ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

The 9th Annual JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2010 - Learner Perspectives
Time: To be announced
Speaker: Call for papers deadline is Feb 15, 2010
Organization: JALT PanSIG Conference
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: The organizing committee of the JALT Pan-SIG Conference invites all interested applied linguistic researchers to submit presentation proposals for the 9th Annual Pan-SIG Conference, which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 22 and 23, 2010 at Osaka Gakuin University.

Self-Access Language Learning as Classroom-Based Instruction
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Garold Murray
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: This workshop focuses on how self-access language learning might be integrated into the curriculum in high schools and universities. In the first part of the workshop, the presenter outlines a course in self-directed language learning that he developed and delivered to first-year Japanese university students.