Chapter Events for 2002-2003"

For further information on our chapter programs, contact:
Kunihiko Kobayashi at 029-271-2873, kunihiko@cc.ibaraki-ct.ac.jp
or
Martin Pauly at 0298-58-9523, pauly@k.tsukuba-tech.ac.jp

Sunday, January 19, 2003, 13:30 - 17:00
Venue: Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University


Click here for the direction to get to the university.

Presenter: William Gatton, DynEd
Presentation Title: Team Teaching with Technology: Technology as the Partner

Sunday, December 8, 2002, 13:30 - 17:00
Venue: Kijo Plaza, Tsuchiura
10 minute walk from Tsuchiura Station (Exit West ), across from Kijo Park

One-day members \500.
Note: The venue has been changed to Kijo Plaza. (NOT Gakushuu Center in the Ulara Bldg.)

Presenter: Charles Adamson, Ph.D.,
Professor and Deputy Director of the Language Center, Miyagi University
Presentation Title: EFL in Japan in the Past 25 Years

Our presenter has been teaching English in Japan since 1976. He was one of the founders of JALT and has published and spoke widely on a variety of subjects including methodologies, CALL, testing, and complexity theory. Over the last 25 years, EFL has been altered almost beyond recognition.

Methods have come and gone. This presentation will give an overview of what has happened, including the LL boom, Suggestopedia, Community Language Learning, Silent Way, eclecticism, CALL, and more. The speaker will do this by relating his own experiences during his 25 years of teaching EFL, concentrating on what he has used, what he is now using, especially how he got from there to here. A continuing theme throughout will be "needs analysis" in the original meaning of determining what the students need, not just what they want. A continuing question throughout will be "Why?" Paralleling this personal growth, the speaker will also discuss changes in the profession and in JALT.

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Our Bonen Kai will be held immediately after the meeting; a 2-minute walk from Tsuchiura Station.

Need more details??? Go to our November 2002 Newsletter

Sunday, October 27, 2002, 13:30 - 17:00
Venue: Room 103, Mito Shimin Kaikan, Mito
Chuo 1-4-1, Mito-shi, (post code: 310-0805)
(next to Mito City Office)
Click here for the direction to the Mito Shimin Kaikan.

Presenter : Hisashi Azuma, Asaka-Kaisei Senior High School

Presentation title: Elaborating Dialogue Texts - Elaboration of texts by total group-based learning

This presentation introduces an application of Cooperative Learning optimized for the Japanese classroom context which stimulates learners' communicative ability and develops positive learning attitudes. The presentation focuses on activities practiced since this April, in which students developed their own dialogue (texts) from reading and grammatical materials, and the presenter will propose his theory of why and how this learning style contributes to communicative English learning.

Hisashi Azuma, has been a teacher of English at Senior High Schools in Fukushima prefecture for 11 years, and his main research interests are in language testing and Cooperative Learning for EFL learners in Japan.

Sunday, September 15, 2002, 13:30 - 17:00
Venue: Kennan Center, Tsuchiura

Presenter 1: Takeshige Nakano

Presentation title: Grammar and Reading: Base for Improving Overall English Abilities

Presenter 2: Martin Pauly with Cecile Ikeguchi and Mariko Miyao
Title: Using sign language in the language classroom

Sunday, Saturday, June 8th 13:30 - Sunday, June 9th 13:30
Venue: Ibaraki Daigaku Daigo Lodge
Click here for the direction to the lodge and other details.

Featured Speaker: Laurence M. Dryden, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Presentation title: (first session)
Multiple Intelligence Theory and Learning for Understanding:
Background Behind the Theory
and
Second session:
MI Theory and Learning for Understanding: Theory into Practice

Sunday, May 26, 2002 , 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM (13:30 - 17:00)
Venue: Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University, Tsukuba
Click here for the direction to get to the university.

(JALT Members: Free / One day-members: 500yen

Presentation Title: Which Kanji Dictionary Can Best Meet Your Kanji-Learning Needs?
Presenter: Mary Sisk Noguchi

Are you learning kanji? Are you teaching Japanese to foreigners from non-kanji using countires? This workshop will demonstrate how dictionaries differ in their indexing systems, overall aims, and numerous features. Learners will be able to select the dictionary best suited to heir own learning needs, and Japanese teachers will learn how to advise their students about character dictionaries.

このワークショップは漢字学習者や、非漢字圏出身の学習者に日本語を教える教師を対象とする。このワークショップでは、参加者に実際に辞典を手にしていただきながら、学習者にとっては自己のニーズに合った辞典を選ぶための一助となり、また日本語教師にとっては生徒達に辞典選択の助言を与える上での参考となることを願っている。

To find more about her and her activities, go to her Website: Kanjiclinic .

Sunday, April 21st, 2002 , 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM (13:30 - 17:00)
Venue: Ibaraki Christian University

(JALT Members: Free / One day-members: Free - Publisher's Presentation)

Presentation Title: Nexus and Cubic Listening
Presenter: Tim Kiggell of Macmillan Language House

Tim is a consulting author on the Get Real! series, will introduce and demonstrate the very popular Nexus and the Cubic Listening series.

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May Meeting
   Date:  May 19, 2002
   Venue:  Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University, Tsukuba
   Presenter:  Mary Sisk Noguchi
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June Meeting (Annual Retreat)
   Date:  June 08, 2002
   Venue:  Daigo (Ibaraki University's Gasshukujo)
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No July anf August Meeting
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Sunday, February 17th, 2002 , 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM (13:30 - 17:00)
Venue: Ibaraki University

(JALT Members: Free / One day-members: 500 yen)

Presentation Title: General Education English Reform at Ibaraki University
Presenter: Mary Lee Field , Nagai Noriko , Robert Betts
Department of Communication Studies , Ibaraki University

The presenters discuss their pilot program for proficiency based, sequenced and outcomes based General Education English.
A panel of presenters will describe the General Education English Pilot Program which will be conducted during the 2002-2003 academic year at Ibaraki University. This program, supported by the Center for General Education at Ibadai, is a completely new plan for General Education English with the following characteristics:

- Proficiency Based
- Four Skills, Integrated, CommuninatCurriculum
- Sequential Organization
- Current Language Teaching Methodology
- Increased Language Exposure and Use
- Identifiable Outcomes



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