ELT Events Calendar

The British Council Tokyo Centre
Final Week: "The Way We Are" Photo Exhibition
Speaker: Exhibition of photographs by young British people
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Date: Monday, November 25th, 2002
Location: Tokyo
Venue: The British Council Tokyo Centre, Iidabashi
Description: The Way We Are (UK) is the result of a competition challenging young people in Britain to find a way to present their everyday lives through photographs. The competition ... (170 more words)
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Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Conversation Analysis as an Approach to Second Language Acquisition: Old Wine in New Bottles?
Speaker: Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Date: Monday, November 25th, 2002
Location: Kobe, Hyogo
Venue: Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kyoudokenkyuutou Room AV2 (t: 078-974-8208), 9-1 Gakuen Higashimachi, Nishi-ku Kobe (1 minute walk from Gakuentoshi Station on the Seishin-chuo Subway Line)
Description: Since its inception, second language acquisition (SLA) has been informed by sociolinguistics. Various forms of discourse analysis have been influential in SLA for the past 20 years. More recently, ... (99 more words)
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The British Council Tokyo Centre
Text and Pretext in Language Use and Learning
Speaker: Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Date: Monday, November 25th, 2002
Location: Fukuoka
Venue: British Council Fukuoka Centre, Zenrosai Molty Tenjin Building 2F, 1-7, Maizuru 1-chome Chuo-ku
Description: Henry Widdowson is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Professor Widdowson sits on the Board of Management of the ELT Journal and, among other projects, he ... (160 more words)
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The British Council Teacher Training Seminars
Speaking (Seminar for Japanese Teachers of English at Jr & Sr. High Schools)
Speaker: British Council
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Date: Monday, November 25th, 2002
Location: Osaka
Venue: Dojima Avanza 4F, 1-6-20 Dojima, Kita-ku, Osaka
Description: 'Teaching' the speaking skill is often the area which causes teachers most anxiety and stress. In this seminar we will look at different ways of approaching speaking in terms ... (77 more words)
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