ELT Calendar

Sunday, December 8th, 2013

2013 ETJ Kyushu ELT Expo
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organization: ETJ Fukuoka (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The Kyushu English Language Teaching Expo is the premiere event of the year for all teachers of English in the Kyushu region. It's an important time for the teaching community to come together, exchange ideas, and grow professionally.

Self-Regulation in Foreign Language Learning (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:30 AM - 3:40 PM
Speaker: The featured speakers are Garold Murray (Okayama University) and Yoshiyuki Nakata (Hyogo University of Teacher Education).
Organization: Shimonoseki City University
Location: Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Short description: Interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a presentation proposal (150-200 words) for the upcoming symposium on Self-Regulation in Foreign Language Learning.

MyShare: A joint event with Saitama City Educators
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Shaun Iwasawa, Die Hu, Alex Procter, Daniel Worden, Faye Quinn, Rebecca Quinn and other Kanto-based educators
Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: Given an open stage and an audience of your peers, what will you say? MyShare is an event for educators who wish to share a technique, material, procedure, story, or other useful tool or experience with the general membership, and do so in the span of three to fifteen (3-15) golden minutes.

Motivating the unmotivated: Do teachers have to do all the work?
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Ken Wilson (author of the Smart Choice series, Oxford University Press )
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture
Short description: Okayama JALT is hosting events in two locations this weekend. Okayama on Saturday and Tottori on Sunday.