ELT Calendar

Saturday, October 18th, 2014

SCBWI Japan Translation Day 2014
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Cathy Hirano, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Daniel Hahn, Alexander O. Smith, Lynne E. Riggs, Avery Fischer Udagawa
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: A day of presentations, critiques, and conversation for published and pre-published translators of Japanese children's literature into English, with a focus on fiction for young adults.

(1) Focus on Canada; (2) Cognitive Load and the COmpetent Teacher
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: (1)David Townsend; (2) Jason Lowes
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Focus on Canada by David Townsend This presentation will detail a course designed to tap into the students' collective knowledge of their own country while at the same time presenting the parallel information of a common travel destination, Canada.

Conversation Activities (followed by Elections and AGM)
Time: 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Speaker: Sean Anderson, Nathaniel French
Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: Sean will present on Question Quest, a card=based conversation activity he has published. Nathaniel's presentation will outline the activities he has used to get all 22 of his students in a first-year university class (~400 TOEIC) to go from guided conversations that lasted less than a minute to 10-minute free conversations within the span of one semester.

Dictation and internet media: Activities integrating old and new
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Mark Rebuck (Meijo University)
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: This workshop will introduce several variations on "standard dictation," focusing in particular on combining dictation with talk-radio audio clips and YouTube videos.