ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 18th, 2019

4th GEN TEFL International Conference (GEN TEFL 2019)
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: TBA; Call for papers due December 30, 2018
Organization: Global Educators Network Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Location: Bali, Bali Province (Indonesia)
Short description: GEN TEFL 2019 welcomes proposals on all aspects of TEFL, with special emphasis on the new technological solution to face TEFL. With your participation in this conference, we will not only present a range of studies exploring English language teaching approaches, methodologies, technologies and common practices but work together and develop sustainable professional networks focused on the long term advancement of ELT related research and knowledge.

PanSIG 2019 Conference (day 1 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Call for papers due December 22, 2018
Organization: JALT PanSIG Conference
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: PanSIG is an annual conference sponsored and organized by many of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT).

TUJ Distinguished Lecturer Series: Second Language Pragmatics: Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Naoko Taguchi (Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Short description: Pragmatics, an area within linguistics, is concerned with how people use language in a social context and why they use it in particular ways. The aim of this course is to develop awareness of pragmatics phenomena in our everyday communication, as well as to understand opportunities and challenges that second language (L2) learners face when learning pragmatics in L2.