Issue #76 July 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 76th Issue celebrating 76 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 #76 The year 2010 commemorates the 20th anniversary of our Global Issues in Language Education Newsletter. Thanks to all those who have contributed over the years. Check out our two decades of back issues on our website! Our special theme for this issue is “Teaching about Apologies and Forgiveness”. This features (1) an analysis by Heidi Nam of how apologies are taught in high school English textbooks in Korea, (2) a description by Darren Lingley of an EFL unit on apologies, critical incidents and cross-cultural communication, and (3) a special section of ideas, quotes and classroom activities for teaching about apologies, forgiveness and reconciliation. Also included are a description of a unique volunteer program for Japanese EFL students in Boston, a report on the 2010 Osaka Pan-SIG Conference plus all the latest global education news and information. ♦ 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 Pan-SIG 2010 (Osaka, Japan) 6 - 7 * Out of the Classroom: Learning through Volunteering by Michelle Smith 8 – 10 * Special Feature: Teaching about Apologies and Forgiveness 11 – 13 * Apology and Forgiveness in Korean EFL School Texts by Heidi Nam 14 – 16 * Global education events: Peace One Day, One World Week, Ramadan 17 * Critical Incidents and Apologies Across Cultures by Darren Lingley 18 – 19 * Profile: Resource Books for Teaching about Apologies and Forgiveness 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 International Cooperation Festival Global Education Events October 2 - 3, 2010 Hibiya Park, Tokyo <www.janic.org> . ACR: Association for Conflict Resolution This year’s Global Festa 2010 will be held on the Sept. 1 - 4, 2010 Chicago, Illinois (USA) weekend of October 2 - 3 in Hibiya Park, Tokyo. National conference <www.acrnet.org> This event is Japan’s largest gathering of NGOs involved with global issues. The 2-day festival . NAAEE Environmental Education Conference features display booths by over 200 groups September 29 – October 2, 2010 Buffalo (US) (Amnesty International, Save the Children, Red Proposals: February 1, 2010 <www.naaee.org> Cross, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, Peace . Intercultural Learning for a Global World Boat…) plus concerts, workshops and ethnic Japan Intercultural Institute (JII) cuisine. Don’t miss it! Bring your students!! Oct. 17, 2010 (Shirayuri College, Tokyo) www.japanintercultural.org/conference2008.aspx National Japan Lecture Tour . National Forum on Character Education November 11 – 22, 2010 October 28-30, 2010 (San Francisco, USA) ANNA BALTZER Website: <www.character.org> US author, educator and peace activist . International Human Rights Education <www.wikipedia.org> November 4 - 6, 2010 Sydney (Australia) Anna Baltzer is a Columbia University graduate, www.humanrightseducationconference2010.com.au/ a former EFL teacher, an ex-Fulbright scholar, a . Uniting Cultures through Education granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an Dec. 1 - 3, 2010 (Rome) award-winning lecturer, writer and activist for Website: <http://theworldwideforum.org> Palestinian human rights. She is the author of Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman . Internationalization or Globalization? in the Occupied Territories and has been actively Asian Conference on Education 2010 working with Palestinian, Israeli and international Dec. 2 - 5, 2010 Osaka (Japan) peace groups to support nonviolent resistance to Website: <http://ace.iafor.org/> the Israeli Occupation. This fall, she will make a . Leadership for a Sustainable World national Japan lecture tour on the following dates. January 27, 2011 Berlin (Germany) Please contact Kip Cates if you’d like to help us Website: <www.learningteacher.eu> organize, support, publicize or fund this event. Crossing Borders: Traveling, Teaching and Nov. 11–12 (Thu-Fri) Kanto area (Tokyo) Learning in a Global Age Nov. 13–14 (Sat-Sun) Gunma April 16 - 17, 2011 Nanjing (China) Nov. 15–16 (Mon-Tue) Kansai (Kyoto/Osaka) Proposal deadline: August 31, 2010 Nov. 17–18 (Wed-Thu) Hiroshima http://crossingborders2011conference.weebly.com Nov. 19–22 (Fri-Mon) Nagoya (JALT 2010) Clean Up The World Teachers Against Prejudice Green Teacher Magazine < www.cleanuptheworld.org > www.teachersagainstprejudice.org < www.greenteacher.com > Clean Up The World is a global Teachers Against Prejudice is a Green Teacher is a dynamic eco-campaign to improve local US-based non-profit association environmental education website communities. This year’s 2010 dedicated to fighting prejudice, and magazine which offers Clean Up the World Weekend will hate and intolerance through exciting teaching ideas, activities be held from Sept. 17-19. Schools education. Check out their list of and resources to help promote and teachers are invited to join. recommended films and books! global awareness at your school. Global Issues in Language Education 2 Newsletter Issue #76 July 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: Jack Brajcich Albie Sharpe (Webmaster) 11 Bunkyodai, Ebetsu-shi Fukuoka Jogakuin Jr College <[email protected]> Hokkaido 069-8555 Fukuoka-shi 811-1313 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 #76 July 2010 GLOBAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING JOURNALS Abstracts of articles on global themes from language teaching journals. A View of ELT in Mae Sot English for Religious Purposes in Egypt by Phil Owen <[email protected]> The world’s oldest university, Al-Azhar in Cairo, has Kunsan University (South Korea) opened an English language center in partner-ship with In this article, the author describes his visits to Mae Sot, the British Council. The program will teach English for Thailand - a town on the Myanmar border with Karen, religious purposes to 380 Islamic theology students. Shan and Burmese refugees and migrant workers. His The EFL center was established by Al-Azhar’s new involvement began after a 2006 visit to Myanmar when rector, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, an Islamic judge who is regarded by opponents as being “too liberal”. he assisted Burmese monks with teaching English. During his two visits to Mae Sot (in 2008 and 2010), he “EFL Fillip for Theology” in EL Gazette #366 visited several schools of bare concrete classrooms with July 2010, UK. www.elgazette.com no doors as well as a better equipped school for migrants run by a Japanese NGO. For English teachers New Hindu Deity: Goddess of English wishing to volunteer, most local NGOs ask for a 3-month commitment. To learn more, he recommends India’s 330 million Hindu gods have been joined by a The Curriculum Project <www.curriculumproject.org>.