ELT Calendar
Sunday, April 18th, 2004
How to Adapt Games for Teaching
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Various speakers
Organization: Kagoshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: (Note that the date and topic have changed. ) Ideas to use games as effective teaching tools in the classroom - followed by "meet the presenter" with tea, coffee and light refreshments.
Storyboards For All Occasions
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: William Balsamo
Organization: Himeji Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture
Short description: Storyboards are useful teaching tools for activities in the ESL classroom. They can be used for writing classes as well as term projects.
Know What I Mean? Explaining word meanings in the EFL classroom
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Eddy White
Organization: Chiba Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Short description: Eddy White examines why explaining meaning can be problematic for teachers and confusing for learners. White offers some guidelines for teachers, and discuss dictionary usage for L1 students decoding L2 lexicon.
Beats! and Stories with The Oxford Picture Dictionary
Time:
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Mayuka Habbick
Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture
Short description: The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids introduces over 700 words in the context of 60 colorful illustrations, each of which tells a story. The stories are about five children and their families in various situations relevant to young students.
Using Music in the Classroom
Time:
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Christian Lister, Hiroshima Shudo University
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Christian Lister will lead a one-hour talk entitled Using Pop Music in University Foreign Language Classrooms. During the second hour there will be a general discussion among everyone present about using music in the classroom.