ELT Calendar

Sunday, March 31st, 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: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
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.

Comprehension Checking: Finding Out What Your EFL Students Really Know
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Alan Bossaer, Sapporo Gakuen University
Organization: Toyohashi Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: This presentation deals with the skill of comprehension checking as it relates to the teaching and learning of vocabulary in English. The presentation will focus on some of the problems associated with comprehension checking, but more importantly, provide language teachers with a variety of useful comprehension checking devices they can use each and every day in the EFL classroom.

Vygotsky-Inspired Pedagogical Strategies
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Tim Murphey
Organization: Fukui Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture
Short description: Drawing from Vygotskian socio-cultural theory Murphey will describe and illustrate several ways how students can reveal their mental constructing of linguistic and content material so that others might adjust to them and their Zones of Proximal Development.