ELT Calendar

Saturday, February 10th, 2018

The Tokyo ELT Expo and Book Fair in Association with JALT (day 1 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Speaker: Prominent authors, trainers, and local teachers; call for papers due December 8th, 2017
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Inviting all ELT professionals and those interested in English language learning and teaching. Comprehensive displays of the latest ELT materials for children and adults.

Design Thinking for Teachers
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Rab Paterson (Educational Technologist)
Organization: West Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Mitaka City, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Design thinking is the term used to describe the creative process designers use when working on products (of any kind) that will be used by others. As such they need to take into consideration a range of issues outwith the actual parameters of the product being made.

Qualitative and Narrative Approaches to Researching Language Teaching and Learning
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Gary Barkhuizen (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: What does qualitative research in the field of language teaching and learning actually mean? And what does narrative research mean? How are they related? These are not easy questions to answer, mainly because of the plethora of both definitions and methodological practices evident in the field.

Grounded Theory in Applied Linguistics Research: Attractive Nuisance or Helpful Guide?
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Gregory Hadley
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Although widely-used throughout the social sciences today, the Grounded Theory methodology (GTM) has been frequently misused by researchers in Applied Linguistics and related fields, leading some to question its suitability.