ELT Calendar

Saturday, September 22nd, 2012

Today is Autumnal Equinox (Shuubun-no-hi)

IETC 2-Day Intensive Certificate Course in Teaching English to Children
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Marco Brazil IETC Executive Training Director
Organization: Institute of English Teaching to Children
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: Learn to teach, teach to learn. Our IETC Certificate program is an intensive 2-day course (Sept.

ETJ Chiba September Workshop: What will help children at JHS?
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Various speakers. Facilitated by Yuco Kikuchi
Organization: ETJ East Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Taking English lessons early and having fun learning English at elementary level does not necessarily mean that they get good grades later in JHS. But careful designing can make a difference in JHS and even SHS English.

TUJ Osaka Distinguished Lecturer Series: The Architecture of Assessment
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Glenn Fulcher (University of Leicester)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: This seminar will explore testing practices through the metaphor of architectural design. This approach has been developed over the last five years in order to deal with emerging issues such as the use of existing tests for audiences and purposes for which they were not originally intended.

Students (and Teachers) as Legitimate Peripheral Participants
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Akiko Nagao, Ian Willey
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: The university context is viewed through the lens of Lave and Wenger's (1991) situated learning theory. Nagao shows how a Japanese student in Australia attempted to learn the social practices of the classroom community.

ELT 2.0
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Michael Stout, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: Web 2. 0 is about user-generated content.