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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Assisting Learners: One ALT's Experience
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mike Plugh
Organization: Akita Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture
Short description: Being an ALT means different things for different people. With few standardized guidelines about how an ALT is to be used, schools are left to build relationships with their new foreign staff on their own.
Distinguished Lecturer Series (Seminar 1, Osaka): ESP (English for Specific Purposes) for EFL Environments: Concepts, Convenient Tools, and Challenges
Time:
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Judy Noguchi (Mukogawa University and Osaka Graduate School of Engineering)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a multidisciplinary approach that offers promising possibilities for an EFL educational environment. Unfortunately, ESP is often mistaken as simply being the drilling of technical terms and grammatical structures for science and technology majors or the teaching of business, legal or other types of special English.
Strategies to Help Students Communicate Now
Time:
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Roger Palmer
Organization: Kobe Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Teachers continually face learners who have years of formal instruction in English yet still struggle to get their message across. This presentation focuses on the need for students to make use of the English they know in the here-and-now.
Methods to Conquer Pronunciation Difficulties - Part 2
Time:
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Victoria Taylor
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: Victoria Taylor will be back to demonstrate the 2nd part of a 5-week course consisting of 10 separate lessons focusing on common pronunciation errors by Japanese speakers of English.
