ELT Calendar

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

4th Asia TEFL International Conference (day three of three)
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Several presentations
Organization: The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: August 18-20, 2006 are the dates of the 4th Asia TEFL International Conference, to be held in Fukuoka. Sunday's plenary session speakers are Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology Sydney) and Lee Won-key (Seoul National University of Education, Korea).

Exploring a Corpus (Professor John Sinclair's Tokyo lecture)
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: John Sinclair
Organization: Japan Association for English Corpus Studies
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
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.

Games for Elementary and Junior High Schol students
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Simon Weedon
Organization: ETJ Oita (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Oita City, Oita Prefecture
Short description: This will be the first joint meeting between ETJ-Oita and the Oki-net Teacher Development Association. Simon is the ETJ-Oita Coordinator and will be presenting a number of tried and tested classroom activities aimed at younger learners.