ELT Calendar

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Today is Health Sports Day (Taiku-no-hi)

Second Annual Conference: The Association of International Behavioral Studies (day 3 of 3)
Time: To be announced
Speaker: Speaker details available on website
Organization: Association of International Behavioral Studies
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This is the final day of The Association of International Behavioral Studies Second Conference. Please visit www.

JALT2005: 31st Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exposition (third day)
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: various speakers
Organization: The Annual International Conference of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: The final day of the JALT International Conference. See jalt.

Developing Writing Skills
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: British Council Trainer
Organization: The British Council Tokyo Centre
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This short intensive course will focus on different types of writing and different reasons for writing. We will look at pre-writing activities and how the teacher can guide the students to more effective writing.

Intuition (day 3 of 3)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Roslyn Young
Organization: CDF (Classes de Francais)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: For Caleb Gattegno, of all the ways of knowing open to mankind, intuition was the best suited to solving the problems of the 21st Century. "Intuition" is a technical term for a particular way of knowing needed when encountering complexity.