ELT Calendar

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

ELT Career and Professional Development Conference (ECAP) 2009
Time: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Keynote speakers: Alastair Graham-Marr, Miyoko Kobayashi, Curtis Kelly
Organization: ELT Career and Professional Development Conference
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The ELT Career and Professional Development Conference (ECAP) caters to teachers from an array of different experience levels and teaching situations.

Group Building in the Classroom
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Warren Decker
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: As teachers, how can we learn or at least use all of our students' names? � help our students feel comfortable with us and with each other? � encourage them to work together and help each other? This is a workshop for anyone interested in these questions.

Six principles for foreign language classes
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: David Beglar
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: A number of leading authorities in the field of second language teaching and learning have stated that teachers should be guided by pedagogical principles that are primarily based on empirical research, rather than strictly adhering to a single teaching method, and particularly one that has little or no theoretical or empirical support.