ELT Calendar

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Today is Sports Day (Taiku-no-hi)

Pearson Longman Teacher's Conference 2008 (Tokyo)
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Michael Rost, Yukio Tono, Marc Helgesen
Organization: Pearson Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Pearson Longman will be hosting a conference focusing on building communicative skills that will help learners succeed in the global community. Presentations will include topics on personalization, communication, extensive reading, task-based learning and corpus-based learning.

Briefing session in Fukuoka on postgraduate course on teaching Japanese
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Teruyuki Zushi, the principal of the Institute of International Education in London
Organization: Institute of International Education in London
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The Institute of International Education in London will hold briefing sessions on a postgraduate program on teaching Japanese as a foreign language that the organization offers in the British capital.