Teaching Japanese Students Listening Strategies

Speaker: Hiroko Hagino, Ph.D., Waseda Unviersity

Date: Sunday, April 25th, 2004

Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Mito, Ibaraki

Venue: Ibaraki University, Mito

Description: How can we accelerate the process of improving listening skills of Japanese students through classroom instruction? One answer would be to teach the students "how to fish"(listening strategy) rather than giving them "a fish" (specific knowledge). The speaker will present some findings that she obtained through her doctoral research studies which focused on the understanding of lexical words that are key elements in the retrieval of information conveyed through speech, in non-interactive, transactional settings.
About the speaker:
Hiroko Hagino, Ph.D., obtained her MA in TESOL, and M.Ed. in Applied Linguistics at TC in New York City in the late 1970s. She has been teaching English at universities in Tokyo. She obtained her Ph.D. degree at Tokyo Gakugei University in 2000. Her publications include A Handbook for Teaching of English Pronunciation (Tokyo Shoseki), two EFL textbooks, Healthy Lifestyles and Changing Asia (Eichosha, Co. Ltd.) and the book based on her dissertation, Task Effects on the Development of EFL Listening Proficiency (Eichosha, Co. Ltd.)

Cost for JALT members: free

Cost for JALT non-members: 500 yen

Organization: Ibaraki Chapter, Japan Association for Language Teaching

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