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Saturday, April 8th, 2023, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Yaya Yao, Brendan Van Deusen, Steven Apotheker, and David John Wood
The Fukuoka JALT MyShare event is an opportunity for language teachers to share their work with a wider audience and gain constructive feedback. With a semi-formal round-table discussion format, MyShare offers time for multiple presenters to explain a specific language learning activity or idea.
Title: Arts-based gender transformative education in high school EFL
Presenter name: Yaya Yao, Kyushu University
This early stage youth participatory action research (YPAR) study explores how arts-based pedagogies can facilitate gender transformative education in the Japanese high school English teaching context. Language education can play a key role in working towards gender equity through collaborative approaches that foster agency, criticality, and relationality in creative, multidisciplinary ways.
Yaya Yao is an educator, editor, and poet born and raised in downtown Tkaronto. She is the author of Flesh, Tongue and the lead writer of the Educator's Equity Companion Guide. Over the past 20 years, Yaya has in worked in school, university, and NGO settings in Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand. She lives with her family in Fukuoka, Japan, where she is pursuing a PhD at Kyushu University with a focus on arts-based transformative education.
Title: Tourism Video Project (and Film Festival)
Presenter name: Brendan Van Deusen, Nagasaki International University
This presentation will cover a student-led tourism video project. The presenter will provide an overview of the process in which students were responsible for researching, writing, filming, performing in, and editing a 5 minute video that introduced a local tourism location. Short selected clips will be presented to illustrate the final results. Finally, the presenter will discuss future plans to expand this project into a mini-film festival on campus.
Brendan Van Deusen is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Dept. of International Tourism at Nagasaki International University. His areas of interest include the use of technology in language teaching and project-based learning.
Title: Teaching Phonics Through Games in the Classroom
Presenter name: Steven Apotheker, Seinan Gakuin University
Japanese students are notorious for freezing mid-sentence when reading a passage. This is because they lack the skills to sound out long words. In this presentation, I will give an example of two easy, no prep, classroom games that you can use to introduce your students to phonics. I will also give a simple progression to follow when teaching phonics.
Steven Apotheker is an Assistant Professor at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan.
Title: Role of Reported Speech in Teaching by Talking with no Texts
Presenter name: David John Wood, Chikushi Jogakuen University
Through this presentation, I hope to confirm some communication basics, as learning from and about each other is communication's primary function. To extend an activity's potential, reporting speech can link and reinforce classes. Participants can enjoy some recorded examples of interactions.
David John Wood is a Communication Program designer, with thousands of classes and students for over 20 years. He has been a JALT member since 1980s, a SIG founder and a National Executive representative at TESOL's convention. He loves movies, music and poetry, and was Sony Pictures Cinema English Chief Editor. He has sung on national TV, and just published his first book on Amazon.
Location: Elgala (Daimaru East) Building, Tenjin (6 F, Kurume University Satellite Campus room; go in the back entrance shown on the map)
If you haven't been to this location before, please note that the entrance is NOT through the department store, it is around the back from the department store entrances, here: https://goo.gl/maps/hj8VXmpfjAykeXBV9 (You'll find this by Googling エルガーラ オフィス棟
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Fukuoka JALT)
Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen
Venue: Elgala (Daimaru East) Building, Tenjin (6 F, Kurume University Satellite Campus), back entrance, map: https://goo.gl/maps/hj8VXmpfjAykeXBV9 Near Tenjin-Minami Station on the Nanakuma Subway Line
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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