Shizuoka JALT:

1. Actually Teaching Listening: The importance of script and of supra-segmental phonology 2. Teaching the Strategies of Speaking

Date: Sunday, December 9th, 2007 Time: 2:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr

Description:
Alastair Graham-Marr treats Shizuoka JALT to not just one, but two interesting and motivating presentations.

1. Actually Teaching Listening
This talk examines how you can go beyond giving practice in listening, to actually teach listening skills. Knowledge of script is something that can be taught, and this helps students with their top-down predictive skills. Teaching supra-segemental phonology helps students with their bottom-up decoding skills.

2. Teaching the Strategies of Speaking
We all use strategies when we speak: to confirm or clarify what we're saying and what we're hearing, to show interest, to maintain and develop conversations, to help with fluency, to compensate for language we don't have.

Alastair Graham-Marr, author of Communication Spotlight, a new text that teaches students how to use these strategies, will examine the whys of teaching strategies and look at the sort of strategies he argues should be taught.

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

Cost: free

Venue: Kyouiku Kaikan, (across from Shin-Shizuoka)in the basement (5 minutes walk north from JR station).

Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

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