Vocabulary Symposium 2014
Presented by JALT Vocabulary SIG
Date: June 14, 2014 Location: Kyushu Sangyo University Featured discussants: Batia Laufer & Akiyo Hirai Symposium Schedule: 0. 8:15 ~ Registration & poster setup 1. 9:15 to 9:45 Plenary: Batia Laufer (University of Haifa) 2. 10:00 to 12:10 Learning Symposium 1 Discussant: Batia Laufer (University of Haifa) Speakers: Charles Browne (Meiji Gakuin University), Cherie Brown and Rachael Ruegg (Akita International University) Makoto Yoshii (Prefectural University of Kumamoto) Junko Yamashita (Nagoya University) 3. 12:20 to 13:50 Lunch and poster session Posters by: Charles J. Anderson & Mayumi Kawashima, Robert Cochrane, Alex Cameron, Luke Fryer, Kaori Nakao, Mutsumi Kawakami, Dr. Paul Wadden & Dan Ferreira, David Faulhaber, Phil Bennett & Tim Stoeckel, George Higginbotham, Ian Munby & John Racine, Keith Barrs, David Lees, Masaya Kaneko, Stella Millikan 4. 14:00 to 16:10 Testing Symposium 2 Discussant: Akiyo Hirai (Tsukuba University) Speakers: Stuart McLean, Nicholas Hogg & Brandon Kramer (Temple University Japan) Tadamitsu Kamimoto (Kumamoto Gakuen University) Dawn Luchovich (The Writing Center at Teachers College Colombia University) Aaron Gibson (Kyushu Sangyo University) 5. 16:30 ~ Breakout sessions 6. 18:00 ~ 23:00 Conference Dinner (at restaurant near the venue) Format: Symposium: 2 hours: 20 minutes per speaker (x4), 20 minutes discussant, 20 minutes group discussion Venue: Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.shtml http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/map/access.html Symposium Committee members: Lead Coordinator: Jeffrey Stewart Coordinators: Luke Fryer, Shu Ozono & Peter Carter Treasurer: Quint Oga-Baldwin Review and Organization: Charles J. Anderson, Aaron Gibson, Mark Howarth, Raymond Stubbe, Alonzo Williams |