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February 2005

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

My Share

Sponsor: Miyazaki Chapter
Speaker: Hiromi Maruyama, Michael Narron, and Garth Irons
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Sat., February 05, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Miyazaki
City: Miyazaki
Venue: Miyazaki Municipal University, Kenkyu Kogi Toh 3F, Room 310, Funatsuka 1-1-2, Miyazaki-shi (Tel: 0985-20-2000)
Description: Ms. Maruyama will be speaking on the relationship between motivation and the passion to learn English. Mr. Narron will be presenting with an elementary school teacher. He and his co-presenter will discuss English language learning ... read more

Obstacles to Improving English Learning in Japan

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: Robert Aspinall, D. Phil.
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:45 PM (Sat., February 05, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen / 300 yen for student members
Fee (One-Day members): 1500 yen / 1000 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, just southeast and across the street from the Hilton Hotel. Tel: 06-6345-5000
Description: What are the obstacles facing efforts to improve English language learning in Japanese schools and universities? This presentation considers various explanations for the failure of the Japanese education system to provide the country with a ... read more

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Using the Video Rainbow War in an ESL Lesson

Sponsor: Himeji Chapter
Speaker: John C. Herbert
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 06, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 300 yen
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46
Description: John Herbert, from Kansai University, will be making a presentation on using the peace education video Rainbow War as content for thematic ESL lessons. This presentation will stress the use of this video in all ... read more

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

How to Teach Learning Strategties in the Classroom

Sponsor: Yamagata Chapter
Speaker: John di Stefano
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sat., February 12, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Yamagata
City: Yamagata
Venue: Yamagata Seibu Kominkan, Kagota 1-2-23, Yamagata-shi
Description: Learning strategies have been hot in second language acquisition, and for good reason. Research shows that using strategies makes learning easieer, faster, more enjoyable, and more effective. The presenter will focus on how and when ... read more

Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom

Sponsor: Akita Chapter
Speaker: Tim Murphey
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., February 12, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen for non-members, 500 yen for students
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: D-201, AIU Library, Akita International University
Description: How can we help students in our classes form supportive and cohesive groups? Group dynamics is probably one of the most � if not the most � useful subdisciplines in the social sciences for language ... read more

Multiple Intelligences Theory and the Second Language Classroom

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Ronald Schmidt-Fajlik
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Sat., February 12, 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: Addressing individual differences in the second language classroom is an important factor in lesson planning. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences may serve as a way to address these differences. The workshop will begin with ... read more

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

My Share Activities: Successes and Failures

Sponsor: Hamamatsu Chapter
Speaker: Various Speakers
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., February 13, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (1st visit is free)
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: In this meeting, all teachers are asked to bring along descriptions of both their successful classroom learning activities as well as those which flopped. By examining both types we hope to learn more about how ... read more

Addressing Individual Differences through Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Sponsor: Nagasaki Chapter
Speaker: Ronald Schmidt-Fajlik
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sun., February 13, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Building 4F, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, Volunteer Support Centre
Description: Addressing individual differences in the second language classroom is an important factor in lesson planning. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences may serve as a way to address these differences. The workshop will begin with ... read more

Loanwords: Lexical Hindrance or Latent Storehouse?

Sponsor: Toyohashi Chapter
Speaker: Kate O' Callaghan and Robert McLaughlin: Lecturers, Tokoha Gakuen University
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 13, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus, Building 5, room 53A
Description: With the apparent rise in usage of English loanwords in speech among Japanese young people, it may be said that there is a lessening of the linguistic distance between the two languages. However, there has ... read more

Systemic Functional Grammar

Sponsor: Chiba Chapter
Speaker: Chris Sullivan
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 13, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: SATY Bunka Hall, Room 1 (4th Floor), 1 min. walk from Inage Station east exit on JR Sobu Line. map
Description: Systemic Functional Grammar is an approach to language which challenges the traditional view of grammar as a set of rules to be obeyed or broken. This presentation will explain how language is classified under Systemics, ... read more

Communicative Tests

Sponsor: Matsuyama Chapter
Speaker: Keisha Larkin, Ehime University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., February 13, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Testing in the communicative classroom is often a challenge for instructors. Traditional ways of testing such as testing of vocabulary through memorization often do not measure a student's ability in English but rather his or ... read more

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

Codeswitching: Alternating between Japanese and English in Bilingual Interaction

Sponsor: Okayama Chapter
Speaker: Tim Greer
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., February 19, 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: When people who regularly use two languages are speaking together, they often alternate back and forth between the two in a kind of mixed speech that is known as codeswitching. Based on a corpus of ... read more

Is Shadowing a Magic Wand?

Sponsor: Kobe Chapter
Speaker: Ken Tamai (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Sat., February 19, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Kobe
Venue: Kobe YMCA (2-7-15 Kano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe/078-241-7204)
Description: Shadowing is now quickly becoming a popular method in teaching listening. The presenter would like to talk about the constituents of listening ability and possible effects of shodowing based on his research results. Other relevant ... read more

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

Mini Colloquium: Local ELT Research by Local Teachers

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Greg Birch, Danny Madjanac, Hideki Sakai and Eddy Jones
Time: 10:15 AM - 3:30 PM (Sun., February 20, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagano
City: Okaya
Venue: Irufu Plaza (ILF), Okaya, 3rd Floor, Room 7. Turn right outside Okaya Station and walk 3 minutes through the shopping area.
Description: This joint Shinshu ELT Research Group and Shinshu JALT is a free day event in which four local teacher-researchers will present their most recent research on their local classrooms. There will be two presentations in ... read more

Bikkurishita! - The Use of Surprise in the English Language Classroom

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: Brian Evans (Morioka College High School)
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Sun., February 20, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate International Plaza, Morioka
Description: Motivating students is a difficult task in any classroom. In the EFL classroom, the issue is compounded by a number of factors, such as the unique difficulties of working in a foreign language and the ... read more

Introducing the Future

Sponsor: Nagoya Chapter
Speaker: Mark O'Neil, Cambridge University Press
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 20, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center, 3rd Fl
Description: Session 1: Cambridge University Press and Hitachi Software have formed a joint-venture company to develop classroom lesson presentation software. The presenter will demonstrate interactive teaching software for Interchange on a state-of-the-art interactive whiteboard and show ... read more

Tactics for Better High School Language Learning

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Karl O'Callaghan, Oxford University Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 20, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free (sponsored by OUP)
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
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 high school students are rarely trained beyond the ... read more

Video Storyline: Actively Engaging Learners with Film

Sponsor: Yokohama Chapter
Speaker: Daniel Ferreira, High School English Instructor for Kawasaki City
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 20, 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: Given the many uses of video in the classroom, this presentation focuses on following a storyline and character development through the use of key scenes. Daniel Ferreira will demonstrate different techniques that help the students ... read more

Online Group Discussions

Sponsor: Hiroshima Chapter
Speaker: Wesley Dennis (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 20, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Hiroshima
City: Hiroshima
Venue: Hiroshima Shudo University, Bld. #2, Room 2302 (3rd Fl.)
Description: In this workshop, Wesley Dennis will focus on the idea of enhancing EFL classroom discussions by utilizing online asynchronous group discussions. Participants will learn how to set up and manage their own online discussion groups. ... read more

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

International Students' Day

Sponsor: Ibaraki Chapter
Speaker: Students from Other Countries Studying in Japan
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): Free for students
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Hitachi
Venue: Ibaraki Christian University, Building 5, Hitachi-Oomika
Description: In the first part of today's event, we have invited several students from various countries around the world to speak briefly about life in their homeland or about their experiences living in Japan. These short ... read more

Classroom Management

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Chris Perry
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: This roundtable will provide a forum for discussing problems with classroom discipline. Regardless of subject matter, level, or institution, all teachers face the administrative difficulties of lateness, absence, and student apathy and contrariness. What policies ... read more

How is CLT viewed and implemented by high school teachers of English?

Sponsor: Gunma Chapter
Speaker: Rieko Nakajima
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gunma
City: Maebashi
Venue: MIT: Maebashi Institute of Technology (Maebashi Koka Daigaku), 460-1 Kamisadori, Maebashi
Description: Since Monbu-kagakusho introduced the idea of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the Course of Study, nurturing practical "communicative competence" has been emphasized in the Japanese secondary English education. However, literature poses some questions to the ... read more

Practical Tips for Teaching Kids

Sponsor: Nara Chapter
Speaker: Panelists: Larry Dodds, Liz Parke, Ann Mayeda
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University Gakuenmae Campus (JALT2004 Conference Site) Facing South Exit of Gakuenmae Station on the Kintetsu Nara Line
Description: Three panelists will give a practical, hands-on presentation on teaching children from preschool through the elementary grades. Games and activities that can be used in small classes then adapted for larger classes will be introduced. ... read more

PowerPoint: How to use it. How to use it better

Sponsor: Sendai Chapter
Speaker: Anthony Crooks (Miyagi University of Education)
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 Yen; students free the first time, 500 yen thereafter.
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Sendai Mediatheque map
Description: This session will introduce Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software as a teaching and presentation tool. No previous experience with it is necessary. Participants are encouraged to bring notebook/laptop computers loaded with the PowerPoint software (often found ... read more

Classroom talk in children's classes

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagano
City: Matsumoto-shi
Venue: Matsumoto M-Wing, Room 4-2, across from PARCO
Description: This session will look at the kind of talk that occurs between teachers and children in English language classes. Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson will raise your awareness of the type of communication that is necessary to enhance ... read more

Teaching Returnee Children

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Michael Mielke
Time: 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: Returnee children, or Japanese children who have lived abroad and have returned to Japan, can sometimes be a challenge for English teachers due mainly to a lack of resources that can meet returnee children's unique ... read more

Encouraging English Enthusiasm through the use of Team Teaching in Kagoshima City

Sponsor: Kagoshima Chapter
Speaker: KAJET Prefectural Representative Ms. Sam Farmer and AEA Mr. Todd Hakuraku
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., February 27, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Kosha Biru (same bldg as Jelly Beans)
Description: For many junior & senior high school students, their first and most constant source of access to a foreign native-English-speaking teacher is the school ALT. We have had this system in place for a long ... read more

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