ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 6th, 2002

Salt Lake City
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Paul Rawlins, Brigham Young University
Organization: Yamagata Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture
Short description: Rawlins will discuss Salt Lake City in terms of history, religion, culture, education, language, etc. , tying in the concept of English as a means of global communication.

Exploring Varieties of English in the Foreign Language Classroom
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Kathleen Yamane, Eichi (Sapientia) University
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: Following a general discussion of variation in language, participants will work through group activities to identify the linguistic features of Southern American dialect, Black English vernacular and other varieties of English from short video clips and recordings.

Bilingualism and Bunko
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Frances Causer
Organization: Kagoshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: The presentation will be on bunko, and their effectiveness as a site for bilingual development. Bunko are bilingual groups whose members are returnees, expatriate children and the offspring of international marriages.

Current Controversies and Some Conjectures
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This seminar by Stephen Krashen will briefly cover the (overwhelming) evidence for the input (or "comprehension" hypotheses) as well as the lack of evidence supporting its two major rivals: the skill building hypothesis and the comprehensible output hypothesis.