ELT Calendar

Saturday, April 21st, 2001

Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Organization: Akita Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: English instruction is about to become an option for the new "Period for Integrated Studies" in the Japanese public schools. Monbusho has published a "Handbook for Elementary School English Teaching Activities," to provide support to teachers.

My Share: Lesson Ideas That Will Keep You Awake at Night
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Scott Gardner, sngard@mx1.tiki.ne.jp
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: EUREKA! Closet Archimedeans! Surely something you've taught has worked! Why not share your intimate classroom discoveries with other teachers? Come out to the swap meet, give it all away, and go home with a fistful of equally superb ideas dreamed up by your friends and colleagues.

Voices From the Classroom
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Takaki Nobuyuki of Kumamoto University and the PIGATE Action Research Group
Organization: Kumamoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Short description: This meeting is in three parts. The highlight of the first hour of this teacher education extravaganza will be a talk entitled, "Inverting ESP," by Joseph Tomei, of Kumamoto Gakuen University.

Stop Making Sentences!
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Michael Guest, Miyazaki Medical College
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: It has often been said that there is no such thing as a sentence in speech. Yet teachers and classroom texts still place an inordinate amount of focus on using sentences to teach spoken English.