ELT Calendar

Monday, November 19th, 2001

Teaching Speaking: renewing our perspectives through discourse
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Anne Burns, Macquarie University in Australia
Organization: Nagoya and Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Anne Burns, Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Australia and one of the Four Corners' Speakers for JALT 2001, will conduct a workshop which considers some of the implications of a discourse perspective for teaching.

Stimulus Based Teaching
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Tessa Woodward
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Stimulus based teaching is a generative framework which can be applied to any learning/teaching stimulus be it a verb list, a potato, a coursebook or a photo and which saves planning time and gets the most out of any material.