ELT Calendar

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

New Year Social Event
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: TBA
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: To celebrate the New Year, join Kitakyushu JALT for our annual social event. Details to be confirmed; check the chapter website for further information.

What's Lev Got to Do With It? Vygotskyan Trends in Recent Pedagogy, Professional Development and Language Acquisition
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Speaker: Larry Metzger, Deryn Verity, and David Woodfield
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: The zone of proximal development (ZPD), talk as a psychological tool, internalization, private speech! What is all this? Over the last decade more and more language teachers have been finding inspiration in the ideas of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky.