ELT Calendar

Sunday, May 17th, 2015

PanSIG 2015 Conference (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Several speakers
Organization: JALT PanSIG Conference
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: PanSIG is an annual conference involving collaboration between many of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of JALT. PanSIG2015 will be held at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies on May 16-17, 2015.

English For Beyond The Classroom
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Speaker: Jim Ronald (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Short description: Much of the spoken language found in English textbooks or classrooms may appear strange, or even rude, in real communicative situations. We will first consider the ways that pragmatics may offer insights into how language is actually used in social contexts, then try out a range of pragmatics-focused classroom activities.

ETJ Tokyo Workshop on Self Efficacy
Time: 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Dexter Da Silva (Keisen University), Gene Thompson (Rikkyo University)
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Dexter Da Silva: In this talk, I first argue why self-efficacy is an appropriate and useful concept to focus on for first-year university students' English study.