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February Meeting

Date: February 19th Time: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Room no: Sho-kouzashitsu #2 (Small-sized Room #2) Place: Ibaraki Kennan Gakushu Center (in Urara Building, 5th Floor) 1:00 –2:20 (1 hour to talk and 20 for QA) Learners' Lives as Curriculum: Using Student-Created Texts in the Language Classroom Yasue Kawamorita and Tom Edwards 2:40 - 4:00 (1 hour to talk and 20 for QA) Fluency? Fluency. Fluency! Practical and theoretical approaches to fluency development. Peter Parise and Anne Takata 4:10- 5:00 Business meeting Abstracts for the February Meeting: Yasue Kawamorita and Tom Edwards Learners' Lives as Curriculum: Using Student-Created Texts in the Language Classroom In the Learners' Lives as Curriculum (LLC) model, student-created narratives are used as classroom material. The themes that are drawn upon in these narratives increase learners' motivation to use English as learners become comfortable speaking about themselves and and listening to others.