Nara JALT:

Juggling and EFL.

Date: Saturday, March 11th, 2006 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Andrew Woollock

Description:
Whilst at first juggling and the study of English may seem unlikely bed-fellows, the former is a great tool in stimulating and facilitating the latter. For approximately four years, Woollock has been teaching students how to juggle (as the core of a wider project) and from university to senmon gakkou, it has been a hugely successful exercise. This is why Woollock would like to teach other educators how to juggle so that they too may use it to good effect in their classrooms.

Why juggling? 1) Juggling encourages students to follow detailed instructions in English - if they don't listen and follow, they simply won't be able to do it.
2) Juggling stimulates the area of the brain associated with learning new skills (which may or may not be the same part stimulated whilst learning new languages - next research project).
3) As an early term activity, juggling facilitates team building because once students become proficient, you assign them to help a weaker student.
4) Juggling motivates the students when they realise they can learn reasonably quickly, and they did it all in English.
5) Juggling introduces the concept of chronology and time-lines to the students (which can be explored in a follow-up writing activity, homework and/or black-board exercises).

Organization: Nara Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Nara JALT)

Cost: free

Venue: Tezukayama University, Gakuenmae Campus (Kintetsu Gakuenmae Station, Nara Kintetsu Line)

Location: Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan

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