June 2006

CALL SIG of JALT

JALTCALL 2006 Conference

6/3 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture

Lots of great presentations!

Gifu JALT

My Share: Inspiration and Creative Lesson Planning

6/3 7:15 PM-8:45 PM, Gifu City

Paul D. Tanner, Nagoya City University

Language Teaching Professionals

ETJ One-Day Certificate Course (Tokyo)

6/4 10:00 AM-5:30 PM, Tokyo

Alastair Graham-Marr, John Wiltshier, Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall

ETJ Kagoshima

Games with Flash Cards and Dice for All Ages

6/4 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Kagoshima City

Bradley Yaxley

Nagano JALT

Adapting textbooks for more successful lessons

6/4 2:00 PM-4:45 PM, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture

Tetsu Osada, Yashiro High School

Okayama JALT

Students' motivation and resistance in language classrooms

6/4 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Okayama City

Keiko Sakui

CALL SIG of JALT

JALTCALL 2006 Conference (day 2 of 2)

6/4 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture

Lots of great presentations

Katoh Gakuen

Content-Based Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching: Models and Methods

6/8 1:30 PM-4:00 PM, Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture

Dr. Fred Genesee, McGill University

Tokyo Chapter of FEW

FEW Monthly Meeting: Presenting yourself Professionally

6/8 6:30 PM-9:30 PM, Tokyo

Victoria Bolam

Pearson Japan

Preparing for the TOEFL iBT with Longman

6/9 4:30 PM-6:10 PM, Kyoto City

Deborah Phillips

Katoh Gakuen

Integrating Language and Content in Immersion Classrooms

6/9 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture

Dr. Fred Genesee, McGill University

West Tokyo JALT

Micro-Conference #3: Reading Inside and Outside the Classroom

6/10 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Tokyo

Richard Barber, Andy Boon, Daniel Stewart and Roberta Welch

The Japanese Society for Language Sciences

The 8th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (day 1 of 2)

6/10 Time TBA, Tokyo

Plenary speaker: Fred Genesee (McGill University)

The Japanese Society for Language Sciences

The 8th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (day 1 of 2)

6/10 Time TBA, Tokyo

Plenary speaker: Fred Genesee (McGill University)

Kitakyushu JALT

Two presentations: (1) Using podcasts - even without an iPod! (2) Using your iPod in the classroom

6/10 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture

Bill Pellowd, Kinki University (Iizuka)

Fukuoka JALT

Temple University / Fukuoka JALT Applied Linguistics Colloquium

6/11 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Fukuoka City

Two Main Speakers and 16 short presentations

ETJ Miyazaki

Using Kamishibai (story cards) in the EFL classroom

6/11 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Miyazaki City

Erika Hiejima

Language Teaching Professionals

ETJ One-Day Certificate Course (Osaka)

6/11 10:00 AM-5:30 PM, Osaka City

Alastair Graham-Marr, John Wiltshier, Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall

Osaka JALT

Authoring Autonomy: Experience, Resistance and Resolution

6/11 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Osaka City

Tim Murphey, Keiko Sakui, Neil Cowie, Stacey Vye, Eric Skier, and Martha Robertson

Hamamatsu JALT

How Gender Differences Influence Hearing and Listening

6/11 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture

Gregg McNabb

Tokyo British Council

TKT Seminar

6/11 12:00 PM-5:30 PM, Tokyo

To be announced

Chiba JALT

Teaching pragmatics through consciousness-raising tasks

6/11 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Chiba City

Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska

Yokohama JALT

Practical Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts in EFL Classrooms

6/11 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

Toshiyuki Suzuki

Saitama JALT

Student Projects in the EFL Classroom - Why and How.

6/11 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Saitama City

Chuck Sandy

Matsuyama JALT

Why listening?

6/11 2:15 PM-4:20 PM, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture

Paul Shimizu, Publishing Director, Intercom Press

Macmillian LanguageHouse

NEW Finding Out: A child-centered approach for Japanese children (in Nagoya)

6/11 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

David Paul

Ibaraki JALT

Politics of English Teaching in Japan

6/17 1:00 PM-8:00 PM, Daigo City, Ibaraki Prefecture

Robert Aspinall

Nagoya Players

Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE

6/17 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

Nagoya Players

Tokyo British Council

Ways of Focussing on Language

6/18 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Tokyo

To be announced

ETJ Hiroshima

Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening and Problem Solving

6/18 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Hiroshima City

Mike Waugh and Steve McAtamaney

Osaka British Council

TKT Seminar

6/18 12:00 PM-5:30 PM, Osaka City

British Council

Iwate-Aomori JALT

Seven Steps to Success with Young Learners

6/18 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture

Stan Pederson

ETJ Tokyo

Using Stories as a basis for movement activities in class

6/18 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tokyo

Chantal Hemmi

Toyohashi JALT

Portfolios as Alternative Assessment

6/18 1:30 PM-4:00 PM, Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture

Suzanne Bonn, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies

ETJ Saitama

Children Learn While They Play, Children Learn While They Communicate

6/18 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Saitama City

Mayuka Habbick

Gunma JALT

Assessing English Proficiency by Computer: Call Software and Prosody Analysis

6/18 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture

Hiroyuki Obari, Aoyama Gakuin University

Sendai JALT

Text exploitation workshop: Moving from accuracy to fluency

6/18 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture

Gerry Lassche

Okinawa JALT

Power of the Pen Awards

6/18 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Nishihara City, Okinawa Prefecture

TBA

Hiroshima JALT

Psycholinguists and Second Language Ability

6/18 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City

Jun Yamada (Professor, Hiroshima University)

ETJ Osaka

Phonics: Why and How

6/18 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Osaka City

Peter Warner

Amnesty International, Group 78 Tokyo

Make Some Noise

6/18 5:00 PM-11:30 PM, Tokyo

Comedy acts: Ami and her guitar and The Comedy Store; Music act: Warawara

Ibaraki JALT

Teachers Unions in Japan (and chapter members' presentations)

6/18 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Daigo City, Ibaraki Prefecture

Robert Aspinall, and Chapter Presenters

Macmillian LanguageHouse

NEW Finding Out: A child-centered approach for Japanese children (in Osaka)

6/18 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, Osaka City

David Paul

Japan Intercultural Institute

An evening with George Gish

6/23 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tokyo

George Gish

Nagasaki JALT

Japanese English Interference in English Class.

6/24 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Nagasaki City

Emilie Masson and Thomas Sorenson.

Akita JALT

Using a College Success textbook for university English students

6/24 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Akita City

Mark Cunningham

Akita JALT

Seven steps to success with young learners

6/24 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Akita City

Stan Pederson

Kobe JALT

Spotlight on Junior and Senior High School Teaching

6/24 4:00 PM-6:30 PM, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture

William Matheny, Scott Brown and David Svoboda

Kyoto JALT

Advanced Learners' Dictionary Use

6/24 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, Kyoto City

Yoshiko Okuyama, University of Hawaii

The Asia Association for Global Studies

Asia in Global Perspective

6/24 8:30 AM-5:30 PM, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

Call for papers due May 14, 2006

Tokyo British Council

Teaching Knowledge Test Pre-test

6/25 10:00 AM-12:30 PM, Tokyo

Hokkaido JALT

Elementary English for Elementary School

6/25 1:30 PM-4:00 PM, Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture

Greer Pedoe and Nicholas DiNunzio

Sendai JALT

Reflections: Same Activity, Different Faces

6/25 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture

Speakers TBA

Kagoshima JALT

NPO JALT Kagoshima Chapter and the Teaching Children SIG 2006: 2nd Annual Teaching Children Conference in Kagoshima

6/25 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Kagoshima City

Richard Graham, Jan O'Laughlin, Alison Miyake, Melinda Kawahara, David Lisgo, Cecil Burton, Caroline Lloyd, Jessica Dunton and more....

Gifu JALT

EFL Young Learners Poster Session

6/25 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, Gifu City

Gifu JALT Members

Macmillian LanguageHouse

NEW Finding Out: A child-centered approach for Japanese children (in Tokyo)

6/25 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, Tokyo

David Paul

International Business Communicators

Networking-Business Success

6/30 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tokyo

Stephen Montgomery