JALT Events by Month

Below you see an overview of JALT's events for March 2002. (Also see next month.) For other views of event information, see the search menu.

March 2002

Friday, March 1st, 2002

Curry Evening

Sponsor: Okayama Chapter
Speaker: Everyone can speak between mouthfuls
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Fri., March 01, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): 2,500 yen for food and accompanying beverages
Fee (One-Day members): 2,500 yen for food and accompanying beverages
Prefecture: Okayama
City: Okayama
Venue: contact us
Description: Belated Shin-nenkai to be held at a local curry hot-spot. While scoffing authentic Indian grub, have a good time airing your news and views about all things JALT related.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2002

Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding Between Japanese and Americans

Sponsor: Yamagata Chapter
Speaker: Stephen Ryan, Yamagata University
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sun., March 03, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Yamagata
City: Yamagata
Venue: Yamagata Kajo Kominkan (t: 0236-43-2687)
Description: This presentation will discuss ongoing research concerning cross-cultural misunderstandings between Japanese and Americans. The focus of this discussion is that Japanese and Americans often misunderstand each other due to the disparity of their own everyday ... read more

Saturday, March 9th, 2002

Teaching English Through Storytelling

Sponsor: Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Steven Morgan
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., March 09, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus (JR Yotsuya Stn), Kioizaka Building, Room 108. Please ask the guard for directions when you enter the gate.
Description: Students become natural storytellers when made consciously aware of narrative structure and the five basic plot stages. Steven Morgan will detail specific activities for building such awareness, including those from oral and visual approaches. Join ... read more

English in Elementary Schools: What Will It Mean for Secondary School Teachers?

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Kensaku Yoshida, Sophia University and Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., March 09, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: Please join the Kitakyushu JALT chapter for a talk on how changes to the elementary curriculum may affect English education in secondary schools.The speakers will share their knowledge and experience from working on Monbukagakusho committees ... read more

Sunday, March 10th, 2002

English in Elementary Schools: What Will It Mean for Secondary School Teachers?

Sponsor: Kumamoto Chapter
Speaker: Kensaku Yoshida, Sophia University and Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 10, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kumamoto
City: Kumamoto
Venue: Miike Fukushi senta, 836-0054 Omuta-shi, Tenryo machi, 1-100-5. Location tel: 0944-57-3107
Description: Note: This presentation will be given in Japanese.Please join us in Omuta for an 'on the road' Kumamoto JALT chapter event in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, for a discussion on how changes to the elementary curriculum ... read more

Teaching English the Silent Way

Sponsor: Kagoshima Chapter
Speaker: Noriko Ross
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 10, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Yoka Centre Daiei (across from Nishi Kagoshima train station)
Description: When you were a child, you had the pleasure of discovering the criteria necessary to speak your mother tongue. I want you to experience this process again through learning English articles. The criteria for English ... read more

TBA

Sponsor: Yokohama Chapter
Speaker: TBA
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., March 10, 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.

Classroom Activities

Sponsor: Matsuyama Chapter
Speaker: Philip O'Neill, Oxford University Press
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., March 10, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: O'Neill will introduce a number of activities for classroom use with a wide range of students. This workshop should be of help to teachers of children and adults alike. The presentation will also discuss some ... read more

Saturday, March 16th, 2002

Statistics for Language Teachers

Sponsor: Fukuoka Chapter
Speaker: Aaron Sorensen
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., March 16, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Fukuoka
Venue: Aso Foreign Language & Travel College, Bldg 5, 1-14-17 Hakataekiminami, Hakata-ku Fukuoka-shi (10 minutes from Hakata Station, map on web site)
Description: This presentation will be a short introduction to statistics for language teachers. This presentation/workshop is targeted toward helping teachers understand the statistics that are used in language journals and for teachers who are interested in ... read more

Sunday, March 17th, 2002

What has surprised and Struck Me in Japan, and Experiences in India

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Daniel Dattilio
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:45 PM (Sun., March 17, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Nagano
City: Nagano
Venue: Suwashi Ekimae Shiminkaikan Room 2 (Suwa Plaza Bldg. 4F)
Description: While living in India over two and half years, the speaker had experiences, good or almost traumatic, but all of which were unforgettable. He takes experiencing different cultures as a key to avoiding misunderstanding and ... read more

Roles, Strategies and Skills for Activating Student Discussions

Sponsor: West Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Valley Peters
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Sun., March 17, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Joggakan Junior College (Minami-machida station on the Denentoshi line)
Description: The conversational skills necessary for participating in a content-based classroom discussion are elusive yet crucial. Defining rolesand providing the language support necessary to exchange ideas are two elements that the presentor has found helpful for ... read more

Code-switching and Language Development of Bilingual Children

Sponsor: Kanazawa Chapter
Speaker: Takagi Mariko
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 17, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): TBA
Prefecture: Ishikawa
City: Kanazawa
Venue: Shakai Kyoiku Center (3-2-15 Honda-machi, Kanazawa)
Description: Takagi will report a study investigating code-switching patterns of Japanese/English bilingual children in the North East of England from linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. The study contributes to the examination of how the children's L1 development ... read more

Meaningful Personal Discourse in the Classroom....Despite Textbooks

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Rob Hughes and Simon Evans, Seigakuin University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 17, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Omiya Jack 6F (near Omiya JR Station, west exit)
Description: The presenters believe that the communicative exchanges that take place in the classroom are rarely meaningful. This can change. Commercial instructional materials will be examined to determine their "communicativeness." The presenters advocate the use of ... read more

The Current State of Teaching English in Japanese Schools

Sponsor: Hiroshima Chapter
Speaker: Miyaoku Masamichi
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 17, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Hiroshima
City: Hiroshima
Venue: International Conference Center 3F, Seminar Room #2, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Description: Masamichi will introduce the results of his research into high school students' English abilities, and their attitudes toward English education. Also he will talk about how English teachers are working on improving the current state. ... read more

Saturday, March 23rd, 2002

What Happened At The Conference
and Activities For First Classes In The New Year

Sponsor: Nagasaki Chapter
Speaker: various speakers
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sat., March 23, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Center, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: The international PAC3/JALT2001 Conference in Kitakyushu in late November was the first large JALT conference to be held in Kyushu. This spring, we would like to revive an old Nagasaki JALT custom, and ask anyone ... read more

Making Effective Use of Multi Media in Project Work

Sponsor: Nara Chapter
Speaker: Simon Cole
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., March 23, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station)
Description: This presentation looks at the experience of a multi-media project at a private High School. In the project, students used a reader-response approach to study the lyrics of an English pop-song. They then used computer ... read more

Round Table Event: Your Share

Sponsor: Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Attendees are free to participate
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sat., March 23, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Sophia University (JR Yotsuya Stn), Kioizaka Building, room 108
Description: This is the time for you to share your knowledge. If you have any great teaching ideas or techniques, if you have given any great lessons and you want to tell the world about it, ... read more

Sunday, March 24th, 2002

Interactive Testing and Innovation in EFL

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: Yoshinori J. Watanabe, PhD, Akita University
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., March 24, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate Kokusai Koryu (Iwate International Plaza) in Morioka, phone: 019-654-8900.
Description: It is common to claim that if a test were to improve, teaching and learning would accordingly be changed in a better way: hence, a deterministic view of the washback effect of testing. However, the ... read more

Pronunciation

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Chris Perry
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 24, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School in Sapporo (5 minutes from Sumikawa Station, map on Hokkaido JALT web site)
Description: Chris Perry will present on helping students master English pronunciation at all levels. This is a hands-on presentation and you will leave with ready-to-work tips for the classroom.

English is an International Language

Sponsor: Okinawa Chapter
Speaker: Amy Stotts
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 24, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Junior College
Description: While the phrase English is an international language is often given as a reason for English language study, we are rarely able to build such global aspirations into our courses. For many of us teaching ... read more

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

Vygotsky-Inspired Pedagogical Strategies

Sponsor: Fukui Chapter
Speaker: Tim Murphey
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 31, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukui
City: Fukui
Venue: Fukui International Association
Description: Drawing from Vygotskian socio-cultural theory Murphey will describe and illustrate several ways how students can reveal their mental constructing of linguistic and content material so that others might adjust to them and their Zones of ... read more

Comprehension Checking: Finding Out What Your EFL Students Really Know

Sponsor: Toyohashi Chapter
Speaker: Alan Bossaer, Sapporo Gakuen University
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 31, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: This presentation deals with the skill of comprehension checking as it relates to the teaching and learning of vocabulary in English. The presentation will focus on some of the problems associated with comprehension checking, but ... read more

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