ELT Calendar

Saturday, November 13th, 2004

Longman Teacher Training Tour, Osaka
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Several speakers
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: See www. longmanjapan.

Peter Viney Presentation
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Peter Viney, Oxford University Press
Organization: Kagoshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: For details, contact Kagoshima JALT. .

Teachers Exploring Research: Top 10 Tips for Doing Classroom Research
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Corony Edwards, The University of Birmingham (UK)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Corony Edwards presents her findings from her own small research project, in which she asked teachers to fill in a questionnaire on the topic of teachers and research.

High School Reading Classes
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Takashi Inomori, Meiji Gakuen High School
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Many JTEs at high school level would be at a loss what to teach or how to organize their reading class if their students had the Japanese translation of the texts or even the teachers' manual in their hands.

Support for Narrow Listening Libraries, followed by Annual Chapter Business Meeting and Officers' Election
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Speaker: Brian Caspino, Himeji Dokkyo University
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Learners may feel overwhelmed when encountering uncontrolled casual conversation for the first time. Narrow Listening, the repeated listening of native speakers answering a question familiar and interesting to both speaker and listener, can be a powerful listening resource for the second language learner from beginning to highly-advanced stages of language acquisition.

Theatre and Comedy in the Classroom
Time: 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Interacting Theater Group
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Interacting is a European company dedicated to bringing theatre and comedy into the foreign language classroom. This is part of JALT's 4 Corners Tour.