ELT Calendar

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

Oxford Kids' Club Summer Camps: The Joy of Teaching Children (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Charles Vilina and Kathleen Kampa
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Not only can teaching children be a joyful experience - a joyful classroom environment is essential for true learning. In order for this to take place, teachers need the proper tools: an understanding of young learners, brain-friendly teaching strategies such as Music and Movement and the application of Multiple Intelligence Theory, and clear curriculum goals supported by creative lesson plans that address the needs of all students.

Workshop for English Teachers: Word Sketches
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton
Organization: The British Council Nagoya Centre
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: A word sketch is a one-page, automatically-produced, corpus-based summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour. Dr Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton will introduce word sketches, and describe how they have been used in dictionary-making.