ELT Calendar

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

IIEEC MAT Method 2-day Seminar (day 1 of 2)
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka 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.

Bilingualism Forum
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Laurel Kamada, Tim Greer, Tomoko Ascough
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: There will be three main presentations and two separate panel discussions on various themes related to raising children bilingually. Details can be found on the JALT Hokkaido web site, englishforum.

"Play-full" Communication!
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Kristie Collins
Organization: Kagoshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: DramaWorks presents StarTaxi and PopStars, the innovative EFL books that make both learning and teaching easy and fun. The stories are told in 20 scenes of simple yet authentic dialogues and can be used as a complete course or as supplementary material.

Teaching Children: Theory and Practice
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Curtis Kelly, Heian Women's University
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This event is co-sponsored by CSELT (Center for the Study of English Language Teaching) at Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University. Curtis Kelly will discuss four topics on teaching English to children.

Three Presentations
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Chikako Shimobayashi, Kyoko Burden, Noriko Matsuda
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Date is subject to change. contact burden-p@osu.

Putting Words in Their Mouths: Taking Dictogloss, Shadowing and Summarizing
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: John Small
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This presentation covers three activities that give students structured language practice: dictogloss (grammar dictation), shadow talking and summarizing.

Call for Papers Due June 14th (Saturday)

Canadian Connections Mini-Conference
Call for papers due: June 14th (Saturday)
Event Date: September 23rd (Tuesday), 2003
Overview: