ELT Calendar

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

4th Asia TEFL International Conference (day two of three)
Time: 8:30 AM - 6:20 PM
Speaker: Several presentations
Organization: The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The 4th Asia TEFL International Conference will be held August 18-20, 2006 in Fukuoka. Today's plenary speakers are Annie Hughes (University of York) and William Grabe (Northern Arizona University).

Exploring a Corpus (Professor John Sinclair's Kansai lecture)
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: John Sinclair
Organization: Japan Association for English Corpus Studies
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: A corpus is too large to for anyone to read, but a computer can scan in a few seconds more text than you can read in your life. To make use of this you need a good retrieval tool , and the upcoming new generation of retrieval tools offers simple ways of accessing such huge and complex resources.