Fukuoka Chapter

Fukuoka JALT usually holds meetings on Saturday evenings in Tenjin. Our meetings are most often followed by a dinner social at a nearby restaurant. Pre-registration is usually not required for our presentations, but we do encourage you to fill in our sign-in/sign-up sheets before seeing our presentations and attending our dinners. Note: our dinners usually require a reservation, so early sign-up is often necessary.

The April 2010 meeting of Fukuoka JALT is on Saturday, 3 April 2010 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Developing Lexical Competence: From Theory to Classroom Practice to Online Application

Speaker:
Dr. Charles M. Browne (Meiji Gakuin University)

This seminar will consider the development of Lexical Competence from several
points of view. Through a review of some of the core research in second language
vocabulary acquisition we will first try to dispel some of the "myths" about vocabulary
learning that are still prevalent among classroom practitioners and researchers. After
developing a basic understanding of how vocabulary should be tested, taught and
learned, we will then move on to consider a range of classroom vocabulary teaching
and testing techniques based on current research. Finally, we will look at and get
hands on practice in using a variety of online tools for testing, teaching and
conducting research on second language vocabulary acquisition. Papers required for
those who take this course for credit will ask participants to use and assess one of
the many online tools in the context of current research in this area.

This seminar is co-sponsored by Temple University Japan. The first three hours (Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.) are free and open to the public.

Location: Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, Tenjin Satellite Campus　
Link to location: http://www.fukuokajalt.org/map.html
Fee for JALT members: Free
Fee for one-day members: Free

Our core group of officers are:

• President: Jack Brajcich
• Membership Chair: Jane Harland
• Program Chair: Quint Oga-Baldwin
• Publicity Chair: Miki Tokunaga
• Treasurer: Miho Tani

Other Fukuoka JALT Chapter Officers are:

• Kazuko Sako, Assistant Membership Chair
• Aaron Gibson, eNewsletter Editor
• J. Lake, Assistant Program Chair