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January 2005

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

New Year Social Event

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: TBA
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Sat., January 08, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Kitakyushu
Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center, room 31 (a 5-minute walk from the Kokura train station for shinkansen, JR train)
Description: To celebrate the New Year, join Kitakyushu JALT for our annual social event. Details to be confirmed; check the chapter website for further information.

What's Lev Got to Do With It? Vygotskyan Trends in Recent Pedagogy, Professional Development and Language Acquisition

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: Larry Metzger, Deryn Verity, and David Woodfield
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:45 PM (Sat., January 08, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen / 600 yen for full-time students
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: Osaka City Municipal Lifelong Learning Center, on the fifth floor of Umeda's Dai-2 Building. Tel: 06-6345-5000. www.manabi.city.osaka.jp
Description: The zone of proximal development (ZPD), talk as a psychological tool, internalization, private speech! What is all this? Over the last decade more and more language teachers have been finding inspiration in the ideas of ... read more

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Program Revision

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Dann Gossman, Kanto Gakuen University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., January 09, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: What�s the first thing you think of doing when "Program Revision" becomes necessary? If your first reaction is to reach for the publishers' catalogues to see what new texts are available, you may want to ... read more

Cross-Cultural Communication: Difficulties and Strategies Utilized by Japanese Students at an American University

Sponsor: Matsuyama Chapter
Speaker: Jennifer Feyen, AMIC English Center
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., January 09, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: The presenter will discuss difficulties that Japanese international students at an American university may have when engaging in cross-cultural communication in a variety of classroom encounters. In addition, the strategy types that this population indicates ... read more

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

An overview of recent studies on English language teaching

Sponsor: Okayama Chapter
Speaker: Paul Hackshaw
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., January 15, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen; students 500 yen
Prefecture: Okayama
City: Okayama
Venue: Okayama Sankaku building near Omotecho in Okayama city
Description: Around 86% of Japanese public elementary schools offer some kind of English lessons to their students with some getting as little as 11 hours of instruction per year per grade. Due to lack of proper ... read more

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

Officer Meeting

Sponsor: Shizuoka Chapter
Speaker: Everyone attending
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., January 16, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Shizuoka
Venue: Room 4, Shizuoka Shimin Bunka Kaikan, 2F
Description: We will talk about the programs for 2005. Any Shizuoka chapter members are welcome to this meeting. We would like to hear your suggestions for our chapter.

Okinawa Chapter General Board Meeting

Sponsor: Okinawa Chapter
Speaker: 2005 Chapter Executive Board
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., January 16, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: This will be a general board meeting. Events on the agenda include: 2004 executive reports and financial statement; 2005 budget proposal; 2005 planning session and Q&A. All Okinawa JALT members are invited to attend.

Japanese University Students' Stereotypes of Chinese and American Foreigners: A Quantitative Study

Sponsor: Yokohama Chapter
Speaker: Christopher J. Long (Sophia University), Hisako Otsuka, and Naoki Ikeda
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., January 16, 2005)
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 presenters will discuss findings from a study of Japanese stereotypes of foreigners. Two groups listened to the same voice in Japanese. One group believed the speaker was American, the other Chinese. Both groups rated ... read more

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

TOEIC - Ways to boost student scores

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Everyone
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Thu., January 20, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Sugiyama Building 6th floor
Description: This will be a "get-back-together-again" function, with everyone participating, so please come along with some ideas, or questions. We'll also discuss a tentative timetable for this year's events.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

Dealing with the x-factor: Group dynamics in the language classroom

Sponsor: Kyoto Chapter
Speaker: David Barker, Nagoya Womens University
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., January 22, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kyoto
City: Kyoto
Venue: Kyoto Kyoiku Bunka Center, Marutamachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
Description: Most teachers are aware that there is a certain \'magic ingredient\' that can override all other considerations in determining how successful a language class will be. This presentation will discuss ways in which we can ... read more

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

What is Kamishibai?

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: Hitomi Igumi, Stellar Education
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., January 23, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate International Plaza, Morioka
Description: KAMISHIBAI (Japanese picture story show) is a great tool for storytelling which can help motivate your students while stretching their imagination. Your students will easily understand the story by using their own senses and knowledge. ... read more

Technology for Communication

Sponsor: Fukui Chapter
Speaker: Maribel Florez
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., January 23, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Fukui
City: Fukui
Venue: Fukui International Activities Plaza
Description: In this workshop the presenter will demonstrate how to use a computer to motivate students, increase communication and control the pace of lessons in the English class. The participants will give it a try on ... read more

Getting Large University Classes to Communicate

Sponsor: Kagoshima Chapter
Speaker: Bo Causer (Junshin High Scool / Kagoshima University)
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., January 23, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Kosha Biru (same bldg as Jelly Beans)
Description: Eikaiwa for 50...getting those big uni classes communicating. Would you like to reduce the numbers of absentees in your classes? Get your students so involved in their work that they stay back to finish the ... read more

Jalt Kagoshima Shin Nen Kai

Sponsor: Kagoshima Chapter
Speaker: It's a party!
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (Sun., January 23, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 3000 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 3000 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Manshoen Tenmonkan, Higashisengoku cho 1-11 Forisu Kankou Biru 7th floor
Description: Come along to our start of the year party and meet up with other teachers over a great Chinese Meal. Make some new friends, catch up with old ones and lets talk about improving English ... read more

Friday, January 28th, 2005

New Year Get Together

Sponsor: Hiroshima Chapter
Speaker: -
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Fri., January 28, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 2,800 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 2,800 yen
Prefecture: Hiroshima
City: Hiroshima
Venue: New York New York
Description: We would like all Hiroshima JALT members or anyone interested JALT to spend an evening together. Friends and family welcome.

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

Reading - how to turn students of any age into bookworms

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Oliver Bayley from Oxford University Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., January 30, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagano
City: Matsumoto-shi
Venue: Luna International, MK bldg 2F, 1-9-16 Motomachi, Matsumoto
Description: Oliver Bayley of Oxford University Press will give a presentation on the use of the Oxford University Press graded readers. There is definitely a reading "boom" in Japan at the moment, with more interest in ... read more

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