ELT Calendar

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

ETJ Aichi Round Table Discussion and Spring Cleaning ELT Bazaar
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker: various speakers for the round-table discussions
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: The Aichi group of English Teachers in Japan will hold a session of round table discussions in five different groups; preschool, lower elementary, upper elementary, adult students, and owners' issues.

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

Effective Ways to Prepare for the TOEIC
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Joe Falout
Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: In the first half, the presenter will demonstrate conversational activities to teach learning strategies and listening skills for the TOEIC. In the second half, the presenter will discuss the findings of an ongoing study of a group of autonomous learners preparing for the TOEIC.

An introduction to the uses of conversation analysis in the field of second language acquisition
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Jack Barrow, Osaka International University
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: Jack Barrow has been developing a corpus of student-student conversations in English and analyzing the data using conversation analysis (CA). He is very interested in applying this approach to SLA and has recently presented on it at JSLS 2004 and JALT 2004.