Sendai JALT & Miyagi University of Education’s

Special Joint Seminar in English

“Exploring new approaches to teach English to

Young Learners”

June 25 (Sunday) 13:00-17:00 At Miyagi University of Education, 10 minutes walk from Aobayama Station on the Sendai

Tozai Subway Line. Room 220.

Chiyuki Yanase (M.Sc. TEYL) & Sean Reid (M.A. TESOL)

Session 1: 13:00-14:50 CLIL and Young Learners

Chiyuki Yanase is a language school owner and a lecturer at several universities in Tokyo. She has been teaching English for young learners for over 20 years and holds M.Sc. in Teaching English to Young Learners from Aston University. Her research interests focus on collaborative learning and the development of young

learners’ literacy. She has presented at numerous conferences, and published several articles on team-teaching, learner autonomy and collaborative learning. In her session, “Enjoying learning through CLIL,” Chiyuki Yanase

will discuss what Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is and why it can be an effective approach in EFL classes for young learners.

She will also explore how CLIL can be integrated in order to develop young learners’ literacy skills in an EFL story-based class.

Participants will be invited to experience CLIL activities, based on a story. It is hoped that participants go back to their classrooms with engaging CLIL activities which motivate literacy development and language learning of young learners.

Session 2: 15:10-17:00 CLT and Young Learners

Sean Reid has a Master’s degree in TESOL from the Nagoya University of Foreign Studies and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has taught at Taki Gakuen Junior and Senior High School in Aichi and he currently works at Teikyo Daigaku Kani Shogako in Gifu, where he has been in charge of the English program since the school’s opening in 2012. At Teikyo, he has developed a completely original curriculum with all original materials for each grade level. This curriculum has been well received throughout Japan. He has given several presentations and workshops focusing on the effects of a Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)-based approach and communication strategy instruction on young learners.

His workshop, “The benefits of using CLT with young learners,” will begin with a brief explanation of what a CLT-based approach to teaching is, followed by a discussion of how the implementation of such an approach can benefit our students and ourselves as teachers. The speaker will lead the class through the process of designing a CLT-based unit. Elements, including materials and resources, communicative activities, the teaching of communication strategies, student-centeredness and assessment will be demonstrated while the attendees actively participate in the role of students to experience and evaluate their effectiveness first hand.

The attendees will then share their impression of the activities and we will discuss ways of modifying, adapting and improving these elements to our particular teaching environments. ★This event is free for MUE students and alumni,

it is also free for JALT members or ￥1000 for

non-members and ￥500 for students. If this is your first visit to a JALT meeting it is also free, but please

print out and bring the first-time free voucher on the Sendai JALT website; http://jaltsendai.org/

★Access information can be found on the university website;

http://www.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/english/locationmap/index.html