ELT Calendar

Saturday, November 3rd, 2012

Today is Culture Day (Bunka-no-hi)

The 2012 Tokyo ELT Expo and Book Fair in Association with JALT (day 1 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Speaker: Prominent authors, trainers, and local teachers. Call for papers due September 16th.
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Inviting all ELT professionals and those interested in English language learning and teaching. Comprehensive displays of the latest ELT materials for children and adults.

Pan-Asian Conference on Language Teaching and Learning (PAC) 2012 and 9th FEELTA International Conference (day 3 of 4)
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Call for papers due May 31, 2012
Organization: Pan-Asian Consortium (PAC) of Language Teaching Societies
Location: Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai (Russia)
Short description: PAC 2012 will be hosted by the Far Eastern English Language Teachers' Association (FEELTA). PAC 2012 will be held November 1-4 (Thursday -Sunday), 2012 at Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia.

JALT Hokkaido 27th Annual Conference
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Donna Tatsuki. Many presentations
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: The JALT Hokkaido Conference will have a variety of presentations. Teachers working with children, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, university, and language schools are all invited.

TUJ Tokyo Distinguished Lecturer Series: Researching Lexis and Reading On-Line
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Tom Cobb (University of Quebec)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Almost all voluntary reading now done by young people takes place on an electronic screen. But what do beginning readers, particularly ESL and EFL readers, do while reading on electronic screens? How do they integrate the media of a multimedia document? The multiple texts of a hypertext document? Do they do this the same or differently from native speakers of English? Do they do it with more or less effort than they bring to paper documents? Fortunately, at least in educational contexts, the processing of an electronic document is far from a private experience, and some of these questions can be investigated.