SILC

A small group of English teachers, college lecturers, interpreters, and public activists established SILC (Sapporo International Language Coordinators) in 2003. We wanted to utilize the skills, knowledge, and experience we had accumulated as individuals to make a difference.

The development of skills and the dissemination of correct and complete information are of prime importance to the members of SILC. We aim to both acquire information from abroad and to send out correct information about to the global community.


SILC は大学の英語講師、通訳者、翻訳者による 市民活動のグループです。それぞれの経験、知識、ネットワークを活かして、社会 貢献を目指しています。海外の情報を収集、紹介し、日本の情報を海外へ発信しています。

Present:
1. STEP Pre-1st grade: Interview test preparation.

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Past:
2. Life review seminar: Terminal care counseling
3. Translating skills and EFL/ESL learning strategies
4. Listening strategies and double-entry journal writing
5. Cognitive thinking skills for life long learning
6. Applied linguistics, communicative grammar approach: David Nunan
7. Simultaneous interpretation - Tsuruta Chikako
8. Hypnosis - C.A. Edington
9. Summer Seminar Series: Is your heart as hot as the sun for different cultures? Maybe this will satisfy your craving! Let’s dive into the pool of cultures, and find out a lot of goodies!!

1. ライフ・レビュー：終末期のカウンセリング
2. 通訳技術と英語学習法
3. フリーライティングとリスニング戦略
4. 生涯学習の為の脳力開発
5. 応用言語学：デヴィッド・ヌーナンのコミュニカティブ・アプローチ
6. 同時通訳の最前線から
7. 異文化サマーセミナー

SILC's Sixth Event

Presentation by Chikako Tsuruta, simultaneous interpreter for NHK and CNN. Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Language Studies. She explained an overview of interpreting and what emphasis was placed on the various skills such as listening, comprehending and expressing.

March 18, 2005

Sponsored by Sapporo International Language Coordinators (SILC), Hokkaido International Communicators Assoc., and Northern Region Center.
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SILC's Fifth Event

David Nunan's Presentations in Sapporo

By David Nunan, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Language Centre at the University of Hong Kong.

1. What is this Thing Called Language?
2. Learning Styles and Strategies
3. Communicative Approaches to Teaching Grammar

August 27 and 28, 2004
Sponsored by Sapporo International Language Coordinators (SILC).
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SILC's Fourth Event

SILC Workshop: Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind

By Harry E. Creagen, Associate Professor of English, Sapporo University

This workshop looked at what thinking is and focused on the brain, thinking skills, and applied thinking skills for English study and life.

July 7, 14, 21, 2004
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SILC's Third Event

Joan's Workshop: Double-Entry Journals

By Joan Saito, BA Microbiology and MA Education

This workshop explained the double-entry journal (dej) writing of the Fluency First Approach. As homework, students read a book, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and wrote dej's. These dej's were sent as electronic files to Joan and grammar mistakes were corrected. The actual classes focused on listening skills and used the textbook, Listen In.

March 3, 10, 17, 2004
Sponsored by Sapporo International Language Coordinators (SILC).
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SILC's Second Event

Norris's English Interpretation Workshop in Sapporo

By Norris Sensei who is from Fukuoka, Kyushu.

This seminar was for 3 different levels of English proficiency, and they focused on developing each participant's interpreting skills.
Norris Sensei emphazised these points in her seminars
1. Improving retention by listening practice
2. Reading while attending to logics
3. Dictation, reproduction, shadowing, and putting Japanese back into English


December 20 - 22, 2003.
Sponsored by Sapporo International Language Coordinators (SILC).
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SILC's First Event

The Life Review Project: A Good Good-bye

By Assistant Professor Daniel Cruikshanks, PhD, Graduate Studies in Counseling, Heidelberg College

This seminar explained Prof. Cruikshanks' Life Review Project which combines video technology and life review therapy to provide people with the opportunity to create a video autobiography to help them find meaning in their dying and to allow them to transmit their life history to the younger generations of their families.

October 1, 2003.
Sponsored by Sapporo International Language Coordinators (SILC).


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