ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

One Day Workshop in Teaching English to Young Learners
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:15 PM
Speaker: Yuri Kuno, Keiko Abe-Ford, Takao Ogawa, Junko Shimura
Organization: Anaheim University Graduate School of Education
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Anaheim University / Pearson Longman One Day Workshop in Teaching English to Young Learners Certificate of Completion Awarded by Anaheim University For further details plus registration, please visit: www.

Developing Culturally Sensitive, Communicative Materials for Japanese Junior and Senior High School English Language Learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Sandra Lee McKay (San Francisco State University)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The purpose of this seminar is to develop classroom materials for teaching English to junior and senior high school students that are both culturally sensitive and meaningful.

Phonetics and Phonology: A crash course in human language pronunciation.
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Speaker: Jon Catanzariti, Ogaki Board of Education
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: Although we spend so long giving our students examples of native-English, why do they revert back to katakana-like pronunciation? The reality is that "listen and repeat" exercises only go so far as tools for ear-training? Intonation and pronunciation problems are two of the biggest barriers that stand between students and their requested goal of native-like pronunciation.

Putting Our Heads Together
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This month, Kitakyushu JALT is going to give some time to talk about topics that merit discussion, but haven't had their own program recently. There will be something for everyone! If there's a topic you'd like to discuss, let KQ JALT know, or bring it along.