ELT Calendar

Sunday, June 13th, 2004

Osaka Study Group June Meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Osaka City, Osaka 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.

Consciousness-Raising Activities
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dan Frost
Organization: Hamamatsu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: The traditional approach to most teaching is to tell learners the rules first, after which students have to try and fit their conceptions within that rules-based framework.

Learning to Read; Reading to Learn (Nihombashi, Tokyo)
Time: 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ali Taylor (Longman); Aleda Krause (Author); Specil Guest
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Ali Taylor, renowned children's author Aleda Krause, and a special guest provide an entertaining as well as educational event. Come and add the latest magical songs and chants to your bag of tricks! Learning to Read; Reading to Learn: Graded Readers in the Young Learners Classroom.

Student-Centered Vocabulary Aquisition Activities
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: ETJ-Kobe Coordinators
Organization: ETJ Kobe (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: ETJ-Kobe is a group for teachers of children up through middle school in the Kobe area. All teachers of English, members and non-members, are welcome to attend.

Lifelong Language Learning Conference
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: LIOJ, JALT and ETJ members
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: In this "Lifelong Language Learning" joint conference, speakers from the Kanagawa, Kanto and Shizuoka areas will give a sneak preview of presentations that may be seen at the National JALT conference (in the fall of 2004).

Teaching Children
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Julian Warden, Oxford University Press
Organization: Himeji Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Julian Warden from Oxford University Press will hold a lively two-hour workshop on teaching children. The content will include guidance on teaching children, including useful classroom language and management, ideas on teaching conversation, vocabulary and grammar, and storytelling techniques.

Cooperative Development for Language Teachers
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Andrew Boon
Organization: West Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The presentation will describe a teacher development program in which two teachers adopted the supportive and non-judgmental interactional environment framework of Julian Edge's Cooperative Development and worked together in order to raise awareness of and find new perspectives about their teaching.

Teaching pronunciation (Seminar 5 of 5 Sundays)
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: British Council Teacher Trainers
Organization: The British Council Nagoya Centre
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: This seminar is part of a communicative methodology course made up of five Sunday seminars, held fortnightly in Nagoya during the Spring term (11 April, 25 April, 16 May, 30 May, 13 June).

Pair Discussions: Contextualizing Communication
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker: Barry Mateer, Tamagawa University, Department of Liberal Arts
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Short description: The likely challenges of managing learning include empowering learners to participate and to interact in English. This presentation considers Pair Discussion-based courses in which textbooks are replaced by handouts created from students' ideas on various topics.

Tokushima JALT June Meeting
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: Noriko Tojo
Organization: East Shikoku Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture
Short description: Details are unavailable, but may be available here at a later date. Tokushima JALT asks that you contact Noriko Tojo for further details.