ELT Calendar

Sunday, October 27th, 2002

Tokyo English Language Book Fair 2002 (Day 2 of 2)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Over 60 presentations
Organization: Tokyo English Language Book Fair
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The Association of ELT Publishers presents the 23rd Tokyo English Language Book Fair. Choose from over 60 ELT presentations on new materials, teaching methods, and trends in ELT by prominent authors, editors and ELT consultants (such as David Paul, Alasatir Graham-Marr, Bill Gatton, Marc Helgesen, and more).

Centering the teaching-learning process on students
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Speaker: Sachiko Ueda, Miho Junior High School
Organization: ETJ Odawara (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: ETJ (English Teachers in Japan) Group Meetings focus on the needs of teachers of children and young learners. Joining ETJ is free.

Pot Luck Party and Workshop in Beautiful Mino Park
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Wade Muncil
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Wade Muncil, an English instructor in the Kansai area, will lead a collaborative workshop on reflective teaching practice, peer mentoring, and using council in the classroom.

Elaborating Dialogue Texts: Elaboration of Texts by Total Group-based Learning
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Hisashi Azuma
Organization: Ibaraki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Short description: The presentation will focus on activities in which students developed their own dialogues from reading and grammatical materials. The presenter will also propose his theory of why and how this learning style contributes to communicative English learning.

Local Presentation (tba)
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Officer of JALT
Organization: Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nishihara City, Okinawa Prefecture
Short description: This program will be helpful to those that are trying to improve their teaching abilities within the Japanese context. .

Language Learning - A Mission of Discovery
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Margaret Yamanaka
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: This presentation will deal with the first part of a course which Yamanaka is now teaching. The purpose of the course is for students to discover, by looking deeply into their own experiences, how and why people learn a language, so that they may take more responsibility for their own language learning.

A Comparison of the Roles of Two Teachers in a Team-Teaching Classroom in Japanese Junior High School
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker: Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: Fujimoto-Adamson's presentation discusses the roles and responsibilities in joint teaching of an English native-speaing ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) and a JTL (Japanese Teacher of Language) in one particular English classroom at a Japanese junior high school.

Developing Visual Literacy in the Language Classroom
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Terry Royce
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: Is there now a need to include visual literacy as one of the aims of learner language development, given the burgeoning visual culture that is appearing in our textbooks and on the Internet? If so, what can we as teachers do to develop our own visual literacy skills so that we can help our students to extract the multiple messages of the new forms of media? For a long time now the image in textbooks has been largely ignored - for example, in many Mombukagakusho reading textbooks, the stories or passages are often presented with both images and writing combined.