Yomiuri, McGraw-Hill to hold education seminars

Two Japanese experts on English education will present lectures in Japanese at English education seminars that The Daily Yomiuri is to cohost with the McGraw-Hill Co. in Osaka and Tokyo in October.

The two lecturers are Yuji Ushiro, an associate professor at Tsukuba University, and Shinichiro Torikai, a professor at Rikkyo University.

Ushiro, a member of an action plan committee for the Education, Science and Technology Ministry and a supervisor of the curriculums of several teacher training programs and Super English Language High Schools (SELHi), will talk on the theme of "Strategies for Communicative Reading: From Soup to Nuts." Using Reading Activator, he will demonstrate how to practice and apply various reading strategies and skills.

Torikai, who also is director of the Rikkyo Institute of English Language Education and a presenter of NHK English I, an NHK English TV program for high school students, will talk on the theme of "Innovation in the college English curriculum." He will talk about how Rikkyo University has been innovating in the English curriculum for the past 10 years and discuss some new challenges it is currently confronting.

The seminar targets teachers of English at high school to university level. It will be held at The Yomiuri Shimbun offices in Osaka on Oct. 28 and in Otemachi, Tokyo, on Oct. 29, both from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission is free but registration is required at mhejpn@mcgraw-hill.co.jp.
For more information, call (03) 5298-7221.
(Sep. 15, 2006)

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