ELT Calendar

Saturday, June 23rd, 2018

TBLT in Asia 2018
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM
Speaker: Plenary speakers Hayo Reinders (Unitec, Auckland, NZ), and Natsuko Shintani (Auckland University); call for papers due March 15, 2018
Organization: Task Based Learning Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: The 2018 Task-Based Learning and Teaching in Asia Conference will be held June 23-24. The aim of this international event is to enable language educators and researchers from across Asia to share ideas and discuss various aspects relating to the theory and/or practice of Task-based Learning and Teaching in Asia.

First Annual JANET Nursing English Conference: Globalization of Nursing Care in Japan
Time: 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Call for papers due April 30
Organization: Japan Association for Nursing English Teaching
Location: Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture
Short description: As part of our mission to provide a forum for improving the quality of teaching, learning and research in the field of nursing English education in Japan, the Japan Association for Nursing English Teaching (JANET) organizes an annual conference in June.

Distinguished Lecturer Series: Task-based Language Teaching and Learning
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Andrea Revesz (University College London, U.K.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an increasingly popular approach to second and foreign language education across the globe. Based on insights from the fields of general education, second language (L2) acquisition research and L2 pedagogy, TBLT uses communicative tasks as the defining unit for L2 curriculum and syllabus design.

Graded Readers and Global Issues: A Hard Sell?
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Catriona Takeuchi (THT SIG), Ann Mayeda (Konan Women's University)
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: PLEASE NOTE: This presentation starts at 18:00, one hour earlier than Gifu JALT's usual time In any extensive reading program, allowing learners some choice and selection in reading materials is an important aspect.

Pragmatics for in and out of the classroom
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Jim Ronald (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Pragmatics is an essential, but often neglected, part of language teaching. For many teachers, compared to vocabulary or grammar, pragmatics may seem irrelevant, overly academic, or just fuzzy: hard to understand and hard to teach.