Ibaraki JALT Event Archives

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. ...

Sunday, December 11, 13:00 – 17:15 at Ibaraki University, Humanities building Room C205 - Map link at the bottom of this post. (Doors open from 12:45 a.m. No pre-registration required!) 全国語学教育学会 The Japan Association for Language Teaching -JALT-　 First presentation (13:00 - 14:15): Featured Speaker: From Reading Circles to Culture Circles Suzanne Bonn Nanzan University Second presentation (14:30 - 15:10): The influence of English vocabulary strategy on basic education in China Li Wei 
Ibaraki University Third presentation (15:20 - 16:00): Research Method. Statistical Issues Part 1. What if you have two groups to compare? Takayuki Nakanshi Tokiwa University Fourth presentation (16:10 - 16:50): Presentation on ER (title to be announced) Atsuko Ueda 
Ibaraki University Chapter Business Meeting (16:50 - 17:15): JALT Members: Free Non-Members: \500　 Students: Free JALT Ibaraki chapter meetings are open to all interested in learning and teaching languages. . . . and afterwards join us ...

全国語学教育学会 The Japan Association for Language Teaching -JALT-　 
 
Presentations:
 1. Flow and Anchoring in T.E.Y.L. classes (10:00-11:20)
by John Wiltshier (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University) If we see great teachers teach the classes always run so smoothly. The teacher enjoys teaching and children enjoy learning. Such smooth classroom management is created at the lesson planning stage. Thinking beyond the typical lesson plan components of time, activity and resources to consider lesson flow and anchoring is necessary to improve classroom management. Participants in this presentation will draw lesson flow diagrams to help analyze their own classes and will be shown how to identify positive and negative anchors that currently exist in their classrooms. Lunch Break (11:20- 13:30) A Relaxed Stroll to the Food Court in Tsukuba Center - Many dining options in the Food Court at Q't. 2. Tasks and projects in elementary schools (13:30-14:50)
by James York (Tokyo Denki University) The fi...