ELT Calendar

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Motivating students to communicate
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: How can we motivate lower level university students and adults to communicate? How can we motivate junior/senior high school students to use English more communicatively?.

The 3rd Annual Shikoku JALT Conference
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Mike Guest, Jim Ronald, Grant Tew, and others TBA
Organization: Matsuyama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture
Short description: The 3rd Annual Shikoku JALT Conference is co-sponsored by Matsuyama and East Shikoku Chapters of JALT. Speakers:Mike Guest of Miyazaki University (and Daily Yomiuri columnist on culture/language teaching) Jim Ronald of Hiroshima Shudo University Grant Trew of Oxford University Press and author of "Tactics for TOEIC Listening and Reading Test" TBA (Short papers/presentations)For full details, please see East Shikoku JALT's website.

Communication activities
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Teachers will practice and assess a range of activities that motivate students to communicate. This will include the creation of new activities by teachers.

2012 May Two-day Overnight Conference
Time: 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: David Barker, Atsushi Iida, Dan Waldhoff
Organization: Ibaraki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Short description: Click here for details. .

Task complexity and second language development: tools to promote speaking
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Colin Thompson
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: This presentation discusses the role of task complexity for developing L2 speaking skills in terms of fluency, accuracy and complexity. The presenter will begin by reviewing the theoretical background of task-based learning, its advantages and disadvantages before focusing on the role of task complexity, and how tasks can be designed and sequenced to promote learners' L2 speech, referencing Robinson's (2003) Cognition Hypothesis as a framework.