ELT Calendar for March 2015
March 1st (Sunday) 2015
Back to School: My Share and Discussion
Time:
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: round table discussion
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Oxford Teaching Workshop Series 2015 - Nagoya
Time:
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Peter Ferguson, Yuko Suzuki, Ritsuko Nakata, Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Games and Language Learning
Time:
1:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Atticus Sims
Organization: ETJ Kyoto (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
11th Annual CamTESOL Conference on ELT (day 2 of 2)
Time:
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: TBA; call for papers due September 13th, 2014
Organization: Cambodia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Location: Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
March 7th (Saturday) 2015
Center for English as a Lingua Franca Forum: Language teaching in the Asian context
Time:
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Speaker: Featuring Damian J. Rivers (Future University Hakodate) and Glenn Toh (Tamagawa University)
Organization: Tamagawa University
Location: Machida City, Tokyo Metropolis
Pragmatics and Language Education Workshop
Time:
9:00 AM - 5:40 PM
Speaker: Noriko Ishihara (Hosei U.), Seiji Fukazawa (Hiroshima U.), Ryota Nagata (Hiroshima U.), Michiko Kasuya (University of Hyogo), Mayu Konakahara (Waseda U.), and Yoko Nogami (Matsuyama U.)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
March 8th (Sunday) 2015
Oxford Teaching Workshop Series 2015 - Osaka
Time:
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Kaj Schwermer, Yuko Suzuki, Setsuko Toyama
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Teaching young learners of English
Time:
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker:
Organization: Association of Childrens English Teachers
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Pragmatics and Language Education Workshop (day 2 of 2)
Time:
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Noriko Ishihara (Hosei U.), Seiji Fukazawa (Hiroshima U.), Ryota Nagata (Hiroshima U.), Michiko Kasuya (University of Hyogo), Mayu Konakahara (Waseda U.), and Yoko Nogami (Matsuyama U.)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
March 13th (Friday) 2015
Nightmare On Literature Street: Fight For Your Right To Use It
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Paul Hullah (Meiji Gakuin University)
Organization: NanKyu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
March 14th (Saturday) 2015
SCBWI Japan Writers' Craft Workout
Time:
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Holly Thompson, Mariko Nagai, Naomi Kojima
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Games and Activities that Work for Me
Time:
1:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Various
Organization: ETJ Kagoshima (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Teaching the Question of Culture
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Brett Hack (Aichi Prefectural University)
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
March 15th (Sunday) 2015
Oxford Teaching Workshop Series 2015 - Fukuoka
Time:
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Ritsuko Nakata, Kevin Churchley, Naoko Ashikawa, Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Lectures on Literature
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: TBA
Organization: Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nishihara City, Okinawa Prefecture
Useful Websites and Apps for Language Education
Time:
2:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Speaker: Kevin Tang (Ehime University), Ian Brown (Matsuyama University)
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
ETJ Tokyo Workshop: New School Year My Share
Time:
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Various (could be you)
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Basic applied statistics for language education research
Time:
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Matthew Apple (Ritsumeikan University)
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
March 27th (Friday) 2015
Coleridge and Contemplation (day 1 of 3)
Time:
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Keynote lectures: J. C. C. Mays (University College, Dublin) Douglas Hedley (Cambridge University) David E. Cooper (Durham University) Plus 33 other speakers from many countries
Organization: Kyoto Notre Dame University English Language and Literature Association
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
March 28th (Saturday) 2015
Gamification and Language Learning
Time:
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Markus Yong (Kyushu Sangyou University)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Coleridge and Contemplation (day 2 of 3)
Time:
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Keynote lectures: J. C. C. Mays (University College, Dublin) Douglas Hedley (Cambridge University) David E. Cooper (Durham University) Plus 33 other speakers from many countries
Organization: Kyoto Notre Dame University English Language and Literature Association
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
March 29th (Sunday) 2015
Coleridge and Contemplation (day 3 of 3)
Time:
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Keynote lectures: J. C. C. Mays (University College, Dublin) Douglas Hedley (Cambridge University) David E. Cooper (Durham University) Plus 33 other speakers from many countries
Organization: Kyoto Notre Dame University English Language and Literature Association
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture