ELT Calendar

Sunday, May 21st, 2017

PanSIG 2017 Conference (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:15 PM
Speaker: Many great speakers!
Organization: JALT PanSIG Conference
Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture
Short description: PanSIG is an annual conference sponsored and organized by many of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT).

Teach Spelling Without Really Trying
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Nic Kapper
Organization: ETJ Aichi (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: Join us on Sunday, May 21st as Nic Kapper shares more of his ideas with us. This time, he will demonstrate how to teach spelling without really trying.

Who Owns English? Exploring Linguistic Ideologies in High School Textbooks
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Rob McGregor. Hiroshima Motomachi Municipal Senior High School
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: While sentence-level ideologies may be readily engaged in the classroom, those manifesting across an entire curriculum are often less apparent. Presenting the results of a corpus-driven study, the presenter will examine discourse on first and second language use in high school textbooks.