ELT Calendar

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

2005 Oxford University Press Kids' Club Tour in Osaka: Rhythm and Reading: Classroom Fun for the Very Young
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Carolyn Graham, Charles Vilina and Kathy Kampa, Craig Wright, Patrick Jackson, Setsuko Toyama, Kevin Churchley
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Oxford University Press is delighted to announce their premier event for teachers of young and very young learners: the Oxford Kid's Club Tour. This year the tour will be held at a record number of seventeen venues and runs from February 11 - 27.

English in elementary schools
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Uemura Masanobu, Sayed Mohamed, Bradley Yexley
Organization: ETJ Miyazaki (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture
Short description: ETJ-Miyazaki invites all teachers of young learners to their meeting. .

Longman Kids Tour 2005 in Osaka: An English Celebration
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Aleda Krause, Junko Yamanaka, Mayumi Tabuchi, Mari Nakamura, Katherine MacKay
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Join our team of experienced Authors and motivating Teacher Trainers for these very special seminars. We guarantee you a fun day learning the very latest methods and activities to keep children educated and entertained.

LATEM Seminars in Kagoshima (two sessions: morning and afternoon)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Helene Jarmol Uchida
Organization: NPO Teaching English Methods Institute
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: LATEM Group Seminars provide an excellent way for you to improve your teaching skills. Little America sponsors a number of Group Seminars in various cities around Japan every year.

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

Mini Colloquium: Local ELT Research by Local Teachers
Time: 10:15 AM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Greg Birch, Danny Madjanac, Hideki Sakai and Eddy Jones
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: This joint Shinshu ELT Research Group and Shinshu JALT is a free day event in which four local teacher-researchers will present their most recent research on their local classrooms.

Bikkurishita! - The Use of Surprise in the English Language Classroom
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Brian Evans (Morioka College High School)
Organization: Iwate-Aomori Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Short description: Motivating students is a difficult task in any classroom. In the EFL classroom, the issue is compounded by a number of factors, such as the unique difficulties of working in a foreign language and the fact that many of the students have not made their own choice to study English.

Introducing the Future
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mark O'Neil, Cambridge University Press
Organization: Nagoya and Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Session 1: Cambridge University Press and Hitachi Software have formed a joint-venture company to develop classroom lesson presentation software. The presenter will demonstrate interactive teaching software for Interchange on a state-of-the-art interactive whiteboard and show how this enhances both the teaching and the learning experience.

Introducing the Future
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mark O'Neil, Cambridge University Press
Organization: Nagoya and Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Session 1: Cambridge University Press and Hitachi Software have formed a joint-venture company to develop classroom lesson presentation software. The presenter will demonstrate interactive teaching software for Interchange on a state-of-the-art interactive whiteboard and show how this enhances both the teaching and the learning experience.

Video Storyline: Actively Engaging Learners with Film
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Daniel Ferreira, High School English Instructor for Kawasaki City
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: Given the many uses of video in the classroom, this presentation focuses on following a storyline and character development through the use of key scenes.

Tactics for Better High School Language Learning
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Karl O'Callaghan, Oxford University Press
Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: In daily life, we listen twice as much as we speak and four times as much as we write. Unfortunately, as important as this skill is, Japanese high school students are rarely trained beyond the simple level of listening for specific information.

Online Group Discussions
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Wesley Dennis (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: In this workshop, Wesley Dennis will focus on the idea of enhancing EFL classroom discussions by utilizing online asynchronous group discussions. Participants will learn how to set up and manage their own online discussion groups.

Longman Kids Tour 2005 in Hokkaido: An English Celebration
Time: 8:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Akiko Seino, Mitsuyo Ohta, Ali Taylor and Megumi Takemura
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: Join our team of experienced Authors and motivating Teacher Trainers for these very special seminars. We guarantee you a fun day learning the very latest methods and activities to keep children educated and entertained.

Call for Papers Due February 20th (Sunday)

JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2005
Call for papers due: February 20th (Sunday)
Event Dates: May 14th (Saturday) - May 15th (Sunday), 2005
Overview: This conference is sponsored by several of JALT's Special Interest Groups, and will be held at Tokyo Keizai University May 14 - 15, 2005.