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9th Annual Shikoku JALT Conference – Zentsuji, Kagawa Date: Saturday, June 16, 2018 (1:00-5:30) Venue: Shikoku Gakuin University, Building 4, Room 426 Sponsors: Matsuyama JALT, East Shikoku JALT, Oxford University Press Website: East Shikoku JALT - http://esjalt.org JALT Members and students: free One-Day Member Fee: 1000 yen
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9th Annual Shikoku JALT Conference
Saturday, June 16, 2018 (1:00-5:30) Shikoku Gakuin University, Building 4, Room 426
Conference Schedule: 1:00-1:30 Registration 1:30-1:40 Welcome/Conference Opening Address 1:40-2:30 Keynote Lecture: Keiko Sakui (Kobe Shoin Women’s University) English Education in Japan: Where are we and Where are we Heading? English education in Japan is facing a number of very big changes from 2020. Two examples of such changes include the expansion of English lessons in elementary schools and higher vocabulary targets set at each school level from junior high school to university. Having this as a background, the talk will first show data as to how Japanese students currently perceive English education and their self-image as English users. Then we will try to examine the new curriculum and materials that will be used in elementary schools. This should be relevant to both elementary school teachers and teachers in other systems as the earlier introduction of English means that (hopefully) incoming students in each institution, from junior high to university level, will have higher proficiency levels and more positive attitudes towards English than at present. The presentation also discusses challenges that these changes present to teachers and students. The talk will adopt an “active learning” style in which the audience will be able to participate in discussion and activities in order to critically and collaboratively examine the issues that we are facing now.
2:30-3:30 Oxford University Press Featured Speaker: Adrian Leis Creating a Growth Mindset for Public Speaking Speaking in public, whether it be in one’s first language or other language, tends to be one of the greatest fears humans possess. However, because it is necessary in a variety of fields, employers often place great importance on their employees having high public speaking skills. In this talk, while calling upon hints from the concept of mindsets (Dweck, 2006) and OUP’s Lecture Ready series (Sarosy & Sherek, 2013), I discuss ways in which teachers can help their students feel more comfortable speaking in front of a group of people, thus enriching their language learning experience. 3:30-4:00 **BREAK** 3:30-4:00 Parallel presentation sessions: Room 426 Room 422 4:00-4:25 Davey Leslie Wendy Nakanishi 4:30-4:55 Suzanne Kamata Donald Carroll 5:00-5:25 Sean Burgoine Yukiharu Nakazumi (See pages 3 and 4 for presentation titles/abstracts) ******************************************************************************************** 5:30 Conference closing / Steering Committee: 10th Shikoku JALT Conference (Matsuyama, 2019) 6:00-8:00 Party – Nashville (ナッシュビル)
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Parallel Presentation Schedule (4:00 - 4:25) Room 426 Davey Leslie (Kochi University; Kochi University of Technology) Title: Process, Genre, and Pedagogy for a Student-Written Website (4:00 - 4:25 – University; L2 Composition) In this presentation, I explore the rationale, strategies and classroom techniques I rely on to produce the student-written website, Life in Kochi. Students in Kochi University’s English Program for International Communication (EPIC) create feature articles about the cultural and economic life of our prefecture. I will explain how in one semester a group of 10 to 15 intermediate-level EFL students is moved through a first look at an unfamiliar genre, to topic exploration and development, to research and off-campus interviews, through multiple drafts and onto final publication on the website on the last day of class. At the end, I briefly discuss the tension of simultaneously being a writing “teacher” and an “editor” of a public website. Room 422 Wendy Nakanishi (Shikoku Gakuin University) Title: Developing English Reading Skills for Japanese University Students (4:00 - 4:25 – University; Reading) This paper proposes to outline a program for developing English reading skills for Japanese university students. It’s ideal for students actually majoring in English but suitable also for students who merely need to take a few English classes to fulfill foreign-language class requirements. In the former case, for English majors, the program lasts three years; in the latter, it can be adapted for a single term or for one year. Students first are introduced to English reading skills by using a simple textbook on that topic (for example, “Cover to Cover,” an OUP publication) which teaches students how to skim text, how to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words through context, and so on. While studying this textbook, supplementary material is offered in the form of English graded readers. So-called ’starter’ books, with very simple English vocabulary, are recommended. Students then move on to more difficult graded readers. They must keep vocabulary notebooks noting down difficult words with their Japanese translations and make presentations in class on books they’ve read. In the second and third year of this program, they also need to complete worksheets and tests on their chosen books. Students need to be provided a wide range of graded readers from which they will choose material they find of interest to themselves. In the second and third years of this program, they should complete a reader each week. By the end of the program, their English vocabulary should be significantly increased and their English reading skills greatly improved.
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Parallel Presentation Schedule (4:30 - 4:55) Room 426 Suzanne Kamata: (Naruto University of Education) Title: Writing and Teaching ‘A Girls' Guide to the Islands’ (4:30 - 4:55 – High School and University; Materials/Reading) Suzanne Kamata will discuss the conception, writing, and publishing of her non-fiction book for literacy and EFL learners on traveling around the islands of Japan's Inland Sea with her daughter who is deaf and uses a wheelchair. She will also report on how the book has been used in classrooms in Japan and suggest additional activities for use with Japanese students. Room 422 Donald Carroll (Shikoku Gakuin University) Title: Frequent Phrases as Recognizable Actions (4:30 - 4:55 - University, High school, Junior high school; Conversation, lexical-learning) Research in corpus linguistics suggests that the language of proficient users is largely composed of recurrent lexical combinations as well as vast repertoires of habitual phrasing (e.g. what do you think of it so far).
“...I heard ‘May I help you’ as something like an idiom. I’m going to call these idiom-like things ‘composites.’ That means you hear the whole thing as a form, a single unit. And as a single unit, it has a proper return.” (Sacks, 1992 [1964:8])
This presentation looks at the occurrence of frequent phrases in English-language television shows. Specifically, the focus is on frequent phrases that compose the entirety of a turn-at-talk. It also considers the sequential organization and pragmatic action(s) enacted via such frequent phrases. Appreciating that language is largely habitual rather than “rule-governed” has the potential to transform how language teachers understand language learning and, therefore, how they might best facilitate it.
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Parallel Presentation Schedule (5:00 - 5:25) Room 426 Sean Burgoine: (Kochi University) Title: Pronunciation Instruction Needs of Students from Diverse Linguistic Backgrounds: Segmental vs Suprasegmental (5:00 - 5:25 - University; Pronunciation) In this presentation, I will describe the unique pronunciation needs of four intermediate-level students from different linguistic backgrounds. Due to the increasingly diverse nature of many EFL classrooms in Japanese universities, I will argue that maximum instructional benefit is achieved through a focus on the suprasegmental features of pronunciation as opposed to a remedial approach to isolated segmental aspects. Although an approach focusing on suprasegmentals would also be effective in more homogeneous monolingual EFL settings, it is especially appropriate in classes with students from diverse backgrounds with divergent needs. In such contexts, a focus on suprasegmental features of pronunciation emphasises communicative intelligibility. Room 422 Yukiharu Nakazumi (Kagawa University) Title: Conditions of Good Example Sentences in Grammar Learning (5:00 - 5:25 - University; senior high school; Grammar, Materials, Pragmatics) This study looks into conditions of example sentences useful in the understanding of English grammar, from the perspective of English learners and teachers. Various suggestions have been presented on the quality of input in grammar instruction. However, there have been few studies focused on example sentences. Questionnaire was carried out to learners and English teachers in some senior high schools. It consisted of 36 statements on the quality of example sentences with a five-point Likert scale. T-test and ANOVA were mainly used as data analysis, along with their effect sizes. The findings suggested several significant conditions in terms of form, meaning and use. They also implied that students and teachers did not always share the same conditions on good example sentences.
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Access information: 1. Shikoku Gakuin University
2. Dinner party location
For participants arriving by expressway, take the Zentsuji IC exit and proceed south on Route 319, then turn right at Nishibara-Minami (see screenshot from google maps below). The JR station is Zentsuji. The campus map shows the Building 4 location. SGU Parking: 300 yen
Nashville is located just a five-minute walk from SGU. Cozy with good menu selections! Sign up by Monday, June 11. Contact: [email protected] Address: 〒765-0013 Kagawa Prefecture, Zentsuji, Bunkyocho, 2 Chome−8−12, 2F Phone: 0877-63-1848
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JALT2018 Conference Info: Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center (Granship) Shizuoka City,
Shizuoka, Japan Friday, November 23, to Monday, November, 26, 2018
Join JALT here: http://jalt.org/joining
9th Shikoku JALT Conference Co-Chairs: Darren Lingley and Gerardine McCrohan
Matsuyama JALT Officers (2018): Kiyoshi Shioiri (Chapter President) - [email protected] Yumiko Kawabata (Membership Chair) - [email protected] Junko Yamamoto (Publicity Chair) – [email protected] Linda Kadota (Program Chair) – [email protected] Jaehee Ryu (Treasurer) - [email protected] Julia Kawamoto (Facilities Chair) – [email protected]
East Shikoku JALT Officers (2018): Darren Lingley, Kochi University (President) [email protected] (080-5661-6158) Paul Daniels, Kochi University of Technology (Treasurer) [email protected] Gordon Bateson, Kochi University of Technology (Membership Chair) [email protected] Davey Leslie, Kochi University (Publicity) [email protected] Sean Burgoine, Kochi University (Program Chair) [email protected] Gerry McCrohan, Kagawa University (Kagawa Prefectural Representative) [email protected]