ELT Calendar

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Game Discipline
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Carl Zeman
Organization: ETJ Hiroshima (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Games are an indispensable tool in the EFL repertoire. But successfully wielding them carries a few problems: 1.

The Temple University and Fukuoka JALT 2nd Annual Applied Linguistics Colloquium (day 2 of 2)
Time: 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Arita, Baldwin, Carter, Cochrane, Connor, Daugherty, DeLint, Farmer, Fryer, Fukuhara, Harland, Holster, Lake, Mineura, Praver, Sonda, Sorensen, Stewart, Tokunaga, Tsuda
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This is the second day of the 2-day Temple University and Fukuoka JALT 2nd Annual Applied Linguistics Colloquium. The speaker for day 1 will be James Dean Brown.

Learning Pragmatics in Foreign Language Classrooms
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Gabriele Kasper
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: Gabriele Kasper will first outline the main approaches to teaching pragmatics in foreign language settings. Then Kasper will give examples of how students' pragmatic competence -- specifically, their ability to make requests -- can be advanced through face-to-face interaction and computer-mediated communication.

Teaching Children: Approach, Curriculum and Classroom Control
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Lesley Ito
Organization: Nara Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nara City, Nara Prefecture
Short description: How can a teacher keep control of the children's English class in order to create a good learning environment? How should teachers of children approach their lessons? And how do you create an effective and consistent curriculum that can enable even new teachers to express their creativity in the class? Get the inside scoop on these questions and more from a teacher and school owner with 15 years of experience in Japan.