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November 2003

Saturday, November 8th, 2003

Word Games in the ESL/EFL Classroom

Sponsor: Fukuoka Chapter
Speaker: Robert Mark, Kyushu University
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Sat., November 08, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Fukuoka
City: Fukuoka
Venue: Fukuoka Jo Gakuin Tenjin Satellite Campus (9F), Tenjin 2-8-38, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi map
Description: In this presentation, Robert Mark discusses the validity of using word games in the language classroom and gives several reasons for doing so. He argues that in pursuing communicative competence, there is a need for ... read more

Building Better Dialogues

Sponsor: Kitakyushu Chapter
Speaker: Christopher Storey and Nigel Stott
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., November 08, 2003)
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: Most EFL/ESL textbooks incorporate model conversations as a means to present and practice language in a meaningful context. However, these so-called conversation textbooks can be frustrating to use and the dialogues they contain are not ... read more

Osaka JALT Chapter Business Meeting and Officer Elections Party

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: None
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Sat., November 08, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: TBA
Description: Osaka JALT will meet to discuss plans for the upcoming year and hold annual officer elections. All are welcome, especially those interested in playing an active role in chapter organizing. Anyone that is unable to ... read more

Sunday, November 9th, 2003

JALT Hokkaido 20th Annual Language Conference

Sponsor: Hokkaido Chapter
Speaker: various speakers; call for papers due June 30th, 2003
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Sun., November 09, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): 500 yen (new members joining at the event: free)
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Hokkaido
City: Sapporo
Venue: Hokkaido University
Description: The Hokkaido Language Conference will be a combined event under the sponsorship of ETJ and many ELT publishers. It will feature many presentations covering a broad spectrum of topics that focus on teaching. There will ... read more

Corpus Engine for Teachers

Sponsor: Gunma Chapter
Speaker: June Tateno
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sun., November 09, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Gunma
City: Maebashi
Venue: MIT: Maebashi Institute of Technology (Maebashi Koka Daigaku), 460-1 Kamisadori, Maebashi
Description: Shogakukan Corpus Network (SCN) has offered the BNC Online service via Internet since this August. SCN provides a user-friendly Japanese interface with a high-performance search engine developed by Shogakukan, Co. The Corpus Service of SCN ... read more

November JALT Tokushima meeting

Sponsor: East Shikoku Chapter
Speaker: Meg Ishida
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Sun., November 09, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokushima
City: Tokushima
Venue: Tokushima Catholic Church (in front of Jyoto High School)
Description: TBA; return later or contact Noriko Tojo.

Sunday, November 16th, 2003

Language Awareness Activities for the Classroom

Sponsor: Nagoya Chapter
Speaker: Deryn P. Verity
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (Sun., November 16, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Aichi
City: Nagoya
Venue: Nagoya International Center 3rd Floor (Sakuradori line from Nagoya Station, 1 stop to Kokusai Center Station)
Description: Learners develop a new perspective on the language they are learning, and, with them, teachers can delve more deeply into how language actually works, when language awareness is regularly included in the EFL curriculum. This ... read more

Friday, November 21st, 2003

JALT National Conference 2003 (first day)

Sponsor: Annual JALT International Conference
Speaker: Many speakers
Time: To Be Announced - (Fri., November 21, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): See the JALT Conference website for full details
Fee (One-Day members): See the JALT Conference website for full details
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Shizuoka
Venue: Granship Center, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Description: Press release: (Tokyo) The Japan Association for Language Teaching (NPO) announces its plenary speakers for its 29th annual convention for language professionals, which will be held at Granship Convention Center in Shizuoka city on Nov. ... read more

Saturday, November 22nd, 2003

JALT National Conference 2003 (second day)

Sponsor: Annual JALT International Conference
Speaker: call for papers due Feb. 28, 2003
Time: To Be Announced - (Sat., November 22, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): TBA; members earn a good discount
Fee (One-Day members): TBA; members earn a good discount
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Shizuoka
Venue: Granship Center, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Description: Today's details will be posted as the conference approaches. See our notice for the first day of the JALT 2003 conference for more information.

Sunday, November 23rd, 2003

JALT National Conference 2003 (third day)

Sponsor: Annual JALT International Conference
Speaker: call for papers due Feb. 28, 2003
Time: To Be Announced - (Sun., November 23, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): TBA; members earn a good discount
Fee (One-Day members): TBA; members earn a good discount
Prefecture: Shizuoka
City: Shizuoka
Venue: Granship Center, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Description: Today's details will be posted as the conference approaches. See our notice for the first day of the JALT 2003 conference for more information.

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

An Informal Discussion with Elka Todeva

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: Elka Todeva, School for International Training
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (Tue., November 25, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: Cita Cita Indonesian Restaurant, 3F. From Hommachi exit 9 go one small street north, then east a block and a quarter just past the flower shop.
Description: Osaka JALT will meet in the private third floor meeting room of the very relaxing and gorgeous Cita Cita Indonesian restaurant for dinner, drinks, and an informal session with Elka Todeva, one of the featured ... read more

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003

Rules, Patterns and Words: A Pedagogic Description of Language

Sponsor: Chiba Chapter
Speaker: Dave Willis
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Wed., November 26, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Chiba
City: Togane
Venue: Building H, Presentation Hall (3rd Floor), Josai International University, Togane-shi (Togane Line to Gumyo)
Description: Dave Willis will show how grammar and lexis, contrary to traditional notions, are indeed related. He will look at the implications of this interrelationship for language teaching. Willis has worked in ELT for almost forty ... read more

Passport or Excess Baggage? Current Concerns in Socio-cultural Training in the Classroom

Sponsor: Osaka Chapter
Speaker: Simon Greenall
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Wed., November 26, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Osaka
City: Osaka
Venue: British Council Osaka, Dojima Avanza 4F, 1-6-20, Dojima, Kita-ku, Osaka
Description: This will be a repeat of Greenall's conference plenary. For some years, Socio-cultural training has been accepted as a requirement of a well-balanced language course. Yet, today, some teachers remain concerned that it adds further ... read more

New Directions in Teaching English

Sponsor: Yokohama Chapter
Speaker: Jack C. Richards
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Wed., November 26, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free (this seminar only; usual price is 1000 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: Yokohama JALT and Oxford University bring you Jack C. Richards as part of the 2003 JALT Conference's Four Corners tour. This presentation will focus on trends in TEFL in the last 25 years such as ... read more

Thursday, November 27th, 2003

New Directions in the Teaching of English

Sponsor: Gifu Chapter
Speaker: Jack C. Richards
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Thu., November 27, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Gifu
City: Gifu
Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
Description: In association with JALT Chapters at Yokohama, and Kobe, and OUP, Gifu JALT welcomes Jack C. Richards as part of the 2003 JALT Conference's Four Corners tour. This presentation will focus on trends in TEFL ... read more

Rules, Patterns and Words: A Pedagogic Description of Language

Sponsor: Iwate Chapter
Speaker: Dave Willis
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Thu., November 27, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Iwate
City: Morioka
Venue: Iwate International Association, Morioka
Description: Dave Willis will show how grammar and lexis, contrary to traditional notions, are indeed related. He will look at the implications of this interrelationship for language teaching. Willis has worked in ELT for almost forty ... read more

Computers and English Education: the Paradigm Shifts

Sponsor: Miyazaki Chapter
Speaker: Bill Gatton, DynEd Japan
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Thu., November 27, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Miyazaki
City: Miyazaki
Venue: Miyazaki Municipal University CALL Lab 2
Description: Technology has always made big promises. But the promises come true only when the technology respects its consumers and the values of society. For English language education, we take a moment to look at the ... read more

Passport or Excess Baggage? Current Concerns in Socio-Cultural Training

Sponsor: Okayama Chapter
Speaker: Simon Greenall
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (Thu., November 27, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Okayama
City: Okayama
Venue: Okayama University, Department of Education
Description: This talk will examine what and how to teach a socio-cultural syllabus strand in a multi-syllabus course design, and why. It will focus on socio-cultural training: at lower levels, in monocultural groups, to develop an ... read more

Friday, November 28th, 2003

New Directions in the Teaching of English

Sponsor: Kobe Chapter
Speaker: Jack C Richards, Regional Language Center, Singapore/ Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (Fri., November 28, 2003)
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/078-241-7204)
Description: This presentation by Jack C. Richards (part of the 2003 JALT Conference's Four Corners tour) examines changes that have taken place in language teaching practice over the last 30 years, and focuses on the ... read more

Saturday, November 29th, 2003

Current Concerns in Socio-Cultural Training in the Classroom

Sponsor: Nagasaki Chapter
Speaker: Simon Greenall
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Sat., November 29, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free this month (sponsored by the British Council and Macmillan Language House)
Prefecture: Nagasaki
City: Nagasaki
Venue: Kotsu Sangyou Centre, Nagasaki Bus Terminal Building, 4F, Volunteer Center
Description: Simon Greenall is one of the main speakers at the annual International JALT Conference held in Shizuoka from November 21-24. He taught extensively in England and France before becoming an author in 1982. He has ... read more

Rules, Patterns and Words: A Pedagogic Description of Language

Sponsor: Tokyo Chapter
Speaker: Dave Willis
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sat., November 29, 2003)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): free
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: British Council Tokyo Centre, Kagurazaka 1-2, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Tel: (03) 3235-8031, Nearest Station: Kagurazaka (Tozai Subway Line)
Description: Dave Willis will show how grammar and lexis, contrary to traditional notions, are indeed related. He will look at the implications of this interrelationship for language teaching. A small reception will be held after the ... read more

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