ELT Calendar

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Tohoku ETJ Expo (Sendai)
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: ELT professionals from across Japan
Organization: ETJ (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: The Tohoku ETJ Expo brings together teachers and publishers for a full day of seminars on topics ranging from The Silent Way, to improving your students' writing, to ideas for non-competitive games in the children's classroom.

IIEEC-Oxford University Press Teacher Training Certificate Program-Autumn Session (Workshop 5 and 6)
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Qualified teacher-trainers from the IIEEC Teacher Training Center
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Workshop content has been developed by Ritsuko Nakata (co-author, Let's Go) in cooperation with Oxford University Press and is aimed at all teachers of young learners who wish to become more confident and effective teachers.

Hands-on English - Task Based Learning
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mark DeBoer
Organization: Iwate-Aomori Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Short description: SciTek is a set of materials (colored tubes, spheres, wheels, joints, and so forth) and model plans that pose challenges to be overcome. Using SciTek as an exploratory tool, the presenter will show how to establish an ideal classroom setting, simulating real life, where English is used for communication.

The Status of the English Have/Be Auxiliaries in Japanese-Speaking Learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Miki H. K. Bong
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: This presentation reports a study investigating the status of the English have/be auxiliaries in Japanese-speaking learners (JSLs). It is generally assumed that Japanese is categorised as a HAVE-LESS language, namely a BE language (Ikegami 1985), owing to the fact that there is no HAVE, but the BE (iru) auxiliary that does the jobs of the HAVE auxiliary in HAVE-languages.

Cultural and International Activities Foster Student Motivation
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Fumiko Itakura
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Based on the presenter's own experience as an exchange student in the United States and as a coordinator of international programs, she will introduce some activities that promote communication between people of different cultures.