This document provides an agenda for the 2012 Meisei University ISC Professional Development Forum on November 17th. The forum will take place at the International Studies Centre Building 23 and include various sessions from 9:30am to 2:45pm on topics such as using SMS and Twitter to promote vocabulary, iPad applications to encourage student thinking and discussion, techniques for teaching vocabulary and getting students speaking, and motivating students for independent study. Presentations will occur concurrently in two classrooms and be followed by a coffee break and concluding remarks.

1. 2012
Meisei
University
ISC
Professional
Development
Forum,
Saturday
November
17th
International
Studies
Centre,
Building
23,
4th
Floor
9.30am-­‐
10.00am
Registration
&
Coffee-­‐
Building
23,
4th
Floor
Session
CALL
Room-­‐
23-­‐403
Classroom
23-­‐402
Times
Welcome
from
Dean
Hiro
Tanaka,
10.00-­‐
10.05
International
Studies
Department
10.05-­‐10.35
Martin
Mullen:
SMS
and
Twitter
to
promote
vocabulary
awareness
Chris
Fitzgerald:
iPad
applications
that
get
students
thinking
and
talking
10.40-­‐
11.10
Andy
Boon:
Getting
students
speaking
Patrick
Foss:
Vocabulary-­‐learning
techniques
and
activities
for
college
11.15-­‐
11.45
students
Katherine
Thornton:
Examining
perceptions
of
purpose
&
role
among
Paul
Crook:
A
preliminary
investigation
into
the
extended
reading/graded
11.50-­‐
12.20
teachers
&
learners
using
a
conversation
practice
service:
implications
reader
component
of
a
university-­‐level
learner
autonomy
course
for
stakeholders
12.20-­‐1.00
*COFFEE
Refreshments
in
the
4th
Floor
Language
Lounge
BREAK*
1.00-­‐1.30
Sucharat
Rimkeeratikul:
From
practice
to
research,
and
vice
versa
Keisuke
Sakamoto:
Power
relations
between
students
in
a
classroom
1.35-­‐2.05
Alastair
Lamond:
The
mechanics
of
writing
a
graded
reader
Dora
Takacs:
Foreign
language
anxiety
and
the
non-­‐native
English
teacher
2.10-­‐2.40
Caroline
Ross:
How
to
motivate
your
students
to
do
630
hours
and
43
Chihoko
Itami:
What
differences
did
I
actually
make?
:
Through
Activity
minutes
of
independent
study
during
summer
vacation
Theory-­‐based
project
2.45-­‐
Concluding
remarks
in
the
4th
Floor
Language
Lounge