ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 11th, 2015

July Pigate meeting: Student iPad Presentations for the Language Classroom: A basic introduction
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Joseph Tomei (Kumamoto Gakuen University)
Organization: NanKyu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Short description: This meeting will feature the ins and outs of linking up Google drive with iPads for student presentations. Several students from the speaker's 2nd year speaking class at Kumamoto Gakuen University will give iPad presentations they have developed in the class and the speaker will describe how this can be done as a small group activity not only with iPads, but smartphones as well.

TUJ Osaka Distinguished Lecturer Series: Developing and Promoting Learners' Ability to Understand Real-world Spoken English
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Elvis Wagner (Temple University, U.S.A.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Listening is a vital component of L2 proficiency and communicative competence. An incredible amount of research has examined the L2 listening process in recent decades, and real improvements have been made in how we understand the L2 listening process, and in how we teach L2 listening.

Covering Your Bets: The Reading/High-Frequency Vocabulary Connection
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Charles Browne
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Our meeting on Saturday, July 11th is a presentation co-sponsored by Okayama JALT and Okayama University's Language Education Center (LEC). We appreciate LEC's continued support.

Done in 60 Seconds: Bottom-up listening tasks for beginners
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Branden Kirchmeyer (Sojo University)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Geared towards teachers with beginner-level or reluctant students, this interactive presentation focuses on the integration of brief but frequent bottom-up processing (BUP) activities into larger, more meaning-focused instruction.

(1) Setting up an extensive reading course; (2) Inspire or perspire? Getting students speaking
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Andy Boon (Toyo Gakuen University)
Organization: Hamamatsu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: Presentation 1. Setting up an extensive reading course: the beginning, the middle, and the end This presentation / workshop will provide an outline of an extensive reading elective reading course for second year students at Toyo Gakuen University.