From kcleary at gol.com  Sat Jun  5 01:32:28 2010
From: kcleary at gol.com (kevin cleary)
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:32:28 +0900
Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] Teaching Multicultural Classes with Varied
	English: Challenges and strategies (18 June, Shinjuku)
Message-ID: <x7kOmPrr.1275715948.5610340.kcleary@gol.com>

Dear members,

On June 18 (Friday) there is a lecture that may be of interest to you:
"Teaching Multicultural Classes with Varied English: Challenges and
strategies".

This lecture is free for SIETAR members, 1,000 yen for non-members. It
will be held from 19:00 to 21:00 at Reitaku University's campus in
Shinjuku.

For details, please see the below or the SIETAR website:
<http://www.sietar-japan.org/jp/activities/program/2010-06.html>

email contact:
<programs at sietar-japan.org>

all the best,

Kevin Cleary
Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair

## SIETAR Lecture, 18 June (Friday) ##

?????????????????????
Teaching Multicultural Classes with Varied English: Challenges and
strategies

In recent years, many universities have started running content-based
classes in English at undergraduate and graduate levels. Such programs
are often open to both international (exchange) students and Japanese
students and, while they are taught in English, are not English language
classes per se. Teaching multicultural student groups brings
opportunities and challenges relating to intercultural communication in
the classroom, such as different communication styles, learning styles,
value sets, and language levels.

In this SIETAR Japan program, three teachers will serve as resources to
stimulate discussion by sharing episodes from their experience
facilitating such classes. This will be an informal setting where
participants are also invited to talk about their own experiences and
challenges. We hope this program will stimulate and inspire your own
teaching and provide an opportunity for informal networking alongside
the discussion about teaching multicultural classes in English.

??/PRESENTER:
? ?? Ph.D. (??)
(Kichiro Hayashi, Ph.D.)
Adair Nagata Ph.D
Annette Karseras M.A.

??/PLACE:
????????????(???????????4?)
Reitaku University Tokyo Kenkyu Center (Shinjuku i-Land Tower, 4th Floor)

??/LANGUAGE:
??????
English and Japanese

????/FEE:
?? ??
?? 1000? ?????? ???

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From kcleary at gol.com  Sun Jun  6 10:40:39 2010
From: kcleary at gol.com (kevin cleary)
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:40:39 +0900
Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] Sophia University Institute of Comparative
	Culture Lectures (24 June, 28 June, 1 July)
Message-ID: <raPMCIBA.1275835239.0191690.kcleary@gol.com>

Dear members,

Sophia University has three upcoming lectures in English that may be of
interest to you. Full information on the first one is below, and the
next two lectures are briefly mentioned. For more information, please
consult the website for the Sophia University Institute of Comparative
Culture or the document that is linked to this message.
<http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/index2.htm>

Thank you and best regards,

Kevin Cleary
Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair


# Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010 #

[1] What Can Be Said? Communication and the Intimacy of Ethnographic
Fieldwork

Allison Alexy
Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College

Date: June 24th (Thu)
Time: from 5:30,
Location: 10-301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University

As the divorce rate in Japan continues to climb, suggesting that over one
third of current marriages will eventually end in divorce, a new market
for marital counseling has boomed. Despite all the diversity in styles
and content of counseling, marital difficulties are increasingly likely
to be linked to "communication" problems. Although "communication"
can euphemistically describe a variety of behaviors, verbalization of
the phrase "I love you" has come to be a seen as a contested marker of
marital health. To some, marriages are stronger when spouses say, rather
than only demonstrate, love. As outlined in popular media on the topic,
this advice marks a shift from commonly acceptable styles of intimacy,
specifically the idea that (good) love "should be like air" &#8211;
always present but not verbalized. This older ideal represents true
conjugal affection as unvoiced, and suggests that love that has to be
declared might not be real.

This presentation considers divorce, and the moves people make to avoid
it, to trace people's debates over how intimacy should be performed and
articulated. I use these discussions about what makes a good marriage,
or reduces divorce risk, to ask questions as fundamental to
anthropology's representational project as they are to determining the
strength of Japanese marriages: What can be communicated? What should be
communicated? With my informants who are struggling to determine when
talking helps and when it hurts marriages, I describe my research
methods to ask what I can say of what I heard and saw.

Allison Alexy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology
and Sociology at Lafayette College. She is a cultural anthropologist
focusing on contemporary Japan, with interest in ideals and experiences
of family lives, constructions of intimacy, and romantic failures. My
book manuscript, "Intimate Separations: Divorce and its Reverberations
in Contemporary Japan," considers divorce as an idea and lived reality
in Japan. My newer research project considers the intersections of
intimacy and citizenship in transnational relationships, particularly
international child custody disputes.

Lecture in English. No prior registration required.

[2]  Governance and Regional Economic Integration in Asia from a European
Perspective

Robert F. Owen
Professor of Economics, University of Nantes France

Date: June 28 (Mon.)
Time: 5 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: 10-301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University

Lecture in English, No registration necessary


[3] The Politics of Islam and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Central Asia

John Schoeberlein
Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Harvard University

Date: July 1, 2010 (Thu)
Time: 5 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: Room 10-301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University

Lecture in English. No prior registration required.

Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office
7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554, JAPAN
TEL: 03-3238-4082
FAX: 03-3238-4081
Email: diricc at sophia.ac.jp
Web page: http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/index2.htm

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From kcleary at gol.com  Sun Jun  6 11:12:00 2010
From: kcleary at gol.com (kevin cleary)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:12:00 +0900
Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] A Day with Vocabulary -- Yokohama JALT
	miniconference (17 July)
Message-ID: <MrTSWSD0.1275837120.0112960.kcleary@gol.com>

Dear members,

We are very happy to let you know about Yokohama JALT's upcoming
miniconference, entitled "A Day with Vocabulary", featuring Rob
Waring, Charles Browne, and Phil Brown. The miniconference will be held
on 17 July (Saturday). For more information, please see below.

Thank you and best regards,

Kevin Cleary
Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair


## A Day With Vocabulary ##

Date: Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa
Venue: Kanto Gakuin University (Media center)
<http://univ.kanto-gakuin.ac.jp/modules/media7/index.php?id=81>

Recently there have been great strides in the development of second
language vocabulary acquisition. To provide a forum in which such
research may be discussed, the Yokohama chapter of JALT and Kanto Gakuin
will host a one-day conference on vocabulary.

Featured speakers will be:

  - Rob Waring, whose topic is on vocabulary acquisition and listening
  - Charles Browne who will present on the use of technology as an aid to
vocabulary learning
  - Phil Brown, who will be speaking on vocabulary learning strategies

Cost:
Pre-registered = Free
On site registration = 500 yen for JALT members / 1,000 yen for one-day
members.

To pre-register, send an email with your name to
<yojaltpresident at yojalt.org>.
Please include "Vocabulary" in the subject line.

Facebook users: Register at
<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19543848763>

To all: If you have any questions/enquiries/comments, please direct them
to:
<yojaltpresident at yojalt.org>

<http://yojalt.org/>

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From kcleary at me.com  Mon Jun  7 04:21:54 2010
From: kcleary at me.com (kevin cleary)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:21:54 +0900
Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] TESOL Seminar with Dr. Rod Ellis (9 June,
	(Wed))
Message-ID: <20100607082154.1498712550@smtp.me.com>

Dear members,

We are glad to pass along a notice from Anaheim University regarding a
seminar that Dr. Rod Ellis will be holding on Wednesday evening. The
seminar is free, but it is limited to 40 people, so registration and
confirmation (and quick action on your part!) is necessary if you want
to attend this event.

Registration email address: <info at anaheim.edu>.

Thank you and best regards,

Kevin Cleary
Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair



# TESOL Seminar with Dr. Rod Ellis #

Anaheim University will be holding a TESOL seminar with world- renowned
linguist and TESOL Chair of Anaheim University's Graduate School of
Education, Dr Rod Ellis. Dr. Ellis will be speaking on "Comprehension-
Based Language Teaching" on Wednesday, June 9th from 7:00 pm to 8:30
pm.  Join us to hear from the "Father of Second Language Acquisition" in
Anaheim University's brand new state-of-the-art-center. The event will
also be broadcast live via Ustream for those unable to attend in-
person.   A seminar abstract and map to the center will be posted on the
Anaheim University website the evening of Monday, June 7th.  Just visit
<http://www.anaheim.edu/seminarellis> (as of this writing, it is not
operational yet).

Title: Comprehension-Based Language Teaching
Speaker: Rod Ellis, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, June 9th
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30pm
Location:  Wesley Center
   6-10-11 Minami Aoyama
   Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
   Japan
Fee: No Charge
Capacity: 40 people. First come, first served basis.
RSVP by email:
<info at anaheim.edu>

About Dr. Rod Ellis:
Prof. Rod Ellis, is Chair of Anaheim University's Graduate School of
Education Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) TESOL
Department and TESOL Professor.   Professor Ellis, a renowned linguist,
received his Doctorate from the University of London and his Master of
Education from the University of Bristol. A former professor at Temple
University both in Japan and the US, Prof. Ellis  has served as the
Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the
University of Auckland and has taught in numerous positions in England,
Japan, the US, Zambia and New Zealand. Dr. Ellis, who is known as an
expert in Second Language Acquisition, is author of the Oxford
University Press Duke of Edinburgh Award-Winning Classic "The Study of
Second Language Acquisition", as well as numerous student and teacher-
training textbooks for Prentice Hall and Oxford University Press, Prof.
Ellis's textbooks on Second Language Acquisition and Grammar are core
textbooks in TESOL and Linguistics programs around the world.

For more information:
inquiries at anaheim.edu
www.anaheim.edu

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From kcleary at gol.com  Wed Jun  9 00:10:02 2010
From: kcleary at gol.com (kevin cleary)
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:10:02 +0900
Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] Call for Papers -- ACTJ Annual Fall Conference
	(deadline 15 June)
Message-ID: <ypXVg1hN.1276056602.3400470.kcleary@gol.com>

Dear members,

I'm very glad to pass along another Call for Papers.

ACTJ -- the Association of Canadian Teachers in Japan -- will hold its
Annual Fall Conference on 20 September 2010 at the Canadian Embassy in
Tokyo. The Call for Papers has a deadline of 15 June, next Tuesday.

For more information, please see the below summary, the linked website,
or the conference poster:
<http://actj.main.jp/>
<http://actj.main.jp/gallery.html>.

If you can, please print out the poster and display it at your worksite
to spread the word about the conference.

Also, ACTJ will launch an online journal this fall. Submissions for
articles in the ACTJ newsletter, Canadian Content, or the new journal
are also encouraged.
<http://actj.main.jp/>

Many thanks to Tokyo Chapter member Anthony Fenton, the Conference Chair,
for sending us this information. Apologies to all for the late notice, I
meant to send this out earlier.

Thank you and best regards,

Kevin Cleary
Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair


# ACTJ Annual Fall Conference 20 September 2010, Canadian Embassy ##

"Reaching for New Heights: Research, Study & Management Opportunities in
Higher Education"

The internationalization of higher education is invariably linked to
broader reforms within societies struggling to restructure their
institutions as a response to shifts in global developments. The
interpretation and actualization of such developments are affected by
the political, social, economic, demographic, and cultural contexts of
nations and their respective institutions. Such is evidenced in changed
visions, priorities, leadership, policies, curriculum, and approaches to
management. Dating back to the Meiji Restoration, Japanese institutions
of higher learning have at various times struggled to interpret and
adopt internationalization processes. A large body of research indicates
that we are in the midst of yet another very challenging period of
reformation. The effects of "restructuring" will most certainly impact
all organizational members. The aim of this conference is to cause
participants to reflect on and question how they can constructively
contribute to these reforms within their respective organizational
contexts. We very much welcome your participation in what is certain to
be an invigorating one-day conference.

Description of presentation formats
========================
Presentations that have topical relevance to the conference theme will be
most welcome. Proposals not directly related to the theme may also be
submitted for consideration.

Panel Sessions
--------------------
60-minute presentations by two keynote presenters providing diverse
perspectives and viewpoints on the conference theme

Concurrent Sessions
---------------------------
30-minute presentations by six invited presenters offering national
insights on the conference theme

Supplementary Concurrent Sessions
------------------------------------------------
30-minute presentations by twelve mentored presenters offering
organizational insights with some relevance to the conference theme

For full information, such as details on how to prepare and submit
abstracts, please see the website.

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From kcleary at gol.com  Thu Jun 17 05:06:29 2010
From: kcleary at gol.com (kevin cleary)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:06:29 +0900
Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] ACTJ and SIETAR Reminders;
	Upcoming conference at Sophia University (10 July)
Message-ID: <5oP8zU9k.1276765589.2856780.kcleary@gol.com>

Dear members,

A few things to let you know of today:

1. The Association of Canadian Teachers in Japan (ACTJ) is accepting
abstract proposals (non-refereed) for their Annual Fall Conference.
Deadline: 15 August.

For more information, please visit the ACTJ website:
<http://actj.main.jp/guidelines.html>
<http://actj.main.jp/important.html>

Be sure to check the impressive list of speakers for the ACTJ Conference,
too!
<http://actj.main.jp/keynote.html>


2. The SIETAR event tomorrow (18 June, Friday) is a discussion, not a
lecture. Please see the message we sent out on 5 June, or follow this
link:
<http://www.sietar-japan.org/jp/activities/program/2010-06.html>
A map to the event is here:
<http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?lat=35.41.24.37&lon=139.41.46.812&la=0&sc=2&CE.x=261&CE.y=257>

If you are interested in going, please be sure to contact
<programs at sietar-japan.org> to register.


3. A conference at Sophia University, "Alternative Politics: Youth,
Media, Performance and Activism in Urban Japan", may be of interest to
you. The conference is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 10 July (Saturday). For
more details, please see below and follow the links to get a list of
speakers and abstracts.

Thank you and best regards,

Kevin Cleary
Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair


## Alternative Politics: Youth, Media, Performance and Activism in Urban
Japan (Sophia University, 10 July 2010) ##

Alternative Politics: Youth, Media, Performance and Activism in Urban
Japan

Bldg. #10, Room 301
July 10th, 2010
10am-5pm
Language: English and Japanese

Abstract:
Beyond NPOs, young people in Japan are creating new politics and finding
alternatives to what we think of the "political." New generations of
activists are questioning and reshaping the very idea of political
involvement by organizing through new avenues, forging new alliances,
and staging demonstrations and performances that range from the everyday
to the spectacular. Transformative uses of new media, art and space,
urban and digital, public and private, are engaging young people in new
ways, and revitalizing political possibilities. Approaching these
connections from a variety of perspectives, we are looking for new
critical languages and analytical devices to address this exciting turn
of events.

Organizer: David Slater
<d-slater at sophia.ac.jp>

For more information:
<http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/2010/Alternative_politics_conference.htm>
<http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/2010/Alternative_politics_conference_abstracts.htm>

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From kcleary at me.com  Tue Jun 22 18:21:44 2010
From: kcleary at me.com (kevin cleary)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:21:44 +0900
Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] Tokai Foreign Language Center / JALT
 Professional Development Symposium 2010
Message-ID: <20100622222145.13856849@smtp.me.com>

Dear members,

We'd like to pass along this Call for Presentations for the Tokai
Foreign Language Center / JALT  Professional Development Symposium 2010.
Just as last year, Tokyo Chapter is one of the sponsors this symposium.

Thank you and best regards,

Kevin Cleary
Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair

## Tokai Foreign Language Center / JALT  Professional Development
Symposium 2010 ##

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Tokai Foreign Language Center / JALT  Professional Development Symposium 2010

Conference Title: "Helping Learners Build Multiple Skills by Setting
Clear Goals, Developing Effective Methodologies, and Creating
Appropriate Materials"

Conference Date: October 23rd, 2010

Participating organizations: West Tokyo JALT, JALT Gunma, Shizuoka JALT,
Ibaraki JALT and Tokyo JALT.

Location: Tokai University, Shonan Campus, Building 14
Please refer to the symposium website for information and directions to
the campus:
<http://teach.flc.u-tokai.ac.jp/teacher/course/view.php?id=42>


Deadline for submissions: June 30th (Wednesday)

Areas of concern (some possible sub-themes for submission proposals):

- Creating and implementing measurable and achievable learning goals

- Creating appropriate and engaging learning tasks

- Combined/multi-skills course development

- Effective methodologies used in combined/multi-skills courses

- Materials development for combined/multi-skills courses

- Effective classroom practices for combined/multi-skills courses

- etc.

Conference Aims: This conference aims to bring together educators from
different backgrounds who are involved in the development and/or
teaching of combined skills courses.  It is hoped that the presenters
and participants will share their knowledge and experience in the
development and provision of effective learning tasks, materials design,
methodologies, performance measures, and other means used to create a
successful and rewarding learning experience.

Length of presentations, workshops, and poster sessions: 40 minutes;
preference will be given to workshops and poster presentations

Submitting a Proposal The proposal submission form is located at the URL
below.
<http://teach.flc.u-tokai.ac.jp/teacher/mod/resource/view.php?id=650>

Contents: Please submit a title, 50 word abstract for symposium
handbook, 150 word summary for vetting purposes, and presenter information.

Type of presentation: presentation, workshop, or poster presentation.

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