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Holidays in November 2003:
November 3:
Culture Day (Bunka-no-hi)
November 23:
Labor Thanksgiving Day (Kinrou-kansha-no-hi)
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TEFL in Asia: Emerging Issues (day 1 of 3)
Speaker: Bernard Spolsky, Neil Anderson, Keith Johnson, Sandra McKay, Michael Levy, Amy Tsui, more.
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2003
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Busan
Venue: Hotel Nongshim
Description:
The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (Asia TEFL) is to serve as a forum that brings together ELT professionals in the Asia region to collect, disseminate, and discuss information on English language teaching and learning in the Asian context with the objective of promoting scholarship which will lead to improvements in the way English is both learned and taught. We aim to do this through our first annual conference, to be held in Busan, South Korea. (Note: Busan is what some readers may know as Pusan.) The Asia TEFL International Conference Committee invites presentation proposals. The submission deadline is August 14, 2003. The official language for the conference, including
presentations and submissions, is English. Invited Speakers:
- Bernard Spolsky / Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
- Neil Anderson / Brigham Young Univ., USA; Imm. Past
President, TESOL.
- Keith Johnson / University of Lancaster, UK.
- Sandra Lee McKay / San Francisco State Univ., USA.
- Michael Levy / Griffith University, Australia.
- Amy Tsui / University of Hong Kong, HK.
- Oryang Kwon / Seoul Natl. University, S. Korea.
- Yoji Tanabe / Pres. of JACET, Japan.
- Zhizhong Yang / Pres. of CETRAC, China.
- Winnie Cheng / Polytechnic Univ. of Hong Kong, HK.
- Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew / Pres. of ELLTAS, Singapore.
- Malachi Edwin Vethamani / Pres. of MELTA, Malaysia.
- Christine Coombe / Imm. Past Pres. of TESOL Arabia, UAE.
- Mashael A. Al-Hamly / Kuwait University, Kuwait.
- Suchada Nimmannit / Imm. Past Pres. of ThaiTESOL, Thailand.
- Isabel Pefianco Martin / Ateneo de Manila Univ., Philippines.
- Bahram Behin / Azarbaijan Teacher Ed. Univ., Iran.
- Ravinder Gargesh / University of Delhi, India.
- Suwarsih Madya / Pres. of TEFLIN, Indonesia.
- Tsung-Yuan Hsiao / Natl. Taiwan Ocean Univ.,Taiwan.
- Le Van Canh / Hanoi Natl. University, Viet Nam.
- Won-Key Lee / Seoul Natl. University of Ed., S. Korea.
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more...
Cost for Asia TEFL members: Pre-registration free to members. (Membership free before Oct. 7.) Cost for Asia TEFL non-members: On-site registration: 25,000 won (US$20.00) Organization: The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language This URL: http://www.eltcalendar.com/events/details/1525
Contact The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language: Asia TEFL Contact:
Other Past Events (Archive) for The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Sunday, August 20th, 2006 Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Location: Fukuoka
Saturday, August 19th, 2006 Time: 8:30 AM - 6:20 PM Location: Fukuoka
Friday, August 18th, 2006 Time: 8:30 AM - 6:10 PM Location: Fukuoka
Sunday, November 9th, 2003 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Busan
Saturday, November 8th, 2003 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Busan
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