ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

Principles of vocabulary learning
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Rob Waring
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: What are the main factors when selecting vocabulary to teach? What approaches lead to the best results?. .

Oxford All-Japan Summer Tour for Teachers 2012 (Fujisawa, Kanagawa)
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Speaker: Ishii Yoko (Yoko Kids' Club), Aurora Dobashi (Saitama Board of Education)
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: From mid-June to late-September, Oxford University Press will be holding a tour of 30 cities across the country. There will be presentations at each venue on teaching pre-schoolers and children up to the age of 12.

Managing an Extensive Reading program
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Rob Waring
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Teachers will learn how to set up, manage and run an Extensive Reading program. Teachers will discuss their own programs to find appropriate solutions for the problems they face.

ETJ Ishikawa Workshop: Brain Rules, Tools and Jewels
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Kim Horne
Organization: ETJ Ishikawa (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture
Short description: Kim Horne, one of the most popular teacher trainers in Japan, will share her ideas on brain-friendly teaching in her energetic and fun session. .

Online Corpus Workshop
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Ted O'Neill
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: This hands-on workshop will guide teachers through several applications for online corpus analysis tools. It will include three types of activities useful in teaching practice and in research such as: diagnostic exercises, using Range to investigate materials for teaching and to help with curriculum development choices, tools for comparing texts, and a simulation of a short research project.

The CEFR in general, in Japan, and with ESP - The FLP SIG Kaken project
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Morten Hunke (TUFS/AGU), Alexander Imig (Chukyo University), Naoyuki Naganuma (TUFS), Fergus O'Dwyer (Osaka University), Maria Gabriela Schmidt
Organization: CEFR and Language Portfolio Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The JACET ESP-Kanto SIG and the JALT FLP SIG will jointly hold a two-part presentation and discussion: The CEFR in general, the CEFR in Japan, the CEFR and ESP.