ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Storyboarding with Yangsook Choi
Time: 9:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: Yangsook Choi
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Following an introduction to children's book illustration spanning initial conceptualization through sketching to final art, Choi will lead a hands-on storyboarding workshop.

Psychology Games for Language Learning.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ian Munby, Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: Communicative tasks for language practice or fluency training play an important role in the language classroom but they often lead to "so what?" outcomes.

Low-tech classroom response system
Captur

Captur Paddles encourage every student to stay involved.

Mobile Audience Response System (MOARS)

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.