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Yokohama Chapter Events in 2002

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Sunday, January 13th, 2002

The Use of Proverbs in Teaching Communicative English

Speaker: Bill Dare
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., January 13th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginno Bunka Kaikan (near Kannai station)
Description: A mutually understood proverb amounts to instant communication, often before the speaker has even finished saying it! The presenter will show how he applies proverbs to the dialogues and even his exercises in his English textbook Let's Learn Colloquial English. In each case the proverb will be compared and/or contrasted with its counterpart Japanese kotowaza. This process can result in a remarkable learning experience, combining L2 acquisition with proverbial wisdom.

Sunday, February 10th, 2002

Utilizing Tasks in Teaching English

Speaker: Onoda Sakae, Kanda University of International Studies
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 10th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginoo Bunka Kaikan, Kannai, 6F, Room 603
Description: Onoda Sakae discusses the benefits of utilizing TV news clips and other kinds of audio-visual materials and explores how we can effectively utilize them to get learners to fully practice their language skills in a communication-oriented classroom. Many creative ideas regarding tasks are introduced for the participants to employ in their classroom practice.

Sunday, March 10th, 2002

TBA

Speaker: TBA
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., March 10th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginoo Bunka Kaikan, in Kannai (three minutes from JR Kannai Station and one minute from Isezakichojamachi on Yokohama Subway line)
Description: The regular monthly chapter meeting for March will be held, with the program to be announced.

Sunday, April 14th, 2002

From Endangered Languages to Content-based Reading

Speaker: David Hough of Shonan Institute of Technology
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., April 14th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginoo Bunka Kaikan, in Kannai (three minutes from JR Kannai Station and one minute from Isezakichojamachi on Yokohama Subway line)
Description: David Hough just returned from a fascinating Micronesian Island Language Saving Experience that will be explored in this talk. In addition, he will present ideas for using such intercultural experiences for university content-based courses, and discuss the political and educational implications of disappearing languages and cultures such as those in Micronesia.

Sunday, May 12th, 2002

Intercultural Instruction Ideas & Motivating Projects

Speaker: Scott Bronner of Waseda University's Center for International Education
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., May 12th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginoo Bunka Kaikan, in Kannai (three minutes from JR Kannai Station and one minute from Isezakichojamachi on Yokohama Subway line)
Description: The speaker will present a number of cultural simulation and interactive teaching ideas based on books from Intercultural Press and his experience teaching an intercultural communication course. In addition, he will present a related project encouraging student involvement with a student-founded NGO named Japan Korea Asian Fund that specifically tries to get people in Korean, Japanese and other Asian cultures to interact in a positive way that may help mediate the negative history of the past.

Sunday, June 16th, 2002

Two workshops for language teachers

Speaker: Tom Anderson, Stephen Shrader
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., June 16th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): contact Yokohama JALT; unknown at publication time
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Odawara
Venue: LIOJ (Language Institute of Japan) in Odawara
Description: The two workshops are titled "Creating Confident Creative Conversationalists", by Tom Anderson, and "Elements of Course Design: Starting from Scratch", by Stephen Shrader, Language Institute of Japan. Both workshop presenters warmly encourage participants to discuss their experiences with inspiring speech and course design. A bus will pick participants up at Odawara station at 12:40 p.m. to take them to LIOJ and drop them off again free of charge.

Sunday, July 14th, 2002

Can Teaching Culture in the EFL/ESL Classroom Be Harmful?

Speaker: Michael Guest
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., July 14th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills & Culture Center) near JR Kannai & Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details & a map]
Description: Description unknown at publication time

Sunday, October 13th, 2002

On the Go: Addressing Motivation through Travel English

Speaker: Jonah Glick, Longman ELT, Pearson Education Japan
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., October 13th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills & Culture Center) near JR Kannai & Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details & a map]
Description: Motivation is crucial for successful learning. What techniques should we employ to encourage motivation and maximize learning? Two ways are to ensure learners talk about what interests them and to teach language for specific real-world functions. We can teach travel English to enable learners to accomplish specific functions that the learners perceive as relevant to their own lives, and we can encourage learners to think about the language and discover for themselves.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2002

Content Based Instruction as a Framework for Teaching Reading

Speaker: William Grabe, Northern Arizona University
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Tue., November 19th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills & Culture Center) near JR Kannai & Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details & a map]
Description: In this workshop-style interactive presentation, William Grabe focuses on EAP (English For Academic Purposes) for reading development. The first part of this talk outlines theoretical ideas about vocabulary acquisition; the second part examines the implications for instruction; the third part explores real applications for instruction by working through how to exploit a specific text.
About the speaker:William Grabe is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Northern Arizona University. He is also the author of The Theory and Practice of Writing (with R.B. Kaplan, 1996) and the soon-to-be-published volume in the Longman series of Applied Linguistics in Action entitled Reading (with Fredricka Stoller), and a leading researcher in issues of L2 reading, writing, and literacy. He is currently the president of the American Association of Applied Linguistics and was, until recently, the chief editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.

Sunday, December 8th, 2002

Drama-tic Improvements to English Teaching Using Drama

Speaker: Kristie Collins of The DramaWorks Team
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., December 8th, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kanagawa
City: Yokohama
Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills & Culture Center) near JR Kannai & Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details & a map]
Description: The DramaWorks team, authors of textbooks Star Taxi (2000) and PopStars (2002), will do a presentation using a new method for teaching EFL using drama techniques. This method has been used successfully in secondary and higher education, and would appeal to teachers in these areas. Both texts use stories told in 20 scenes of dialogue. They are easy and fun to use, do not require any drama experience, props or special acting ability, and include warm-ups, language activities and teacher's notes. Both may also be used as supplements. This will be a workshop-style, participatory presentation.

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