ELT Calendar

Sunday, October 14th, 2001

Explorations in Learner Autonomy and Development (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Learner Development Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: The Learner Development Special Interest Group (LD SIG) Retreat 2001 is two days of informal, participant-centred, convivial discussions on: fostering learner autonomy and development in practice and in experience raising questions about the problems and pitfalls of learner autonomy reflecting on your own learning and listening to others' language learning challenges and experiences presenting learners' views of language learning and autonomy developing your own research into learner autonomy The retreat will be conducted in English and Japanese.

2001 Korea TESOL International Conference (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Many, including Michael Rundell, Jane Willis, Uschi Felix, David Nunan, Steve Gershon
Organization: Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Location: Seoul City, Seoul (South Korea)
Short description: The theme KOTESOL's 9th International Conference is "The Language Environment: The Classroom and Beyond. " See the KOTESOL Conference web site for complete details.

Study Group meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: IIEEC is a teacher training organization for teachers of young learners. IIEEC emerged in response to the requests by teachers for specific training in how to teach.

LATEM Annual Seminar
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Helene Uchida
Organization: NPO Teaching English Methods Institute
Location: Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture
Short description: LATEM is an annual, nation-wide Intensive Seminar series run by Little America Schools, based in Fukuoka. The school was founded by Helene Jarmol Uchida, a veteran English teacher from New York.

Holiday Fun for Everyone
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Meg Ishida
Organization: Niigata Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture
Short description: This Christmas workshop with a side of Halloween will give you games, songs, stories and decoration ideas you can use with classes of varying ages. Join the fun and learn how you can make a quick and easy Christmas cake with your students.

Basic Reading and Writing Workshop Level 2
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mitsuko Kajiya
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: You can teach Reading and Writing as systematically and effectively as Listening and Speaking using the MAT Method. You will learn new and unique MAT techniques to teach the alphabet, sentences and paragraphs.

Language and Cognitive Science
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Speaker: Dean Williams
Organization: Kobe Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: How did language evolve in the human species? Why do humans have a complex symbolic communication system that other species appear not to possess? What is the neurological correlate of language; how do mere neurons and synapses combine, communicate, and interact to create linguistic meaning? Advances in cognitive science, neurology, paleontology, and neurolinguistics are drawing back the curtain that has veiled the inner workings of the human brain.

Video and Movies in the Classroom
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Vernon Chun, Nagasaki University.
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: The presenter has been using movie videos for the past 10 years in Japanese university classes with as few as 10 students and as many as 350 students.

Teaching Japanese Through Observation, Listening, and Discovering
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Cheena Fujioka
Organization: Himeji Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: This presentation will be on teaching Japanese as a foreign language at secondary schools in the U. S.

Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
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.

Maximizing Learning and Confidence through Monolingual Dictionaries
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Speaker: Brendan Delahunty, Longman Japan ELT
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Short description: It is widely recognized that the effective use of monolingual dictionaries is one of the keys to successful second language learning. In this practical presentation, the presenter will explore the many advantages to using a monolingual dictionary.

Gender and Language Teaching
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Marie Nelson
Organization: Kobe Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: This highly interactive discussion is of how gender interacts with language teaching and language teachers' careers. It is being conducted in conjunction with research done by the National Council of Teacher's of English (USA) and by their commission on gender, which will include a chapter on Japan in a monograph they are publishing.

Pre-JALT Presentations
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: various
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Join us for pre JALT presentations by Hiroshima Chapter members and share your ideas on language teaching issues ranging from children's to university level classes.