ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

5-Day TESOL course
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Robert Bishop (Yokohama City Univ.) Paul Rowan
Organization: Community of Friendly Filipino English Teachers
Location: Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: A 5-day TESOL course designed for non-native speakers. This gives the teacher a confidence to teach a wide variety of students from kids tom adults.

Teaching games and songs effectively
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: How can we use games and songs to maximise learning? Games and songs are used as extras by some teachers and just to have fun by others. How can we make them the central part of the learning process?.

English Teaching Workshop
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Yuco Kikuchi and others
Organization: English Teaching Workshop
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Part 1, 13:00-13:30 Sharing activities and resources. Part 2, 13:30-14:00 Studying for TKT, Module 1, Writing Participants are expected to bring 1) a copy of The TKT Course Module 1, 2 and 3.

Mini-conference on Teaching Foreign Languages (day 1 of 2)
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Tohoku University Center for the Advancement of Higher Education
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: Two day mini-conference on teaching foreign languages (English, French, Spanish, Chinese, German). First day plenary session, second day workshops.

Activities for children's classes
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Teachers will practice a range of activities. This will include the creation of new activities by teachers.

Brain mapping and learning
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: H. Motegi and Ariji
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: This is a predominantly Japanese language presentation (questions can be taken in English) by two surgeons, Dr. Motegi and Dr.