ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The Multicultural Self in the Intercultural World
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Janet Bennett, Executive Director of Intercultural Communication Institute, Portland, USA
Organization: The Society for Intercultural Education, Training, And Research
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: As international boundaries are rapidly changing, intercultural identity becomes ever more powerful to each of us. For those who have experienced more than one culture deeply or who are biracial, bicultural, or bilingual, the modern question of cultural identity is exceedingly complex.

SELHi Project: Enriching ESL Through the Teaching of Pragmatics
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Jeremie Bouchard
Organization: Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture
Short description: Our presenter, a bilingual French Canadian, has a wealth of experience teaching primarily at the senior high school level in Hokkaido. His dynamic presentation consists of both explanatory background lecture and group discussion on the SELHi (Super English Language High School)initiative, involving Comprehensive sentence and discourse based work and Interactive practice in pragmatics necessary for successful language learning.