ELT Calendar

Sunday, March 30th, 2003

Talking about the TALK system
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Johann Junge
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: The founder of the TALK Learning System will give a presentation about how to get the students talking with this truly student-centered approach. He will also show us how to effectively use the World TALK Cards he has developed.

Language - What Is It That We Are Teaching?
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: roundtable discussion
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: The March meeting will be a discussion the nature of language. Our individual models of language determine how and what we teach.

Low-tech classroom response system
Captur

Captur Paddles encourage every student to stay involved.

Mobile Audience Response System (MOARS)

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.