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(1) Building up students’ ability to discuss a wide range of topics; (2) My Share
May 10, 2025 @ 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
(1) Building up students’ ability to discuss a wide range of topics
David Paul
(2) Fukuoka JALT My Share
Several speakers
On May 10th, first Fukuoka JALT welcomes back David Paul, a well-known teacher trainer and course book author. After that, we’ll have four MyShare demonstrations. Details below:
Building up students’ ability to discuss a wide range of topics (17:00-18:00)
David Paul will introduce his new course, ‘Discussion Skills’, and show how it is effective in building up students’ ability to discuss a wide range of topics. The course is a new edition of ‘Communication Strategies’, though it has been changed quite a bit and lots of digital components have been added. It is appropriate for high school, university and adults.
The presentation will also look at extensive free digital materials that support the course including interactive worksheets, audio, presentation tools, teacher’s guides, online crosswords, mind maps, and situations and role plays. There will also be a demonstration of a free interactive worksheet system that enables teachers to monitor students work online – Teachers are welcome to use this worksheet system with other courses.
David Paul built up a successful group of schools in Hiroshima, Korea and Thailand and used this success as a platform for supporting the professional development of teachers through ETJ, TESOL certificate programs, MA courses, Expos/conventions, social media and general teacher training. He is the author of various books including ‘Finding Out’, ‘Discussion Skills’, ‘Communicate’, ‘Motivate’ and ‘Teaching English to Children in Asia’.
Fukuoka JALT My Share (MyShare follows David Paul’s presentation)
The Fukuoka JALT MyShare event is an opportunity for language teachers to share their work with a wider audience and gain constructive feedback. With a semi-formal round-table discussion format, MyShare offers time for multiple presenters to explain a specific language learning activity or idea. This portion of the meeting will be in person only.
Pharo Sok: One Fold at a Time: Making English Writing and Speaking More Enjoyable With Origami
Drawing on existing scholarship on foreign language enjoyment (FLE), this presentation shares an activity that incorporates writing, making origami, and speaking in university English courses. Together, students constructed not only works of origami, but also supportive communities that facilitated artistic and linguistic expression. Referring to questionnaire data, we can also see how students made sense of the activity and the role that enjoyment played in their impressions.
Troy Zangara: List Videos
I will demonstrate an activity that uses list videos as a stimulus for meaningful discussion and communication. List videos are videos that provide a list of the top number of items in a category, such as “Top 10 places to visit in Japan” or “My favorite things about Japan.” This format of video engages students by drawing on their background knowledge and experiences. Students work together in groups to build a consensus on a list. See https://jalt-publications.org/articles/29224-list-videos
Amal Abdessamad: Discussion Skills
My proposed activity titled “Discussion Skills” focuses on using Colours, Colours Everywhere by Julia Donaldson & Sharon King-Chai as a reading support tool for a discussion activity. This picture book is colorful, engaging, beautifully crafted, and features minimal text. Furthermore, it is narrated from the perspective of a deaf girl, though her deafness is not foregrounded. Thus, the implicit intent of this activity is to communicate topics of empathy, inclusivity, and awareness among students.
Free
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