Events Saturday February 20th 2010 for English teachers in Japan

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Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Oxford University Press Kids' Club
Oxford Teaching Workshop Series 2010 (Okayama)
Speaker: Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto, Laurie Thain, Yoko Ishii
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Date: Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Location: Okayama
Venue: Okayama Convention Center 3F 301 Kaigishitsu, 14-1 Ekimoto-machi, Kita-ku, Okayama
Description: This fun and informative day involves lively and hands-on workshops for teachers of English to children in nine cities throughout Japan:* Sunday, January 31st OUP Teaching Workshop in Sendai ... (157 more words)
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Teaching English Methods Institute
TEMI Winter Pioneer Seminar
Speaker: Helene Jarmol Uchida
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Date: Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Location: Fukuoka
Venue: Little America World Tenjin and Ozasa, Fukuoka City
Description: TEMI's Fukuoka two-day English teacher-training seminar will be held February 20-21 at Little America, the school Uchida runs in Fukuoka; the seminar will include observing classes, review of methods ... (55 more words)
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East Shikoku Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Anatomy of a Native Check
Speaker: Ian Willey and Kimie Tanimoto
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Date: Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Location: Takamatsu, Kagawa
Venue: Kagawa University (Takamatsu) Faculty of Education, Room 411
Description: Many academic journals in Japan require "native checks" for English abstracts accompanying submissions in Japanese. However, the efficacy of such native checks has not been confirmed empirically. It has ... (113 more words)
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Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
From Curiosity to Competency: Intercultural Activities for the EFL Classroom
Speaker: Jon Dujmovich
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Date: Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Location: Gifu
Venue: TO BE CONFIRMED - Next to Gifu JR Station
Description: Educators often speak of using activities appropriate for each language learning stage. However, when incorporating "cultural elements" into lessons, there is usually little consideration of the learners' developmental stage ... (46 more words)
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