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Issue #93 November 2014 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 93rd Issue celebrating 93 issues and 24 years in print since 1990 Kip A. Cates, Tottori University, Koyama, Tottori City, JAPAN 680-8551 E-mail: [email protected] Check out back issues on our homepage! Website: www.gilesig.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/gilesig.org NEWSLETTER #93 Our fall GILE Newsletter for 2014 boasts a rich variety of articles on global themes: (1) a critical look at the “marketization” of language education by GILE webmaster Paul Arenson, (2) a discussion of global education as an approach to teaching young learners by Austin Lantz and (3) an article by Tamatha Roman describing ways to promote language skills and environmental awareness through upcycling. Conference reports look at this summer’s AILA applied linguistics congress in Brisbane and JACET 2014 in Hiroshima. Our special features are: (a) a section on teaching about “walls around the world” with a focus on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, (b) a list of ideas and resources for teaching about the 100th anniversary of the famous 1914 World War I Christmas truce and (c) a list of global issue calendars for the year 2015. ♦ E-SUBSCRIPTIONS: After 20 years as a paper newsletter, we now offer electronic subscriptions by e-mail. Please let us know if you’d like to try this eco-friendly option! * Abstracts of articles on global themes from ELT journals and the media 4 * Conference Report: JACET 2014 Conference (Hiroshima, Japan) 6 – 8 * Conference Report: Global Issues at AILA 2014 (Brisbane, Australia) 9 –10 * Teacher Autonomy in the Language Classroom by Paul Arenson 11 – 13 * The Field of Early Learner Global Education by Austin M. N. Lantz 14 – 16 * Environmental Awareness through Upcycling by Tamatha Roman 17 * Special Feature: Teaching about the Berlin Wall 18 – 19 * Teaching about the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914 20 * Language teaching textbooks on global education themes 22 * Global issue calendars and datebooks for the year 2015 23 Global Issues in Language Education 1 Printed entirely on recycled paper. A N N O U N C E M E N T S Peace as a Global Language Conference (PGL) December 6 - 7, 2014 <http://pgljapan.org> Kobe Gakuin University (Port Island Campus) This year’s PGL Conference will be held on December 6 - 7 at Kobe Gakuin University on the theme of Conflict Management and Peace in the Community. This unique weekend event will bring together peace activists, educators, academics and language teachers to discuss ways that we can work to resolve the conflicts that divide our local and global communities. Come and join this special peace education event! Plenary Speakers Topics Conference Fees & Site Access C. Murigande (Rwandan Ambassador) 20 Years Since the Genocide . Registration 1 day: ¥4,000 Brian DaRin (US Consulate) Conflict Management 2 days: ¥7,000 Akiko Sugiki (Kobe Gakuin Univ.) East African Piracy . Student discounts: ¥500 / ¥1,000 Gerry Yokota (Osaka University) Nelson Mandela . 6 mins. from Minato-jima Station . 2nd Global Higher Education Conference Global Education Events June 6, 2015 Lakeland College (Japan) . Gender, Peace, Education and Development Deadline for applications: January 9, 2015 November 29 – 30, 2014 Bijnor (India) Website: <http://conference.lcjapan.com/> Website: <www.vivekcollege.org> . Education and Development Conference . Int’l Human Rights Education Conference March 5 - 7, 2015 Bangkok (Thailand) December 4-6, 2014 Washington, DC (USA) Deadline for applications: February 10, 2015 http://www.wcl.american.edu/events/ichredu/ Website: <http://www.ed-conference.org> . World Environmental Education Congress . June 29 – July 2, 2015 Gothenburg (Sweden) Canadian School of Peacebuilding Courses June 2015 in Winnipeg [Apply by April 1st] Deadline for proposals: December 19, 2014 <http://csop.cmu.ca/index.php/courses/> http://weec2015.org/thecongress/invitation/ <> Youth Voices and Peace Activism <> Human Rights and Peace JALT Environmental Committee <> Women and Peacebuilding Chair: Brent Simmonds . IIPE Summer Institute of Peace Education <[email protected]> July 26 – Aug 2, 2015 Toledo, Ohio (USA) The Japan Association for Language Teaching has Deadline for applications: April 15, 2015 set up an Environmental Committee to explore how Website: <www.i-i-p-e.org/iipe-2015/> to reduce the environmental impact of JALT and of More global education events are listed at: language teachers in Japan. To learn more or to www.peace-ed-campaign.org/newsletter/ make suggestions, contact Brent Simmonds. GILE SIG Website GILE on Facebook GILE on Twitter www.gilesig.org www.facebook.com/gilesig.org https://twitter.com/gilesigjp Our Global Issues in Language Check out our Global Issues • For updates on global themes, Education Special Interest Group Facebook page for an exciting see our Global Issues Twitter site website offers a wealth of teach- selection of up-to-date news, • Make sure as well to check out ing ideas from back issues of our events, campaigns, resources, The GILE Daily, a dynamic newsletter, thanks to webmaster initiatives and info on global resource for following the issues: Paul Arenson. Check it out! education and global issues. <> http://paper.li/gilesigjp Global Issues in Language Education 2 Newsletter Issue #93 November 2014 JALT GLOBAL ISSUES SIG OFFICERS FOR 2014 Here are the 2014 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 SIG Programs: Kip Cates (contact details at left) Jennie Roloff-Rothman Tottori University Tohoku: Naoko Harada International Christian Univ. Koyama-cho, Tottori City <[email protected]> <knightbus@ <[email protected]> [email protected]> SIG Publications: Kanto: Mark Shrosbree Jane Nakagawa (at left) SIG Treasurer: Anthony Torbert Tokai University, Kanagawa SIG Publicity: Kobe Gakuin University <[email protected]> John Spiri (Gifu Shotoku) Kobe City Chubu: Jane Nakagawa <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Freelance Writer / Educator SIG Japanese Liaison: <[email protected]> SIG Membership Chair: Masataka Kasai Kansai: Michael Skelton Kansai Gaidai University Tim Grose Seiwa College, Nishinomiya <[email protected]> Sapporo City <[email protected]> Hokkaido SIG Website: Chugoku: Tom Fast <[email protected]> Paul Arenson (Webmaster) Okayama Gakugeikan <[email protected]> SIG Member-at-Large: High School, Okayama Chris Bradley <[email protected]> SIG Facebook & Twitter: Okinawa University Kyushu: Jack Brajcich Jack Brajcich Naha, Okinawa Fukuoka Jogakuin Jr College Fukuoka Jogakuin Jr College <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> WHERE CAN I DONATE USED GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS? SCHOOLS AND CLASSES Don't throw away old textbooks, journals, dictionaries or cassette tapes. Recycle them! ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS EFL Books Requested for Teachers in Haiti . How to Save Paper in School EFL teachers in Haiti are still recovering from www.wikihow.com/Save-Paper-in-School the January 2010 earthquake. Send books to: Herve F. Alcindor, Mate-Tesol President . How to Become a Green School www.greenschools.net/ 84 Avenue Jean-Paul II, Turgeau Port-au-Prince, Haiti CLASS OR SCHOOL EVENTS "Book Aid" South Africa Library Project Help poor South African kids! Check first to see . Sponsor a Child Overseas what's needed. They'll mail to South Africa. http://plan-international.org www.plan-japan.org Chikako Noda (Japan) <[email protected]> . Work to End World Hunger (click “take action”) Website: <www.taaa.jp/english.html> http://actfast.oxfamamerica.org/ Vietnam Book Donation Project . Raise Funds to Help Eliminate Landmines Donate materials to teachers in Vietnam! Pay www.icbl.org www.jcbl-ngo.org your own shipping costs. Send to Tran van Phuoc, Hue University (Foreign Lgs.), 27 Phan Dinh . Start a School Human Rights Club Phung, Hue, Vietnam <[email protected]> www.amnesty.ca/youth/get_involved/ Global Issues in Language Education 3 Newsletter Issue #93 November 2014 GLOBAL ISSUES IN LT JOURNALS AND THE MEDIA Abstracts of articles from language teaching journals and news media. Thinking Green: Analyzing EFL Textbooks Recycling Rubbish at Nicaragua School in Light Of Ecological Education Themes A bilingual Spanish-English school in Nicaragua has by Dina Al-Jimal & Wesal Al-Omari found a creative way to expand while helping the (Yarmouk University, Jordan) <[email protected]> environment. According to the Tico Times newspaper, the Ometepe Bilingual School mobilizes its students to This article outlines the aims of environmental collect discarded plastic bottles and fill them with education, highlights the role that EFL can play in rubbish in order to make walls for new classrooms. The raising environmental awareness and describes a school follows the Nicaraguan national curriculum with content analysis of ecological themes found in Year 10 English classes starting in kindergarten. English textbooks from 2012/2013 in Jordan, an Arab nation in the Middle East. According to the authors’ “Rubbish-Filled Bottles Build ELT Classes” EL Gazette research results, 1/3 of the texts promoted ecological #415 August