ELT Calendar

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Oxford All-Japan Summer Tour (Kanazawa)
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Devon Thagard, Ritsuko Nakata
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture
Short description: Schedule:11:20 - 12:00 How do I teach songs? by Devon Thagard (Super Simple Learning) 12:20 - 13:00 What can I give to students who want to learn more? by Ritsuko Nakata (Author, Let's Go).

SCBWI Tokyo Creative Exchange
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Bring your questions and your work in progress
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Reservations: RSVP contact (at) scbwi (dot) jp by Friday, September 9This Creative Exchange will be in English. Writers and translators, join us for a Creative Exchange.

A Fluency First Approach through Extensive Writing in the EFL Context
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Steven Herder
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Nakanishi (2006) claims that in Japanese high school L2 writing classes, students have very limited experience in writing, and that sentence-level translation and vocabulary training are still the norm.

Call for Papers Due September 10th (Saturday)

2011 ETJ Chubu Expo
Call for papers due: September 10th (Saturday)
Event Date: November 6th (Sunday), 2011
Overview: The 2011 ETJ Chubu Expo will be held Nov. 6, 2011 at Sugiyama Jogakuen University (Hoshigaoka).