Gifu Chapter

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Gifu Chapter Events in 2003

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

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

Activities for Communication in English

Speaker: Akemi Miyake and Isshin Ito
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 16th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: The first of these two bilingual presentations is by Akemi Miyake, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Information, Gifu Women's University. Her talk describes a multimedia approach to teaching Intercultural Communication, and features digital highvision footage, a TV-meeting system, and examples of interactions with delegates from Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The second presentation is by Isshin Ito, Assistant Lecturer, Center for Languages and General Education, GifuWomen's University, who is presently most active in preparing digital movie files of artifacts and world heritage sites. He will talk about the process of preparing media for class and learning about "media literacy", and how to effectively use media in our classrooms.

Sunday, March 30th, 2003

Talking about the TALK system

Speaker: Johann Junge
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 30th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: The founder of the TALK Learning System will give a presentation about how to get the students talking with this truly student-centered approach. He will also show us how to effectively use the World TALK Cards he has developed.

Sunday, May 25th, 2003

JSL, Japanese as a Second Language: Learning it and Teaching It

Speaker: Yuko Yamamoto and Hiromasa Imai
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., May 25th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: Mrs Yamamoto will look at the differences between the "accuracy" required in the classroom and to pass the Japanese Proficiency Test, and "fluency" necessary for life outside the classroom. Prof Imai will speak about the enjoyment of teaching Japanese language and culture, and student/teacher co-operative learning.

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

Proactive and Resonant Teaching for Value Perception Enhancement in the EFL Classroom

Speaker: Paul Raymond Doyon
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 29th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: Albert Einstein stated that "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." Thus, this presentation will initially focus on beliefs and perceptions - and how these can be shifted in order to enhance the perception of value in the EFL classroom. Raffini's psychoacademic needs and how these spark and fuel intrinsic motivation in the classroom will be examined with connections drawn to the following key concepts: empowerment and engagement, learned helplessness, compliance and defiance, resistance, reciprocity, and the relinquishing of control. Finally, so-called resonant leadership/teaching styles will be examined and contrasted with their opposing dissonant styles and how the right combination of all of these can positively affect the EFL classroom atmosphere.

Sunday, October 19th, 2003

ELT Material Use and Design: Problems and Resolutions

Speaker: Kenneth Biegel
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., October 19th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: This presentation will address some difficulties teachers often face while trying to find appropriate materials to use in the EFL classroom. A large segment of the presentation will focus on how to utilize published materials and design appropriate materials for specific situations. Finally, the presenter will introduce his own attempt to design appropriate materials for the non-intensive nature of most Japanese university classes, and how this resulted in his writing of the McGraw-Hill textbook series, What About You?

Thursday, November 27th, 2003

New Directions in the Teaching of English

Speaker: Jack C. Richards
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Thu., November 27th, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: In association with JALT Chapters at Yokohama, and Kobe, and OUP, Gifu JALT welcomes Jack C. Richards as part of the 2003 JALT Conference's Four Corners tour. This presentation will focus on trends in TEFL in the last 30 years and explores some very fundamental questions about the teaching of English.

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