Sunday, October 10, 2004
Mito shimin Kaikan
10:00 am - 5:00 pm. (Details will be here shortly.)

**** Here's the latest news from our program co-chair, Wade****

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1000 - 1200 Workshops
    "A Teacher's Best Friend: Your 'Never Fails' Activity!"
        Each attendee is encouraged to bring one or two of their favorite
        activities, whether it be a five-minute warmup or a whole lesson.
        Wade Carlton will get it started with a couple of his favorites, and
        then others will introduce their activities. Please bring about 25
        copies, and if it's a short activity, by all means guide us through
        a practice run! That way it is made even more clear, and by actually
        doing activities, they tend to stay on our brains longer and we have
        a better chance to remember them when we are planning our classes.

    "I Have a Computer Lab Class and I Don't Know What To Do..."
        If you have had to find an activity for a computer lab class, it can
        be frustrating. Many ideas from books refer to websites which no
        longer exist. Sometimes the ideas look great, but in practice you
        run into one problem or another. Here's our chance to help each
        other out! Bring one or two of your favorite CALL activities (about
        25 copies), and give a short explanation. As with the first
        workshop, it can be a short activity or a whole-class lesson. Please
        make sure that any websites referenced are currently up, or explain
        how to find a similar one.

    "Trick or Treat 'em to a fun Halloween Class"
        The third and final workshop will get us ready for Halloween, coming
        in three weeks. Some of the things we do for Halloween are mostly
        for fun, some involve more English. Whichever kind you have had
        success with, bring your favorite one or two Halloween activities to
        share. As with the other workshops, please bring about 25 copies for
        the attendees.

1200 - 1300 Lunch
    There are a number of restaurants within a couple blocks of the Mito
    Shimin Kaikan. There are also a few convenience stores if you want to
    brownbag it.

1300 - 1400
    Joyce Cunningham
    "Encouraging autonomy in our  EFL classes"
        Learner-centred?  Planning with the teacher?  Student
        self-monitoring?  Self-evaluation? This presentation will be of
        interest to those wanting to promote autonomy in their classes. It
        will first explore what autonomy is and consider how it can be
        applied to the classroom.  To this end, some of the first-year
        projects used in the English Workshop Programme at Ibaraki
        University will be outlined.

1400 - 1500
    Machi Okumura
    
   

Followed by business meeting

May 15th and 16th, 2004

1) Your Rapport Was Great, But!
2) First Listen up! Read and Look Up! Second, Communicate Orally!
Invited Speaker: Dr. John Fanselow, Professor Emeritus, Teachers College Columbia University

3) Short Presentations (Sunday Morning)
Speakers: chapter speakers

This is a Sat/Sun Chapter Retreat with lodging provided at the Ibaraki University Seminar House in Daigo. May 15th/16th; \2500 for members & non-members (includes lodging, meals and snacks).

For the direction, go to: [Getting to Daigo Gashuku Kenshujo]

Click here to see: [the photo of the entrance to the Kenshujo]

The detailed information is as follows.

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* When, Where and How Much?

    Saturday, May 15th 13:30 - Sunday, May 16th 13:30
		Ibaraki Daigaku Daigo Lodge,
    5653-10 Oaza Shimonomiya, Daigo-machi, Kuji-gun,
		     Ibaraki-ken
		  Tel: 02957-2-0402

   Participation fee: 2 days - \2,500 / 1 day - \1,250


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If you haven't signed up for the retreat yet, but would
like to take part, please call Wade Carlton on 029-228-8463
(office hours) or contact him at .

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* Program Outline

			Featured Speaker:

			  John Fanselow

* First session:
First, Listen Up!  Read and Look Up! 
Second, Communicate Orally!

The constant calls in the press and at professional meetings of
language teachers for more emphasis on teaching students to
communicate orally in English is starting to have a negative
effect. Many English teachers have started to ignore listening
and reading.  To be able to say something, our students must
first have absorbed, acquired and learned a lot of language from
listening and reading.  Listening and reading activities that
lead to oral communication will be experience.


* Second session:
Your rapport was great, but . . . !

Discussions of teaching usually involve judgments. During the
workshop, we will develop ways to look at our teaching practices
in non-judgmental ways by analyzing transcribed exchanges from
tape recordings of classes. As we analyze the transcripts, we
will learn new ways to discuss our teaching practices and new
ways to generate alternative practices. In medicine, literature,
and many other professions, analysis of data is the norm rather
than judgments about practices. (Participants who bring a page
of transcriptions from one of their classes will be given a
small token of appreciation.)



* Ibaraki Chapter Member Presentations




* Other proposed program activities

	- Swap Shop/My Share activities
	- Free/group discussions on language learning topics of interest
	- Parties and cakes! 


* Facilities - What do yo get for your \2,500?

- Evening meal (15th), breakfast and lunch (16th), snacks and some drinks for
  the fun times.

- Sleeping facilities: not five-star, but a bed in small four-bunk room,
  with a choice of who to share with, guaranteeing a high degree of privacy.
  All bedding provided.

- Spacious facilities: meeting room, tatami room and dining area for the
  serious stuff and parties, and a sports ground and opportunities for walks
  (rainy season permitting!)

- Quiet and relaxed environs that are relatively accessible: 90 minutes from
  Mito to Shimonomiya station on the Suigun Line, or an hour up Route 118 by
  car to Daigo (about 56 kilometers, see the 'How To Get There' directions
  below). Opportunities for car pooling.

- A chance to do other things: visit Fukuroda-no-taki (Fukuroda Falls) or the
  the flower gardens of Chofukuji Temple and other places of interest.

- a pleasant, rewarding, relaxed and economical weekend away

Sounds like fun? It sure will be! Come and join us!


			***** How To Get There *****

	Ibaraki Daigaku Daigo Kenshujo (Ibaraki Daigaku Daigo Lodge),
	5653-10 Oaza Shimonomiya, Daigo-machi, Kuji-gun, Ibaraki-ken
				Tel: 02957-2-0402

By train... From Ueno or Tsuchiura, take the Joban Line to Mito Station.
At Mito, change trains to the Suigun Line, which departs from platform 1
or platform 2. Here, be careful here to check the electronic signboard
and take the train for 'Hitachi Daigo.' (Don't get on the train to 'Hitachi
Ota,' or you will never get there!) Travel time to Shimonomiya Station is
about 90 minutes from Mito. The Daigo Gashuku Kenshujo is about 5 minutes
by car or 15 minutes on foot from Shimonomiya Station (see below for
directions from the station), or 10 minutes from Hitachi-Daigo station.

By car... From the Joban Expressway Mito Interchange head north on Route
118 for about 56 km (approximately one hour). Go past the sign for Daigo
Station and look out for a crossroads with a convenience store, 'Konishiya,'
on your left. The store is set back slightly from the road, so keep your
eyes open! At this crossroads, turn right and then go straight on for a
couple of hundred meters and turn left at the T-junction. Continue along
the street and you will see Shimonomiya Elementary School and Shimonomiya
Station on your right. Turn right at the next corner, cross the railway
line and Kuji river, follow the road up for a few hundred metres, and at
a fork in the road you will see the sign for the Daigo Gashuku Kenshujo
(this sign is in Japanese). Take the right-hand road for about a hundred
metres and you're there!

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Training Japanese Students in Listening Strategy Tasks

Hiroko Hagino, Ph.D.

How can we accelerate the process of improving listening skills of Japanese
students through classroom instruction? One answer would be to teach the
students "how to fish"(listening strategy) rather than giving "a fish"
(specific knowledge). The speaker will present some findings that she
obtained through her doctoral research studies which focused on
the understanding of lexical words that are key elements in the retrieval of
information conveyed through speech, in non-interactive, transactional
settings.

Hiroko Hagino, Ph.D., obtained her MA in TESOL, and M.Ed. in Applied
Linguistics at TC in New York City in the late 1970s. She has been teaching
English at universities in Tokyo. She obtained her Ph.D. degree at Tokyo
Gakugei University in 2000. Her publications include "A Handbook for
Teaching of English Pronunciation" (Tokyo Shoseki), two EFL
textbooks, "Healthy Lifestyles", "Changing Asia" (Eichosha, Co. Ltd.) and
the book based on Dissertation, "Task Effects on the Development of EFL
Listening Proficiency"(Eichosha, Co. Ltd.)

Title: Learner Autonomy Through Newsletters
Presenter: Wade Carlton, Ibaraki University

In this presentation, Wade will show how he and his colleague, Joyce
Cunningham, have taken a project for their 3rd year university students to a
higher level by giving them more responsibility during all steps of the
newsletter's production. The process includes:
1. Introducing newsletters
2. Selecting positions (reporters, article chiefs, editorial staff)
3. Brainstorming and selecting topics
4. Writing, revising and editing articles using three-draft process
5. Editorial staff crunches out final edition and sends to printer
6. Distribution of newsletter
7. Evaluation
8. Rewards

The newsletter is distributed to about 300 students and staff, so it is
definitely a real task for a real purpose! Every teacher's situation is
different (no budget for printing, less motivated students, etc.), so
possibilities for adapting this project to other contexts will be discussed.
During the presentation, sample newsletters will be given to attendees so
they have an idea what the finished product can look like. In addition,
attendees will have a chance to work together and make a practice
newsletter. It's really easy! Come join us, whether it's your first JALT
meeting or your hundredth.