Kitakyushu JALT:

Shuffling Strategies

Date: Saturday, September 14th, 2002 Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Speaker: Joy Jarman-Walsh

Description:
Unsuccessful communication classes can often be blamed on two obvious problems; students do not talk with each other in English or coorperate in doing a task. Jarman-Walsh found that the key for her classes was to make groups more effective by observing behavior and re-shuffling groups. In this presentation, she explains how she:

• observed the students,
• designated them by behavior types,
• created new groups based on an idea of a "balanced" group and finally
• observed them again to see if the groups had improved.

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

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

Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center, room 31

Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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