ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Teaching Seminar- Vocabulary Teaching for Teenagers and Young Adults
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: James Banner (Hilderstone College, UK)
Organization: The British Council Tokyo Centre
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This seminar will explore fertile areas and techniques for teaching vocabulary. These areas will include art and design, cult objects, fashion, icons and figures from popular culture.

Briefing sessions on postgraduate course on teaching Japanese (Osaka)
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: IIEC
Organization: Institute of International Education in London
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: The Institute of International Education in London will hold briefing sessions on a postgraduate program on teaching Japanese as a foreign language that the organization offers in the British capital.

What You See Is What You Get? Learner Preconceptions of Native-Speaker-Taught University EFL
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Paul Hullah, University of Miyazaki
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: A questionnaire surveying Japanese student advance expectations of native speaker (NS) taught university EFL courses was developed and extensively administered.

ELT teaching: A disadvantaged profession in Japanese tertiary education?
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Peter Burden, Okayama Shoka University
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Japanese tertiary education has entered an epoch-making phase where the shrinkage of the number of college-age students and the decline in the market for academic personnel has resulted in an audit culture expressed through cross-curricular end-of-semester faculty evaluation.

From a Silk Cocoon (viewing the award-winning film with its co-writer and director)
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Satsuki Ina, California State Univ., Sacramento
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Satsuki Ina is professor emeritus in the School of Education at California State Univ. (Sacramento) and founder of the Family Study Center.

Two Presentations by Terry Fellner
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Terry Fellner, Saga University
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Presentation 1: Developing Writing Fluency Through Blogs. This presentation will examine the use of student blogs to improve writing fluency among Japanese students studying English at a Japanese university during the summers of 2004, 2005, and 2006.

The Ins and Outs of Getting Published
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Steve Cornwell, Ed.D., Osaka Jogakuin College
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: Whether studying for a masters or a doctorate; conducting quantitative or qualitative research, or working as a teacher or administrator, one thing that almost all of us working in education have in common is the need to publish.