ELT Calendar

Sunday, January 26th, 2003

Study Group meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: IIEEC is a teacher training organization for teachers of young learners. IIEEC emerged in response to the requests by teachers for specific training in how to teach.

Study Group meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: IIEEC is a teacher training organization for teachers of young learners. IIEEC emerged in response to the requests by teachers for specific training in how to teach.

Graded Readers for Young Learners and Jr. High
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Mayuka Habbick, Nicolas Cueto
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Aichi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: ETJ-Aichi is a group for teachers of children up through middle school in Aichi, Gifu, and Mie. All teachers of English, members and non-members, are welcome to come and learn how to use graded readers with children in elementary and jr.

Going Live! - Tried and Tested!
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Katherine McKay, Longman ELT, Pearson Education Japan
Organization: Kumamoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Short description: Come and join this hands-on workshop - a real lesson, followed by group work-stations and a circle time. Explore current teaching approaches, share practical tips and activity ideas, and make teaching English to children empowering, energized and easy! About the speaker: Katherine MacKay is Executive Consultant for children�s materials, Longman ELT, Pearson Education Japan.

Surviving in the Mixed Level Classroom
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mark Hamilton and Alan M. Cogen
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: Due to a declining pool of college-aged students, more universities have had to accept lower level students. For teachers this has resulted in more lower-level learners and a wider range of abilities.

The Cultural and Institutional Context of JTE - AET Team-Teaching
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: William Matheny, AET
Organization: Toyohashi Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Since William Mathen began working as an Assistant English Teacher (AET) in 1997, he has often pondered what he perceives as the limitations of AETs as an EFL curriculum innovation.

Maps for Transformation
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Pomatti
Organization: Nagoya and Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: We know Bloom's taxonomy of thinking skills, Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Hofstede's dimensions of cultural variability as ways of focusing our teaching for Japanese students.

Songs and Chants Activities Workshop
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Music is part of culture. Culture is part of language education.

Listening Strategy Techniques: Does It Help To Teach Them?
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Hiroko Tsujioka
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: Dr. Tsujioka will present an analysis of a study on listening strategy introduction in a university EFL context.

Literacy in Language Education: What, Why and How
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: open roundtable discussion
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: In this discussion about literacy and its role in L-2 education, participants are invited to bring their knowledge, experiences, arguments and questions to the discussion.

Words in Mind and Brain: Implications for Vocabulary Acquisition and Instruction
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Nick Ellis, University of Wales
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This seminar by Nick Ellis concerns second language vocabulary acquisition and instruction. What are the best ways for a second language learner to rapidly acquire vocabulary and to make it stick? What are the best ways for an instructor to help them with this goal? In the first three-hour open session, Ellis will overview educational and psychological evaluations that directly inform these questions.

Classroom Activities to Motivate Children
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Several, see the description
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This workshop is on integrating communicative activities into a phonics-based course for children and junior high school students. Nearest stations to the venue: Kamiya-cho (Hibiya Line) Exit 4b; Tameike-sanno (Ginza/Namboku Line) Exit 13; Toranomon (Ginza Line) Exit 2; Roppongi 1-chome (Namboku Line) Exit 3.