ELT Calendar

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

My Share Activities: Successes and Failures
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organization: Hamamatsu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: In this meeting, all teachers are asked to bring along descriptions of both their successful classroom learning activities as well as those which flopped.

Introductory Certificate Course in Teaching English to Children (Osaka)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:15 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: One-day course in teaching elementary school children. Course components: 1.

Maruzen Kids' Club English Teaching Materials Fair in Tokyo
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:50 PM
Speaker: Lesley Ito
Organization: Macmillan LanguageHouse
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Lots of great presentations all day! The Macmillan LanguageHouse presentation is from 2:20 to 3:10 and is entitled The Recipe for a Successful Class.

7th TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium
Time: 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This is the 7th Annual Temple University Applied Linguistics Colloquium This colloquium is co-sponsored by the JALT Pragmatics Special Interest Group.

Addressing Individual Differences through Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Ronald Schmidt-Fajlik
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: Addressing individual differences in the second language classroom is an important factor in lesson planning. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences may serve as a way to address these differences.

ETJ-Yamaguchi February Meeting: Phonics and Motivation
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Andrea Klym and Sachiyo Okazaki
Organization: ETJ Yamaguchi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Short description: There are three parts to today's ETJ-Yamaguchi meeting. Please feel welcome to attend and tell others about this new group.

Loanwords: Lexical Hindrance or Latent Storehouse?
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Kate O' Callaghan and Robert McLaughlin: Lecturers, Tokoha Gakuen University
Organization: Toyohashi Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: With the apparent rise in usage of English loanwords in speech among Japanese young people, it may be said that there is a lessening of the linguistic distance between the two languages.

Systemic Functional Grammar
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Chris Sullivan
Organization: Chiba Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Short description: Systemic Functional Grammar is an approach to language which challenges the traditional view of grammar as a set of rules to be obeyed or broken. This presentation will explain how language is classified under Systemics, and will also provide examples of how this system of classification can successfully be used in the classroom.

Communicative Tests
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker: Keisha Larkin, Ehime University
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Short description: Testing in the communicative classroom is often a challenge for instructors. Traditional ways of testing such as testing of vocabulary through memorization often do not measure a student's ability in English but rather his or her ability to take tests.