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ELT Calendar for Fukuoka City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Fukuoka City.

September 23rd (Saturday) 2017

1st International Conference on Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts: Community Development, Education and Policy (day 3 of 4)
Time: To be announced
Speaker: Featured speakers: TBA. Call for papers due 10th June 2017
Organization: Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts Conference
Venue: NPO Tiempo Iberoamericano, 3F Daimyo 11511 Bldg., 1-15-11 Daimyo, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0041 map
Brief description: This conference is co-organized by NPO Tiempo Iberoamericano in Fukuoka, and the Multicultural Fitness Community , which is based at Saga University, in Japan.

Listening Skills: Critical in Asian Contexts
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: ACROS Building, 2F, Seminar Room 2 (map)
Brief description: Learners need huge amounts of comprehensible input to learn a foreign language. And listening is an easy way to get this.

September 24th (Sunday) 2017

1st International Conference on Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts: Community Development, Education and Policy (day 4 of 4)
Time: To be announced
Speaker: Featured speakers: TBA. Call for papers due 10th June 2017
Organization: Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts Conference
Venue: NPO Tiempo Iberoamericano, 3F Daimyo 11511 Bldg., 1-15-11 Daimyo, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0041 map
Brief description: This conference is co-organized by NPO Tiempo Iberoamericano in Fukuoka, and the Multicultural Fitness Community , which is based at Saga University, in Japan.

October 21st (Saturday) 2017

Good Education Versus Gamification: Who Wins?
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: John Wiltshier (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: ACROS Building, 6F, Room 605, 1-1-1 Tenjin (map)
Brief description: Why do our students, spend so much time gaming, tweeting, clicking, liking, uploading, texting? As teachers we can critically observe students' online activities to determine what--if anything--can be utilized for good education.

December 2nd (Saturday) 2017

Motivating Learners to Speak
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Rob Peacock (sponsored by Oxford University Press)
Organization: Fukuoka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: ACROS Building, 6F, Room 605, 1-1-1 Tenjin (map)
Brief description: In this session we will take some time to discuss the difficulties which learners face when developing their productive skills, and then look at some effective methods to motivate students to speak out.

Groups Active In Fukuoka City

Listed in decreasing order by the number of events on ELT Calendar by each group in Fukuoka City. (The ELT Calendar database goes back to 2001.)

• Fukuoka JALT (161 events)
• Fukuoka ACET (60 events)
• ETJ Fukuoka (57 events)
• NPO Teaching English Methods Institute (54 events)
• Fukuoka IIEEC Study Group (47 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (11 events)
• Oxford University Press (10 events)
• OUP Kids' Club (10 events)
• Pearson Kirihara (10 events)
• Institute of International Education in London (8 events)
• Kyushu-Okinawa JACET (7 events)
• Fukuoka CSELT (6 events)
• ETJ Certificate Course (6 events)
• ETJ (5 events)
• PROMS (5 events)
• Foreign Entrepreneur Promotion Committee (4 events)
• Institute of English Teaching to Children (4 events)
• Kyushu LET (4 events)
• National JACET (4 events)
• Nellie's Group, Ltd. (4 events)
• Vocabulary SIG of JALT (4 events)
• CALL SIG of JALT (3 events)
• LET National (3 events)
• mpi (3 events)
• Asia TEFL (3 events)
• Fielding Seminar (2 events)
• GenkiEnglish.com (2 events)
• IDA Conference (2 events)
• International Pacific College in New Zealand (2 events)
• Macmillian LanguageHouse (2 events)
• Temple University Japan (2 events)
• Business Communication (BizCom) SIG of JALT (2 events)
• Consulate of the United States: Fukuoka (1 event)
• Mabuhay Classroom Kyushu (1 event)
• PK Fukuoka (1 event)
• Tokyo British Council (1 event)
• Towry Law International (Japan) Ltd. (1 event)