ELT Calendar

Sunday, January 25th, 2015

Chubu ELT Expo
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Various; call for papers due November 15th.
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: The ETJ Expos are held in five cities around Japan between November and January each year. There are presentations and displays of materials for college teachers, high school teachers, elementary school teachers, kindergarten teachers.

(1) Motivation: The Importance of Social Influences; (2) A Motivated Teacher Can Motivate Students, but What Motivates the Teacher?
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Margarita Foster (Hachinohe Gakuin University)
Organization: Iwate-Aomori Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Short description: 1. Motivation: The Importance of Social Influences In social psychology there are several studies which analyze the importance of human interaction in the process of teaching and learning.

Understanding Bilingualism
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Barry Ratzliff (Hokkaido International School), Shannon Koga (Hokkaido International School), Tim Greer (Kobe University)
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Short description: All are welcome to join us for a three part program that considers what it means to be bilingual. Part I features a talk on bilingualism in education.