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Scarcely a Ripple: Surfing the waves of student anxiety and motivation

Speaker: Terry Fellner and Matthew Apple

Date: Sunday, April 17th, 2005

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: Himeji, Hyogo

Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (Located directly across from Nozato Station on the Bantan Line. Plenty of free parking.) Bantan Line train leaves Himeji Station at 13:46

Description: Terry Fellner & Matthew Apple from Himeji Dokkyo University will present an intensive CALL program held over two weeks they developed in the summer of 2004 for a group of fourth-year low-intermediate level university students. An initial survey indicated a high level of anxiety among students regarding the use of computers to learn English. To allay student fears, a task-based curriculum structured around CALL activities utilized a wave pattern to recycle and strengthen computer and language skills. The presentation will demonstrate that through the use of daily Blogs, online concordance tasks, ranking discussions, and various online listening and grammar activities the course both decreased learner anxiety and increased motivation to learn English.

Cost for JALT members: free

Cost for JALT non-members: 300 yen

Organization: Himeji Chapter, Japan Association for Language Teaching

This URL: http://www.eltcalendar.com/events/details/2542

Contact Himeji JALT Chapter:

Hida, Hiroko:

Phone: Home: 0792-54-0772

Patrick Dougherty:

pdougherty@shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp

Phone: Home: 0792-92-8808

Fax: Home: 0792-92-8808

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