ELT Calendar

Saturday, July 2nd, 2016

AsiaTEFL International Conference 2016 (day 3 of 3)
Time: 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Call for papers due February 15, 2016
Organization: The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Location: Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai (Russia)
Short description: The 14th Asia TEFL International Conference and the 11th FEELTA International Conference invite proposals for their joint conference on language teaching and learning to be held 30 June - 2 July 2016 at The Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia.

Teaching Speaking: Classroom exercises
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Terry Yearley (Saitama University)
Organization: Nagano Chapter (formerly the Shinshu Chapter) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture
Short description: We will examine some speaking exercises with regard to how and why they are used in the language classroom. We will begin with an overview of Nation's four strands (meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development), and then look at how speaking fits into this framework.