ELT Calendar

Sunday, April 22nd, 2018

Getting Ready for 2020
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Alison Nemoto
Organization: Iwate-Aomori Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Short description: This is a period of enormous change in Japanese primary education, as English advances to become a subject for the upper grades and a compulsory activity for the middle grades from 2020.

1) Positive Psychology in ELT; 2) Stress, Emotion Words, and Anxiety Reduction
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Marc Helgesen (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University); Harumi Kimura (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University)
Organization: Sendai Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Short description: Talk 1: Happy students learn more, stay on task longer and have more grit. How do we share key positive psychology concepts? This session introduces a way with both language goals and psychology elements.