ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 24th, 2014

6th N.E.A.R. Language Education Conference: Language Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century: Approaches, Needs, and Contexts
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Ochanomizu University. Call for papers due February 16, 2014
Organization: North-East Asian Regional Language Education Conference
Location: Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture
Short description: The 6th N. E.

Classroom Management
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: David Townsend (Shujitsu University), Magnus Kuwahara Magnusson (International Pacific University)
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: While classroom management issues lie at the heart of the student�teacher relationship, little time is given to discussing them in a more formal setting.

Implementing a genre-based ESP curriculum at university
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Shi Jie (English Department, UEC Tokyo)
Organization: JACET English for Specific Purposes SIG (Japan Association of College English Teachers) Kanto
Location: Chofu City, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: As the need for ESP in tertiary English education rises globally in tertiary education, a new English pre-program called Technical English was developed at a Japanese university of science and technology in Tokyo.

Principles of vocabulary acquisition - how well do textbooks do?
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Rob Waring
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This presentation will first review some of the underlying principles of foreign language vocabulary acquisition. It will then look at how well course books and other ELT materials cover the most important vocabulary and whether they adhere to these underlying principles.