Issue #75 April 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 75th Issue celebrating 75 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 #75 The year 2010 commemorates the 20th anniversary of our Global Issues in Language Education Newsletter. This edition marks our 75th issue in print. To mark this, we’d like to pay tribute to the many teachers in Japan and worldwide who have contributed to our newsletter and helped to promote global education in the field of language teaching. Our feature articles this issue include (1) a description by Robert Taferner of a thematic EFL course designed around Nobel prize winners, (2) a report by Nuria Villalobos and Olga Chaves on an EFL program in Costa Rica which engages students in social justice projects, and (3) a description of an English peace education course for Japanese students by Jennifer Yphantides. This issue also includes teaching ideas for the World Cup in South Africa, a report on TESOL 2010 plus lots of global education news, ideas and information. ♦ REMINDER: After 20 years as a paper-only newsletter, we’re now offering electronic subscriptions by e-mail. Let us know if you’d like this eco-friendly option! Special features this issue: * Abstracts of articles on global themes from language teaching journals 4 * Conference Report: Global Issues at TESOL 2010 (Boston, USA) 6 - 9 * Nobelity for the Classroom by Robert Taferner 10 - 13 * Social Justice Projects: Think, Share, Act by N. Villalobos & O. Chaves 14 – 16 * Designing an EFL Peace Education Course by Jennifer Yphantides 17 – 18 * Special Feature: Teaching about the 2010 World Cup in South Africa 19 * Book Profiles: Reference books about Soccer and the World Cup 21 Global Issues in Language Education 1 Printed entirely on recycled paper. A N N O U N C E M E N T S Language Education Events Global Education Events . English as a Lingua Franca (ELF 3) . Censorship in English Speaking Countries May 22 - 25, 2010 Univ. Vienna (Switzerland) May 27 - 28, 2010 Rennes (France) Website: http://elfconference.univie.ac.at/ www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/ace/Bienvenue.html . Broadcasting / Narrowcasting: Global English . Cultural Communication, Multicultural Ed. June 28-30, 2010 FEELTA (Khabarovsk Russia) May 27 - 29, 2010 Bekescsaba (Hungary) st Proposals: Feb. 1 <http://feelta.wl.dvgu.ru> Website: <www.eduscience.hu/3rd.html> . Foreign Languages and Cultures at School . International Peace Research Association July 1 - 2, 2010 Nitra (Slovak Republic) July 6 - 10, 2010 IPRA Sydney (Australia) Website: <www.klis.pf.ukf.sk/en/> Website: <www.iprasydney2010.org> . Awareness: Language, Culture, Literacy . ACR: Association for Conflict Resolution July 25 – 28, 2010 Kassell (Germany) Sept. 1 - 4, 2010 Chicago, Illinois (USA) Website: www.uni-kassel.de/go/ala2010 National conference <www.acrnet.org> . Asia TEFL: English as a Global Language . NAAEE Environmental Education Conference August 6 - 8, 2010 Hanoi (Vietnam) September 29 – October 2, 2010 Buffalo (US) st Proposals: March 1 <www.asiatefl.org> Proposals: February 1, 2010 <www.naaee.org> . Tomorrow’s Learners, Tomorrow’s Teachers . Intercultural Learning for a Global World Sept. 7 - 9, 2010 JACET (Miyagi, Japan) Oct. 17, 2010 (JII, Tokyo) Proposals: July 30 th www.japanintercultural.org/conference2008.aspx Proposal deadline: Feb 13 <www.jacet.org> . National Forum on Character Education . International Gender and Language (Igala 6) October 28-30, 2010 (San Francisco, USA) Sept. 18 – 20, 2010 Tokyo (Japan) Website: <www.character.org> Proposals: Feb 14 http://orc.tsuda.ac.jp/IGALA/ . First Conference on ELT in the Islamic World . Uniting Cultures through Education Fall 2010 Tehran (Iran) Proposals: Feb 6, 2010 Dec. 1 - 3, 2010 (Rome) Proposals: May 21 Website: www.ili.ir/e.prof.htm Website: <http://theworldwideforum.org> JALT Pan-SIG 2010 Conference: Learner Perspectives May 22 - 23, 2010 at Osaka Gakuin University <www.pansig.org/2010/> This year’s JALT Pan-SIG conference will be held May 22 - 23 at Osaka Gakuin University on the theme Learner Perspectives. This 2-day event is sponsored by 2 chapters and 12 Special Interest Groups of the Japan Association for Language Teaching. JALT’s Global Issues SIG will run its own strand of sessions including a plenary talk, workshops and posters. All interested teachers are invited to attend. For details, see the Pan-SIG website. Join us for a dynamic weekend of global education people, ideas and activities! <> Day 1: May 22 (Saturday) . Registration: 9:00 - 9:55 am . Sessions: 10 am – 6 pm <> Day 2: May 23 (Sunday) . Registration: 9:30– 10:25 am . Sessions: 10:30 am – 4 pm Plenary speakers: . May 22 (Sat) Kip Cates: Teaching for a Better World . May 23 (Sun) Mary Noguchi: ESP Bilingualism / Larry Davies: Learning Networks Global issue presentations: . Students’ perceptions of global citizenship . Student/teacher beliefs about peace education . Deliberative polls in the EFL classroom . Looking at the Amish: Japanese students’ views . How global issues make EFL lessons compulsive . English through international volunteer work . Teaching about natural resource exploitation . Japan’s diverse multicultural populations . Education for Sustainable Development . Content teaching: The geopolitics of oil . Global education EFL projects about Okinawa Global Issues in Language Education 2 Newsletter Issue #75 April 2010 JALT GLOBAL ISSUES SIG OFFICERS FOR 2010 Here are our 2010 officers for the Global Issues in Language Education Special Interest Group (GILE SIG) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT). Please get in touch with us! ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS REGIONAL OFFICERS PROJECT OFFICERS SIG Chair & Newsletter Editor: Hokkaido: Tim Grose (at left) SIG Programs: Kip Cates Tohoku: Open Naoko Harada Tottori Univ., 4-101 Minami, Kanto: Mark Shrosbree Japan Women’s University Koyama, Tottori City 680-8551 Affiliated Sr. High School Tokai Univ (Shonan Campus) <[email protected]> <[email protected]> 1117 Kita-Kaname, Hiratsuka SIG Treasurer: Kanagawa 259-1292 SIG Publications: [email protected] Jane Nakagawa (at left) Chris Bradley 2-9-1-402 Manabino Nagayo Chubu: Jane Nakagawa SIG Publicity: Nishisonogi Nagasaki 851-2130 Aichi Univ. of Education, John Spiri <[email protected]> 1 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho, Tokyo University of Kariya-shi, Aichi 448-8542 Agriculture & Technology JOIN OUR GILE SIG TEAM [email protected] <[email protected]> Wanted: . Chugoku Rep Kansai: Michael Skelton (Seiwa SIG Japanese Liaison: . Tohoku Rep . Other regions College) [email protected] Masataka Kasai . project & website assistants & Matthew Walsh (Ikeda HS) Kansai Gaidai University [email protected] SIG Membership: <[email protected]> Chugoku: Open Tim Grose SIG Website: Sapporo Gakuin University Kyushu: Greg Goodmacher Albie Sharpe (Webmaster) 11 Bunkyodai, Ebetsu-shi Oita Pref College, Uenogaoka <[email protected]> Hokkaido 069-8555 -higashi, 1-11 Oita 870-0877 Brian Teaman (Support) <[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! Directory of Book Donation Organizations Browse their new website for a listing of projects HOW CAN I MINIMIZE MY which donate books to developing countries. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT? Sabre Foundation, 872 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02139, USA How to Save Paper in School Website (updated): <www.sabre.org> www.wikihow.com/Save-Paper-in-School i EARN Egypt Book Request How Teachers Can Save Paper: www.ehow. Egyptian English teachers request used EFL com/how_5781312_save-paper-teacher.html resource books and texts be sent to them at: iEarn Egypt, Building 4, 97 Cornish El Nile, 6th WWF Site on Saving Paper: www.panda.org/ Floor, Suite 603, Rod El Farag, Cairo, Egypt how_you_can_help/greenliving/at_home/save_paper/ <www.iearnegypt.org> <[email protected]> Vietnam Book Donation Project Zero Garbage (in Japanese) Reduce Donate materials to teachers in Vietnam! Pay http://3r-forum.jp/ Re-use your own shipping costs. Send to Tran van Phuoc How to Become a Green School Hue University (Foreign Lgs.), 27 Phan Dinh Recycle www.greenschools.net/ Phung, Hue, Vietnam <[email protected]> Global Issues in Language Education 3 Newsletter Issue #75 April 2010 GLOBAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING JOURNALS Abstracts of articles on global themes from language teaching journals. Writing for the World: Wikipedia as an EFL Teacher Training in Palestine Introduction to Academic Writing The non-profit organization Amideast will hold an by Christine M. Tardy (DePaul University, USA) English teacher training program this summer for 180 The author describes a project in which students Palestinian EFL teachers from Gaza and the West Bank. practiced academic writing through producing English The program aims to upgrade language and teaching articles for the website Wikipedia. The project taught skills for Palestinian primary school teachers. English is research skills and critical thinking, and allowed already taught in schools as a second language to most students to write on topics from their own countries students in Palestine. and cultures for a global audience. “EFL Training Drive in Palestine” EL Gazette #363 English Teaching Forum Vol. 48/1 2010 USA April 2010 UK www.elgazette.com http://englishprograms.state.gov/forum/ Foreign Student Tasered in Oregon North Korea Switching to English A Chinese student in Oregon was shot by police with a According to the BBC, North Korea is shifting the Taser stun gun as a result of a lack of language skills.