ELT Calendar

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

My Share: Managing Groups
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Everyone gets a moment!
Organization: Wakayama Chapter of JALT
Location: Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture
Short description: The topic will be in-class small group management. Each participant will present a brief explanation of his or her approach to using small groups in the EFL classroom.

Huh? Oh. Aha! Differences between rote memorization and active thinking
Time: 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM
Speaker: John F. Fanselow
Organization: Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: When a person in a language class responds to a question with "Huh? Sorry, I can't remember" the person is implying that rote-memorization is the main way to learn a language.

Low-tech classroom response system
Captur

Captur Paddles encourage every student to stay involved.

Mobile Audience Response System (MOARS)

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.