LINGUIST List 12.1730

Wed Jul 4 2001

Confs: Japanese Lang Education, CAJLE 2001, Canada

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1. Hitomi Oketani, 2001 CAJLE Annual Conference in Toronto

You are cordially invited you to participate in the Annual Conference of the
Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE).

Dates: August 16-19, 2001
Place: The Japan Foundation, Toronto
 Suite 213 (The Colonnade, 2nd floor),
 131 Bloor Street West, Toronto Ontario

We look forward to welcoming all of you to our exciting four day event!


Hitomi Oketani-Lobbezoo, Ph.D.
Chair 
2001 CAJLE Annual Conference
on behalf of the Organizing Committee
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PROGRAM
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DAY 1 Thursday, August 16
 
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
 
9:30 - 9:45 Opening
 
9:45 - 12:00 Keynote Speaker: Kazuko Nakajima
(Associate Professor, University of Toronto)
�Japanese Language Education in the 21st Century: Moving into the Networking
Era�
 
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch, Book Fair by Nihongo Circle & Meetings of
International/Heritage Language Elementary Program, Secondary School Program
and Adult Education Program SIGs (Special Interest Groups)
 
13:30 - 18:00 Individual Research Paper Presentations (1)

Part 1: Linguistics (Language Acquisition / Bilingualism)
Commentator: Matsuo Soga (Professor, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)
1:30 - 1:55 HAYASHI Midori (Carleton University)
Transitive verbs : Japanese learners of English as a second language
1:55 - 2:20 KURIYAMA Keiko (SUNY/Buffalo)
Acquisition of Stative Verbs in Japanese: An Analysis of Child Narratives
2:20 - 2:45 NISHIMURA Miwa (Gunma Prefectural Womens' University)
The Use of Japanese Sentence-final Pragmatic Markers in Toronto Nisei'
Bilingual Conversation
2:45 - 2:55 SOGA Matsuo (Summary and Comments

Part 2: Linguistics (Grammar)
Commentator: Matsuo Soga
2:55 - 3:20 AOKI Keiko (Queen's University)
Grammaticalization of particles: TO and TTE
3:20 - 3:45 SUGIE Atsumi (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)
Meanings and Usage of WAKEDA
3:45 - 4:10 MIYAZAKI Keiko (Meiji Gakuin University)
Psychological Reality of Verbal Conjugation Rules
4:10 - 4:20 SOGA Matsuo, Summary and Comments

4:20 - 4:30 Coffee-break

Part 3: Linguistics (Phonology / Prosody)
Commentator: Zendo Uwano (Professor, University of Tokyo)
4:30 - 4:55 UWANO Zendo (University of Tokyo)
Mora and Syllable in Japanese Accent
4:55 - 5:20 INABA Seiichiro (San Jose State University)
A Metrical Approach to Japanese Long Nominal Compounds
5:20 - 5:45 TANIHARA Kimio (SUNY/Buffalo)
Tanka metric and rhythm adjustment by line crossover
5:45 - 5:55 UWANO Zendo, Summary and Comments
 

DAY 2 Friday, August 17
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9:30 - 12:00 Individual Research Paper Presentations (2)

Part 4: Language Pedagogy / Socio-linguistics
Commentator: Matsuo Soga
9:30 - 9:55 MIYATANI Atsumi (Gifu University)
Composition teaching in the beginners' class - Learning based on discourse
structures -
9:55 - 10:20 UZAWA Kozue (University of Lethbridge)
On teaching culture
10:20 - 10:30 SOGA Matsuo, Summary and Comments
10:30 - 10:55 TANAKA Junko (Kobe University)
The relationship between occurrences of "noticing" experience by adult JFL
learners and interventions to promote explicit learning
10:55 - 11:20 IWATA Sonomi (Brock University)
Assessment for improving Asian learners' collaborative learning in JFL
classroom
11:20 - 11:45 FUJIOKA Noriko (University of Cincinnati)
The Interrelationships Among Learners' Factors in the Japanese Language
Courses for Non Native Speakers at the College Level
11:45 - 11:55 SOGA Matsuo, Summary and Comments

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch, Book Fair by Nihongo Circle & Meetings of
International/Heritage Language Elementary Program, Secondary School Program
and Adult Education Program SIGs
 
13:30 - 15:30 Teacher Training Seminar (1)
Lecturer: Michiko Yazawa (Special Advisor on Japanese Language and Culture,
The Japan Foundation)
Topic: �Developing Teaching/Learning Materials to meet Students� Needs -
using Kyookasho wo tsukuroo (published by the Japan Foundation)
 
15:45 - 18:15 Presentation, Adult Education Program Group
Topic: �The Japanese Language Proficiency Test � Listening and Reading�
Lecturer: Nobuko Oh (Professor, Senshuu University)
 
19:00 - 20:30 Reception (Dinner)
 

DAY 3 Saturday, August 18
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9:00 - 12:00 Teacher Training Seminar (2)
Lecturer: Michiko Yazawa
 
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch, Book Fair by Nihongo Circle & Meetings of
International/Heritage Language Elementary Program, Secondary School Program
and Adult Education Program SIGs
 
13:30 - 17:00 Lecture and Workshop, International/Heritage Language
Elementary Program Group
Topic: �Development of Children�s Oral Proficiency � Towards the
Establishment of a Curriculum�
Lecturer: Kazuko Nakajima
 
17:30 - 18:30 General Meeting
 

DAY 4 Sunday, August 19
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10:00 -12:00 Teacher Training Seminar (3)
Lecturer: Michiko Yazawa
 
12:00 -13:30 Lunch, Book Fair by Nihongo Circle & Meetings of
International/Heritage Language Elementary Program, Secondary School Program
and Adult Education Program SIGs
 
13:30 -16:00 Teacher Training Seminar (4)
Topic: �Transitive and Intransitive Verbs in Japanese� & �Various Aspects of
the Particle OEno� �
Lecturer: Matsuo Soga
 
16:15 -18:15 Round Table, Secondary School Program Group
Topic: �Teaching/Learning Materials for Secondary School Students � Towards
Better Material Development�
Lecturer: Michiko Yazawa
 
18:15 -18:30 Closing
 
(The conference schedule and program are subject to change).
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For additional information including registration, fees and local
arrangements, please send e-mail to Yoshiko Nakao (ynakaohome.com) or Miwa
Tonami (tonamiprimus.ca)