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March 2005

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

Teaching English to Young Learners through Kyogen, the Japanese Classical Comic Theater

Sponsor: Fukui Chapter
Speaker: Harumi Yamada
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Sat., March 05, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Fukui
City: Fukui
Venue: Fukui Kenmin Kaikan, Room 701 and the Big Hall
Description: The JALT Fukui March meeting will be a joint event with the Fukui School for the Blind. Ms. Yamada will talk about her experience of teaching English to young learners through the medium of 'Kyogen', ... read more

A Talk About Washington, D.C.

Sponsor: Yamagata Chapter
Speaker: Moti Liberman, Coordinator for International Relations in Yamagata
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sat., March 05, 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: Moti Liberman will talk about Washington, D.C. in terms of its history, culture, politics, economy, language, etc., while focusing on English as a means of global communication in the 21st century.

Strategies for Autonomous Language Learning

Sponsor: Shizuoka Chapter
Speaker: John F. Fanselow
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., March 05, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Shizuoka
Venue: Room 4, Shizuoka Shimin Bunka Kaikan, 2F
Description: Learning English, like all learning, requires predicting much, much more than it requires memorization of sentences, explanations or definitions in either our first or second language. No matter how much we are able to memorize, ... read more

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Make Reading Easy and Fun! - with the Potato Pals

Sponsor: Toyohashi Chapter
Speaker: Oliver Bayley Oxford University Press
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., March 06, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free (sponsored by OUP)
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University Bldg 5 - room 53A
Description: Oliver will guide participants through practical and enjoyable group-work activities and classroom ideas that will benefit all teachers of very young learners. Oliver will also introduce the Potato Pals, Oxford�s newest course for pre-school/kindergarten-aged children. ... read more

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

My Share: The High-Tech Classroom

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Hiroshi Otani and others
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Sat., March 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: The difficulty that teachers of English in EFL environments must face lies in the fact that they are expected to raise the students' English abilities as a whole, including those of some (often many!) students ... read more

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

English Blast: A Model English Enrichment Program for Bilingual Children in Japan

Sponsor: Yokohama Chapter
Speaker: Holly Thompson (Instructor at Yokohama City University, Author of Ash and Cofounder of English Blast)
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., March 13, 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: English Blast is a cooperative, parent-taught program of enrichment education designed to provide intercultural children with an exciting year-round English learning environment. Low-cost and adaptable, the program can meet the needs of after-schooling groups throughout ... read more

Developing a textbook to improve the ability to use kanji

Sponsor: Matsuyama Chapter
Speaker: Rumiko Mukai, Ehime University International Student Center
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM (Sun., March 13, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: In order to improve the ability to use kanji, of course one must learn the characters, but it is necessary to know how they used in sentence structure before one can really begin to read ... read more

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Effective Ways to Prepare for the TOEIC

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Joe Falout
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 20, 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: In the first half, the presenter will demonstrate conversational activities to teach learning strategies and listening skills for the TOEIC. In the second half, the presenter will discuss the findings of an ongoing study of ... read more

An introduction to the uses of conversation analysis in the field of second language acquisition

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Jack Barrow, Osaka International University
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 20, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School near Sumikawa Subway Station
Description: Jack Barrow has been developing a corpus of student-student conversations in English and analyzing the data using conversation analysis (CA). He is very interested in applying this approach to SLA and has recently presented on ... read more

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Discussion: 5 things I wish I had known when I started teaching

Sponsor: Sendai Chapter
Speaker: Charles Adamson
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 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: What do you know now that you wished you had known earlier? What do other teachers know that they can share with you? This grew out of a panel at the JALT2004 conference. Note the ... read more

Task-based learning

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Greg Birch (Seisen Jogakuin College, Nagano)
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 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
Description: Greg Birch will be talking about the idea of task-based learning and how we can use it in our teaching. Task-based learning is an increasingly popular concept amoung English language teachers around the world. Greg ... read more

Teaching English Grammar

Sponsor: Kagoshima Chapter
Speaker: Henry Smith
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., March 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: Henry's presentation will take a hands-on approach to the subject of teaching grammar. Participants will identify "problem areas" and together find ways to overcome them in order to make the process much more enjoyable for ... read more

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