East Shikoku Officer Profiles
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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May 7, 2011
2nd All Shikoku JALT Conference
Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011 (1:00-‐5:30)
Venue: 100th Kinenkan, Matsuyama Shinonome High School
Sponsors: Matsuyama JALT & East Shikoku JALT Matsuyama JALT
Website: http://MatsuyamaJALT.50megs.com/
East Shikoku JALT Website: http://eng.core.kochi-‐tech.ac.jp/eastshikoku/
JALT Members and students: free
One‐Day Member Fee: 1000 yen
Download conference handbook with abstracts here:
2nd All Shikoku JALT Conference.pdf
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March 27, 2011
Older Students as both Teachers and Learners
Date and Time: Sunday, 27 March 2011 - 10:00am - 11:30am
Speaker: Tadashi Ishida
The presenter will discuss how a social educational organization called PEACE has helped promote international understanding and intercultural communication between Japanese and non-Japanese people through the medium of English. He will also report on PEACE's activities, including demonstrations of calligraphy, the tea ceremony and how to put on a kimono, as well as musical performances using Japanese musical instruments, and a program that matches up non-Japanese visitors with volunteer tour guides. The presentation will end with a case study illustrating what happened at a festival where international students from Waseda University carried a portable shrine with the help of residents of a downtown Tokyo community.
This is a co-sponsored event held in conjunction with the West Tokyo Chapter.
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March 26, 2011
Presentations for LLEP university students
Date and Time: Saturday, 26 March 2011 - 1:30pm - 2:20pm
Speaker: Peter Ross
Asking university students to give in-class presentations can be an excellent way to stimulate enthusiasm and generate meaningful discussion, leaving students with a feeling of success and accomplishment. However, asking students at a low level of English proficiency to present on topics that are too hard for them can accomplish just the opposite, leading to frustration for all concerned-- the audience, the teacher, and the presenters themselves. One solution is to steer LLEP students away from research-based presentations in favor of simple, non-academic topics, asking presenters to draw information from their own experience, expertise and imagination. Participants in this workshop will construct a sample non-academic presentation, and view videos of successful student performance.
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February 18, 2011
ESJALT Roundtable 2011 "Tackling Local Problems Globally"
Theme: Teachers talk on improving classrooms with featured speaker Dr. Peter Mickan
(Post Graduate Applied Linguistics Program Coordinator at the University of Adelaide)
Special Guest: Dr. Kim, Young-Min (English Education Department Professor at Daegu National University of Education specializing in elementary school English Education)
Day: February 18, 2011 (Friday)
Time: 18:00 to 19:30
Place: University of Tokushima Ctr. of Gen. Ed. Bldg #5 2nd floor Meeting Room.
Fee: JALT members JPN 500 (for dinner and refreshments)
non-JALT members JPN 1,000
Agenda: We will start off with our Featured Address centered on how we live with all forms of texts (i.e. discourses) and how we make sense these texts (i.e. communication). For us teachers, this will be significant in how we are to help students make meaning from these texts and the role grammar plays in these texts.
The address will be followed by a roundtable discussion to explore methods of improving our EFL classrooms. This roundtable will be an opportunity for teachers to engage in an open and rewarding discussion with colleagues in other institutions to share stories not only for encouragement but a chance to pick up some fresh strategies to enhance your own classroom. So, come with any questions or issues you might have in your day-to-day practice and join the discussion.
Reservation and Contact: Mail Steve Fukuda at steve@ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp by February 14th, 2011
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January 29, 2011
An Online Interactive Vocabulary Learning Course
Speaker: Trudie Heiman
Abstract: The Lexical Portfolio: is computer-based/online corpus-based course for learning all high frequency words missing from student's vocabulary. Teachers can lead this course and interact with students while presenting a rich array of methods to learn and remember words. Features of the interactive Learning Management System (LMS) and corpus-based tools will be demonstrated
Date & Time: Saturday, Jan 29th from 1.30-3.30pm
Location: Room 411, Education Campus, Kagawa University
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