ELT Calendar

Sunday, November 25th, 2018

JALT2018: Diversity and Inclusion (day 2 of 3)
Time: 9:00 AM - 7:25 PM
Speaker: Plenaries by Diane Larsen-Freeman, Momoko Nakamura, Lindsay Clandfield, Judith B. O'Loughlin; many other workshops and presentations
Organization: The Annual International Conference of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Short description: This is a four-day event for language educators and researchers. It begins with Technology in Teaching Workshops on Friday, November 23 and is followed by the three-day main conference.

Context-based teaching for very young learners
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
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.

Story-Based Teaching For Very Young Learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
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.