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40 Column • Chapter Events16:30; Maebashi Institute of Technology (MaebashiKoka Daigaku), 460-1 Kamisadori, Maebashi; one-daymembers ¥1000.Hamamatsu—Upcoming by Kip Cates. Cates isa wonderful speaker as well as being a highlycredentialed Japan veteran. He is well known forhis work in Global Issues in Education. Be sure tokeep 17 Jun open on your calendar. More detailsto follow. Sun 17 June 10:00-12:00; ZAZA City Palette,5F; one-day members ¥1000; free for first-timers.Hokkaido—Ancient Cobblestone Stained WithLifeblood and Other Speech Contest Titles toAvoid by Joe Booth. In the conception and developmentphase, Booth will discuss what kinds ofspeech topics are appropriate and how to guidestudents through the process of putting their ideasinto a coherent and meaningful speech. In thepreparation and delivery stage, he will focus on arange of communication skills, including pronunciationand body language, that are inherent togiving speeches, as well as how to direct studentsultimately to a successfully delivered speech. Sun24 Jun 13:30-16:00; Hokkai Gakuen University, SubwayBuilding 6, 3F; one-day members ¥500.Ibaraki—Annual Mini-Conference. 10:00-noon:Teaching Techniques for an Oral Class by JonathanOwens; Vocabulary Training With the Computer andWith the iPod by Markus Rude; Cultural LearningThrough Online Writing by Joyce Cunningham;“Phrase Method”—A Spice for Your Students byTomoko Yamaguchi; Teaching Text Patterns byJohn Racine. 13:30: Culture and Affect in Vaultingthe Rubicon: Stories of Highly Proficient EnglishLanguage Learners by James Elwood, University ofTsukuba. Updates . Sat23 Jun (registration starting 9:30); Ibaraki UniversityMito Campus (directions at the main gate); one-daymembers ¥500.Kagoshima—Ten Fun and Effective Ways to UtilizeEnglish Newspapers in English Classrooms.by Mayuka Habbick and Naoko McLellan. Childrenlearn through experience. In this workshop,the presenters will share fun ideas using Englishnewspapers. Newspapers are handy, inexpensive,and most of all FUN! With the learning processof children in mind, we will share a selection ofactivities for all ages ranging from traditional tosensuous! Sat 23 Jun 14:00-16:00; In Sendai—PlaceTBA; one-day members ¥1000.Kagoshima—Teaching Children Conference inKagoshima: Meeting the Goals of the ElementarySchool Curriculum. Co-sponsored by the TeachingChildren SIG. For more information please godirectly to our conference website .Sun24 Jun 9:00-17:00; Kagoshima University, KorimotoCampus, Sogo Kyoiku Kenkyu Tou; one-day members¥2000.Kitakyushu—Searching for Authentic Materialsby Daniel Droukis. Taking a trip to anothercountry offers an excellent opportunity to collectauthentic materials. The result of a little effortcan be a thick folder full of materials that can beused many times. Using them encourages quiet,passive JHS students to ask questions, and ESPstudents to create conversations. The materialsmake classes much livelier. What can be foundand where? What to do with the materials? Findout. Sat 9 Jun 19:00-21:00; Kitakyushu InternationalConference Center, Room 31 (a 5-minute walk fromthe Kokura train station); one-day members ¥1000.Kobe—Managing and Teaching in CoordinatedEnglish Language Programs by Heidi Evans andJuanita Heigham. In many universities, newdepartments and existing programs are movingtowards coordination, meaning teachers use commonsyllabi and materials to reach shared goalsand objectives across course sections. This presentationwill focus on how coordination benefits aninstitution, teachers, and students. The facilitatorswill begin with a short overview of their contexts,followed by a discussion of the rewards and challengesof coordinated programs. Sat 30 Jun 16:00-18:00; Kobe YMCA (2-7-15 Kano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe(t: 078-241-7204); one-day members ¥1000.Kyoto—Pedagogical Issues Relating to theStudy Abroad Experiences of Japanese UniversityStudents by Michael Furmanovsky. The surveyresults of 25 students studying at a languagecenter in Melbourne, Australia, will be presented.Then the speaker will focus on the pedagogicalimplications of the qualitative data and discusstwo single-semester classes that he created athis university. Sat 23 Jun 2007 18:30-20:30; KyotoKyoiku Bunka Center, Room 204; see for directions; one-day members ¥1000.Matsuyama—Prepare Your Students for AcademicStudies by Kayo Taguchi, Oxford UniversityPress. Students need preparation to enable themTHE LANGUAGE TEACHER 31.6 • JUNE 2007