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September 2002

Sunday, September 1st, 2002

New Zealand in Terms of History, Culture, Education and Language

Sponsor: Yamagata Chapter
Speaker: Louise Bernett
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 01, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Yamagata
City: Yamagata
Venue: Yamagata Kajo Kominkan (t: 0236-43-2687)
Description: The presenter will talk about New Zealand in terms of history, culture, education and language, within a general theme of English as International Communcation.

English for Children

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Alison Taylor
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM (Sun., September 01, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagano
City: Nagano
Venue: Shimosuwa-machi Library
Description: This presentation has two parts. Part one is Shout About It!, a practical presentation demonstrating some of the many motivational activities, songs and chants from Longman's popular series for children, Gogo Loves English. The second ... read more

Sunday, September 8th, 2002

Starting the New Term Off Right

Sponsor: Niigata Chapter
Speaker: Angela Ota
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Sun., September 08, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Niigata
City: Niigata
Venue: Niigata International Friendship Center
Description: Angela Ota shares her ideas on starting the new term out right by creating class atmosphere, keeping track of student marks, getting acquainted, and getting the students started with useful English.These ideas are especially useful ... read more

Ganbare ALT! (Assistant Langauge Teacher)

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Vinko Bosnyak
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 08, 2002)
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: Using his four years of experience as an ALT in Gifu Prefecture, Mr. Vinko Bosnyak, an accedited teacher from New Zealand, has developed the Gambare! series for Japanese Primary and Secondary Schools. This presentation is ... read more

Essential Kid's English

Sponsor: Himeji Chapter
Speaker: Julian Warden from Oxford University Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 08, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free (sponsored by OUP)
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Himeji
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (located directly across from Nozato Station, Bantan Line; plenty of free parking; from Himeji Station, train leaves at 13:50)
Description: Julian Warden from Oxford University Press will hold a lively two-hour workshop on teaching children. The content will include guidance on teaching children: including useful classroom language and management, ideas on teaching conversation, vocabulary and ... read more

Miyazaki JALT BBQ Beach Party

Sponsor: Miyazaki Chapter
Speaker: It's a party!
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM (Sun., September 08, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): Bring what you need and what you'll share
Fee (One-Day members): Bring what you need and what you'll share
Prefecture: Miyazaki
City: Miyazaki
Venue: Aoshima (in front of the Palm Beach Hotel at the semi-covered area)
Description: A beach BBQ with "enlightenment." The MiyaJALT Executive Board will be there to informally discuss the recent developments of JALT, the proposed restructuring plan, and the future plans of the chapter. Please bring barbecue fare ... read more

Saturday, September 14th, 2002

My Share: Sharing Activities from Our English Language Classrooms

Sponsor: Kagoshima Chapter
Speaker: Everyone's encouraged to share
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 14, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 800 yen
Prefecture: Kagoshima
City: Kagoshima
Venue: Jellybeans Kousha Building 2F, near Shinysahiki Tram Stop
Description: This month's workshop has no invited speaker. Instead, please come along and share your favourite activities! Each should last a maximum of 15 minutes. It doesn't matter what age group you teach. Please demonstrate the ... read more

Shuffling Strategies

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Joy Jarman-Walsh
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., September 14, 2002)
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: Unsuccessful communication classes can often be blamed on two obvious problems; students do not talk with each other in English or coorperate in doing a task. Jarman-Walsh found that the key for her classes was ... read more

Sunday, September 15th, 2002

Two presentations: (1) Global Issues and Creative Mind-Mapping; (2) Testing Basics: The ABCs

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: Tim Newfields
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 15, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for both or only one of today's two presentations)
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: Tennoji (Abeno) YMCA
Description: The first presentation examines how students from various countries perceive the world and shows creative ways for students to "map out" their world views. Four personal mapping exercises which challenge so-called "objective" world views will ... read more

Two presentations: Reading and Sign Language

Sponsor: Ibaraki Chapter
Speaker: Nakano Takeshige, Miyao Mariko, Cecilia Ikeguchi and Martin Pauly
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., September 15, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Mito
Venue: Tsuchiura Ulara Building: Kennan Shougai-Gakushuu Center (across from Tsuchiura Station)
Description: There are two presentations today:Grammar and Reading: Base for Improving Overall English AbilitiesSpeaker: Nakano Takeshige.Using Sign Language in the Language Teaching ClassroomSpeakers: Miyao Mariko, Cecilia Ikeguchi and Martin Pauly.Further details were unavailable; please contact Ibaraki ... read more

Two presentations: Establishing and Managing a Language School, and
Facilitating Vocabulary Learning

Sponsor: Matsuyama Chapter
Speaker: Tamai Satomi, Amic English Center
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM (Sun., September 15, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Ehime
City: Matsuyama
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: In the first presentation, Tomai will talk about the type of environment and conditions needed to succeed in establishing and managing a language school. In the second presentation, possible approaches to vocabulary learning will be ... read more

Saturday, September 21st, 2002

Study Skills Strategies for First Year College

Sponsor: Fukuoka Chapter
Speaker: Tim Allan, Kwassui Women's College, Nagasaki
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., September 21, 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: A double difficulty for young college students can be learning how to deal with general academic requirements, while simultaneously learning how tomeet specific classroom behavioural and cultural expectations of foreign teachers. In this demonstration, we ... read more

Sunday, September 22nd, 2002

Re-igniting the Motivational Fire: Tapping Hidden Potential via the Enhancement of Value Perception in ELT

Sponsor: Nagoya Chapter
Speaker: Paul Doyon
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 22, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for both or only one of today's two presentations)
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center, lecture room # 2, 3rd Fl.
Description: Do you have difficult, unmotivated students? Are you at a loss as to what to do with them? If so, then this presentation/workshop is for you. Ways that students form self-defeating beliefs will be discussed, ... read more

Teaching College English Through TV Commercials

Sponsor: Gunma Chapter
Speaker: Fujita Tomoko and Karen McGee
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 22, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen, students 200 yen, newcomers free
Prefecture: Gunma
City: Maebashi
Venue: MIT: Maebashi Institute of Technology (Maebashi Koka Daigaku), 460-1 Kamisadori, Maebashi
Description: The presenters will demonstrate methods used in a college-level English course for art majors, in which students analyze TV commercials in English and as a final project, create their own commercial. Participants will engage in ... read more

Saturday, September 28th, 2002

American Headway

Sponsor: Fukui Chapter
Speaker: Julian Warden of Oxford University Press
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 28, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukui
City: Fukui
Venue: Fukui International Association
Description: Julian Warden will present a demonstration lesson based on this series of American English coursebooks to show how teachers can get the most from them.

Making your English Lessons More Communicative

Sponsor: West Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Hywel Evans, PhD. London University
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 28, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tachikawa Citizens Hall
Description: This presentation will be in workshop format with demonstrations to make it clear why the communicative approach is most effective. Those interested in English teaching at the secondary and tertiary level are warmly welcome.

The Corpus Linguistics Approach to Language Teaching: Trends, Directions, and Challenges

Sponsor: Akita Chapter
Speaker: Naoko Taguchi
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 28, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen (500 yen for a student)
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: GH-300, MSU-A (Minnesota State University Akita)
Description: Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of language corpora and computer analysis tools for second language education. This presentation discusses recent developments in the field of corpus linguistics, particularly its applications ... read more

Covenant Players: A Drama Workshop

Sponsor: Hiroshima Chapter
Speaker: Kurt and Cathy Purucker
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., September 28, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Hiroshima
City: Hiroshima
Venue: Hiroshima City Plaza (about a 2 minute walk from Crystal Plaza towards Hondori) Seminar Room #C 6-36, Fukuromachi Nakaku Hiroshima (Venue phone: 082-545-3911)
Description: Covenant Players is a professional theater company specializing in communications. Covenant Players fields touring troupes throughout the world. This Hiroshima JALT chapter meeting is a three hour drama workshop. We'll learn some useful tips for ... read more

Task-Based Learning

Sponsor: Nara Chapter
Speaker: Jason Moser
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 28, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Nara
City: Nara
Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station)
Description: Jason Moser will discuss task-based learning based upon a recent research project and how and why he uses student journals to support this methodology. Time permitting he will also discuss action research, which was the ... read more

DramaWorks presents PopStars and Star Taxi

Sponsor: Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Theo Steckler and the DramaWorks Team
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 28, 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 B112
Description: The DramaWorks team, authors of textbooks Star Taxi (2000) and PopStars (2002), will do a presentation using a new method for teaching EFL using drama techniques. This method has been used successfully in secondary and ... read more

Sunday, September 29th, 2002

On The Go: Addressing Relevance and Motivation

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: Jonah Glick, Pearson Education-Longman ELT
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Sun., September 29, 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: Motivation is crucial for successful learning. What techniques should we employ to encourage motivation and maximize learning? Two ways are: to ensure learners talk about what interests them; and to teach language for specific real-world ... read more

Innervoice, Time, Planning and Practice

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Marc Helgesen
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 29, 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: In this activity-based workshop, Marc Helgesen will explore ways to help learners develop their inner voice and use it as a tool to expand their English. He will look at sensory modalities (visual, auditory, and ... read more

Process and Thought: Two Articles that have Shaped EFL Writing Instruction, and Stories for the Heart

Sponsor: Kobe Chapter
Speaker: Curtis Kelly, Heian Women's University
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 29, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen (for both of today's presentations)
Prefecture: Hyogo
City: Kobe
Venue: Kobe YMCA 4F LETS (between JR Sannomiya and JR Shin-Kobe)
Description: There will be two presentations today, both by Curtis Kelly, Heian Women's University.Process and Thought: Two Articles that have Shaped EFL Writing Instruction: Two paradigm-shaping articles have shaped the field of EFL writing instruction. One ... read more

Using Movies to Motivate Language Development and Critical Thinking Skills

Sponsor: Toyohashi Chapter
Speaker: Beverly Gallagher and Shauna Waters
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 29, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Building 5, Aichi University, Toyohashi Campus
Description: Movies provide an excellent source for motivating class content and an authentic context for language learning. By using content that is interesting and relevant to students' lives, it is easier for them to make connections ... read more

The Struggle of Bilingual Families for Choice of Language and Identity

Sponsor: Chiba Chapter
Speaker: Tomoko Ascough
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 29, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Chiba
Venue: Chiba Chuo Community Center (near JR Shiyakushomae momorail station)
Description: This study investigated what language environment bilingual families have, and what factors influence their language environment decision. This study employed qualitative inquiry to obtain a holistic view of bilingual families' language policy. Five bilingual families, ... read more

Serious Fun ... a philosophy for teaching kids

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Kelly McKenna
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 29, 2002)
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: McKenna has been teaching in Japan for over 7 years. As a BA in child psychology, director of summer camps, youth director on cruise ships and mother of two, her perspective on teaching EFL to ... read more

Fluency vs. Accuracy: The Headway Approach

Sponsor: Kanazawa Chapter
Speaker: Oliver Bayley, Oxford University Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 29, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free - sponsored by OUP
Prefecture: Ishikawa
City: Kanazawa
Venue: Shakai Kyoiku Center, Honda Machi, Kanazawa
Description: Having a good range of techniques for getting students to speak out in class is essential for the successful development of both fluency and accuracy. Motivating content and giving students the right things to talk ... read more

Fluency vs. Accuracy: Habbick on Havoc

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Robert Habbick, Oxford University Press
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., September 29, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Omiya JACK 6F, conf. room #2 (near Omiya Station, west exit)
Description: Having a good range of techniques for getting students to speak out in class is essential for the successful development of both fluency and accuracy. Giving students the right things to talk about is also ... read more

Stephen Krashen Vs Robert O'Neill - A Discussion on Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition

Sponsor: Sendai Chapter
Speaker: various speakers
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., September 29, 2002)
Fee (JALT members): free (also free for TALE members; TALE is Tohoku Association of Language Educators)
Fee (One-Day members): 1000 yen (for non-JALT and non-TALE members)
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: Aibaku Chuo Shmin Center (formerly the Ichibancho Shimin Center) behind Maruzen
Description: During this session, participants will be encouraged to join in a debate on current issues in Second Language Acquisition, in particular focusing on a discussion between leading authorities in the field Stephen Krashen and Robert ... read more

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