Speakers: Gerardine McCrohan and Paul Batten, Kagawa University.
Title: Teaching and Testing communicative strategies.
Date: June 30, 2011
Time: 2pm-3.30pm
Location: Room 411 Education Campus, Kagawa University, Saiwai-cho 1-1, Takamatsu.

Speaker: Mike Byram
Title: Purposes and approaches to foreign language education: universalism or particularism?
Details: The main focus of this talk will be whether language teaching can be ‘universal’ or has to be ‘particularistic’ i.e. with the purposes and aims /objectives specific to each country. This will lead onto dealing with the model of intercultural communicative competence (Byram, 1997). The talk will include a question and answers section.
Date & time: June 28 (Tuesday) – 6:45pm – 9:00pm
Location: Lifelong Learning Center in Umeda (OSAKA)
Main sponsors:

• Framework & Language Portfolio Special Interest Group (FLP SIG), see http://tinyurl.com/CDSLEJB%5D
• East Shikoku Chapter, see https://esjalt.org/eastshikoku/
• Osaka Chapter, see http://osakajalt.squarespace.com/)

Alex Kerr, the author of ‘Lost Japan’ (1994) and ‘Dogs and Demons’ (2002) will talk about his activities at Iya in Tokushima and in other places. This talk is part of the Department’s Japan Studies Program and will be in Japanese.
June 18 (Sat.)
18:00
Room 203

Speaker: Joyce Hampton is Director of ELL/International Programs at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. She will be staying with a group of college students at UOK from May 21 through June 3.
Date, location & time: May 25, University of Kochi Eikokuji Campus, 18:00

Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011 (1:00-­‐5:30)
Venue: 100th Kinenkan, Matsuyama Shinonome High School
Sponsors: Matsuyama JALT & East Shikoku JALT Matsuyama JALT
Website: http://MatsuyamaJALT.50megs.com/
East Shikoku JALT Website: http://esjalt.org
JALT Members and students: free
One­‐Day Member Fee: 1000 yen
Download conference handbook with abstracts here:
2nd All Shikoku JALT Conference.pdf

Date and Time: Sunday, 27 March 2011 – 10:00am – 11:30am
Speaker: Tadashi Ishida
The presenter will discuss how a social educational organization called PEACE has helped promote international understanding and intercultural communication between Japanese and non-Japanese people through the medium of English. He will also report on PEACE’s activities, including demonstrations of calligraphy, the tea ceremony and how to put on a kimono, as well as musical performances using Japanese musical instruments, and a program that matches up non-Japanese visitors with volunteer tour guides. The presentation will end with a case study illustrating what happened at a festival where international students from Waseda University carried a portable shrine with the help of residents of a downtown Tokyo community.
This is a co-sponsored event held in conjunction with the West Tokyo Chapter.

Date and Time: Saturday, 26 March 2011 – 1:30pm – 2:20pm
Speaker: Peter Ross
Asking university students to give in-class presentations can be an excellent way to stimulate enthusiasm and generate meaningful discussion, leaving students with a feeling of success and accomplishment. However, asking students at a low level of English proficiency to present on topics that are too hard for them can accomplish just the opposite, leading to frustration for all concerned– the audience, the teacher, and the presenters themselves. One solution is to steer LLEP students away from research-based presentations in favor of simple, non-academic topics, asking presenters to draw information from their own experience, expertise and imagination. Participants in this workshop will construct a sample non-academic presentation, and view videos of successful student performance.

Theme: Teachers talk on improving classrooms with featured speaker Dr. Peter Mickan
(Post Graduate Applied Linguistics Program Coordinator at the University of Adelaide)
Special Guest: Dr. Kim, Young-Min (English Education Department Professor at Daegu National University of Education specializing in elementary school English Education)
Day: February 18, 2011 (Friday)
Time: 18:00 to 19:30
Place: University of Tokushima Ctr. of Gen. Ed. Bldg #5 2nd floor Meeting Room.
Fee: JALT members JPN 500 (for dinner and refreshments)
non-JALT members JPN 1,000
Agenda: We will start off with our Featured Address centered on how we live with all forms of texts (i.e. discourses) and how we make sense these texts (i.e. communication). For us teachers, this will be significant in how we are to help students make meaning from these texts and the role grammar plays in these texts.
The address will be followed by a roundtable discussion to explore methods of improving our EFL classrooms. This roundtable will be an opportunity for teachers to engage in an open and rewarding discussion with colleagues in other institutions to share stories not only for encouragement but a chance to pick up some fresh strategies to enhance your own classroom. So, come with any questions or issues you might have in your day-to-day practice and join the discussion.
Reservation and Contact: Mail Steve Fukuda at steve@ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp by February 14th, 2011

Speaker: Trudie Heiman
Abstract: The Lexical Portfolio: is computer-based/online corpus-based course for learning all high frequency words missing from student’s vocabulary. Teachers can lead this course and interact with students while presenting a rich array of methods to learn and remember words. Features of the interactive Learning Management System (LMS) and corpus-based tools will be demonstrated
Date & Time: Saturday, Jan 29th from 1.30-3.30pm
Location: Room 411, Education Campus, Kagawa University

East Shikoku JALT will be holding its final meeting on December 18th at Kochi Women’s University. Neil Cowie, from Okayama University, will be giving a talk on ‘Reading and the Hidden Curriculum.’ This will be Neil’s second presentation to ESJALT and I am sure it will be as interesting as his first. We hope you can find time to come and attend our final meeting for 2010.
Date: December 18th
Time: 4:30 – 6:30
Place: Kochi Women’s University, Meeting Room 1 (Ground/1st floor)
Speaker: Neil Cowie
Title: Reading and the hidden curriculum
In the first half of the presentation the speaker will present an example of a typical reading lesson and encourage participants to discuss how this compares with their own teaching or learning experiences. The reading lesson is aimed at first year university students and combines elements of intensive and extensive reading as well as various strategies for improving reading skills. It could be adapted and used at different ability levels. In the second half the lesson will be examined from a critical pedagogy perspective in terms of the hidden curriculum that it might expose students to. These hidden messages relate to materials choice, cultural influences, and classroom management amongst others. Participants will be asked to reflect on how they might approach similar issues in their own teaching.