Iwate-Aomori JALT:

ESP English for Special Purposes: Adapting an American High School Science Textbook for the ESL/EFL Classroom

Date: Sunday, May 30th, 2004 Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Speaker: Stephen Shucart

Description:
Professor Stephen Shucart will explore how to use an American science textbook in a university-level English class. He used the Active Reading series of textbooks by Neal Anderson as a basis for the adaptation. He first gives a detailed explanation the Active Reading methodology, then shows how it can be used to generate various exercises for a General English course. He also explains how each class is organized. The talk will be illustrated with handouts of examples from the textbook, and samples of the activities he created based on the Active Reading methodology.
Stephen Shucart is an Associate Professor at Akita Prefectural University, Honjo Campus, where he runs a 70 iMac CALL lab. He is a past Telecommunications chair for the JALT CALL SIG and currently the Publicity Chair for the Akita JALT Chapter.

Organization: Iwate-Aomori Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Iwate-Aomori JALT)

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

Venue: Iwate International Plaza, Morioka

Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

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