June 6th, 2015
2nd Conference on
Critical, Constructive assessment of the CEFR
at Tokai University, Takanawa Campus (near Tokyo, Shinagawa)
http://www.u-tokai.ac.jp/about/campus/takanawa/
Room 4201: Building no. 4, Second floor
Conference chair: Naoyuki Naganuma and Maria Gabriela Schmidt
Keynote speaker: Yukio Tono "CEFR-J"
Program
10:00-10:30 Opening: Introduction of the Kaken Project
10:30-11:30 Keynote speaker
11:30-12:30 Discussion panel including Prof. Tono, and CriConCef members:
Progression of CEFR-based teaching and learning in Japan
Prof. Yukio TONO (CEFR-J, TUFS)
From CAN-DO to Classroom:
How to pedagogically contextualize the CEFR-J
Yukio Tono leads the research group of the CEFR-J, and is based at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). This talk will introduce the CEFR-J, and go on to discuss several related topcis including corpus-based reference level descriptions, the alignment of English textbooks to CEFR-J descriptors, the annotation of NHK English database using the CEFR-J, and the use of the CEFR-J at TUFS.
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13:30-15:40 Workshops
13:30-14:30 <Workshop 1> ‘The CEFR-J in Practice’
Resources handout here
Jack Bower & Yukio Tono
14:40-15:40 <Workshop 2> ‘CEFR(-J) Resources'
Naoyuki Naganuma, Fergus O'Dwyer & Yukio Tono
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16:00 – 17:00 Presentations, with Discussion:
CEFR-based implementation in the classroom
(15 minutes each with 10 minutes discussion)
This conference is entirely FREE of charge.
If you have any questions, please contact the conference chair:
Maria Gabriela Schmidt <flpsig[_@_]gmail.com> replace [_@_] by simple @
This conference is funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (project no.26370624)
from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
In cooperation with JALT Tokyo, West Tokyo, and Yokohama Chapters & JALT CUE SIG.
(Updated May 24th, 2015 MGS)