ELT Calendar

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

ETJ One-Day Certificate Course (Fukuoka)
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr, John Wiltshier, Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This is the ETJ One-day certificate course in teaching Japanese students (for teachers of teenagers and adults). Different course contents are offered in alternating years.

Activities for upper elementary young learners
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: various speakers
Organization: ETJ Kobe (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: ETJ Kobe will have the next meet on Sunday 21st May. This month we will focus activities on the upper elementary grades, including late starters, low language levels, mixed grades and those who are just too shy or too cool for school, starting with a series of demonstrations of tried and tested activities, leading into an open forum sharing practical activities and ideas.

Annual May Picnic
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Speaker: It's a picnic!
Organization: Toyohashi Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Toyohashi JALT will hold its annual May barbeque and picnic at the usual place, in Takashi Ryokuchi Park. Those interested should bring along something to eat.

Tech Day 2006
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Bill Pellowe, Robert Chartrand, Gordon Wilson, Cameron Romney and more
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: This will be an all afternoon event to hone our computer skills, and to share favorite websites and software that should be helpful to teachers and learners both in and out of the classroom.

Present Differenty: How to give a PowerPoint presentation that engages, inspires, and connects
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Garr Reynolds, Kansai Gaidai University
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: Come join us for a joint event with the Nagoya chapter. Using Zen aesthetics and multimedia research, Garr explains how a good understanding of content structure, visual communication and basic graphic design can help you create presentations that will set you apart from the crowd.

Okinawa JALT May 2006 Event
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: TBA
Organization: Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture
Short description: Details were not fully decided at the time this event notice was published. Please see the Okinawa JALT Chapter website for details.

Strategies to Help Students Communicate Now
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Roger Palmer, Kansai University, Osaka, with Steve King of Pearson/Longman.
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: This presentation will focus on the need for students to make use of the English they know in the here-and-now. In particular, it will show how the ELT material Communicate Now makes explicit use of communication strategies which rapidly improve the students' ability to use language.

Corpus informed materials: A new era in language teaching
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: John Letcher, Cambridge University Press ELT Representative
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: The Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) is the largest living corpus in the world with over 800 million words of text, and is growing all the time. In recent years, Cambridge University Press has been using the CIC to research how language is used in contemporary society and to find the most useful grammar and vocabulary for learners.

A Crash Course in Public Speaking
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Dennis Woolbright (Seinan Jogakuin University)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Teachers will learn how to help Japanese college students develop their English public speaking skills. Professor Woolbright encourages student autonomy while integrating the four skills.