ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP) 2004 (day 2 of 2)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:45 PM
Speaker: Plenary Speakers: Prof. Kenneth J. Safir (Rutgers University), Prof. Lydia White (McGill University)
Organization: Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: 10:00-10:45 Duk-Ho An (University of Connecticut) "A Floating Analysis of Numeral Quantifier Constructions in Korean and Japanese" Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University) 10:50-11:35 Yukio Furukawa (McGill University) "The Specificity Condition is an Instance of Crossover.

Nellie's Seminar Series 2004: Seminar 3
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Ivan Sorrentino (Cambridge University Press), Colin Malaney (Saxoncourt), Keiko Imura (Matsuka Phonics Institute)
Organization: Nellie's Group, Ltd.
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The third seminar in Nellie's Seminar Series 2004 will feature three presentations as follows: Time: 13:00 � 13:50 Colorful language tasks for young learners (Ivan Sorrentino, Cambridge University Press) Target: Teachers of Children aged 6-11 Language: English Content: American English Primary Colors is a new course for young learners.

Group Sensitive Teaching
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Tim Murphey
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: This presentation, based on the 2003 book Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom by Dornyei & Murphey, offers practical advice on how to manage language learner groups in a way that they develop into cohesive and productive teams.

English for Specific Purposes: Exploring Concepts for EFL Environments
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Judy Noguchi (Mukogawa Women's University, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a multidisciplinary approach that offers promising possibilities for an EFL educational environment. ESP is often mistaken as simply being the drilling of technical terms and grammatical structures for science and technology majors or the teaching of business English.

DramaWorks Revisited
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Theo Steckler of Dramaworks
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Theo Steckler, president and founder of DramaWorks, producer of PopStars, and co-author of Star Taxi and Wonder Kids, will present a workshop for language teachers at the elementary school, junior high, high school and university levels.