ELT Calendar

Friday, July 20th, 2007

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (day 3 of 3)
Time: To be announced
Speaker: Several speakers
Organization: International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Location: Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture
Short description: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007) will be held July 18-20, 2007 in Niigata, Japan at Toki Messe, Niigata Convention Center.

The Gap between English Education and English Acquisition
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: Miki Bong
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: This presentation will be held in Japanese; however, the powerpoint slides will have English subtitles. Even though Japanese people supposedly study English from junior high through high school, how many of them can answer the question ?'Can you speak English??' with ?'Yes, I can'? What makes it so hard for Japanese to have confidence in their English? Is it only a matter of pronunciation? Or grammar? Or perhaps it is something else.

Expressing Causation in English and Japanese
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Chikako Shigemori Bucar (University of Ljubljana)
Organization: Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The Japanese causative (the affix -(s)ase-, "shieki") is usually taught in the latter half of the beginners level, about the same time when learners are introduced to passive, giving and receiving verbs, various conjunctions to build longer sentences, and so on.