ELT Calendar

Saturday, April 11th, 2015

April PIGATE meeting (co-sponsored with NanKyu JALT)
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Nicole Gallagher (Kumamoto Prefectual Office) and Ms. Fumi Ogata (Kikuyo JHS)
Organization: NanKyu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Short description: Featuring two speakers, Nicole Gallagher (Kumamoto Board of Education) talking on Teacher beliefs on conducting classes in English, and Fumi Ogata (Kikuyo JHS) discussing possible classroom activities based on the speech of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ms.

TUJ Osaka Distinguished Lecturer Series: Language Learning Motivation and Its Assessment
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Zoltan Dornyei (University of Nottingham, U.K.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Motivation is widely seen both by practitioners and researchers as one of the key factors that determine the success of the acquisition of a foreign/second (L2) language, and therefore L2 motivation research has a rich history of over fifty years within the study of second language acquisition.

Making Dead People Come To Life! Writing biographies for early and middle-grade readers
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: Patricia Lakin
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Author Patricia Lakin will share slides, illustrating how she crafted the various and varied biographies she has written. Her steps include mapping out the arc of that person�s life, doing research, which often requires putting on a detective�s cap to root out little-known facts, and selecting which facts to include or discard.