ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 31st, 2014

Critical, Constructive Assessment Of CEFR-Based Language Teaching in Japan and Beyond
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Several speakers
Organization: CEFR and Language Portfolio Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: In recent years there has been a vivid discussion in Japan and elsewhere about language learning curriculums and frameworks, especially the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW) 2014
Time: 9:50 AM - 2:00 PM
Speaker: Tony McEnery (Lancaster U), Andrew Hardie (Lancaster U), Tomoko Kaneko (Showa Women's U). Plus more than 30 presentations
Organization: The International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: This is the second LCSAW conference. Please join us and learn how learner corpus studies can contribute to ELT and language studies in general.

KOTESOL National Conference 2014: Change in the Classroom: Principled Pragmatism
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Speaker: Marc Helgesen, more. Call for papers due March 12th, 2014
Organization: Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Location: Daegu City, Daegu (South Korea)
Short description: Our goal for this year's event is to explore Principled Pragmatism in the Korean and Global ELT setting. The theme means that we are not committed to a single theory or aspect associated with the SLA process.