Laugh and Learn / All Together Now!

Speaker: Linda Witting / Chris Hunt

Date: Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Location: Kitakyushu, Fukuoka

Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center, a 5-minute walk from the Kokura train station (shinkansen, JR train)

Description: Enjoying English
Kitakyushu JALT will present an afternoon of workshops designed primarily for teachers of children, to help them make the learning of English a joyful experience for their students.

Laugh and Learn
Smiley the Clown (Linda) will do balloon sculptures, juggling, illusions, flying handkerchief mice, and more. This method will inspire teachers to use their hobbies and interests to share English in a fun way.
Linda Wittig is the author of the Yes, I Can column for the TLC professional newsletter of the Teaching Children Special Interest Group. Her interests include making paper airplanes, origami, spinning tops, and drawing Disney characters. She is taking Yamaha Electone, Suzuki Violin, and swimming lessons. Through her music and swimming lessons she also learns Japanese in a fun way.

All Together Now!
Come and find out about non-competitive games for language learning! Games are not inherently competitive and once you get used to co-operative and non-competitive ways of playing games, you start feeling unsettled when you see lesson plans using competitive games. With lots of practical activities this workshop seeks to show how competition is unnecessary. Come and experience the difference!
Chris Hunt has been working with children in Japan for over ten years. He avoids using the word teach as he believes in facilitating learning through non-teaching. Chris is very interested in games, co-operative learning and unschooling. He edits the quarterly newsletter of the Teaching Children Special Interest Group: Teachers Learning With Children.

Cost for JALT members: free

Cost for JALT non-members: 1,000 yen

Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter, Japan Association for Language Teaching

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Contact Kitakyushu JALT Chapter:

URL: http://jalt.org/chapters/kq/

Dennis Woolbright:

woolbright@seinan-jo.ac.jp

Upcoming Events for Kitakyushu JALT Chapter:

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