26th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 2000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University, Bldg. 3 Room 303 (C303). Map: http://www.tku.ac.jp/~koho/english/campus/access.html
Description: West Tokyo Chapter announces the second in a new series of micro-conferences, each featuring several presenters exploring a particular topic for a whole day. November's theme is Writing. Presentations include:

"Journalistic Writing"

"Feedback for learning: the student's voice on academic writing response"

"Negotiating Meaning: Teaching Academic Register"

"Invisible Writing".

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