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ELT Calendar for Kyoto Prefecture

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Kyoto Prefecture.

Upcoming Deadlines in Kyoto Prefecture

Call for papers due June 10th (Sunday) 2012
Using Corpora in the Classroom
Kyoto JALT invites proposals for presentations in the broad area of using corpora for language teaching. The event will be held Saturday, July 21st, at Campus Plaza Kyoto.

June 9th (Saturday) 2012

Kyoto JALT Summer Social
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Social event
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Gion Hotel
City: Kyoto City
Brief description: At the beginning of June, Kyoto JALT is planning to hold its first ever summer social event at the Gion Hotel beer garden.

June 24th (Sunday) 2012

Oxford All-Japan Summer Tour for Teachers 2012 (Kyoto)
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Speaker: Eric Kane (ELF Learning), Peter Ferguson (Nada Junior and Senior High School)
Organization: Oxford University Press
Venue: TKP Garden City Kyoto 7F Tachibana (West) Kyoto Tower Hotel 7F 721-1 Higashi Shiokoji-Cho, Karasuma-Dori 7-Jo Kudaru, Shimogyo-Ku, Kyoto-Shi, Kyoto
City: Kyoto City
Brief description: From mid-June to late-September, Oxford University Press will be holding a tour of 30 cities across the country.

July 21st (Saturday) 2012

Using Corpora in the Classroom
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Laurence Anthony (Waseda University), plus others (call for proposals due June 10)
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto (2-min walk from Kyoto Station map)
City: Kyoto City
Brief description: We are extremely pleased to announce that Laurence Anthony, the developer of the widely used concordance program AntConc, will be giving a workshop titled Applications of Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching and Research.