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Issue #77 October 2010 Tottori, Japan Newsletter of the "Global Issues in Language Education" Special Interest Group (GILE SIG) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) GLOBAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION NEWSLETTER 77th Issue celebrating 77 issues and 20 years in print since 1990 Kip A. Cates, Tottori University, Koyama, Tottori City, JAPAN 680-8551 E-mail: [email protected] Work Tel/Fax: 0857-31-5148 Website: www.gilesig.org Check out back issues on our homepage! NEWSLETTER #77 Here’s the fall edition of our Global Issues Newsletter! This year marks our 20th year in print. Check out our two decades of back issues on our website. This issue features (1) a report by Hitomi Sakamoto about a peace education unit on Okinawa, (2) a description by Thomas Lockley of teaching materials he designed about “children around the world” and (3) an article by Warren Decker on international volunteer work for EFL students. We also include a report on this spring’s UK IATEFL conference plus a preview of JALT 2010. GILE is co-sponsoring a Japan lecture tour by Middle East peace activist, Anna Baltzer. Catch her talk at JALT or in your area and support her work by buying her book and DVD. ♦ INVITATION: After 20 years as a paper newsletter, we’re now offering electronic subscriptions by e-mail. Please let us know if you’d like to try this eco-friendly option! Special features this issue: * Abstracts of articles on global themes from language teaching journals 4 * Conference Report: Global Issues at IATEFL 2010 (Harrogate, England) 5 - 8 * Conference Preview: Global Issues at JALT 2010 (Nagoya, Japan) 9 – 10 * Witness in Palestine: Anna Baltzer Japan Lecture Tour (Nov. 12 - 22) 11 * Project-based Learning: Teaching about Okinawa by Hitomi Sakamoto 12 – 13 * Teaching about Children Around the World by Thomas Lockley 14 – 16 * Foreign Languages through International Volunteering by Warren Decker 17 – 19 * Language textbooks on global education themes 21 * Global issue calendars and datebooks for the year 2011 22 Global Issues in Language Education 1 Printed entirely on recycled paper. A N N O U N C E M E N T S National Japan Lecture Tour Global Education Events ANNA BALTZER US author, educator and peace activist . Uniting Cultures through Education Anna Baltzer, award-winning author and human Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture rights activist, will do a Japan lecture tour on the Dec. 1 - 3, 2010 Rome (Italy) dates below. Catch her sessions at JALT 2010, take Website: <http://theworldwideforum.org> your students to her talks, get her DVD or buy her book Witness in Palestine. Details pg 11. Internationalization or Globalization? Asian Conference on Education 2010 Nov. 12 (Fri) Tokyo Nov. 16 (Tue) Kyoto Nov. 13 (Sat) Tokyo Nov. 18 (Thu) Hiroshima Dec. 2 - 5, 2010 Osaka (Japan) Nov. 14 (Sun) Gunma Nov. 20 (Sat) JALT 2010 Website: <http://ace.iafor.org/> . Leadership for a Sustainable World Bioregionalism and Global Ethics The European “Learning Teacher Network” by Richard Evanoff (2011) Routledge January 27 - 29, 2011 Berlin (Germany) Website: <www.learningteacher.eu> GILE member Richard Evanoff has just published his new book Bioregionalism and Global Ethics: . Crossing Borders: Traveling, Teaching and Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, Learning in a Global Age and Human Well-being. Order this on-line from April 16 - 17, 2011 Nanjing (China) Routledge Press or from <www.amazon.com>. http://crossingborders2011conference.weebly.com Peace as a Global Language Conference (PGL) December 4- 5, 2010 <www.pgljapan.org> International Christian University, Mitaka Campus, Tokyo, Japan This year’s PGL Conference will be held December 4 - 5 at International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo on the theme “The 3 R’s: Resist Business as Usual, Reclaim Space for Peace, Revolutionize Public Consciousness”. This unique weekend event will bring together peace activists, peace educators and language teachers to discuss the contributions that we can make to break free of the military-industrial- academic-complex. It will focus on critical pedagogy and on strategies to counter corporate culture on campus through the promotion of peace in classrooms via EFL and content courses. If you’re interested in defending freedom of expression while advancing the cause of peace, then PGL2010 is for you! CONFERENCE TOPICS FEES & ACCESS . academia and the military . peace studies . war crimes . Fees: 6,000 yen for both days . the corporate media and war . human rights . race & gender (includes refreshments & buffet) . people power . propaganda media literacy lg teaching Access: bus from Mitaka station Wanted for Peace Boat Green Teacher Magazine Youth for Human Rights www.peaceboat.org/english/ <www.youthforhumanrights.org> < www.greenteacher.com > English teachers, interpreters and Youth for Human Rights (YHR) Green Teacher is a dynamic volunteers are needed for Peace has produced a powerful set of 30 environmental education website Boat’s 73rd round-the- world short public service TV ads to and magazine which offers cruise (April 24–July 12). promote human rights. See these exciting teaching ideas, activities Applications on their website. on-line (try Video #29) or order and resources to help promote Deadline to apply: Jan. 7, 2011. the DVD for classroom teaching. global awareness at your school. Global Issues in Language Education 2 Newsletter Issue #77 October 2010 JALT GLOBAL ISSUES SIG OFFICERS FOR 2010 Here are the 2010 officers for our Global Issues in Language Education Special Interest Group (GILE SIG) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT). Let us know if you want to join the team! ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS REGIONAL OFFICERS PROJECT OFFICERS SIG Chair & Newsletter Editor: Hokkaido: Tim Grose (at left) SIG Programs: Kip Cates Tohoku: Open Naoko Harada Japan Tottori Univ., 4-101 Minami, Kanto: Mark Shrosbree Women’s Univ. High School Koyama, Tottori City 680-8551 <[email protected]> Tokai Univ (Shonan Campus) <[email protected]> 1117 Kita-Kaname, Hiratsuka SIG Publications: Kanagawa 259-1292 Jane Nakagawa (at left) SIG Treasurer: [email protected] Chris Bradley SIG Publicity: 2-9-1-402 Manabino Nagayo Chubu: Jane Nakagawa John Spiri Tokyo Univ. Nishisonogi Nagasaki 851-2130 Aichi Univ. of Education, of Agriculture & Technology <[email protected]> 1 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho, <[email protected]> Kariya-shi, Aichi 448-8542 SIG Japanese Liaison: JOIN OUR GILE SIG TEAM [email protected] Masataka Kasai Wanted: . Chugoku Rep Kansai: Michael Skelton (Seiwa Kansai Gaidai University . Tohoku Rep . Other regions College) [email protected] <[email protected]> . project & website assistants & Matthew Walsh (Ikeda HS) SIG Website and Links: [email protected] SIG Membership: Albie Sharpe (Webmaster) Chugoku: Open Tim Grose <[email protected]> Sapporo Gakuin University Kyushu: Jack Brajcich Brian Teaman (Support) 11 Bunkyodai, Ebetsu-shi Fukuoka Jogakuin Jr College <[email protected]> Hokkaido 069-8555 Fukuoka-shi 811-1313 Jack Brajcich (Facebook) <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> "Book Aid" South Africa Library Project WHERE CAN I DONATE USED Help poor South African kids! Check first to see LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS? what's needed. They'll mail to South Africa. Chikako Noda (Japan) <[email protected]> Don't throw away old textbooks, journals, dictionaries Website: <www.taaa.jp/english.html> or cassette tapes. Recycle them! IUJ Book Donations to Africa from Japan HOW CAN I MINIMIZE MY International University of Japan has donated 800 books to Tanzania for its “Kilimanjaro ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT? Friendship Program”. Check this out at: www. iuj.ac.jp/news/index_news.cfm?NewsID=0760 How to Save Paper in School www.wikihow.com/Save-Paper-in-School Directory of Book Donation Organizations Browse their new website for a listing of projects How Teachers Can Save Paper: www.ehow. which donate books to developing countries. com/how_5781312_save-paper-teacher.html Sabre Foundation, 872 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02139, USA WWF Site on Saving Paper: www.panda.org/ Website (updated): <www.sabre.org> how_you_can_help/greenliving/at_home/save_paper/ Vietnam Book Donation Project Zero Garbage (in Japanese) Donate materials to teachers in Vietnam! Pay R edu ce http://3r-forum.jp/ your own shipping costs. Send to Tran van Phuoc Re-use Hue University (Foreign Lgs.), 27 Phan Dinh Recycle How to Become a Green School Phung, Hue, Vietnam <[email protected]> www.greenschools.net/ Global Issues in Language Education 3 Newsletter Issue #77 October 2010 GLOBAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING JOURNALS Abstracts of articles on global themes from language teaching journals. Dearest Beloved One, I Need Your Assistance EFL Charity Drive through India - The rhetoric of spam mail - Patrick Murphy, director of the Bury Language School by Aysha Vishwamohan <[email protected]> (BLS), is making a 2-week cross-country drive across Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India India to raise money for charity and celebrate his This article analyzes the discourse strategies of spam school’s 15th anniversary. He aims to raise 15,000 e-mails in which an unknown sender pleads for pounds to support Adventure Ashram (a campaign to kindness, charity or help, claims to be a rich widow or alleviate poverty in India). His 2,000 km. drive is bank manager, describes a large amount of cash being held as part of the Global Enduro series of available overseas and promises monetary gain in charity car rallies held each year around the globe. See recompense for financial aid. It analyzes the dramatic his blog at <www.burylanguageschool.co.uk> devices and types of persuasion in these e-mails (appeals to greed, sense of urgency, flattery, “Murphy packs his trunk for India trip” in EL Gazette emotional language, assumed intimacy, secrecy…). #369 Oct. 2010, UK. www.elgazette.com ELT Journal Vol. 64/1 January 2010 <http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/> Palestinian Kids Perform EFL Play in UK Palestinian children from the Shatila refugee camp in Teachable Moment: Liu Xiaobo Lebanon are using their EFL skills on an English drama tour in the UK.