ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 17th, 2018

Oxford Teaching Workshop Series 2018 - Motivate, Encourage and Empower: Smart approaches to help students grow as learners
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ritsuko Nakata, Kevin Churchley, Setsuko Toyama
Organization: Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Location: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture
Short description: Come and join Oxford at this years Oxford Teaching Workshop series! This interactive and informative event will feature lively and hands-on workshops for teachers of young learners and will stop at ten cities throughout Japan.

Teaching English to Young Learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Mitsue Allen-Tamai (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The introduction of English education into elementary schools has been much discussed in the last few decades. In order to keep up with the pace of globalization, people in non-English-speaking countries are eager to acquire high levels of communicative English proficiency, while people in English-speaking counties have striven to develop appropriate educational curricula to help young immigrant children learn English.

CA (Conversation Analysis) Data Session
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Toshiaki Furukawa (Otsuma Womens University), Eric Hauser (University of Electro-Communications)
Organization: CAN (Conversation Analysis Network) Kanto
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: The purpose of CAN (Conversation Analysis Network) Kanto is to coordinate data sessions and other CA-related meetings among people in the Kanto area.