ELT Calendar

Saturday, February 15th, 2014

2014 Spring We Can! ELT Forum
Time: 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Yoko Matsuka, David Staggs, Lalaine Dy Kendo, Tyler Boivin
Organization: Matsuka Phonics
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: There will be several interesting presentations packed with teaching tips that you can use in your classes right away. Please see their web page for more details.

Technology in Language Teaching
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker: Kevin Ryan, Dan Ferreira, Simeon Flowers, Travis Cote and Brett Milliner
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Machida City, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Close to 100 per cent of tertiary students in Japan now have a mobile device and most schools have wireless Internet capabilities, so how can language teachers capitalise on these conditions? This workshop style event will feature presentations from the chief editor and contributors to Digital Mobile Language Learning, a collection of online publications for teaching and learning languages using technology.

(1) An alternative to speech writing; (2) Get your students hooked on television
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: (1) Paul Delaney; (2) Bob Lamitie
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: An alternative to speech writing by Paul Delaney. Breaking away from the traditional speech writing format of a high school public speaking course by incorporating task based learning to generate a group presentation in which the students teach the audience how to cook a three course meal.

Pecha Kucha Event
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Wendy Gough, Clair Taylor, Nami Sakata, Naoki Akahane, Corazon Talam Kato, Kim Horne, Seiya Kojima and Satoshi Hoshiai
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: Speakers from a variety of language teaching and learning perspectives will give dynamic presentations with 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. There will be plenty of time for q & a.