ELT Calendar

Sunday, November 4th, 2018

One-Day Certificate Course in Teaching Children
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture
Short description: A general introduction to child-centered learning. All sessions are interactive.

Speech, Drama, and Debate SIG Fall Conference 2018 in Okinawa (day 3 of 3)
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Call for proposals due September 30th
Organization: Performance in Education Special Interest Group (formerly known as the Speech, Drama and Debate SIG), Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Motobu, Okinawa Prefecture
Short description: Short presentations, poster presentations and workshops on performance-assisted learning (PAL). .

Context-Based Teaching For Very Young Learners
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Teachers will look at how to set up context based situations so that children use language more naturally. This will include how to incorporate High Frequency Sight Words and CVC words into fun speaking activities that get young learners very familiar with these very useful words.

Content and Language Integrated Learning: What, Why, and How?
Time: 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Featured Speakers: Sandra Kouritzin (University of Manitoba and Kwansei Gakuin Visiting Scholar), Shinichi Izumi (Sophia University)
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: Kyoto JALT proudly announces our first Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) one-day conference, to be held at Campus Plaza Kyoto on Sunday, November 4.

JHS/SHS Reading and Writing
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Sean Anderson and Irene Sugizaki
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: ETJ Tokyo is holding its 5th meeting of the year. Two presenters will share their years of experience teaching junior and senior high students the art of reading and writing.

Story-Based Teaching For Very Young Learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Teachers will look at how to choose a story and how to re-work a story so that it matches a target language. This will include how to choose a good story for the type of target language being focused on and how to build speaking activities around that.

Call for Papers Due November 4th (Sunday)

JALT Hokkaido Winter Language Teaching Conference: Language as a Business Tool
Call for papers due: November 4th (Sunday)
Event Date: January 27th (Sunday), 2019
Overview: The JALT Hokkaido Winter Language Teaching Conference will be held January 26 (networking reception) and January 27 (conference), 2019, at Hokkai-Gakuen University in Sapporo, Hokkaido.