Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter May Meeting
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––– Morning Reflective Practice Session –––
Topic: Positive Emotions in the Classroom
Facilitator: Bryan Hale
Time: May 11, 2019; 11:00 - 12:30 (2nd Saturday)
Location: Coffee Lab Mujii, near GNUE. (Ground floor of 광주우리교회 Building. Map at bottom.)
––– MAIN MEETING SCHEDULE –––
Time: 2nd Saturday, May 11, 2019, 1:45ㅡ5:00 pm
Location: Gwangju National University of Education (GNUE), Teacher Training Center (교사교육센터) 1st Floor; Room 812 (Room Change). Detailed directions HERE.
1:45 pm: Sign-in and Meet-and-Greet (Admission: Free for newcomers. Membership welcomed.)
2:00ㅡ2:50 pm: Presentation 1
ㅡ Topic: Metaphor in the Writing Curriculum
ㅡ Presenter: Dr. Joseph Tomei, Kumamoto Gakuen University (Kumamoto, Japan)
2:50ㅡ3:10 pm: Refreshment Break
3:10ㅡ4:00 pm: Presentation 2
ㅡ Topic: Images of Language and Language Learning: Visual Narratives by Korean First-Year German Majors
ㅡ Presenter: Angela Jeannette (Chosun University, Gwangju)
4:10ㅡ4:45 pm: Online Teaching: Ask Me Anything
ㅡ Zon Petilla
4:45 - 5:00 pm: Announcements / Drawing for Door Prizes / Closing
Session Summaries
Metaphor in the Writing Curriculum
Dr. Joseph Tomei
In Cognitive Linguistics, metaphor is argued to underpin human language ability, not only helping us to communicate but organizing thought processes. However, for EFL teaching, metaphor is consigned to classes for advanced learners to "dress up" their English. Rather than treating metaphor as an advanced topic only available to high-level students, learners at any level should be able to use metaphor to develop writing skills and communicative ability. This presentation will outline a 15-week English composition course for Japanese university students based on metaphor. After briefly reviewing metaphor research, the presentation demonstrates some simple yet effective metaphor-based classroom activities.
The Presenter
Dr. Joseph Tomei is a professor in the Faculty of British and American Studies at Kumamoto Gakuen University and is a visiting professor at Daejeon University for the 2019-2020 academic year. He has taught EFL in France, Spain, and Japan at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. In addition to his interest in computer-mediated communication, he also is interested in the application of functional/typological grammar to language teaching, practical activities in the language classroom, and writing instruction, and his recently completed doctorate from the University of Birmingham is on the use of metaphor by EFL writers. For more about Dr. Tomei, visit his homepage. And for some of his research, visit his Academia page.
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Images of Language and Language Learning: Visual Narratives by Korean First-Year German Majors
Angela Jeannette
How learners experience their first contact not only with a new foreign language, but also with the methods associated with teaching and learning it, plays an important role in the development of their attitude towards the target language, their motivation, and their engagement during the learning process. One way of gaining insight into this through "visual narratives," an intuitively appealing method in which students draw their impressions and supplement them with very short explanations.
After discussing the basic layout as well as advantages and disadvantages of this method of qualitative data collection, participants will be presented with the result of one such analysis conducted in 2018 with first-year German majors over the course of two semesters.
Using these data as an example, we will analyze how they perceive their second foreign language and their learning process, identify changes over the course of the first year of studies, and ultimately arrive at suggestions for teaching and counseling practice. Particularities related to learning an L3 (German after English) will also be addressed.
Results from the analysis of the "visual narratives" will be supplemented by additional information gathered from the same group of students through course evaluations and retrospective motivational panels.
The Presenter
Angela Jeannette is currently an assistant professor in the Department of German Language and Culture at Chosun University, Gwangju. Previous positions include both leadership and teaching responsibilities for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Goethe-Institut in Africa, Southeast Asia and East Asia.
She holds a Magister in Linguistics, English, and Scandinavian Languages from Kiel University, Germany, and her research interests include identity and language, learner and teacher (de)motivation, and locally appropriate praxis-related aspects of language teaching methodology.
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Online Teaching
As the popularity of English lessons delivered online increases, so does the number of EFL teachers moving to onling teaching as a full-time job, in addition to others teaching online part-time as a supplementary source of income.
This session will follow the ask-me-anything Q&A format with Zon Petilla answering questions from the group (audience). Zon is presently doing online EFL teaching from his base in Gwangju.
Questions can be emailed in advance to Bryan Hale at bryan.english.teacher@gmail.com
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Photo: The Gwangju National University of Education (GNUE / 광주교육대학교), Teacher Training Center (교사교육센터), venue for our main meeting ㅡ 1st floor, Room 811.
