ELT Calendar

Sunday, April 21st, 2013

ETJ Tokyo Workshop (April)
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Terry Yearley
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Terry will demonstrate some speaking activities that can be used when you begin teaching a new group of students. These include ways of introducing yourself, finding out about your students, and assessing their language levels.

Bookswap
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: No speakers
Organization: International Womens Bookswap
Location: Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture
Short description: Books are expensive to buy here in Japan, so we get together about every three months and swap books. Women married to Japanese, women who want to get together with other Native English Speaking women and chat.

Teaching Humor in the EFL Classroom
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Richard Hodson (Lecturer, University of Nagasaki Siebold)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Why should we consider teaching humour in EFL classes? How should we select and use humorous texts? In this presentation, Richard Hodson will introduce some of the theoretical and practical issues behind the teaching of humor, as well as sharing results from his classroom research into EFL learners responses to English jokes.

(1) Language Cloud Online Learning Management System; (2) The Flipped Classroom
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: (1) Theresa Sherry (Language Cloud); (2) Robert Habbick (Cambridge University Press)
Organization: Niigata Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture
Short description: Language Cloud Online Learning Management System Theresa Sherry (Language Cloud) We believe that technology can be used to not only engage students, but to lessen the time educators spend on administrative tasks like managing assignments, grading and manually keeping track of student progress.

Call for Papers Due April 21st (Sunday)

JALT 2013
Call for papers due: April 21st (Sunday)
Event Dates: October 25th (Friday) - October 28th (Monday), 2013
Overview: JALT will hold its 39th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning and Educational Materials Exposition from October 25-28, 2013 at Kobe Convention Center, Portopia, Kobe.