As many of you may know, the Junior Senior High SIG is proud to be one of the organizations participating at Nakasendo 2009. In addition to supporting the event, a SIG member will be presenting at the conference. The details of her presentation is below:
Carolyn Pieroway (Yakumo Academy) - "Teaching English in English"
Japanese students of English have limited time in their English classes to acquire English skills. Moreover, being in a foreign language learning environment makes it even more difficult to increase exposure to English by using it outside the classroom. Both are good reasons for having English classes taught in English, but how can this be implemented and effective? This presentation will introduce reasons for teaching English classes in English and demonstrate some practical ways we can introduce English into junior high school classes. The presentation should be useful for Japanese teachers who want to use English in the classroom and also for foreign teachers who want to help Japanese colleagues build confidence to use more English in their lessons.
For more details about Nakasando 2009 (including pre-registration), visit the conference website
The School House Call for Papers
Written by Jake Arnold
Submissions
December 31st, 2008 is the deadline for the January 2009 edition of The School House.
All submissions and/or inquiries should be made to Jake Arnold at: <
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The Forum - new section!!
Your chance to ask a question, tell a story, rant or rave about your teaching life.
Features
Featured articles should relate to junior high and high school English education in Japan. They should be well designed and researched.
The Plan
This segment is designed for teachers to present lesson activities that they have found to be successful in their junior high or high school EFL classes. Include reasons why the lesson activity was devised, observed results of the lesson activity, and if possible any information regarding EFL theory that applies to the activity.
Classroom Theory
How different areas of EFL theory can be applied to junior high and high school English pedagogy. Articles should be well designed and researched.
Connected Classroom
Articles that focus on different technologies incorporated into classroom lessons, such as PowerPoint presentations, websites, blogs, etc.
Conference Reviews
Reviews of conferences or individual presentations.
Book Reviews
Reviews of textbooks, teacher resource books, audio recourses, etc.
The Chalkboard
This segment provides information on conferences, speeches, workshops, and so on that our members are involved in or that pertains to junior high and high school EFL education.
*We are looking for submissions in English or Japanese.
Proofreaders
We would like to encourage anyone interested in joining the editing team as a proofreader to please contact Jake Arnold <
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 06 December 2008 )
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