1. Teaching Writing Skills |
Sandra McKay |
2. Motivating Foreign Language Learners |
Richard W. Schmidt |
3. Teaching Listening
& Speaking Skills |
Richard W. Schmidt |
4. EFL Methodology: Teaching EFL Skills |
Richard W. Schmidt |
5. Teaching Vocabulary |
Sandra McKay |
6. Teaching Casual
Conversation in the FL Classroom
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Dina Yoshimi |
7. Teaching English
as an International Language: The Role of Culture in Asian Contexts |
Sandra McKay |
8. Teaching English Reading Skills |
Graham Crookes |
9. Testing & Evaluation in EFL |
James D. Brown |
10. Extensive Reading:
Helping Students to Become EFL Readers |
Richard Day |
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1. Teaching Writing
Skills
by Sandra McKay
A study of the stages and operations of the writing process in the
light of current research, with discussion of class organization,
prewriting techniques, the act of composing, and the crucial postwriting
phase, involving revising, editing, preparing final copy, and using
reader response and criticism.
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2. Motivating Foreign Language Learners
by Richard W. Schmidt
This workshop session reviews current theories and findings regarding
motivation and second language learning, with a special focus on
what teachers can do to more strongly motivate their students.
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3. Teaching Listening
Speaking Skills
by Richard W. Schmidt
Surveys the techniques and activities for teaching conversation
and listening comprehension, with an examination of recently published
materials. Lesson planning and effective classroom management are
emphasized.
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4. EFL Methodology:
Teaching EFL Skills
by Richard W. Schmidt
Surveys the relationship between theory and practice in methodology.
Methodology will be seen as an independent system involving three
basic levels: Approach, Design, and Procedure.
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5. Teaching Vocabulary
by Sandra McKay
This seminar will explore various ways of presenting new vocabulary in both beginning and intermediate level English language classes. We will begin by discussing what it means to know a word. Then we will examine various ways of introducing and using
vocabulary items including semantic mapping, lexical phrases, and vocabulary notebooks.
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6.
Teaching Casual Conversation in the FL Classroom
by Dina Yoshimi
This workshop presents techniques for FL learners
to analyze and identify pragmatically useful words and patterns
in conversation models. Emphasis is on how to encourage FL learners
to develop a communication style based on their own situations
and experience.
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7. Teaching
English as an International Language: The Role of Culture in Asian
Contexts
by Sandra McKay
This seminar will explore the role of culture in the teaching of an international
language in an Asian context. The seminar will begin by describing the characteristics
of English as an international language. Then we will discuss how culture plays
an important role in language teaching in the teaching of vocabulary and language
appropriateness, the development of language materials, and the choice of teaching
methodology.
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8. Teaching English
Reading Skills
by Graham Crookes
Examines the current issues in teaching English reading skills and
surveys the materials available for ESL/EFL reading. Classroom teaching
techniques will be demonstrated with participants as students. Participants
will be assisted in developing their own materials for teaching reading,
with an opportunity to try them out on other participants.
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9. Testing & Evaluation
in EFL
by James D. Brown
Discusses the differences and similarities between classroom and standardized tests, as well as writing strategies for creating good language tests in all four skills.
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10. Extensive Reading:
Helping Students to Become EFL Readers
by Richard Day
EFL reading instruction is generally a difficult and painful experience
for many EFL learners. This workshop introduces the participants
to extensive reading, an approach to teaching EFL reading that allows
students to have exciting meaningful experiences that motivate them
to read even outside thier EFL classes and, at the same time, prepare
them for acedemic reading.
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