ELT Calendar

Saturday, October 20th, 2001

Oxford Kid's Club Tour
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Charles Vilina, Kathy Kampa
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: The focus of this forum is on teaching children's classes. .

Oxford Kid's Club Tour
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Setsuko Toyama
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: The focus of this forum is on teaching children's classes. Setsuko Toyama is the author of English Time (levels 1-6).

Oxford Kid's Club Tour
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Charles Vilina, Kathy Kampa, Setsuko Toyama
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: The focus of this forum is on teaching children's classes. .

Teacher Training Seminar 2001
Time: 10:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Jeremy Harmer, Rod Ellis, Michael Rost, Craig Zettle
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Pre-registration by October 7 is required. 10:45 - 11:15 Registration11:15 - 11:30 Opening Remarks11:30 - 12:30 Harness New Possibilities with Longman English Online!, Craig Zettle12:45 - 1:45: Focussing on Form in Communication Tasks, Dr.

The English Resource Bookfair 2001 (Tokyo) (day 1 of 2)
Time: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Charles LeBeau, David Harrington, Rob Waring, and many more.
Organization: The English Resource
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: ELT materials from over 30 publishers. Presentations and workshops to give you ideas on how the latest texts were designed to be used.

Introducing Public Elementary School English and the Monbusho Handbook
Time: 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Tom Merner, Japan College of Foreign Languages
Organization: Miyazaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Miyazaki City, Miyazaki 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.

Getting Students to Express Themselves
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Alastair Lamond, Thomson Learning
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Learning a language provides special challenges for all students. This presentation shows how to use the learner-centered task-based approach to encourage active communication, getting students to learn by doing.

Affective Factors in the Language Classroom
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Randall Pennington
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Pennington will examine and discuss the degree to which Japanese students' affective filters affect their ability to learn English from native speaker teachers.