ELT Calendar

Saturday, November 27th, 2021

Constraints and Creativity in Online Teaching
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker: Jill Hadfield
Organization: Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)
Short description: How can you overcome the constraints of teaching without a physical classroom or the appropriate materials, in order to teach live online in a way you feel is best ELT practice? This interactive talk will answer that and show how, paradoxically, these constraints can lead to creative and novel activities for language teaching.

Gender Awareness in Language Education: An Evening with GALE SIG
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Quenby Hoffman Aoki (Seikei University), Eucharia Donnery (Soka University), Sue Sullivan, Anna Walker (University of Nottingham), Brent Simmonds (Nandan University), and Carey Finn-Maeda (Tamagawa Academy High School)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)
Short description: As the GALE SIG Website states: "GALE works toward building a supportive community of educators and researchers interested in raising awareness and researching the ways in which gender plays a role in language education and professional interaction" (www.