Sendai JALT:

Actually teaching listening: The importance of script and of suprasegmental phonology

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2007 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Alistair Graham Marr

Description:
This talk examines how you can go beyond giving practice practice in listening and actually teach listening skills. Knowledge of script is something that can be taught that helps students with their top-down predictive skills. Teaching supra-segmental phonology helps students with their bottom-up decoding skills.

Bio: Alastair Graham-Marr, M. Appl. Ling., has been teaching in Japan for over 15 years. He is currently an Associate Professor at Tokai University in Tokyo and an editor at ABAX. Alastair has presented in Thailand, the UAE, the US, Taiwan and throughout Japan. He is author of Communication Spotlight: Speaking Strategies & Listening Skills, a recently published textbook for Oral Communication classes at the college level.

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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