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The English Language Education Society of Japan (JELES)
Annual Conference at Waseda University
The English Language Education Society of Japan (JELES) is pleased to announce that Dr. Terry Royce will give the Special Invited Lecture at its annual conference to be held on March 31st at Waseda University. Dr. Royce's Lecture is entitled "Multimodal Texts for Reading Development". The following is the abstract of his lecture;
Title: Multimodal Texts for Reading Development
This presentation applies the principles of M.A.K. Halliday's social semiotic, general theory of communication to multimodal text - text where communication involves more than one mode. Instances of these may involve texts that combine written and visual modes (the most common), spoken and visual, or even combinations of spoken, visual, written and movement modes. These metafunctional principles can be applied to various textbooks with a focus on the development of reading skills in the language classroom context (where images are often used in textbooks, movies, diagrams etc), and so will be primarily focused on page-based multimodal texts. This presentation will be useful for those who want to utilize the co-presence of the visual and linguistic modes in their educational contexts. For illustrative purposes the presenter will introduce and analyse some examples of typical textbooks used in Japanese middle/high school classrooms, as well as non-educationally focused multimodal texts which are sometimes used in intermediate to advanced classrooms (such as advertisements or extracts from newspapers or magazines).
Preliminary information about other presenters can be found in the schedule below. Presentation titles and abstracts will be later known.
The JELES Annual Conference at Waseda University
Date: March 31st 2006
Place: Waseda University 9th Building 5th Floor Large Conference Room
Registration Fee: 500 yen
Languages spoken: English and Japanese
Program:
Director and Chair; Linju Ogasawara (Formerly Ministry of Education)
9:30¡Á10:20 ¡ÚPresentation¡Û Martha Bassett (St. George's School, Canada)
10:30¡Á11:20 ¡ÚPresentation¡Û Kyoko Watanabe ¡ÊSan Francisco State University¡Ë
11:30¡Á12:20 ¡ÚReport¡Û Yuriko Mastumoto (Sophia University)
12:20¡Á13:30 Lunch
13:30¡Á14:20 ¡ÚPresentation¡Û Kathryn Hackshaw (ELEC: The English Language Education Council)
14:30¡Á15:20 ¡ÚPresentation¡Û Eiichi Iwasaki (Chuo University High School)
15:30¡Á16:20 ¡ÚLecture¡Û Hajime Abe (The AbeHajime English Research Institute)
16:30¡Á17:30 ¡ÚLecture¡Û Dr. Terry Royce (Columbia University Teachers College)
18:00¡Á Reception
If you would like to attend the JELES conference, please telephone or fax the JELES office (Mr. Ogasawara, Program Director);
Mr. Linju Ogasawara
Minami-Ogikubo, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 3-17-5 167¡Ý0052
TEL / FAX 03-3331-3348
If sending a fax, please state clearly your name, affiliiation, and
telephone number.
Mr. Linju Ogasawara was formerly a Head official in the English teaching research division of the Japan Ministry of Education. In addition to this post, he has also taught extensively at the Universities of Tokyo, Waseda and Keio in Tokyo, and has held the position of adjunct faculty member at Georgetown, Cornell, Oxford, and Melbourne Universities. As one of the senior officials at the JapanMinistry of Education, he has contributed for many years to the development of English teaching policy in Japan.
For other inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact Mr. Ogasawara by telephone.
We look forward to seeing you in early spring at the beautiful Waseda University campus.
http://2002.jukuin.keio.ac.jp/eiichi_linguistics/
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