East Shikoku Officer Profiles
May 12, 2012
3rd Annual Shikoku JALT Conference
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2012 (1:00-5:30)
Venue: Kochi University, Humanities/Jimbun Bldg, 5th Floor, Meeting Room 1
Sponsors: East Shikoku JALT & Matsuyama JALT
Website: http://eng.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/eastshikoku/
JALT Members and students: free
One-Day Member Fee: 1000 yen
Download the conference handbook here.
Keynote Lecture: Mike Guest (Miyazaki University)
Deculturizing language for communication - Can it be done?
Although most teachers are aware that cultural baggage may be attached to language, explicit 'culture learning' in the EFL classroom may actually serve to distance learners psychologically from the target language by presenting yet another communicative hurdle, one that is particularly susceptible to 'othering'. Perhaps we can relieve students of this burden by taking some leads from the emerging analysis of ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) and - of all things - modern approaches to teaching grammar.
Matsuyama JALT Featured Speaker: Jim Ronald (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Bringing Pragmatics to the Classroom
Pragmatics is in the air we breathe - in how we express what we say or write, in how we catch each other's meanings or feelings, in how we respond... Except in our language classrooms, where, very often, meaningful language use is filtered out, leaving only sterile, context-free language practice. This English many of our students experience is an alien language: direct, grammar-bound, and unsociable. Through this presentation we will explore various ways to increase real, pragmatics-sensitive communication in the classroom.
OUP Featured Speaker: Grant Trew - (Oxford University Press)
Business English and the TOEIC
Courses for practical workplace English are usually taught separately from test preparation courses, and there is the perception that the skills, language and classroom activities required by each are significantly different.This presentation will look at these two types of courses and show that they are much more similar and complementary than many teachers and students believe.
Presentation sessions:
Jennie Kern: The Effects of Planning and Task Type on Narrative Evaluation
Sean Burgoine: Incorporating Pronunciation Activities into Conversation Classes
Harry Carley & David Paterson: The past, present and future of a Travel English course
Samuel Barclay: Do we have an accurate picture of our students' vocabulary knowledge?
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December 10, 2011
East Shikoku Tech event
The annual East Shikoku Tech event brings together local experts in the field of language learning and technology to offer hands on workshops in the following areas:
- The process genre approach to EFL composition
- Creating language learning content for mobile devices
- Using PowerPoint to supplement textbooks
- Introduction to mapping software
Date: December 10, 2011
Location: University of Kochi, Eikokuji Campus.
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Year end party to follow at Amigo).
Cost: Free for JALT members, 500 yen for non-JALT members.
Workshop Coordinator: Paul Daniels, Kochi University of Technology
Schedule:
2:00 - 3:00 Davey Leslie: The Life in Kochi Project: Real writing and the process genre approach to EFL composition.
3:00 - 4:00 (electronic poster sessions & mini workshops)
4:00 - 5:00 Paul Daniels: Creating mobile content for language learning
Mini Workshops & Electronic Poster sessions:
Lawrie Hunter: (Workshop) Mind the Map: an introduction to the richness of mapping technology for education
David Grant: iPods in the classroom
Takahiro Ioroi: PowerPoint for developing simple materials for English language teaching
Paul Daniels: A mobile course manager
Davey Leslie: Blogging and EFL Writers
Michael Sharpe: Student Sideshows in Moodle
We are still accepting proposals for electronic poster sessions. Please send a title, short description or your technology enhanced lesson, activity or content to Paul Daniels (paul at hokulele dot us. The proposal deadline is December 7.
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October 30, 2011
Practical Classroom Language Assessment
Dr. Fred Davidson (http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/people/fgd), Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois, will be giving a workshop on Practical Classroom Language Assessment.
Title: Practical Classroom Language Assessment
Date: Sunday, 30 October
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: University of Kochi Eikokuji Campus, Campus Meeting Room, 2nd floor
Handouts:
Main Workshop Handout (Copies available onsite.)
Supplemental handout of test specs (No copies available onsite. Please download and print or view this PDF file electronically.
Follow up documents are here:
Davidson_Kansai_Kochi_report_Oct2011.pdf
pre-pub_Davidson_Blackwell_Encyclopedia_of_Applied_Linguistics.pdf
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June 30, 2011
Teaching and Testing communicative strategies
Speakers: Gerardine McCrohan and Paul Batten, Kagawa University.
Title: Teaching and Testing communicative strategies.
Date: June 30, 2011
Time: 2pm-3.30pm
Location: Room 411 Education Campus, Kagawa University, Saiwai-cho 1-1, Takamatsu.
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June 28, 2011
Purposes and approaches to foreign language education: universalism or particularism?
Speaker: Mike Byram
Title: Purposes and approaches to foreign language education: universalism or particularism?
Details: The main focus of this talk will be whether language teaching can be 'universal' or has to be 'particularistic' i.e. with the purposes and aims /objectives specific to each country. This will lead onto dealing with the model of intercultural communicative competence (Byram, 1997). The talk will include a question and answers section.
Date & time: June 28 (Tuesday) - 6:45pm - 9:00pm
Location: Lifelong Learning Center in Umeda (OSAKA)
Main sponsors:
- Framework & Language Portfolio Special Interest Group (FLP SIG), see http://tinyurl.com/CDSLEJB]
- East Shikoku Chapter, see http://eng.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/eastshikoku/
- Osaka Chapter, see http://osakajalt.squarespace.com/)
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June 18, 2011
Alex Kerr
Alex Kerr, the author of 'Lost Japan' (1994) and 'Dogs and Demons' (2002) will talk about his activities at Iya in Tokushima and in other places. This talk is part of the Department's Japan Studies Program and will be in Japanese.
June 18 (Sat.)
18:00
Room 203
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May 25, 2011
Building a learning community within the class and within the institution
Speaker: Joyce Hampton is Director of ELL/International Programs at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. She will be staying with a group of college students at UOK from May 21 through June 3.
Date, location & time: May 25, University of Kochi Eikokuji Campus, 18:00
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