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Events › Tohoku › Miyagi › Sendai › August 2003 › event

World English - What is it and should we teach it?

Speaker: A roundtable discussion

Date: Sunday, August 31st, 2003

Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Sendai, Miyagi

Venue: Aoba-ku Chuo Shimin Center (formerly the Ichibancho Shimin Center)

Description: The August meeting will be a discussion on World English. As always the discussion will go wherever the participants take it, we will as a minimum touch on these questions:

What are the various varieties of English, how are they defined, and who owns them?
Is there a single variety of English that can be styled as World English?
Do our students need to know this or should they learn a particular variety such as American, British, or Australian?

There is no pre-reading for this discussion but you might think about the subject so that you can add you ideas and questions to the discussion.

Cost for JALT members: free (also free for TALE members; TALE is Tohoku Association of Language Educators)

Cost for JALT non-members: 1000 yen (for non-JALT and non-TALE members), students 500 yen (but free the first time)

Organization: Sendai Chapter, Japan Association for Language Teaching

This URL: http://www.eltcalendar.com/events/details/1523

Contact Sendai JALT Chapter:

URL: http://jaltsendai.terapad.com/

Tony Crooks:

tony@japan.email.ne.jp

Phone: Home: 022-717-6044

Kazuko Honma:

khonma@bd.mbn.or.jp