Kansai Gaidai University:

Promoting Strategic Reading in College EFL

Date: Thursday, October 5th, 2006 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Speaker: May Shih, San Francisco State University

Description:
College EFL students often lack systematic strategies for processing complex informational texts. This presentation will demonstrate several reading-to-learn strategies, including K-W-L (Know-Want-Learn) and construction of graphic organizers, which prompt students to approach a text purposefully, to read it strategically, and to consolidate and reflect on what they learn from it. Post-reading activities consistent with a reading-to-learn approach will also be demonstrated and brainstormed: follow-up vocabulary study, independent reading, and extending activities for building oral communication and writing skills. Audience participation will be solicited!

Biography: Professor May Shih teaches at San Francisco State University, where she is M.A. TESOL Program Coordinator. Her special interests are research, methods, and materials for developing ESL/EFL learners' reading, writing, and grammar editing skills. She has published articles on these topics in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, and College ESL. As an American-born Chinese, she has a special interest in English teaching in China and in methods for developing learners' communicative competence in EFL settings. She has lectured at universities throughout China.

Please click here for a map to the venue.

Organization: Kansai Gaidai University Center for International Education (Kansai Gaidai University)

Cost: free

Venue: Kansai Gaidai University, Nakamiya Campus (Hirakata City, Osaka) Center for International Education, Room 3208

Location: Hirakata City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

iCal Add this to iCal
(Need help?)

vCal for Outlook Add to Outlook
(Need help?)

0

You can add this event to your iCal calendar.

  1. Click on the iCal icon. Your iCal software will start.
  2. Click 'Subscribe':
    click subscribe
  3. Under 'Auto Refresh', select 'Every day' in case the the basic details change:
    auto-refresh daily

You can add this event to your Microsoft Outlook calendar.

  1. Click on the MS Outlook icon.
  2. See what happens.
  3. Tell us what happens. I don't have MS Outlook on a Windows computer, so I can't test it.
  4. If you click on the icon and nothing happens, do this:
    1. Right-click on the icon and save the file.
    2. According to Microsoft's support page, in Outlook's File menu, you should click Import and Export.
    3. Click to select Import an iCalendar or vCalendar file (*.vcs), and then click Next.
    4. Click to select the vCalendar file you've just saved, and then click Open.

Contact Kansai Gaidai University

Website: www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp

Tracy Cramer
Email QR Code:

ABAX