ELT Calendar

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Intensively Extensive: How my experience as an ESL learner has contributed to my teaching and writing
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Marcos Benevides
Organization: Akita Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture
Short description: Marcos Benevides will present his personal story as a language learner and demonstrate the impact it has made on his classroom practice as well as on his material writing.

Being Constructive with Moodle
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Peter Ruthven-Stuart
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: In this workshop, the audience will learn how to blend Moodle into their language classes. They will get hands-on experience in setting up a course and populating it with resources and activities.

Basic Statistics for Applied Linguistics
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: David Coulson
Organization: Niigata Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture
Short description: In this session David will look at some of the fundamental statistics tests that are most commonly used in language teaching research. He will look into what the statistics do and do not tell us and work through examples of how to calculate the statistics with some sample data.