ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 25th, 2002

Teaching English to Children, Certificate Course (day 6 of 6)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul, author of Finding Out, Communicate, and more.
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: See day 1 of the 6-day course for details. This course is also offered during August.

On-line Drills for Learning and Teaching
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Kobayashi Etsuo
Organization: West Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This is a workshop where participants will learn how to make on-line drills on the Internet and how to use them in their classes. A newly developed on-line system called WebASC (Web-based Automatic Shiken Creator) by Kobayashi's research team at Rikkyo University and Mie University will be used to create Web tests and drills.

Social Aspects of Communication and Their Relationship to Teaching English as a Second Language
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: R. Jeffrey Ringer, Ph.D.
Organization: Akita Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture
Short description: Most people think of communication as the transfer of information from one person to another. But communication is also a social process in that it is through language and talk that humans relate to each other.

Applying the Uniqueness Principle in Language Classrooms: Tools & Tasks
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Bill Pellowe, Kinki University Kyushu Campus
Organization: Miyazaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture
Short description: Research shows that learners often misunderstand or resist multiple functions for single forms (such as present and future meanings of the present continuous).

Integrating Tasks into the Foreign Language Classroom
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: David Beglar
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Please note the earlier starting time this month. Of all the approaches to teaching foreign languages, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has received the most support from the second-language research community for almost a decade.