ELT Calendar

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

The Road To Reading (Shizuoka)
Time: 9:50 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Akiko Seino; Mitsuyo Ohta
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: The Longman Team invites you to participate in their nationwide initiative to promote successful early reading in Japan. From introducing first readers to designing your own Graded Reading Program, join the Longman Summer Skills Tour 2005 for directions to The Road To Reading.

The Road To Reading (Fukuoka)
Time: 9:50 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Mari Nakamura; Lesley Ito
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The Longman Team invites you to participate in their nationwide initiative to promote successful early reading in Japan. From introducing first readers to designing your own Graded Reading Program, join the Longman Summer Skills Tour 2005 for directions to The Road To Reading.

New Easy and Fun Activities for EFL Classes
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Amy Jenkins
Organization: Hamamatsu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: This workshop will give you fun ideas for speaking, listening, reading and writing activities for English lessons. Amy Jenkins demonstrates a number of activities that require minimal preparation time.

Practice Makes Confident
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Ritsuko Mori, Inazawa Higashi Senior High School
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: ETJ-Aichi is a group for teachers of children up through middle school in Aichi, Gifu and Mie. Ritsuko Mori, a teacher at Inazawa Higashi Senior High School, will explore ideas on getting your students to speak out through activities which also improve their ability in both listening and reading comprehension.

ETJ-Yamaguchi July Meeting
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Sachiko Akana and Renae Ivany
Organization: ETJ Yamaguchi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Short description: This meeting will be our 6th meeting and it is the first anniversary of the Yamaguchi group. So we hope this meeting can be very active and useful one witn many attendants! Two presenters will show you their ideas on 'Using picturebooks in classes for both children and adults.

Two presentations: Alternatives to Standard Testing: Self/Peer Evaluations & Portfolios; Constructive Teacher Engagement with University Leadership
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Scott Bronner, Nick Wood
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: Alternatives to Standard Testing: Self/Peer Evaluations and Portfolios - Communicative teaching emphasizes effort to try, make mistakes and learn. However, standard testing seems at odds with this since someone who tries hard may do worse than someone who works little but has more previous language experience or skill.

A Tinderbox for your Thoughts
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Hugh Nichol, Miyazaki Municipal University
Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: Hugh Nichol writes: Tinderbox, a swiss army knife software tool from Eastgate Systems in Watertown, Massachusetts has become my favorite application for taking research notes, writing, developing teaching plans, and for coordinating JALT and other communications and planning efforts.

From an idea to a textbook: Getting published in Japan
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:25 PM
Speaker: Simon Capper, The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Short description: Text book writing can be an immensely challenging, frustrating and exhausting activity, but it can also be very rewarding (creatively, at least!). This talk will describe the genesis and development of a textbook typical of many published for the Japanese market, and will offer suggestions for prospective authors regarding proposal writing and submission, pitfall avoidance, and project planning.

Take 1, take 2, take 3 -- a three-stage process for analyzing and reflecting on our teaching
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Speaker: John F. Fanselow, President of International Pacific College, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Teachers College
Organization: Teachers College Columbia University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Action research has been advocated a great deal in the past decade. But analyzing interaction in language classrooms, a key component of action research, has been advocated for at least a quarter of a century.