ELT Events Calendar

ETJ (English Teachers in Japan)
The Certificate in Teaching Japanese Students
Speaker: Rob Waring, Maurice Jamall, David Paul, Curtis Kelly
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM Date: Sunday, June 2nd, 2002
Location: Fukuoka
Venue: Kyushu Building 1-8-31Hakata-Eki-minami, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi 812-0016 (2-minute walk from JR Hakata Station)
Description: So many internationally-recognized training courses introduce theories and methodology which come out of European or North American teaching situations. Many of the assumptions behind these courses are less relevant ... (232 more words)
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Himeji Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Nice Talking With You!: Conversation Strategies and Timed Conversations
Speaker: Tom Kenny, of Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Date: Sunday, June 2nd, 2002
Location: Himeji, Hyogo
Venue: Hanakita Shimin Hiroba (located directly across from Nozato Station, Bantan Line; plenty of free parking; from Himeji Station, train leaves at 13:50)
Description: Tom Kenny, of Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, will talk about how the practical speaking activity, timed conversation, motivates learners to practice real social conversation and keeps them speaking ... (37 more words)
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Kagoshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
One Person / One Language
Raising Bilingual Children
Speaker: Andy James
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Date: Sunday, June 2nd, 2002
Location: Kagoshima
Venue: Kousha Building 2F
Description: One person/one language is a theory that was developed about 70 years ago and it goes like this: if two parents with different native languages speak only their native ... (121 more words)
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Scientific Education Group
Panel on Extensive Reading
Speaker: Beniko Mason, International Buddhist University and Sakai Kunihide, Denki-Tsushin University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Date: Sunday, June 2nd, 2002
Location: Tokyo
Venue: S.E.G. main building in Shinjuku, Tokyo 7-19-19, Nishi-Shinjuku Shinjuku
Description: The panelists will talk on some extraordinary results that are being observed in their classrooms where students and adults, after only a few months' Extensive Reading mainly in graded ... (42 more words)
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