ELT Calendar

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Oral Examiner training for Young Learners Exams (Cambridge ESOL)
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Owen Davies
Organization: Cambridge English Language Assessment - JP004 (Luna International)
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: There will be a training session on November 12th for experienced teachers interested in becoming Oral Examiners (OEs) for the speaking test components of Cambridge ESOL's YLE exams.

Nellie's ELT Workshop and Book Fair 2006 in Nagoya
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Yukari Harrison, Yoshimi Hida, Jo Ando and many more!
Organization: Nellie's Group, Ltd.
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: ELT materials supplier Nellie's Group will hold its 6th annual ELT Workshop and Book Fair this year in five locations: Osaka (October 15), Yokohama (October 29), Nagoya (November 12), Tokyo (December 3) and Fukuoka (January 21, 2007).

ETJ Fukuoka November workshop: Christmas Activities for Elementary Students
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Bring your ideas to share!
Organization: ETJ Fukuoka (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: In the ETJ Fukuoka November workshop, we're going to share the ideas for Christmas activities, songs, easy crafts, story readings, etc. Please bring the pictures of Christmas parties at your school or books you read or song CDs you use for Christmas lessons, if you have any.

Christmas activities and general teaching ideas
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Members of ACET and ETJ Fukuoka
Organization: Association of Childrens English Teachers
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Usually, we (ACET) have regular meetings at AMIKAS,Takamiya. However,this is going to be a joint workshop with ETJ Fukuoka.

Let's Share Ideas: Overcoming Difficulties
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: ETJ Yamaguchi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Short description: We are going to talk about specific difficulties which we have actually had in teaching students. Let's share the ideas to solve difficulties which we have faced in teaching students.

Two Presentations: (1) Outdoor Language Activities, and (2) Combatting Plagiarism
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Terry Fellner
Organization: Himeji Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Title: Outdoor Language Learning: A novel approach to language learning through Outdoor Education. The presenter will introduce and justify the use of Outdoor Language Learning (OLL), as useful approach to enhance traditional classroom language learning.

1) Blogs as a Teacher Research Tool; 2) Teaching Comparative Religion
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: 1) Renata Suzuki 2) Jean-Paul DuQuette
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: Blogs as a Teacher Research Tool Suzuki shares how blogs can be used as a self-reflective research tool, comparing them with teacher diaries and illustrating them with a research study of teacher use of motivation strategies.