ELT Calendar

Sunday, January 13th, 2019

Inspire, Explore, Motivate: A young learners event (Nagoya)
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:15 PM
Speaker: Mari Nakamura (English Square), Lesley Ito (Big Bow English Lab), Justin Kaley and David White (National Geographic Learning)
Organization: National Geographic Learning (Cengage Learning)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Short description: With workshops from leading names in young learner education and experienced consultants, you will acquire practical teaching ideas you can use in your classroom today! Let's inspire, motivate and explore together as English teachers who play a vital role in shaping the future of our young learners.

TESOL (Young Learners): Planning and integrating language games
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
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.

(1) Let's play using games and flashcards; (2) Let's make Music!
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: (1) Amy Long; (2) Pieter Van Leuven
Organization: ETJ Tokyo (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: ETJ Tokyo is holding its 1st meeting of the year. Start 2019 off with a bang and learn how to get the most out of games/flashcards and music for young learners and elementary.

TESOL (Young Learners): YL18: Planning and integrating songs
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
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.

ESP for Language Learners: Introducing the NGSL, BSL, TSL and NAWL Wordlists
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Charles Browne (Meiji Gakuin University)
Organization: West Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hino City, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Dr. Charles Browne and his colleagues have now co-published 5 different open-source, corpus-derived word lists as part of a component-based approach to help meet the needs of general and special-purpose second language learners of English.

Call for Papers Due January 13th (Sunday)

JALT SDD SIG Early Spring Conference 2019 (Sapporo)
Call for papers due: January 13th (Sunday)
Event Dates: February 4th (Monday) - February 6th (Wednesday), 2019
Overview: The JALT SDD SIG Early Spring Conference 2019 will be held February 4-6, 2019 during the Sapporo Snow Festival, at the APA Hotel and Resort Sapporo.