ELT Calendar

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

2-Day Certificate Course in Teaching English to Children
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Marco Brazil
Organization: Institute of English Teaching to Children
Location: Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Short description: Learn to teach. Teach to learn.

Oxford Teaching Workshop Series 2012 (Osaka)
Time: 10:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto, Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina, Ritsuko Nakata, Setsuko Toyama, Kevin Churchley
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Practical and interactive workshops from well-known presenters to help you teach children more effectively. Pre-registration strongly recommended.

Cross-cultural Pragmatics and Communicative Competence
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: This seminar aims to raise participants' awareness of cross-cultural pragmatic norms. A variety of speech acts will be explored such as apologizing, requesting, and refusing, to focus on the mismatches and inconsistencies in these acts between English and Japanese.

Teaching English in Junior High School
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Allan V. Antonio (Assistant Language Teacher), Jessica Moore (Assistant Language Teacher), Hisae Hosaki (English Instructor)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: First, the instructors will discuss the new curriculum and how it is supposed to be implemented. Second, they will evaluate the reality of instruction in junior high schools.

Implementing Information and Communications Technology
Time: 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: (1) Lauren Brumfield; (2) Panel: Todd Beuckens, Paul Collett, Robert Diem, Bill Pellowe
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Not many of us are teacher trainers in technology, but many of us have introduced new technology to our colleagues or students. How do we help teachers and students to become more independent users of technology? How to we introduce technology to the wary or uninterested so that the technology is adopted rather than neglected or even rejected? In this event, we hope to shed light on these questions.

Webinar: Implementing Information and Communications Technology in an Institution
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Lauren Brumfield
Organization: The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, Learning Technologies Special Interest Group
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)
Short description: Note: This is an online seminar being held Sunday, 19 February 2012, 11:00 AM Barcelona time, which is 7:00 PM (same day) in Japan. The event takes place in the IATEFL online conference room, click here for details on how to connect.