ELT Calendar

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Peace as a Global Language 2011
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Plenary speakers: Mayumi Kozo and Aileen Mioko Smith
Organization: Peace as a Global Language Conference
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Peace as a Global Language will be held on October 22nd - 23rd at Konan CUBE in Nishinomiya (Kansai), Japan. PGL 2011, Peace without Boundaries, appeals to all those wishing to come together and work towards peace.

Whole Brain Teaching aka "Power Teaching"
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Kim Horne
Organization: Community of Friendly Filipino English Teachers
Location: Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: CoFFET and Sky Highes English Studion will co-host Whole Brain Teaching. WBT is a method that integrates an effective classroom management system with learning approaches that tap the way your brain learns best.

2011 mpi Kids English Tour on mpi Picture Books and We Can!
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Rumiko Kido, Kazuko Okazaki
Organization: mpi
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Workshop 1: 14:00-16:30 Introducing and demonstrating how to teach mpi 's new editions of the exciting Wiggle book, Hot book, and Funny Alphabet which come with fun stickers and independent workbooks.

TUJ Tokyo Distinguished Lecturer Series: ESP for EFL Environments: Concepts, Convenient Tools, and Challenges
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Judy Noguchi
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) offers an approach that can raise student motivation by showing them how to go from being a language learner to a language user.

CALL in the CLOUD: A Corpus-based pre-EAP Writing Course to Enliven your Classroom
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Speaker: Trudie Heiman
Organization: East Shikoku Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture
Short description: Discover how your classroom can be enliven by using fully interactive online course materials designed to get false beginners / pre-EAP level to write a lot and to write meaningfully.