Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Oct. 12-15 2012, Act City, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
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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
Dr. Fred Davidson (http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/people/fgd), Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois, will be giving a workshop on assessment and evaluation.
Date: Sunday, October 30th
Time:1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: University of Kochi Eikokuji Campus, Campus Meeting Room, 2nd floor
http://learn.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/eastshikoku/
Discover how your classroom can be enliven by using fully interactive online course materials designed to get false beginners / pre-EAP level to write a lot and to write meaningfully.
Improving students' communicative strategies the aim of many if not most EFL teachers and researchers. This presentation includes the tools students need to interrupt, ask questions, give verbal and non-verbal signs they did or didn't understand, to ask questions for meaning, and to rephrase and describe vocabulary. Testing these skill can be a problem for many teachers.
Alex Kerr, the author of _Lost Japan_ (1994) and _Dogs and Demons_ (2002) will talk on his activities at Iya in Tokushima and in other places. This talk will be in Japanese (possible English support in Slide presentation or paper handout)
Co-Sponsors: University of Kochi (previously KWU) Japan Studies Program
The speaker is Director of ELL/International Programs at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. She will speaking on building a learning community within the class and within the institution.
Co-Sponsors: University of Kochi (previously KWU) Japan Studies Program
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.
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.
This is a co-sponsored event with the West Tokyo JALT chapter. West Tokyo is kindly covering travel expenses for both speakers.
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.
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
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