ELT Events CalendarSaturday, October 25th, 2003The Japan Language Testing Association Conference on Language Learning and Testing: The Role of Testing for Language LearningSpeaker: Terry Laskowski, MIZUMOTO Atsushi, John Paul Loucky, Paul Westrick, J. Lake, KATAGIRI Kazuhiko, Oryang Kwon, more Time: 8:50 AM - 7:30 PM Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Location: Kumamoto Venue: Kumamoto University, Research Center for University Education, 2-40-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto Description: For more details about The Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA) conference, see their program of Japanese and English presentations at http://www.avis.ne.jp/~youichi/INFO.html#Anchor3546764. [more details]
English Education Study Group of Sapporo Gakuin University State of the Art in Computer-Assisted Language LearningSpeaker: various speakers Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Location: Sapporo, Hokkaido Venue: Sapporo Gakuin University in Ebetsu Description: This is a practical forum for all high school and university foreign language teachers interested in state-of-the-art teaching via the internet and computers. Over ten sessions will focus on ... (27 more words)[more details]
Miyazaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching Creative and Productive TestingSpeaker: Mike Guest Time: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Location: Miyazaki Venue: Miyazaki Municipal University Rm. #310 Description: Many people think of classroom tests in merely as a measure of student performance, something to be done in order to satisfy the administrators' demands to assign grades to ... (93 more words)[more details]
Materials Writers Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching Materials Writers Weekend Workshop (Day 1 of 2)Speaker: Workshop Participants Time: 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Location: Yufuin, Oita Venue: Yufuin Onsen, Oita, Kyushu (Nihon Bunri University Yufuin Seminar House) Description: The Materials Writers SIG's first-ever outside-of-conference-time get-together will be a gathering of people, SIG members and non SIG members, who are interested in creating materials, for the purpose of ... (81 more words)[more details]
Temple University Japan Current Trends in Teaching VocabularySpeaker: Paul Nation (Victoria University, New Zealand) Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Location: Tokyo Venue: Temple University Japan, Tokyo Center, 2-8-12 Minami Azabu; Minato-ku, Tokyo Description: The seminar will look at the teaching and learning of vocabulary including recent research on technical vocabulary and idioms. The focus will be on how teachers can develop a ... (160 more words)[more details]
Kumamoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching From Phonetics to Phonics and Back AgainSpeaker: Joseph Tomei, Kumamoto Gakuen Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Location: Kumamoto Venue: Kumamoto Shimin Kaikan, 1-3, Sakuramachi, Kumamoto-shi ph: 096-355-5235 Description: In this presentation, Joe Tomei will try to present the basic principles of phonetics and show how they relate to the teaching of phonics. While Tomei says he is ... (70 more words)[more details]
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