Yokohama JALT:

Content-Based Instruction Workshop: Windows on Teaching Young Learners

Date: Sunday, February 19th, 2006 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Speaker: Mitsue Allen-Tamai

Description:
Mitsue Allen-Tamai will briefly introduce the current English educational situations of Japanese young learners, as well as the serious educational problems or challenges that Japan is now facing. Then the presentation moves to a short summary of the history of content-based instruction (CBI) and its application to EFL situations, referring to actual examples in Japan. Using some models of content-based instruction (CBI), participants will create their own CBI.

Professor Allen-Tamai currently lectures at Bunkyo Gakuin University (both undergraduate and postgraduate levels) and is Director of their Children's English Program at Child Education Center. She also lectures at Temple, Sophia, Aoyama Gakuin and Obirin Universities. She has published extensively, including some best-selling junior high school textbooks in Japan (41 per cent of the total share).

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

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

Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills & Culture Center) near JR Kannai & Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details & a map]

Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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