Attendance is free to participants however places are limited so please email info@anaheim.edu as soon as possible to guarantee your seat. Please see details below;
Place: Anaheim Univeristy, Minami Aoyama , Tokyo.
Date and Time: TBA
RSVP info@anaheim.edu or 03-3498-1005
Speakers:
Dr Rod Ellis
"Task Based Language Teaching"
This talk will outline the methodology of task-based lessons by describing options for the three phases of such a lesson. The first phase is 'pre-task' and concerns the various activities that teachers and students can undertake before they start the task, such as whether students are given time to plan the performance of the task. The second phase, the 'during task' phase, centres around the task itself and affords various instructional options, including whether students are required to operate under time-pressure or not. The final phase is 'post-task' and involves procedures for following up on the task performance. Only the 'during task' phase is obligatory in task-based teaching. Thus, minimally, a task-based lesson consists of the students just performing a task. Options selected from the 'pre-task' or 'post-task' phases are non-obligatory but, as we will see, can serve a crucial role in ensuring that the task performance is maximally effective for language. Examples of tasks and how they can be used in a task-based lesson will be provided.
About Rod Ellis, Ph.D.
Chair, Graduate School of Education
Professor Ellis, a renowned linguist, received his Doctorate from the University of London and his Master of Education from the University of Bristol. A former professor at Temple University both in Japan and the US, Prof. Ellis has taught in numerous positions in England, Japan, the US, Zambia and New Zealand. Dr. Ellis, who is known as an expert in Second Language Acquisition, has served as the Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the University of Auckland. Author of numerous student and teacher-training textbooks for Prentice Hall and Oxford University Press, Prof. Ellis's textbooks on Second Language Acquisition and Grammar are core textbooks in TESOL and Linguistics programs around the world. Prof. Ellis, who is Chair of AU's Graduate School of Education, teaches the courses "Second Language Acquisition" and "Grammar for Language Teachers" online, as well as the part of the "Research Methods in Language Learning" course during the face-to-face residential sessions for AU's MA in TESOL degree program. In addition, Prof. Ellis co-teaches "Second Language Classroom Research" with the Dean of Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education, Dr. David Nunan.
Marcos Benevides
Task-Based Learning for EFL in Japan
This presentation will show how Task-Based Learning can boost motivation through clear, quantifiable, authentic goals that allows students to gauge their strengths and weaknesses in meaningful ways.
About Marcos Benevides
Assistant professor at Kansai Gaidai University. He has taught EFL in Japan for ten years, at almost every level from elementary school to a graduate course on pedagogy.
(Edited by David Bracey - original submission Thursday, 14 May 2009, 08:06 PM)
(Edited by David Bracey - original submission Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 12:52 AM)