ELT Calendar

Wednesday, August 27th, 2003

ASIALEX '03 Conference (Day 1 of 3)
Time: 9:20 AM - 6:25 PM
Speaker: Several speakers
Organization: Asian Association for Lexicography
Location: Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture
Short description: The theme of this conference is, How can dictionaries help human & machine learning? The major topics include Computational Lexicography and Lexicology, Corpora and Lexicography, Bilingual Lexicography, and more.

Your Rapport was Great, But...
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: John F. Fanselow
Organization: Akita Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture
Short description: Discussions of teaching usually involve judgments. During the workshop, we will develop ways to look at our teaching practices in non-judgmental ways by analyzing transcribed exchanges from tape recordings of classes.

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ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.