ELT Calendar

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

Corpus Data in the Classroom
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: Gwyneth Fox, Birmingham University
Organization: Macmillan LanguageHouse
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: We've now been using corpus data for linguistic and lexicographic research for a quarter of a century or more. Findings from the research are slowly finding their way into the language classroom, mainly in the form of dictionaries and grammars; but raw data are still relatively rarely used, although almost everyone who does use them reports increased language awareness among their students.

How You Can Apply Guerrilla Marketing in Japan
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: William Reed, Guerrilla Marketing Coach and Master Trainer, President, B-SMART
Organization: Foreign Executive Women
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Guerrilla Marketing is about how to market effectively without spending a lot of money. It works equally well for individuals as for companies, and Guerrilla Marketing is closer than you think! As a Guerrilla Marketing Master Trainer William Reed will share how to get your message across in a short time, dozens of ways to market yourself or your company at little or no cost, and explain why expertise is no longer enough to market yourself.