ELT Calendar

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004

Fukuoka Study Group February Meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The monthly IIEEC Study Group meeting welcomes all teachers who are interested in improving their teaching techniques and getting students to ask questions as well as answering them.

Longman Kids Tour 2004 in Tokyo
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Keiko Abe-Ford, Yoko Matsuka, Hamish Buchan and Damien Pratt
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: 10:00 - Registration 10:30 - 11:20 Keiko Abe-Ford Songs to Get Your Students Speaking 11:25 - 12:15 Yoko Matsuka (MPI) English Education For Our Children's Future 12:15 - 13:00 Lunch Break 13:00 - 13:50 Hamish Buchan - BC Power Reading - Extensive Reading with Young Learners 13:55 - 14:40 Damien Pratt (MPI) Communication Starting From Yourself 14:45 - 15:35 Beat Eisele Cheer for English! Easy Drama for Fun Learning 15:35 - 16:15 Book Display 16:15 - 16:25 Lucky Draw .

Elementary English for Everyone!
Kinokuniya and Little America's 12th Annual English Education Seminar
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Veteran teacher trainers Helene J. Uchida, Rumi Ichinose and Cathy Atkins
Organization: NPO Teaching English Methods Institute
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Learn the latest about English teaching activities, including games, songs, dances, puzzles, workbooks, and materials galore for your inspection. Little America is honored to announce that we will have a special guest speaker at this event, Mr.

Adapting Textbook Activities on the Spot
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Rebecca Arthur, Poole Gakuin University
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: This workshop will demonstrate a variety of ways to adapt textbook activities in the classroom, on the spot, without almost any preparation. Although the workshop will be based on activities typically found in college and university textbooks for false beginners, the adaptations can be made to textbook activities of almost any level.

The United Nations: Current Challenges in Peace and Security
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Chiyuki Aoi, United Nations University; Dr. Toshi Mogami, International Christian University; Panel Chair: Dr. Betty Reardon, Founding Director of the Peace Education Center Teachers College, NY
Organization: Teachers College Columbia University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This Colloquium will address the unprecedented and urgently important challenges the United Nations now faces in fulfilling its mission to work to maintain peace and security in a world radically different from the one in which the U.

Kyoto ETJ Meeting: "The First Five Minutes: A Discussion on Warm-up Activities"
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: ETJ officers
Organization: ETJ Kyoto (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: Kyoto-ETJ is a support group for English teachers teaching children up through middle school in Kyoto Prefecture. All teachers of English, members and non-members, are welcome to attend.

Effects of Repetition on EFL Listening Comprehension: Development of a CALL System to Improve EFL Listening Comprehension Skills
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Yutaka Yamauchi
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: This presentation demonstrates a CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) system aimed at improving EFL listening comprehension (LC) skills and shows some results of the experiment on the effects of repetition on EFL/LC.

The English Fair
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker: Naoki Fujimoto, Danny Majdanac and Fred Carruth
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: The English Fair is a unique opportunity to participate in three workshops on the theme of large class methodologies and motivation. Naoki Fujimoto will give some ideas on the use of Total Physical Response with elementary school level students, focusing on how physical movement is important in story-telling and songs.

Stick People 101: Drawing for Teachers
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Bo Causer
Organization: Kagoshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: Participants will learn how to make lines look like something recognizable. No talent or experience is necessary.