ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Exploring Professional Development through Language Awareness
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Deryn P. Verity, Osaka Jogakuin College
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Please note: There are two Fukuoka JALT events today, and they are at different locations. The afternoon presentation will be on the main campus of Fukuoka Jo Gakuin in Osa, Minami-ku and the evening presentation will be held later the same day at the Satellite branch of Fukuoka Jo Gakuin in Tenjin.

Extensive Reading: a look at its effects on long term reading habits
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Richard Lemmer
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Numerous studies have attributed positive affective results, improved reading fluency, vocabulary acquisition and additional learner gains to extensive reading (ER).

Can't Get No Satisfaction?: Role Perception among Native Speaker Tertiary EFL Educators
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Paul Hullah
Organization: Miyazaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture
Short description: Paul Hullah will report on a 1997 survey of native-speaker EFL teachers at Japanese universities. The questionnaire explored teacher job satisfaction, and how these EFL teachers perceived their role in their respective institutions.

Goodwill or wind chill? An examination of the introduction of ethos
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Peter Burden, Okayama Shoka University
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: The Education Ministry in Japan has made institutional evaluation a requirement to improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching. While the "ethos" of an educational institution is the ground bed of all that takes place within a school this often get bypassed in formal evaluations of quality and standards.

ESP in Japan: What it has been and what it can be
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Judy Noguchi
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: English for specific purposes (ESP) is taught in many ways. This talk will begin with an overview of what has been done and then move quickly into what ESP can do.

Strategies to Help Students Communicate Now
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Roger Palmer
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Instructors continually face learners who have years of formal instruction in English yet still struggle to get their message across. This presentation focuses on the need for students to make use of the English they know in the here-and-now.

Using Whole Discourse Tasks for Language Teaching
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Deryn P. Verity, Osaka Jogakuin College
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Please note: There are two Fukuoka JALT events today, and they are at different locations. The afternoon presentation will be on the main campus of Fukuoka Jo Gakuin in Osa, Minami-ku and the evening presentation will be held later the same day at the Satellite branch of Fukuoka Jo Gakuin in Tenjin.

Pronunciation and Listening Techiniques for Teachers of English
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Speaker: James Banner
Organization: The British Council Teacher Training Seminars
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Teacher training workshop by James Banner of Hilderstone College UK. .

Call for Papers Due May 20th (Saturday)

16th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Call for papers due: May 20th (Saturday)
Event Dates: October 7th (Saturday) - October 9th (Monday), 2006
Overview: The 16th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held October 7-9, 2006, on the campus of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.