ELT Events Calendar

Pearson Longman
The Road To Reading (Fukuoka)
Speaker: Mari Nakamura; Lesley Ito
Time: 9:50 AM - 1:00 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Fukuoka
Venue: Tsukushi Kaikan, 4-8-10 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 4-8-10
Description: The Longman Team invites you to participate in their nationwide initiative to promote successful early reading in Japan. From introducing first readers to designing your own Graded Reading Program, ... (275 more words)
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Pearson Longman
The Road To Reading (Shizuoka)
Speaker: Akiko Seino; Mitsuyo Ohta
Time: 9:50 AM - 1:00 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Shizuoka
Venue: Hotel Citio Shizuoka, 2-1 Tenma-Cho, Shizuoka-shi, 2-17/10 3F
Description: The Longman Team invites you to participate in their nationwide initiative to promote successful early reading in Japan. From introducing first readers to designing your own Graded Reading Program, ... (275 more words)
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
New Easy and Fun Activities for EFL Classes
Speaker: Amy Jenkins
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
Venue: Hamamatsu, ZAZA City Bldg. Palette, 5th floor, Meeting Room A
Description: This workshop will give you fun ideas for speaking, listening, reading and writing activities for English lessons. Amy Jenkins demonstrates a number of activities that require minimal preparation time. ... (61 more words)
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English Teachers in Japan
Practice Makes Confident
Speaker: Ritsuko Mori, Inazawa Higashi Senior High School
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Nagoya, Aichi
Venue: Moralogy Kenkyuujo (The Institute of Moralogy)
Description: ETJ-Aichi is a group for teachers of children up through middle school in Aichi, Gifu and Mie. Ritsuko Mori, a teacher at Inazawa Higashi Senior High School, will explore ... (38 more words)
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English Teachers in Japan
ETJ-Yamaguchi July Meeting
Speaker: Sachiko Akana and Renae Ivany
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Yamaguchi
Venue: Bromski's English Academy, Yoshiki 3236-8, Yamaguchi City
Description: This meeting will be our 6th meeting and it is the first anniversary of the Yamaguchi group. So we hope this meeting can be very active and useful one ... (62 more words)
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
Two presentations: Alternatives to Standard Testing: Self/Peer Evaluations & Portfolios; Constructive Teacher Engagement with University Leadership
Speaker: Scott Bronner, Nick Wood
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa
Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills & Culture Center) near JR Kannai & Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details & a map]
Description: Alternatives to Standard Testing: Self/Peer Evaluations and Portfolios - Communicative teaching emphasizes effort to try, make mistakes and learn. However, standard testing seems at odds with this since someone ... (84 more words)
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
A Tinderbox for your Thoughts
Speaker: Hugh Nichol, Miyazaki Municipal University
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Omiya, Saitama
Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan 5F (near Omiya Station, west exit,see map).
Description: Hugh Nichol writes: Tinderbox, a swiss army knife software tool from Eastgate Systems in Watertown, Massachusetts has become my favorite application for taking research notes, writing, developing teaching plans, ... (151 more words)
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
From an idea to a textbook: Getting published in Japan
Speaker: Simon Capper, The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:25 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Matsuyama, Ehime
Venue: Shinonome High School Kinenkan 4F
Description: Text book writing can be an immensely challenging, frustrating and exhausting activity, but it can also be very rewarding (creatively, at least!). This talk will describe the genesis and ... (30 more words)
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Teachers College Columbia University Japan
Take 1, take 2, take 3 -- a three-stage process for analyzing and reflecting on our teaching
Speaker: John F. Fanselow, President of International Pacific College, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Teachers College
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Date: Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Location: Tokyo
Venue: Teachers College, Columbia University, Tokyo, Mitsui Seimei Bldg 4F, 2-21-2 Misaki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, (03)3221-9771 Website: www.tc-japan.edu
Description: Action research has been advocated a great deal in the past decade. But analyzing interaction in language classrooms, a key component of action research, has been advocated for at ... (258 more words)
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