JALT Events by Month

Below you see an overview of JALT's events for June 2006. (Also see next month.) For other views of event information, see the search menu.

June 2006

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

JALTCALL 2006 Conference

Sponsor: CALL SIG
(the Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group)
Speaker: Plenary Speakers Jozef Colpaert and Naoyuki Tokuda
Time: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM (Sat., June 03, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): 8,000 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 9,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Sapporo Gakuin University, Hokkaido
Description: Designing CALL for Wired & Wireless Environments. This is the first day of the 2-day conference, which includes plenary speeches each day and over 90 parallel sessions. Today, registration opens at 8:30 am and continues ... read more

Games in the Language Classroom

Sponsor: Yamagata Chapter
Speaker: John di Stefano
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sat., June 03, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Yamagata
City: Yamagata
Venue: Yamagata Kajo Kominkan Sogo Gakushu Center, Shironishi-machi 2-chome, 2-15, Tel. 0236-45-6163
Description: Learning a language is hard work. Games can help encourage learners to sustain interest and work. Games also provide the language teacher with a context in which the language is useful and meaningful. The speaker ... read more

My "My Share" Experience: Inspiration and Creative Lesson Planning

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Paul D. Tanner, Nagoya City University
Time: 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM (Sat., June 03, 2006)
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: Inspiration plays a key role in developing innovative and stimulating lessons. Mr. Tanner will explain the origins, development, and implementation of four class activities that have appeared in The Language Teacher's My Share column. The ... read more

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

JALTCALL 2006 Conference

Sponsor: CALL SIG
(the Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group)
Speaker: Plenary Speakers Jozef Colpaert and Naoyuki Tokuda
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 04, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): 8,000 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 9,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Sapporo Gakuin University, Hokkaido
Description: Designing CALL for Wired & Wireless Environments. This is the first day of the 2-day conference, which includes plenary speeches each day and over 90 parallel sessions. Registration opens at 8:30 am Saturday and continues ... read more

Adapting textbooks for more successful lessons

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Tetsu Osada
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM (Sun., June 04, 2006)
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: In this workshop, problems facing EFL teachers at Japanese high schools and colleges resulting from using published textbooks will be presented and discussed. Problems arise when activities are not suitable for large-class, or mono-lingual situations. ... read more

Students' motivation and resistance in language classrooms

Sponsor: Okayama Chapter
Speaker: Keiko Sakui
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 04, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Okayama
City: Okayama
Venue: Sankaku A Bldg. 2F
Description: Language teachers know that many students show motivation and enthusiasm for learning English. But we also see some students who are not interested in what we try to teach and even show resistance in various ... read more

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Micro-Conference #3: Reading Inside and Outside the Classroom

Sponsor: West Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Richard Barber, Andy Boon, Daniel Stewart, & Roberta Welch
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sat., June 10, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 2000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University, Daiichi Kenkyuu Center, Room 1310
Description: The West Tokyo Chapter of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching) announces the third in a new series of micro-conferences, each featuring several presenters exploring a particular topic for a whole day. June's theme is ... read more

Using podcasts - even without an iPod!

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Bill Pellowe
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Sat., June 10, 2006)
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: This presentation is on podcasts, the latest online trend. After listening to some podcast audio files, the presenter shows how you can use them with students (even if you don't have an iPod). Also, discover ... read more

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Temple University / Fukuoka JALT Applied Linguistics Colloquium

Sponsor: Fukuoka Chapter
Speaker: Two Main Speakers and 16 short presentations
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Fukuoka
Venue: Fukuoka Jo Gakuin Tenjin Satellite Campus (9F), Tenjin 2-8-38, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi map
Description: This colloquium includes two main presentations (see below) and 16 short presentations by second language teachers and second language acquisition researchers on various topics. Presentations will include three types: 1) activities for the language classroom, ... read more

How Gender Differences Influence Hearing and Listening

Sponsor: Hamamatsu Chapter
Speaker: Gregg McNabb
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., June 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Hamamatsu
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: The presenter will delineate gender differences in hearing and suggest how these may impact on teaching listening. This presentation should be of particular relevance to junior high school teachers and others who teach children from ... read more

Authoring Autonomy: Experience, Resistance and Resolution

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: Tim Murphey, Keiko Sakui, Neil Cowie, Stacey Vye, Eric Skier, and Martha Robertson
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): 1000 yen (700 yen for half day) [Local chapter membership is now just 1000 yen!]
Fee (One-Day members): 2000 yen (1400 yen for half day)
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: This is our 3rd annual Osaka Chapter/LD SIG collaboratively co-sponsored day-long event. This year we'll focus on exploring teachers' and learners' learning experiences, identifying critical issues and moments in our development of learner and teacher ... read more

Teaching pragmatics through consciousness-raising tasks

Sponsor: Chiba Chapter
Speaker: Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 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: This seminar aims to enable participants to become aware of issues in interlanguage pragmatics, focusing on cross-cultural differences in the use of language, as well as teaching pragmatics through consciousness-raising tasks while attempting to increase ... read more

Student Projects in the EFL Classroom - Why and How.

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Chuck Sandy
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000Y
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan 5F (near Omiya Station, west exit,see map).
Description: Classroom projects are an effective way to consolidate and extend learning, increase motivation, enhance classroom dynamics, and promote learner-autonomy. Also, because projects by definition result in some sort of tangible end product, project work provides ... read more

Practical Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts in EFL Classrooms

Sponsor: Yokohama Chapter
Speaker: Toshihiko Suzuki
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 11, 2006)
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: In this session the presenter will talk about his attempt to develop learners�fpragmatic competence by the instruction of speech act performance strategies. Participants will be first familiarised with basic concepts in pragmatics: pragmalinguistics, socio-pragmatics, speech ... read more

Why listening?

Sponsor: Matsuyama Chapter
Speaker: Paul Shimizu, Publishing Director, Intercom Press
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., June 11, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Pierce Building 3F (Parking NOT available)
Description: Listening is an essential element of your English conversation classes. No input--No output. Students need more strategies for focused listening in order to be able to produce. One pattern listening can work but to be ... read more

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Politics of English Teaching in Japan

Sponsor: Ibaraki Chapter
Speaker: Robert Aspinall
Time: 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Sat., June 17, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): 2,500 yen (overnight)
Fee (One-Day members): 2,500 yen (overnight)
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Daigo
Venue: Ibaraki University Seminar House in Daigo, Okukuji Prefectural Nature Park
Description: Despite success in many areas of education policy, the Japanese education system has been criticized at home and abroad for poor levels of communicative foreign language teaching. There has been a consensus on the need ... read more

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Teachers Unions in Japan (and chapter members' presentations)

Sponsor: Ibaraki Chapter
Speaker: Robert Aspinall (1) & Chapter Presenters (2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., June 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): 2,500 yen (overnight)
Fee (One-Day members): 2,500 yen (overnight)
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Daigo
Venue: Ibaraki University Seminar House in Daigo, Okukuji Prefectural Nature Park
Description: 1) The splitting into two of Nikkyoso (the Japan Teachers Union) in 1989 was a highly significant event for the union itself and the organisations andinstitutions with which it was closely connected. This book uses ... read more

Seven Steps to Success with Young Learners

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: Stan Pederson
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Sun., June 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Aiina, Morioka
Description: Young learners are less able to adapt education to their own needs. The teacher must therefore prepare more fully to provide them with a rich learning experience. This fast-paced workshop reveals the seven steps to ... read more

Portfolios as Alternative Assessment

Sponsor: Toyohashi Chapter
Speaker: Suzanne Bonn, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., June 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: This workshop and presentation will offer effective methods for integrating portfolios in the language classroom and for adapting portfolios to learners of different levels, curriculum, and content. The evolution of portfolios will be discussed: simple ... read more

Assessing English Proficiency by Computer--Call Software and Prosody Analysis--

Sponsor: Gunma Chapter
Speaker: Hiroyuki Obari, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., June 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gunma
City: Maebashi
Venue: Maebashi Kyoai Gakuen College, 1154-4 Koyahara-machi, Maebashi, Gunma (tel: 027-266-7575)
Description: This presentation is about effectiveness of the Computed Assessment System for English Communication (CASEC) as a means of assessing EFL learner's fluency in communication. The speaker and his associates compared the CASEC scores with the ... read more

Oral Communication Techniques (also "Power of the Pen" awards ceremony)

Sponsor: Okinawa Chapter
Speaker: Paul Shimizu of Intercom Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., June 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Okinawa
City: Nishihara
Venue: Okinawa Christian Jr. College, Kiritan, Nishihara Town
Description: Please see our website for more information:

http://okinawateacher.com/

Text exploitation workshop:Moving from accuracy to fluency

Sponsor: Sendai Chapter
Speaker: Gerry Lassche
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen; student non-members-FREE for their first attendance, then 500 yen thereafter.
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Asahigaoka Shimin Center, Meeting room 3 (easily accessible from Asahigaoka subway station)
Description: Current high school classroom conditions tend to prepare students for testing and university entrance exams, which creates conflicts with current communicative pedagogical practices. A more pedagogically sound rationale for extending fluency-based reading comprehension is provided ... read more

Psycholinguistics and Second Language Ability, followed by "My Share"

Sponsor: Hiroshima Chapter
Speaker: Jun Yamada (Professor, Hiroshima University), and everyone
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 18, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Hiroshima
City: Hiroshima
Venue: Hiroshima Peace Park, International Conference Center 3F, Seminar Room 2
Description: The ability to imitate seems to involve not only general intelligence but also L2 ability. A psycholinguistic experiment recently found that English majors, in contrast to non-English majors, produced utterances closer to those of model ... read more

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Japanese English Interference in English Class.

Sponsor: Nagasaki Chapter
Speaker: Emilie Masson and Thomas Sorenson.
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sat., June 24, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)
Description: In this presentation, the interference of Japanese English in the English classroom will be examined. Instances when interference is encountered supported by research conducted in 3 different grades at Junior High school level will be ... read more

Using a "College Success" textbook for university English students and on ways to use content in general

Sponsor: Akita Chapter
Speaker: Mark Cunningham
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., June 24, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen for one-day members, 500 yen for students
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: Room B103 at AIU (Akita International University)
Description: �gCollege success�h courses and textbooks help new students adjust to an environment where they must take more responsibility for their learning while avoiding the many problems that contribute to high dropout rates at many US ... read more

Spotlight on Junior and Senior High School Teaching

Sponsor: Kobe Chapter
Speaker: William Matheny, Scott Brown and David Svoboda
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Sat., June 24, 2006)
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. tel: 078-241-7204)
Description: In collaboration with JSHS SIG, there will be three short presentations: 1) William Matheny - English on the stage, rather than on the page 2) Scott Brown- The Immediate Method in Junior High Schools 3) ... read more

上級学習者の辞書の使い方について Advanced Learners' Dictionary Use

Sponsor: JSL SIG
(the Japanese as a Second Language Special Interest Group)
Speaker: 奥山佳子 Yoshiko OKUYAMA, Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (Sat., June 24, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Kyoto
City: Kyoto
Venue: 京都教育文化センター Kyoto Kyoiku Bunka Center
Description: 発表者は大学生のバイリンガルの辞書使用に関するクオリタティブな研究の結果を紹介する。 和英、英和辞典（紙の辞書、電子辞書、オンライン辞書）が上級の日本語学習者(JFL)、英語学習者(ESL)によりどのように使われるかということに焦点をあてる。発表ではJFL対象の結果のみが紹介、考察される。 Dr. Okuyama will introduce the results of a qualitative study on bilingual dictionary usage of college students. The study focused on how Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionaries (paper, electronic, and online) are used by advanced Japanese ... read more

Advanced Learners' Dictionary Use

Sponsor: Kyoto Chapter
Speaker: Yoshiko Okuyama
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (Sat., June 24, 2006)
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: This presentation will introduce the results of a qualitative study on bilingual dictionary usage of college students. The study focused on how Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionaries (paper, electronic, and online) are used by advanced Japanese as a ... read more

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

NPO JALT Kagoshima Chapter and the Teaching Children SIG 2006:
2nd Annual Teaching Children Conference in Kagoshima

Sponsor: Kagoshima Chapter
Speaker: Richard Graham, Jan O'Laughlin, Alison Miyake, Melinda Kawahara, David Lisgo, Cecil Burton, Caroline Lloyd, Jessica Dunton and more....
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., June 25, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): Pre-Registered: 1000 yen (Before 5pm June 22nd); On the day participants: 2000 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Kagoshima Jutaku Kyokyo Kosha Biru - Shinyashiki cho Kagoshima (Same building as Jelly Beans)
Description: The Conference Theme is Appealing, Ageless and Simple Activities. We will also be running Children's English Classes right through the day to allow teachers with children to participate. Please note that special rates apply to ... read more

EFL Young Learners Poster Session

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Gifu JALT Members
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Sun., June 25, 2006)
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: Join us for a spirited poster session featuring 6 JALT members with vast experience in teaching young learners from 2- 15 years old. Each member will give valuable ideas, activities and lesson techniques in their ... read more

Elementary English for Elementary School

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Greer Pedoe and Nicholas DiNunzio
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., June 25, 2006)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido International School; 1-55, 5-jo, 19-chome, Hiragishi (5 minute walk from Sumikawa Station)
Description: Elementary schools will soon be teaching English. What abilities would best prepare students for junior high school and how can we help teachers cope with the new demands? Pedoe (Shimokawa-cho) and DiNunzio (Hamamasu-mura), both experienced ... read more

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