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September 2007

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

The Introduction of Taiwan: Focus on the History, Politics, Life Events & Sightseeing Spots

Sponsor: Yamagata Chapter
Speaker: Freddy, Yu (You Ming-Hwang)
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Sat., September 01, 2007)
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: Taiwan was colonized by Japan from 1895 to 1945 because the defeat from the Chin Dynasty to the end of the war with Japan. Even these days, almost all those who have studied at the ... read more

Teaching Listening Skills and Speaking Strategies

Sponsor: Okayama Chapter
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., September 01, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Okayama
City: Okayama
Venue: Sankaku A Bldg. 2F near Omotecho in Okayama City
Description: Alastair Graham-Marr, author of Communication Spotlight, will explain why, and what, strategies should be taught. Part 1 of the presentation will examine how teachers can go beyond giving practice in listening and actually teach listening ... read more

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Part A: Actually Teaching Listening: The importance of script and of supra-segmental phonology. Part B: Teaching the Strategies of Speaking

Sponsor: Hiroshima Chapter
Speaker: Alistair Graham-Marr (Abax ELT Publishers)
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., September 02, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Hiroshima
City: Hiroshima
Venue: Hiroshima Peace Park, International Conference Center 3F.
Description: Part A SYNOPSIS: This talk looks to examine how you can go beyond giving practice in listening and actually teach listening skills. Knowledge of script is something that can be taught that helps students with ... read more

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Teachers Helping Teachers Forum

Sponsor: Himeji Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Patrick Dougherty, Professor William Balsamo, and other THT members
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 09, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 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: Teachers Helping Teachers (THT) has received considerable help from the local Himeji JALT chapter, and this will be a chance for those who have participated in THT events over this past year in Laos, Vietnam, ... read more

Grading Rubrics: An interactive assessment tool

Sponsor: Omiya Chapter
Speaker: Paul Rowan
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., September 09, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Saitama
City: Omiya
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan 5F (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).
Description: A grading Rubric is a scoring guide designed to identify overall strengths/weaknesses in a student�fs task. In this presentation, I will discuss four key points that make Rubrics an effective tool for student assessment and ... read more

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Active Learning: Cooperative Learning in the College Classroom

Sponsor: Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Roger Johnson
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Fri., September 14, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Temple University Japan Room 213
Description: There is a strong effort to make college classrooms a place where students are more active and less passive, where students talk through the material they are learning with others, and where students are connected ... read more

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Using Literature in Teaching Language

Sponsor: Fukuoka Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Patrick Rosenkjar, Temple University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sat., September 15, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Fukuoka
Venue: Elgala Hall (Daimaru), 1-4-2 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka. Tel: 092-711-5017
Description: Most Japanese students (and many teachers of English as well) believe that poems, short stories, and plays have little or no place in classrooms oriented to developing communicative competence in English or that literary texts ... read more

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

My Share Activities and Pizza

Sponsor: Kyoto Chapter
Speaker: Members and guests
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Sat., September 22, 2007)
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: Have you got a favorite activity to start off a new term? Come and share one, be it a game or warm-up activity! Or just stop by, listen, and enjoy a slice of pizza. It'll ... read more

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

2007 JALT Hokkaido Language Conference

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: Featuring: Don Maybin
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 23, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 2,000 yen at the door or only 1,000 yen if you preregister and pay in advance.
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkai Gakuen University - Library Building 1st Floor
Description: The 24th Annual Language Conference will feature Don Maybin, a renowned teacher, trainer, author and presenter under the theme of The Active Classroom. There will be four or five streams of simultaneous presentations for all ... read more

Motivating Learners Through Pain and Pleasure

Sponsor: Ibaraki Chapter
Speaker: Kevin Knight, Lecturer, Career Education Center, Kanda University of International Studies
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Sun., September 23, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Tsukuba
Venue: Tsukuba Gakuin Universtiy, Tsukuba (formerly Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University)
Description: One of the key difficulties in motivating Japanese language learners is the paradigm which they may have about language learning. At Kanda Gaigo Career College, a number of unique and effective techniques adapted from the ... read more

Something for Everyone -- Regional Mini-Conference on Language Education for Children, Jr/Sr. High School, College/University, and Adults

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Various Speakers (TBA)
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., September 23, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Kitakyushu
Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center (a 5-minute walk from the Kokura train station for shinkansen, JR train)
Description: Kitakyushu JALT Chapter and the JALT Teaching Children SIG invite you to attend our September mini-conference. The main speaker will be Dr. Tetsuhito Shizuka of Kansai University who will speak at 1:00 p.m. From 2:00 ... read more

Global Workforce Development through Business Internship Program

Sponsor: Ibaraki Chapter
Speaker: Kevin Knight, Lecturer, Career Education Center, Kanda University of International Studies
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 23, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Ibaraki
City: Tsukuba
Venue: Tsukuba Gakuin Universtiy, Tsukuba (formerly Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University)
Description: Given the rapid changes taking place in the world today, students are facing an increasingly competitive environment upon graduation when they enter the global workforce. Kevin's Company was created as an alternative to traditional internship ... read more

Encouraging Young Learners, and their Teachers, to Communicate in English

Sponsor: Shinshu Chapter
Speaker: Sue Fraser Osada (Seisen Jogakuin University)
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM (Sun., September 23, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Nagano
City: Nagano
Venue: Monzen Plaza, Basement Hall, Chuo-dori, about 10 mins from Nagano Station
Description: This workshop provides practical advice and examples for using English with young learners, and has particular relevance for those involved with foreign language teaching at the elementary school level. A specific aim is to help ... read more

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Action Log and Topic-Based Instruction

Sponsor: Akita Chapter
Speaker: Mamoru Takahashi
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., September 29, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen for non-members, 500 yen for students
Prefecture: Akita
City: Akita
Venue: Joinus (at the entrance of Senshu Park)
Description: This presentation will show you how to use Action Log (AL) in your classroom. AL is a kind of action research. It is a tool that enables you to know what students are thinking. The ... read more

1) Hands-on Teacher Development: The CELTA in Japan 2) Peace Education in the Language Classroom

Sponsor: Kobe Chapter
Speaker: 1) Craig Jennings & Jan Visscher 2) Kip Cates
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (Sat., September 29, 2007)
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: This month we have two 90 minute presentations: 1) The Cambridge CELTA is arguably the most widely recognised teacher training course worldwide and hands-on experience is its most distinguishing aspect. The presenters will try to ... read more

Exploring ways to use communicative language tasks with grammar-based (exam-oriented) high school English lessons

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Masaomi Kitamura, Uguisudani high school
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM (Sat., September 29, 2007)
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: In this hands-on workshop, participants will experience the textbook and testing requirements faced by Japanese teachers of English (JTE's) as they try to fulfill Monkasho suggestions to introduce more communicative English into their classes. The ... read more

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Exploring EFL Presentation Skills

Sponsor: West Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Keiji Nomura, Tim Knight, Peter Ross, Simon Stevens, Naho Hashimoto, and Andy Boon
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:45 PM (Sun., September 30, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Kokubunji-shi
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University, Daiichi Kenkyuu Center, Room 1310
Description: JALT West Tokyo Chapter announce the fifth in our series of micro-conferences, each featuring several presenters exploring a particular topic for a whole day. September's theme is all about Exploring Presentation Skills. 10:15-11:00 Keiji Nomura ... read more

Graphic Organizers for Content Learning

Sponsor: Toyohashi Chapter
Speaker: Heidi Evans
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Sun., September 30, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 500 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Toyohashi
Venue: Aichi University, Bldg 5 - room 543
Description: Graphic organizers are instructional tools that help learners synthesize and organize new information in personalized, meaningful ways. In this workshop, participants will experience how concept maps, word webs, flowcharts, matrices, and Venn diagrams can be ... read more

Recipes for Success in Teaching Medical English

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: James Hobbs, Iwate Medical University
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 30, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Aiina, 8th floor, Room 816
Description: Authentic medical English is often assumed to be extremely difficult for the non-expert teacher to understand, let alone teach. The presenter will show that this is not in fact the case, and that a course ... read more

Issues in the Teaching of Academic Writing

Sponsor: Nagoya Chapter
Speaker: David Kluge
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., September 30, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center, 3rd Fl, Lecture Room # 2
Description: The speaker will first describe some of the issues he has encountered in the teaching of research paper writing, like the teaching of academic writing conventions and the problems of translation and plagiarism. In the ... read more

Students as Editors: Using Online Concordancers

Sponsor: Gunma Chapter
Speaker: Stephen Jennings
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., September 30, 2007)
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 workshop will show how students are able to edit their written work after some language awareness activities and online concordance familiarity. Workshop participants will take part in the following steps. 1. Awareness of collocations ... read more

Is the controversial concept of the 'native speaker' relevant to the ELT classroom and profession?

Sponsor: Sendai Chapter
Speaker: Barry Kavanagh
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Sun., September 30, 2007)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Miyagi
City: Sendai
Venue: AER Building, 28th floor, kensyuusitu 2 map
Description: This research attempts to define the controversial concept of the 'native speaker' with a discussion of its varieties and the 'global norm,' and to investigate its validity within the ELT classroom and profession. In a ... read more

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