Okayama JALT:

What You See Is What You Get? Learner Preconceptions of Native-Speaker-Taught University EFL

Date: Saturday, May 19th, 2007 Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker: Paul Hullah, University of Miyazaki

Description:
A questionnaire surveying Japanese student advance expectations of native speaker (NS) taught university EFL courses was developed and extensively administered. Results led the presenter to seek to identify exactly how shared preconceived ideas regarding NS tertiary EFL teachers and classes are formed prior to entry into university education by learners with no first-hand experience of courses taught solely by native speakers. Ongoing findings indicate that, for various reasons, a particular version of NS teachers and classes is being served up to pre-university Japanese EFL learners. It is a version comprising certain disturbing aspects of which we, as responsible educators and cultural-linguistic-educational models, need to be aware and, the presenter will argue, to refrain from perpetuating or adding to in our own actions and approaches. This presentation will be of interest to anyone teaching EFL in Japan at any level.

Please note that this one-hour presentation is one of two presentations between 3:00 and 5:00 today. The entrance fee for non-JALT members is 500 yen, whether you attend one or both of today's presentations.

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

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 500 yen for the day

Venue: Sankaku A Bldg. 2F near Omotecho in Okayama City

Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

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