Pan-SIG - my Ying, your Yang

PAN-SIG press release

プレス・リリース

2011年3月22日
（NPO）全国語学教育学会（JALT）信州支部

第10 回全国語学教育学会　分野別研究部会（Pan-SIG）2011年　年次大会 　4月3日（日）　記者会見のお知らせ

　JALT信州支部では2011年5月21日から22日の2日間、長野県松本市信州大学で開催される第10 回全国語学教育学会分野別研究部会（以下Pan-SIG）2011年年次大会（後援：長野県教育委員会、松本市教育委員会、信州大学人文学部、JALT研究部会、協賛：JALT信州支部）に先駆け記者発表を行います。同日開催イベント「オックスフォード児童英語教師向けワークショップ2011松本」と合わせ、ぜひご参加ください。

Pan-SIG 2011年　年次大会　記者会見

■日時： 201１１年４月３日（日）　13:00～13:30

■出席：信州大学　教育学部　准教授　酒井英樹　
        JALT信州支部　会長　マーク・ブライアリー(信州大学　全学教育機構　准教授)
　　　　JALT信州支部　広報　ジ     ム・ジョージ（ルナインターナショナル代表）
　　　　JALT信州支部　広報　林　英美（メルク英語教室　主宰）
　　　
■内容： Pan-SIGの概要と開催趣旨、小学校英語活動の現状について、東北関東大震災募金協力について

■会場： ルナインターナショナル（〒390-0806 松本市女鳥羽 2-3-5 久星ビル）
       　TEL ０２６３－３４－４４８１
       　松本バスターミナルより松本電鉄美ヶ原温泉行きバス乗車、桜町バス停下車、徒歩約5分

■大会の詳しいご案内はこちらをご参照ください。→　http://pansig.org/2011/

■お申し込み方法：お名前、ご所属、電話番号、FAX番号、E-mailアドレス、を記載頂き、jalt@shinshu-u.ac.jpまでお申し込み下さい。

◆◇お問い合わせ先◇◆
（NPO）全国語学教育学会（JALT）信州支部
会長　マーク・ブライアリー（日本語可）　電話：090-4464-6391
広報　林　英美　電話：090-7265-6599
E-mail: jalt@shinshu-u.ac.jp

同時開催　オックスフォード児童英語教師向けワークショップ

■日時： 2010年4月3日（月） 10：30-13：00(10:00より開場いたします。)

■内容：第1部（10:30-11:20）ケビン・チャーチリー
      「Oxford Reading Treeを使った効果的な読み聞かせの秘訣とテクニック」

      第2部（11:50-12:40）バーバラ・ホスキンズ・サカモト

      「生徒一人一人をきめ細かく指導するためのアクティビティとは？」

                       

■会場： ルナインターナショナル（同上）
■ワークショップの詳細、事前登録はこちら→http://www.oupjapan.co.jp/kidsclub/otws2011/index_jp.shtml

Shinshu JALT presents - West Tokyo JALT

Chicken or fish?

Nothing like a free lunch to encourage people to turn up to a meeting. The good food of Baden Baden was only served after the Shinshu JALT Chapter's AGM had been concluded. Most posts were re-elected as proposed and seconded, with the exception of Program Chair which is likely to rotate around members able to make their connections work for one offs.

We were joined for lunch by a travelling quartet of West Tokyo JALTalites, who in the afternoon conducted three workshops as chicken or fish settled nicely.

Peter Ross asked for problems teachers face with writing classes, and soon had a board-full. If you have a writing class you'd probably come up with same/similar issues. Recognise any?

Visible topics - invisible writing: Peter Ross

His Y100 shop special Invisible Writing pack (when was the last time you came across carbon paper?) were distributed and attendees asked to write on any one of randomly suggested topics. Writing atop a plastic envelope, you do not see what you've written - the carbon paper below a top blank sheet instead imprints a bottom sheet. Then we were asked to do a 'seen' writing task for the same amount of time (ninety seconds), on a new topic, repeating the process for one more invisible and visible. A quick word count revealed for most that in both cases word count was up. Generally feeling that 'mistakes' were no longer something we could do much about & that fluency of production improved (albeit untidily). Point being that this is an excellent way to improve continuity, train of though - mentally and mechanically focusing the writer on the job ahead. Would you want to produce a final draft in this way? Unlikely. Will this get students to produce more rough work/brainstorm themselves into gear/larger first draft. Very likely.

Tadashi Ishida told us about his PEACE work (People's Educational and Cultural Exchange) and his various experiences enabling foreign visitors to Tokyo to try various aspects of Japanese culture (for free), such as Kimono, Shamisen, Tea Ceremony & Calligraphy.

Is this the ladies?

• http://senior-english.seesaa.net/
• http://www.jalt.org/groups/lifelong-learning
• http://peace2010.web.fc2.com/

David Boon and Eric Skier then managed not to clear the room of local participants, bringing home the reality of hosting next year's PAN-SIG conference in Matsumoto. Has Mark Brierley bitten off more than Shinshu can chew? There looked to be about four jobs per person present, all of which are going to take a lot of time and organising...watch this (and other) spaces.


Tana showed us a nice Thai restaurant near Parco which did not light the afterburners as Thai food often can, before seconds in El Sol and karaoke. So, a working Sunday. Thanks to the Tokyo team for caring & sharing; think their experience and guidance will be vital if next May's event is going to be as good as we want it to be...