ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Eighth Annual JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2009 - Infinite possibilities: expanding limited opportunities in language education (day 1 of 2)
Time: To be announced
Speaker: Call for papers deadline is Feb 15, 2009
Organization: JALT PanSIG Conference
Location: Nagareyama City, Chiba Prefecture
Short description: The organizing committee of the JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2009 invites interested applied linguistic researchers to submit presentation proposals for the 8th Annual Pan-SIG Conference, which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 23rd and 24th, 2009 at Toyo Gakuen University, Nagareyama Campus, in Chiba.

TEMI Pioneer Seminar
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Helene Jarmol Uchida
Organization: NPO Teaching English Methods Institute
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This is a 2-day weekend (May 23-24) seminar and includes observation of Little America classes, reviewing TEMI teaching methods, the usage of materials, games, and songs, discussion in both English and Japanese, reviewing a local elementary school pilot program, and consultation with Helene J.

Briefing sessions on postgraduate course on teaching Japanese (Tokyo)
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: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
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.

TUJ Tokyo Distinguished Lecturer Series (Seminar 1): Interlanguage Pragmatics
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Rod Ellis
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: This seminar will investigate how language learners perform and acquire speech acts such as requests, apologies and refusals in a second language. It will examine research in these areas and the application of this research to the teaching of pragmatic competence.