Event

Two Presentations: (1) Teacher Immediacy; (2) Teacher Efficacy

Sunday, January 27th, 2008, 1:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Speaker: (1) Keita Kikuchi; (2) Quint Oga-Baldwin

Our January event will feature two 50-minute presentations followed by a round table dissusion. Please note that this meeting's event day, time, and venue are different than usual. (We're on a Sunday afternoon, at Nakamura Gakuen University, map www.nakamura-u.ac.jp/campus_map.jpg. A social dinner will follow this event.

1st Presentation: Studying English Teachers' Immediacy: Insights from the instructional communication field, Keita Kikuchi (Waseda University)
In this presentation, first some key concepts such as teachers' immediacy and teachers' misbehavior (which are discussed considerably in the field of instructional communication) will be explained. After reviewing some key findings from studies in the instructional communication field, the presenter will discuss how English teachers in Japan can put these theories into practice in the daily classroom. Next, the presenter will present a recent study (Kikuchi and Sakai, forthcoming) conducted on English learners' motivating and demotivating experiences in high school based on 656 Japanese high school students and discuss how teachers�f behavior can influence students' motivation and demotivation. All English teachers teaching at all levels are welcome to this presentation so that we can actively share how we think about teachers�f immediacy and its relationship with learners�f motivation.

2nd Presentation: Building Teacher Efficacy in the Second Language Classroom, Quint Oga-Baldwin (Kyushu Sangyo University)
Lack of efficacy is one of the biggest problems facing second language teacher motivation. In order to build motivation in themselves, teachers need to feel that they can affect changes in their students and that their methods are effective. This presentation will first define efficacy and its theoretical foundations, and then discuss how they effect teacher motivation in a second language setting.

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

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

Venue: Nakamura Gakuen University, 5-7-1 Befu, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka-shi (Higashi 2 Building, Room 105) map: www.nakamura-u.ac.jp/campus_map.jpg

Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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Trevor Holster