ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 23rd, 2002

Oxford Kid's Club Spring Tour
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:15 PM
Speaker: Ritsuko Nakata, Carolyn Graham
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Featuring lively, interactive presentations full of ideas and activities for teaching children, by Ritsuko Nakata, author of Oxford's Let's Go series, and Carolyn Graham, author of Oxford's Jazz Chants series.

9th Annual IBC Conference on Communication and Culture in the Workplace (day 1 of 2)
Time: 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Ham Cruz, Andy Tope, Diane Vreyens, Gareth Knight, Maurice Jamal, Bill Gatton, many more.
Organization: International Business Communicators
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: See the conference program for full details. International Business Communicators (IBC) is a professional association of corporate language and intercultural communication trainers and program managers in Japan.

What Happened At The Conference
and Activities For First Classes In The New Year
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: various speakers
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: The international PAC3/JALT2001 Conference in Kitakyushu in late November was the first large JALT conference to be held in Kyushu. This spring, we would like to revive an old Nagasaki JALT custom, and ask anyone who attended the conference to simply: Describe one or more presentation - why it was important to you, and how it can be helpful to us.

Round Table Event: Your Share
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Attendees are free to participate
Organization: Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This is the time for you to share your knowledge. If you have any great teaching ideas or techniques, if you have given any great lessons and you want to tell the world about it, then this is your chance to do so! The March meeting will feature tried and tested techniques that will make your language classes go with a bang.

Making Effective Use of Multi Media in Project Work
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Simon Cole
Organization: Nara Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nara City, Nara Prefecture
Short description: This presentation looks at the experience of a multi-media project at a private High School. In the project, students used a reader-response approach to study the lyrics of an English pop-song.

University Entrance Examinations in Japan: What Should They Be in the Future?
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: James Dean Brown, University of Hawaii
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: The purpose of this seminar by James Dean Brown is to explore some of the pros and cons of the university entrance examinations in Japan and to explore some of the potential changes that could be made.