ELT Calendar

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

First Extensive Reading World Congress (day 1 of 2)
Time: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Plenary speaker David R Hill
Organization: Extensive Reading Foundation
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: The Extensive Reading Foundation announces the First Extensive Reading World Congress, to be held on the campus of Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan from 3-6 September 2011.

IIEEC - Oxford University Press Teacher Training Certificate Program Autumn Session Workshop 1
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Ritsuko Nakata and IIEEC Teacher Trainers
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Workshop 1 - Fundamentals of teaching: The MAT METHOD. * Workshop content has been developed by Ritsuko Nakata (Co-Author, Let's Go) in cooperation with Oxford University Press and is aimed at all teachers of young learners who wish to become more confident and effective teachers.

IIEEC - Oxford University Press Teacher Training Certificate Program Autumn Session Workshop 2
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ritsuko Nakata and IIEEC Teacher Trainers
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Workshop 2 - Activating the right and the left sides of the brain. * Workshop content has been developed by Ritsuko Nakata (Co-Author, Let's Go) in cooperation with Oxford University Press and is aimed at all teachers of young learners who wish to become more confident and effective teachers.

Lions, Witches, and Reindeer: Creating lessons to get children excited about learning
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Tanja T. Yoder, Director, Instructor at Knock Knock English
Organization: EFL Arena
Location: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Short description: Far too often in ESL/EFL curricula, the target language is selected and then forced into artificial themes, rather than starting with themes students are naturally interested in and teaching language that seamlessly fits within those topics.

Using Conflict Resolution Techniques for Language Learning
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Chris Stillwell
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: A language course that incorporates conflict resolution techniques can promote an alternative view of conflict as a potential opportunity for enhanced communication and understanding, with material that may have great power to stimulate interest and engage higher order thinking as learners and teachers use language not for its own sake but rather to communicate, negotiate, and mediate.

My Share
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: ETJ Saitama members
Organization: ETJ Saitama (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: In this workshop, each presenter will share some simple but dynamic classroom activities that have a big effect on their students' confidence to engage in a simple conversation.