Nara JALT meetings are usually held at Tezukayama University Gakuenmae Campus (Site of JALT2004).
Our Officers
- Chapter President: Crawford, Jeff
- Membership Chair: Crisler, Loren
- Program Chair: Santos, Ray
- Publicity Chair: Takeuchi, Catriona
- Treasurer: McDowell, Leigh
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MUSIC and MOVEMENT
Making Them Work For You
It’s the first class on Monday morning or the last class on Friday afternoon.
It’s a suffocatingly hot day or you’re shivering in a frigid classroom.
Your students are suffering from post-exam fatigue or too much 'undoukai' practice.
Your English lesson is jammed into a time spot between 'soraban' and karate.
Your students are busy, tired or just distracted.
Before you can deliver the stellar, multi- skill, fully interactive English lesson you spent hours researching and preparing for, you need to get them interested, motivated, AWAKE!!
What can you do?
Catriona Takeuchi and Ray Santos will be looking at ways in which we can use music and movement in the classroom to increase energy levels and energise students, maximizing the potential to fully absorb your brilliant English lesson and thus go on to enjoy a fabulous multi-lingual career.
The best part is that these strategies can be used for Elementary, Junior High, High School or University students.
Title:
Harold Palmer in Japan: A Lesson from History
Description:
Eighty-eight years ago, Harold E. Palmer—a language educator widely renowned for his creativity and expertise—was invited to Japan as Linguistic Advisor to the Ministry of Education. For fourteen years, Palmer worked tirelessly in Tokyo creating a wealth of language learning tools and techniques that would help Japanese reform their English language teaching.
Come and hear the story of this great man’s attempts to improve English language teaching in Japan in the 1920–30s. This is a story of success and failure; an episode in history from which we can all draw inspiration and learn something about what it means to teach English here in Japan.
Speakers:
Leigh McDowell
Leigh McDowell has been teaching and learning in Japan for over ten years now. He currently teaches scientific writing and presentation at Japan’s top ranked national university, the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST). After coming across the work of Harold E. Palmer in the Master’s in TESOL Program at Temple University, Leigh was inspired to research more and share with others the story of this great figure in the history of English language teaching.
Yoko Yaku
Yoko Yaku teaches English at the Osaka Pprefectural Matsubara Senior High School. She has also recently completed her Master‘s in TESOL from Temple University, Japan. Yoko is convinced that her English would be much better now if she had been taught in junior high school with Palmer’s methodology instead of the traditional Japanese way of teaching English. In this presentation, Yoko will share her reasons for that conviction.
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