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SELHi Project: Enriching EFL through the teaching of pragmatics

    Speaker: Jeremie Bouchard (Sapporo Sacred Heart School)
    Date: Saturday, March 8th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Location: Gifu
    Venue: Heartful Square (southeast section of Gifu JR Station), Gifu City, Gifu-ken
    Description: The presentation, a combination of lecture and group discussion, will focus on a SELHi (Super English Language High School) initiative involving two English courses: Comprehensive and Interactive. The Comprehensive course emphasizes a combination of sentence-based and discourse-based grammar teaching, and the Interactive course shifts towards the teaching of pragmatics. The presentation will also include a review of the Interactive English textbook created for high school second grade students, which was designed around the teaching of speech acts (language functions, e.g. compliments, apologies, requests, complaints, etc.). The main inspiration for this textbook came from an article written in The Language Teacher of May 2004 by John Fujimori and Noël Houck titled "Practical criteria for teaching speech acts". Along with Fujimori and Houck's emphasis on pragmatics as a necessary part of any language curriculum, the general argument of this presentation calls for a change in emphasis in the EFL classroom, from English as the sole object of study to English as a tool for effective communication.
    Cost for JALT members: free
    Cost for JALT non-members: 1,000 yen
    Organization: Gifu Chapter, Japan Association for Language Teaching
    This URL: http://www.eltcalendar.com/events/details/3942

    Contact Gifu JALT Chapter:
    Steve Quasha:
      Phone: Home: 058-246-3744 Office: 052-781-4734



    Upcoming Events for Gifu JALT Chapter:

    Saturday, December 13th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Location: Gifu


    Other Past Events (Archive) for Gifu JALT Chapter

    Saturday, November 15th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Location: Gifu

    Saturday, October 18th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Location: Gifu

    Saturday, September 20th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
    Location: Gifu

    Saturday, July 12th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
    Location: Gifu

    Saturday, June 21st, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
    Location: Gifu

    Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Location: Gifu

    Saturday, April 19th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
    Location: Gifu

    Saturday, February 16th, 2008
    Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
    Location: Gifu





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