ELT Calendar

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

Nellie's ELT Workshop & Book Fair 2004 in Fukuoka
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Several speakers
Organization: Nellie's Group, Ltd.
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: At the Nellie's ELT Workshop & Book Fair 2004 there will be displays from various well-known publishers, the latest in ELT materials and children's items available at big 15% discount (with some exceptions) and a chance to take part in the many workshops being held by Japan's leading ELT professionals all for free.

Chugoku ELT Expo
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Speaker: several well-known speakers
Organization: ETJ (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: The ETJ Expos are for all teachers, with presentations and materials for teaching kindergarten up through college students. The ETJ Expos will tour 10 major Japanese cities.

Osaka Study Group November 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 Osaka 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.

Reporting on the 2004 JALT National Conference
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: James Matchett, Simon Sanada, Laura Kusaka
Organization: Toyohashi Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Toyohashi members will report on various presentations at the JALT National Conference "Language Learning for Life", to be held from November 19-22 in Nara.

IIEEC Christmas Workshop in Osaka
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Celebrate Christmas with a fun party that your students won't forget! Learn lots of activities, songs and stories to do with your students. Many innovative ideas.

From competition to cooperation: Games in the EFL classroom
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Chris Hunt
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: Games are an accepted tool for language learning but little thought has been given to the relationship between the structure of games and the effect on learning.

Double session: (1) Reading. (2) Dyslexia: What it means in YOUR language classroom
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Ken Schmidt, Tom Warren-Price
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: ReadingAs they work through a text, fluent readers juggle an impressive range of tasks at varying levels of awareness. We'll take a look at several of these processes and discuss implications for becoming fluent readers in a second language.