ELT Calendar

Sunday, July 1st, 2001

Teacher Training Course
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: TBA
Organization: Yamaguchi Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Short description: This is the first session of a teacher training course mainly for primary school teachers. .

Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Amid much confusion, concern, and worry, English instruction is about to officially become one of the options for the new "Period for Integrated Studies" in the Japanese public schools.

The Three-Step Auditory Comprehension Approach
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker: Yukio Takefuta, Bunkyo Women's University
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: The Three-Step Auditory Comprehension Approach is a new approach developed while the speaker was at Chiba University, which incorporates learning principles from cognitive and hehaviorist psychology and concepts from the field of information processing.