ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

Teaching English to Young Learners through Kyogen, the Japanese Classical Comic Theater
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Harumi Yamada
Organization: Fukui Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture
Short description: The JALT Fukui March meeting will be a joint event with the Fukui School for the Blind. Ms.

Macmillan Language House and Jelly Beans Educational Seminar in Kagoshima
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Lesley Ito, Mayuka Habbick
Organization: Macmillan LanguageHouse
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: Presentations by two great speakers with a wealth of teaching experience. Talk titles are Let's Jump from Phonics to REAL Reading! and Stories and Storylines: Practical Activities for the Classroom.

A Talk About Washington, D.C.
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Moti Liberman, Coordinator for International Relations in Yamagata
Organization: Yamagata Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture
Short description: Moti Liberman will talk about Washington, D. C.

Strategies for Autonomous Language Learning
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: John F. Fanselow
Organization: Shizuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: Learning English, like all learning, requires predicting much, much more than it requires memorization of sentences, explanations or definitions in either our first or second language.