ELT Calendar

Wednesday, November 27th, 2002

Opportunities for learning L2 pragmatics: The Roles of Input and Interaction & Individual Differences in Learning L2 Pragmatics
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawaii Manoa
Organization: Kansai University
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Opportunities for learning L2 pragmatics: The roles of input and interaction. In order to learn a second or foreign language, learners need access to target language input.

EFL: Defining the Subject
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna
Organization: The British Council Tokyo Centre
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Henry Widdowson is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Professor Widdowson sits on the Board of Management of the ELT Journal and, among other projects, he is the general editor of the Oxford Introductions to Language Study, designed to provide brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study, such as Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Testing, and Language and Culture.