ELT Calendar

Sunday, January 21st, 2018

TESOL Certificate Program: Planning and integrating language games
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: A hands-on workshop where groups of teachers will be assigned language targets, work together to design activities for introducing and practicing the targets, and then demonstrate them.

Conversation Strategies
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Nicky Sekino
Organization: ETJ East Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The English language and the Japanese language have different communication strategies. Because of this, English-speaking people sometimes find it difficult to understand the Japanese people even if the two parties are talking to each other in English.

Integrating Intercultural Communication in the University Language Classroom
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Tomoko Yoshida
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: Culture influences the way we think and behave; much of what we think of as "common sense" is governed by culture. As a result, to communicate effectively in a foreign language we must understand the target culture.

TESOL Certificate Program: Planning and integrating songs
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: How can we fully integrate songs into our lessons? This is a hands-on lessons where teachers will work in groups to modify and come up with songs that fit assigned language targets.