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Building a Positive Learning Environment

Building a Positive Learning Environment - Outline

This presentation will cover:
building motivation,dealing with low or unmotivated students,responsibilities for building a positive learning environment, research findings,strategies for building a positive learning environment
etc.

ER in the Classroom and Beyond: Practical Applications from Research

This presentation will look at extensive reading (ER) under two themes: a) ER-related classroom activities and b) ER and autonomy. The presenters will use highlights from their research findings into Reading Circles and peer evaluations as well as "interest" and "choice" to outline various practical implications.

A Joint Kansai JALT (Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, & Osaka Chapters)Year-End Event with PechaKucha Night Nishinomiya #11

Once again, the Kobe Chapter will join its neighboring chapters--Kyoto, Nara and Osaka-otherwise known as the Kansai JALT, for a year-end event of PechaKucha presentations. This year, we will be combined with the PechaKucha Night Nishinomiya #11 at the Konan University’s Hirao School of Management (CUBE) in Nishinomiya.
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/nishinomiya/11 for map and info). The

KOBE JALT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2011

It's time for the Kobe Chapter's annual general meeting.
The agenda will include the 2010-2011 Chapter Officers reports, election and Constitution ratification voting. Please contact Shirley Ando at kobejalt@gmail.com for the venue.

2011-2012 Kobe JALT Chapter Elections
Here are the five candidates for the 2011-2012 elected positions:

President: Shirley Ando

Here we are, now motivate us: Strategies for generating student motivation　

You walk into the classroom. The students are at the back chatting with friends, sitting in silence, checking their phones, or resting their heads on the desks. Then, suddenly, the bell sounds. It is the start of the class. How do we as teachers change the classroom dynamic to one where learning can take place for all concerned?

Extensive Reading: Documenting Its Efficacy and Understanding How To Do It"

Raising Children Bilingually in Japan: A Joint Event by Kobe JALT Chapter and Bilingualism SIG

For many foreign and international families living in Japan, there is both a need and a desire to raise their children in both Japanese and another language. Sometimes it is because the parents speak and use two languages in their daily lives. Other times it is a conscious decision to expose the children to a certain language from an early age.

Ethical ELT & Popular Songs, Active Neurons, and High-frequency Vocabulary

Ethical ELT
In keeping with many professions that have ethical codes to guide their practice, this presentation will explore how to incorporate ethics into ELT and ensure our profession contributes to intercultural understanding and tolerance.

Popular Songs, Active Neurons, and High-frequency Vocabulary

FAB1: Connecting Brain Science with EFL - co-sponsored by Osaka, Nara, Kobe, Himeji, & Kyoto Chapters, TED SIG, and others

This is our First Annual Brain-day event (FAB1). We hope this will turn into a significant annual conference for EFL in Japan and we are therefore looking to gather teachers and researchers, from novice to expert, who are interested in helping make a pivotal connection between neuroscience and EFL.

Singing in the EFL Classroom

The lecture is divided in two parts, theory and practice.
The first part introduces some theoretical aspects showing relations between rhythm in language and rhythm in music. This part may introduce linguistic concepts that may be of interest to all EFL teaching, beyond singing in class.