ELT Calendar

Saturday, December 11th, 2004

IIEEC 2-Day MAT Teacher Training Seminar in Tokyo
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Ritsuko Nakata
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
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.

Bias and Balance in EFL Content on Controversial Issues
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Trevor Sargent (Tottori University)
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: A disturbing trend toward promoting the teaching of biased views of controversial global issues in EFL classrooms, while inventing excuses for not offering of balanced approaches, has been gathering momentum under JALT auspices recently.

Potpourri Meeting & Bonenkai
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Brent Jones & Anthony C. Torbert
Organization: Kobe Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: There are two presentations. Reading Attitudes and Habits by Brent Jones.

The Lesson Clinic
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Margaret Orleans (Moderator)
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Participants are invited to bring along that nearly perfect lesson plan that somehow fell flat on its face, in order to get advice from the rest of the group on how it might be doctored back to health.