ELT Calendar

Sunday, July 23rd, 2017

Four-Skills Integrated Lessons to Promote Learners' Communicative Competence
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Yoko Takano (Okidoki Eigo School/Nagoya University of Foreign Studies (NUFS))
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Want your students to speak more in class? Want a more student-centered classroom? Join us on July 23rd as Yoko Takano of Okidoki Eigo School presents her method for getting students to speak and write more in class.

Toward A Focus-on-Form Approach to EFL Teaching in Japan
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Shinichi Izumi (Sophia University)
Organization: Nagoya and Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Presentation / workshop language: English & Japanese In this task-based interactive presentation, I wish to highlight some problems in grammar-based, teacher-centered, and context-poor instruction that is still prevalent in English education in Japan, and show directions for change that hopefully enable us to teach English in English for greater benefits to students.

Developing "Global Citizens": Considering the role of language educators in developing 21st century skills
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Richmond Stroupe (JALT President)
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: As we move through the 21st century, developing "global citizens" is increasingly becoming a focus at secondary, tertiary, and even primary, levels of educational systems.