Jamie Hall from Iwate University asked me to pass this information along. The event is free to attend. Please let him know by email if you coming. Thank you.
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Iwate Association of English Education
(東北英語教育学会岩手支部) Presents
Teaching English to Young Learners:
six challenges in search of solutions
Day and time: Monday, November 12, 18:00 – 19:30
Place: Room E22 Faculty of Education （総合教育研究棟(教育系) E22号室
Description:
English is being introduced globally to children at increasingly lower ages in state and private schools. Recent research has identified a number of key challenges that teachers face in the young learner classroom as a result of these new policy directives (Copland et al. 2014). This presentation will introduce 6 of these challenges and, drawing on chapters from The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners (Garton and Copland, 2018), it will suggest some tentative solutions.
Biography:
Fiona Copland is Professor of TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where she is also Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She has taught English in Nigeria, Hong Kong, Japan and the UK, and has worked as ateacher trainer in Japan and the UK. She has been Programme Director of a number of master’s programmes in TESOL and supervises PhD students in a range of areas. Dr. Copland has researched and published in the areas of teacher education, teaching English to young learners, native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) and linguistic ethnography.
Please direct inquiries to (問い合わせ先)：James Hall (jhall@iwate-u.ac.jp)
Anyone can attend, but it would be appreciated if you would inform James beforehand.
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