Sunday, October 26th, 2008Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Korea TESOL International ConferenceSpeaker: Various speakers
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Seoul
Venue: Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Description: Korea TESOL encourages teachers and scholars to consider what it is about the contemporary ELT environment that drives change in the classroom, and to present their responses before 900 ...
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Linguapax Asia
Language and Propaganda: The Uses of Linguistic InfluenceSpeaker: Call for papers deadline May 23, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Tokyo
Venue: University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
Description: The topic of the 2008 conference is the interface of language and propaganda and the ways in which perceptions and behaviors can be managed through words. Within this general ...
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English Teachers in Japan
Chubu ELT ExpoSpeaker: Many speakers
Time: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Nagoya, Aichi
Venue: Chukyo University, 101-2 Yagoto Honmachi, Showa-ku, Nagoya-shi
Description: Bringing together all English teachers. There will be presentations and materials for college teachers, high school teachers. elementary school teachers, kindergarten teachers. In fact, the aim is to provide ...
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
A practical activity for a TOEIC preparation classSpeaker: Shizuno Seki
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Shizuoka
Venue: Kyouiku Kaikan (across from Shin-Shizuoka) in the basement (5-minute walk north from JR station)
Description: This presentation will introduce a practical activity to get students more involved in a TOEIC preparation class. In the activity, students make a presentation about the company they would ...
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
Exploring Portfolio Assessment in the EFL ClassroomSpeaker: Steve Quasha
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Maebashi, Gunma
Venue: MIT: Maebashi Institute of Technology (Maebashi Koka Daigaku), 460-1 Kamisadori, Maebashi
Description: In this workshop, the presenter will demonstrate how portfolio assessment plays an integral part in his communicative English courses at a Japanese women's university. Participants will experience tasks and ...
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
From Inside the Elementary ClassroomSpeaker: Various speakers
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Kagoshima
Venue: Seminar Room 117, Ground Floor Kousha Biru, Shinyashiki opposite the Shinyashiki Tram Stop
Description: We will hear from elementary school teachers about successes and difficulties within the english classroom. What are the challenges and what are the pitfalls? Putting our heads together to ...
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Japan Association for Language Teaching
Storytelling in the Language ClassroomSpeaker: Kusumika Chatterjee
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Okayama
Venue: Sankaku A Bldg. 2F near Omotecho in Okayama City
Description: Kusumika Chatterjee, a professional storyteller from England, will give a workshop on how mime and music can be used to teach English grammar, poetry and literature. She has extensive ...
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English Teacher and Learner Cooperative
Tourism in JapanSpeaker: Kenneth Biegel
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Niiza, Saitama
Venue: The first floor of the eTLC meeting house near Hibarigaoaka Station on the Seibu-Ikebukuro Line (an 8-minute walk). Email for address and directions.
Description: In the past several weeks many difficult issues have dominated the news. These economic and political issues are important, but very difficult for us to discuss in English. Actually, ...
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The International University of Kagoshima, Canadian Studies Centre
ECOnomics and ECOlogical Island DevelopmentSpeaker: Godfrey Baldacchino
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Location: Kagoshima
Venue: Sun Royal Hotel Kagoshima
Description: Canada's Island Chair focuses on the tension between economic and ecological development of islands around the world and in Japan, such as the Kagoshima islands.
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