Teaching Children and Young Learners

If you teach English to children or young learners (elementary school, junior high school, or high school), the events listed here are especially for you!

February 22nd (Sunday) 2026

Kyushu English Language Teaching Convention
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: A wide variety of speakers. Deadline for presenter applications extended to Dec 31)
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture

March 15th (Sunday) 2026

Little America Teaching Materials Webinar: Elemtentary School
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Helene J. Uchida, Soshi Uchida (Little America)
Organization: Little America Book Store
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)

TEMI ONLINE Teacher-training Seminar : Elementary School Methods
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Helene J. Uchida (Little America)
Organization: NPO Teaching English Methods Institute
Location: Online, Online Events (Online Event)

Low-tech classroom response system
Captur

Captur Paddles encourage every student to stay involved.

Mobile Audience Response System (MOARS)

JALT's 52nd Annual International Conference:

JALT 2026

November 20-22, 2026
in Nagoya

Call for presentations due March 8

JALT PanSIG 2026:
PanSIG

May 23-24, 2026
Chukyo University, Nagoya

Call for presentation proposals due January 25 (extended)

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.