Speaker: Dr. Takahiro Ioroi, Kochi Women’s University
Date: May 23
Venue: Kochi Women’s University – Language Lab
Time: 3:00-5:00 p.m.

This workshop is intended for language teachers who want to familiarize themselves with Excel, a spreadsheet software package, at the beginner level. The presenter will start with a simple presentation of some very basic features of Excel as an alternative to word processing software. Participants will learn how to make settings for creating and printing documents containing a number of columns or complex tables. In the latter half of the session some useful functions and formulas will be introduced for dealing with numeric data such as students’ scores on assessments and/or examinations, and we will touch on some simple calculations and graph drawing.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Takahiro Ioroi is a Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Kochi Women’s University. He started his teaching career at a high school in 1986 and joined the faculty at KWU in 1994. His research activities include the theoretical study of English phonology and morphology, and more recently he has focused on the acquisition of the English word stress system by Japanese EFL learners. His interests also extend to the use of information technology in language study (Corpus Linguistics) and education (CALL). Professor Ioroi teaches EFL, English linguistics/phonetics, and teacher-training courses. He serves as Publicity Chair for East Shikoku JALT.
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Date/Time/Place: Monday, April 13th, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (Kochi Women’s University, Meeting Room, 2nd floor)

Implementing the Teaching-Learning Cycle effectively.
This seminar will provide teachers with a principled and theoretically motivated support for the development of teaching writing skills, using the Teaching-Learning Cycle (Hammond, Burns, Joyce, Brosnan, Gerot, 1992). The Teaching-Learning Cycle is based on the notion of scaffolding, which draws from Vygotsky’s (1978) view that higher thinking processes, including language, arise as a consequence of human interaction. Grounded in this social perspective, the seminar will outline in practical terms how this Cycle can be used effectively in the classroom with students of all levels of English language proficiency and teaching contexts.
Profile
Dr Eva Bernat is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Lecturer in TESOL at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests and publications cover metacognitive and affective learner contributions to language learning, and teacher education and development – particularly issues related to non-native speaker teachers.

Speaker: Keiko Sakui and Neil Cowie
Research on student motivation often assumes that students are either motivated or not motivated; but this can cover up complex and evolving reasons for student behaviour. The two presenters critically examine their students’ classroom behaviour from alternative perspectives to motivation including resistance, identity and imagined communities. Key patterns of student behaviour, the influence of social and cultural factors in explaining them, and implications for teaching and teacher development are outlined.
Keiko Sakui is Associate Professor at Kobe Shoin Women’s University, Japan. She teaches EFL classes as well as teacher education courses, and is Director of the Foreign Language Education Centre. She has several publications in journals such as System, ELT Journal, and JALT Journal. Her most recent publication is on student resistance in Japanese universities in Narratives of learning and teaching EFL (2008) published by Palgrave Macmillan. Her research interests are teacher and learner beliefs, classroom management, and critical pedagogy.
Neil Cowie has been an English teacher in the Foreign Language Education Centre of Okayama University in Japan since 2004. Prior to that he taught in various universities, language schools and businesses in Japan and the UK. He has a Doctorate in Education from Exeter University and a Master’s Degree in Teaching English for Specific Purposes from Aston University, UK. His research interests include collaborative teacher development, student resistance, and exploring the connections between emotion and language learning and teaching.
Date and Time: Saturday, 14 February 2009 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Kochi University, Room 136
Fee for JALT members: Free
Fee for one-day members: 500 yen

Speaker: Lawrie Hunter

This workshop, part II of a 2-part series of workshops, begins with a brief review of part I, about the use of (1) Hunter’s infostructure maps and (2) Cmap Tools.
The KUT language lab is fully wired and internet connected, so bringing one’s own laptop is not necessary. In fact, given the LAN configuration, it’s best to use the KUT machines. Participants who missed workshop part I should familiarize themselves with Cmap Tools (download Cmap Tools free from cmap.ihmc.us/download/) and Hunter’s information structure maps (prereading at:
www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/professional/anchoring2/index.html )
This workshop will demonstrate how to go beyond "I do mapping in my class" by means of various constraints and techniques that lead the learner to the use of specific language forms and patterns. This is germane: how many ‘constructivist’ tasks do you know of that actually lead the learner to specific language behaviors?
Making concept mapping (Novakian mapping) and/or information structure mapping part of the performance of constructivist task introduces low-language visual representation of the content of the learner’s creation. Concept maps can be subtly constrained in a number of ways to bring the learner to a limited range of information types or rhetorical moves, which will in turn necessitate the use of certain language structures and language features.
Map based constraints used in this workshop:
1. Output size constraint can be used to force summarization.
2. Complexity constraint can be used to force varying degrees of abstraction.
3. Rhetorical move constraint can be used to force a particular rhetorical form, e.g. argument.
The workshops are announced in map form at:
http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=12249912795…
Date and Time: Saturday, 24 January 2009 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Kochi University of Technology, Language Lab, K building 3F
Fee for JALT members: Free
Fee for one-day members: 500 yen

Speaker: Lawrie Hunter
Date: Saturday, 6 December 2008
Start Time: 2:00 PM
Finish Time: 4:00PM
Location: Kochi Women’s University, Language Lab (in South Building),
5-15 Eikokuji-cho, Kochi City

This workshop, part I of a 2-part series of workshops, begins with a brief
overview of the variety of mapping types and mapping tools in use in education
today, followed by a hands-on workshop on the use of (1) Hunter’s infostructure
maps and (2) Cmap Tools.
Hunter’s infostructure maps are the underlying structure of "Critical Thinking"
(Greene & Hunter, Asahi Press 2002) and "Thinking in English" (Hunter, Cengage
2008). Prereading is available at

http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/professional/anchoring2/index.html.
Cmap Tools (http://cmap.ihmc.us) have taken
solid hold in science education in many countries, primarily for use in
representing learner’s and instructor’s perceptions of the nature of concepts,
and have a number of other appealing applications for education. The tools
themselves are free for download, and allow for free online storage and/or
sharing. There is a growing online collection of maps at the Cmap website.
　

Participants who wish to bring their own laptops are encouraged to do so.
Please be sure to have installed both PowerPoint and Cmap Tools (download Cmap
Tools free from
http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/ )

The workshops are announced in map form at this link.

Fee for JALT members: Free
Fee for one-day members: 500 yen
　

Our next East Shikoku JALT event features Kusumika Chatterjee, a professional storyteller and educator based in Coventry, England.
Date/Time: Saturday, October 25th at Kochi University (2:00 p.m.), Room 136.
Topic: Storytelling and Language Teaching

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We are pleased to announce our next East Shikoku JALT event, to be held on Saturday, July 5th at 10:30 at Kochi University.
Presentation: Sausage and Cheese: Games in the Elementary School English Classroom
Time: 10:30 – 12:00
Venue: Kochi University, Room 136

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Speaker: Neil Heffernan, English Education Center, Ehime University
Date/Time: Saturday, May 17th (3:00-4:00 p.m.)
Venue: Kochi Women’s University, Seminar Room, 2nd floor.

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Kochi University of Technology, JALTCALL and JALT East Shikoku come together to host a workshop and symposium on Web2.0 technologies in education.

Date: Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008

Location: Kochi University of Technology, Tosayamada, Kochi, JAPAN
(3rd floor of K-building, located on the east side of campus, near the student cafeteria)
Time: 10:20 – 16:30

Speakers: This event will host a number of educational technology professionals from Japan, America, and the U.K. Our key-note speaker, Dr. Michael Vallance (Hakodate Future University), will conduct a workshop on podcasts and the educational use of i-pods. Other invited speakers include Gordon Bateson(Kanazawa University),　Takahiro Ioroi (Kochi Women’s University), and Mark Shrosbree (Tokai University). Other workshop topics will include eLearning systems, mobile learning and video editing. Today’s global learning environments have benefited tremendously from the emergence of web 2.0, the revolutionary second generation of web-based platforms and services. Web 2.0 technologies such as podcasts, mobile blogs and video sharing have the potential to greatly enable the promotion of interaction and social construction of knowledge both inside and outside the classroom. In Japan, mobile technology is ubiquitous; as a result there are a large number of possibilities for integrating the technology that students are already using in their personal lives into pedagogy and curriculum design. This colloquium, with its hands-on workshops, will allow participants to explore Web 2.0 technologies and their relationship with education and pedagogy, and to benefit from the practical experience of expert practitioners.

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Date: Sunday, January 27th
Time: 1:00 -2:00
Place: Kochi Women’s University, 2nd floor meeting room
Presenter: Dr. Yoko Nakano
Title: How do we comprehend sentences in L1 and L2?

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