ELT Calendar

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Choice in the Children's Classroom
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Chris Hunt
Organization: ETJ Hiroshima (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Human bengs thrive on choice. Choice stimulates, choice engages.

Tricks In My Bag: Management Techniques for Large Junior High School Classes
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Beth Wolff, Senshu University Matsudo Junior High School
Organization: ETJ East Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Short description: It's almost time to start a new school year! Do you teach large classes of 20, 30, 40 (or more) students? Let's get them learning and communicating productively! This workshop will share some techniques and activities for managing and teaching large junior high school classes, particularly solo or team-taught Oral Communications (conversation) classes.

Perception, Interpretation, Confirmation: Tools for Learning, Communicating and Understanding
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ken Fujioka, Keisen University
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: How do learners communicate in English class? When learners listen, how do they perceive and interpret information? Professor B. Aubrey Fisher's book, Interpersonal Communication: Pragmatics of Human Relationships, states that "knowledge gained from perception is only a reflection of reality and is therefore highly fallible and the knowledge gained from perception is vivid, personal and thus typically accepted as true, often uncritically".

The Active Learner: A Classroom Teacher's Perspective
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Speaker: Paul G. Batten, Faculty of Education, Kagawa University (MacMillan Languagehouse)
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Short description: Batten will discuss how he used The Active Learner in classes of varying levels. This text focuses on communicative strategies to help learners become more independent and confident in English.