ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Gender in Language; and Giving Peace Studies A Chance.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Clem Hiemstra, Sasebo/Imari, and Tim Allan, Kwassui Women's College.
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: Our summer meeting will be about Global Issues and Content-Based Instruction through two perspectives. In one half of the meeting, Hiemstra will guide us through a session on the topic of gender and language.

The Temple University and Fukuoka JALT 2nd Annual Applied Linguistics Colloquium (day 1 of 2)
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: James Dean Brown, University of Hawai'i at Manoa and others
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Please note that the date of this part of the event has been changed from July 14 to July 28. The Temple University and Fukuoka JALT 2nd Annual Applied Linguistics Colloquium July 28 & 15, 2007 Saturday, July 28 6:00-7:30 pm Plenary: Teaching Fluency for Speaking and Listening James Dean Brown, University of Hawai'i at Manoa This presentation will focus on the evolution of my awareness of the importance to fluency of teaching connected speech forms in ESL/EFL classrooms including my recent efforts to compile the literature on the topic and formulate the principles underlying connected speech forms including word stress, utterance stress and timing, elisions, reductions, insertions, intrusions, simple transitions, assimilations, contractions, and combinations of all of the above.