26th Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Conference

Saturday, April 7, 2012
Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies

University of Hawai'i Manoa

In partnership with the Confucius Institute
and the Hawai‘i Department of Education

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Fee includes coffee service and admission to all presentations & publishers’ exhibit.

NOTE: If you are registering via mail and especially if you wish to order lunch, please do so NO LATER THAN MARCH 24, 2012. After that, we will only be handling registration onsite, and lunch tickets may only be available to a limited extent at the conference.

Click here for registration form (form-fillable PDF)

DOE Teachers: The DOE will be paying for travel (up to 15 teachers) and registration for the first 40 teachers, pending approval. Please watch for the DOE memo on Lotus Notes Memos and Notices next week.

Click here for DOE registration form

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

HALT is very pleased to welcome . . .

Yo Azama (2012 National Language Teacher of the Year)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

7:45 – 8:15                        Registration
8:15 – 9:00                        Keynote address
9:05 – 9:50                        Concurrent sessions I
9:55 –10:40                       Concurrent sessions II
10:40 – 11:00                     Break / Exhibitor prime time
11:00 – 11:45                     Concurrent sessions III
11:50 – 12:35                     Concurrent sessions IV
12:40 – 1:30                       HALT awards luncheon
1:30 – 2:30                        Afternoon workshops/roundtables

PARKING

The Dole Street Parking Structure (Zone 22) next to the UH Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies will be open and selling parking passes ($6 flat rate) from 6:30 am on. Street parking may also be available along Dole Street.

Map (look at the bottom of the page): http://www.hawaii.edu/parking/resources/MapFiles/visitorparkingmap.pdf

The 25th Annual HALT Conference

Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT)
25th Annual HALT Conference
Saturday, March 5, 2011
8:30 am-3:00 pm (full-day)
Imin International Conference Center
(UH Manoa campus, across from Kennedy Theatre)

In partnership with the Confucius Institute
and the Hawai'i Department of Education

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Krashen

NEW! Tentative Program Schedule Grid (Click Here)

View Dr. Krashen's Keynote Presentation here

Keynote Speaker:
Stephen Krashen is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, who moved from the linguistics department to the faculty of the School of Education in 1994. He is a linguist and educational researcher. Dr. Krashen has published more than 350 papers and books, contributing to the fields of second language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He is credited with introducing various influential concepts and terms in the study of second language acquisition, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis. He as actively defended whole language and bilingual education. Most recently, Dr. Krashen promotes the use of free voluntary reading during second language acquisition, which he says "is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second."

Last Year's
2010 Conference:

Keynote Speaker: Christine Lanphere,
ACTFL National Language Teacher of 2007
Natomas (CA) High School French teacher

"Striving to Do Our Best as Language Educators in Challenging Times"

See conference photos at: http://www.kshinagawa.com/haltphoto/

Questions? Contact: Lynette Fujimori, Conference Chair
fujimoril@hawaii.rr.com