ELT Calendar

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Zen and the Art of Statistics
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Gregory Sholdt
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: For some, reading a correlation matrix is about as straightforward as finding meaning in a Zen rock garden. But for those who regularly walk the path of quantitative reasoning, a deeper beauty can emerge from the carefully arranged columns of coefficients.

Focus on Content: Materials and Techniques for Teaching Beginning Academic Writing
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Cindy Daugherty, Seinan Gakuin University
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This presentation starts with the contention that ESL textbooks for academic writing do not offer adequate instruction on paragraph development; rather they focus more on paragraph types.