Iwate-Aomori JALT:

Intensively Extensive: How my experience as an ESL learner has contributed to my teaching and writing

Date: Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Speaker: Marcos Benevides

Description:
Marcos will present his personal story as a language learner and demonstrate the impact it has made on his classroom practice as well as on his material writing. He will suggest how all teachers can directly, immediately--and often surprisingly--benefit from a careful autobiographical exploration of their own learning experiences.

Benevides is an assistant professor at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, and the co-author of popular ELT titles "Fiction in Action: Whodunit" (ABAX, 2010) and "Widgets: A task-based course in practical English" (Pearson, 2008).

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

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1,000 yen

Venue: Morioka Central Public Hall, 12 min. by bus from Morioka Sta. (Get off at Chuo Kominkan Mae)

Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

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