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Saturday, May 11th, 2019
Must-Read Picture Books
Time:
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Namiko Tsuruta and others
Organization: EFL Arena
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Aims: Promote effective ways to help children enjoy and therefore acquire English through active learning. Discovering and rediscovering ways of helping children learn English through the sharing of ideas, activity demonstrations and resources among teachers.
TUJ Distinguished Lecturer Series: Second Language Pragmatics: Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Time:
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Naoko Taguchi (Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Pragmatics, an area within linguistics, is concerned with how people use language in a social context and why they use it in particular ways. The aim of this course is to develop awareness of pragmatics phenomena in our everyday communication, as well as to understand opportunities and challenges that second language (L2) learners face when learning pragmatics in L2.
Okayama JALT May Meeting: (1) Writing and leveling graded materials; (2) Effects of rater training on peer assessment
Time:
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: (1) Rob Waring (NDSU); (2) David Townsend (Shujitsu University)
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Writing and leveling graded materials Rob Waring I will explain how a series of graded readers comes into being from the initial concept stage though series formulation, author selection, story development, production, series manufacturing and release.
Designing EFL Materials that Work
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Let's Go has the distinction of being the first EFL course book series for children, and of remaining one of the world's best-selling course books through five editions for nearly 30 years.
