ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 12th, 2003

ACL 2003 (day 6 of 6)
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Various
Organization: Association for Computational Linguistics
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: See the ACL2003 website for details. .

IIEEC MAT METHOD 2-Day SEMINAR in Nagoya (day 1 of 2)
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainers
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Here is your chance to learn how to get your students to communicate in English by getting the students to talk 80% of the time in class! Learn how you can teach sentences using both questions and answers, all the basic tenses with actions, reading and writing and more with amazing results.

Practical Approaches to Teaching Academic English
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Robin Scarcella, University of California, Irvine
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Academic English entails the multiple, complex features of English required for success in advanced schooling in the United States and even in many types of career advancement in Japan.

2003 LATEM Seminar for Elementary School Veteran Teachers
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Helene Jarmol Uchida
Organization: NPO Teaching English Methods Institute
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: LATEM (Little America Teaching English Methods) was developed by Helene J. Uchida to teach English in an experiential, fast-paced and challenging way.

English as an International Language
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Jennifer Jenkins, King's College, University College London
Organization: The British Council Tokyo Centre
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Oxford University Press and The British Council are proud to sponsor this series of biannual talks by distinguished scholars, on areas of interest to language teachers in Japan.

Active English, A Practical Approach to English Teaching: Why-How-Try!
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Speaker: Stephen Culhane, Kagoshima University
Organization: Kagoshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: Outline: Why? Goals for teachers and learners; Current approaches in Second Language Acquisition. How? Practical methods for everyday classroom teaching: Evaluation of active learners.

Promoting Fluency in the EFL Classroom
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: James Dean Brown, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: In this presentation, James Dean Brown first defines fluency and accuracy, and then suggests expanding our view of fluency to include a wider array of language tools, choices, and strategies.

Lateral Thinking
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: L. Dennis Woolbright and Margaret Orleans
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The presenation will provide a workshop format for looking at Dr. Edward deBono's Lateral Thinking methods, which provide a deliberate, systematic process that results in innovative thinking.