ELT Calendar

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Kansai ETJ Expo
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Variety of speakers
Organization: ETJ Kyoto (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Bringing all English teachers together! The Kansai ETJ Expo is one of the major events of the year for English teachers in the Kansai region. There are presentations on teaching children, adults, junior/senior high school students, and much more.

Organizing events and language learning
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: April Amihan Alcazar, Bill Balsamo 2009 Asian Scholar
Organization: Himeji Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: April Amihan Alcazar will begin with a video presentation of her involvement in organizing THT in the Philippines for the last three seminars, and the future plans to expand the program.

Post National Event
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Oita Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Oita City, Oita Prefecture
Short description: Various speakers will give overviews of the presentations that they gave at the International JALT Conference in Shizuoka. See here for details.

ETJ-Oita / Oita JALT Year End Workshop
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Simon Weedon, Etsuko Minami, Lindsay Mack, Sean Chidlow
Organization: ETJ Oita (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Oita City, Oita Prefecture
Short description: Using Literature to Teach "Empathy" to Medical Students "Empathy" is an important term in medicine, but it is an abstract concept that is difficult to define, even for native English speakers.