ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Issues in Gender and Sexual Identity: What Educators Should Know
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Cynthia Nelson (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: For a complete description, see Dr. Cynthia Nelson's lecture listing for March 19th at TUJ's Osaka campus.

English Through Drama
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Jill Christopher
Organization: Teachers College Columbia University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The approach used in this workshop allows students to work together creatively, making group decisions. Every single student is part of the mini production.

My Share: The High-Tech Classroom
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Hiroshi Otani and others
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The difficulty that teachers of English in EFL environments must face lies in the fact that they are expected to raise the students' English abilities as a whole, including those of some (often many!) students with little motivation to study the language.