Sendai JALT:

Constructing and Celebrating Linguistic Capital - The Model of Monolingual 'Half-Japanese' Girls

Date: Sunday, April 29th, 2007 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Laurel Kamada, Aomori Akenohoshi Junior College

Description:
The full title of Dr. Kamada's talk is Constructing and Celebrating Linguistic Capital as a Teaching Methodology in ELT: The Model of Monolingual 'Half-Japanese' Girls in Japan. This presentation will focus on the concept of linguistic and cultural capital in relation to English language learning in Japan. The discussion will begin with an introduction to the concept of linguistic capital, based on the presenter's recent Ph.D. thesis, of how 'half-Japanese' girls in Japan - even with low English proficiency - construct and celebrate their English linguistic capital. Then discussion will turn to how this linguistic capital can be productively created in EFL/ESL classrooms in Japan by instilling intrinsic motivation in students and introducing techniques for how to create and celebrate English learning, even in small, but steady, increments.

Bio: Dr. Laurel Kamada, professor at Aomori Akenohoshi Junior College, teaches courses in Comparative Cultures, Gender & Language, and Childhood Education English Teacher Training. She recently received her Ph.D. on the topic of the construction of identity of multiethnic adolescent girls in Japan. Her other interests include: discourse analysis, poststructuralism, and gender.

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

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen

Venue: Sendai Mediatheque map

Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

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