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ELT Calendar for Kyoto City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Kyoto City.

May 26th (Sunday) 2019

Teaching phonics
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie - just by Kyoto station (map)
Brief description: What is the role of phonics and how can we teach it effectively? This session will also contrast phonics with other approaches to teaching reading and writing and look at the role of each approach.

Phonics activities
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie - just by Kyoto station (map)
Brief description: Teachers will look at a range of activities for teaching phonics. .

June 23rd (Sunday) 2019

Teaching listening and communication
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie - just by Kyoto station (map)
Brief description: How can we develop children’s listening and communication ability? The ability to communicate includes a variety of elements.

Teaching writing
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie - just by Kyoto station (map)
Brief description: Writing is the most difficult of the four skills, but mastering writing greatly improves the children’s ability to internalize language.

July 28th (Sunday) 2019

Teaching games and songs effectively
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie - just by Kyoto station (map)
Brief description: How can we use games and songs to maximise learning? Games and songs are used as extras by some teachers and just to have fun by others.

Activities for children's classes (TESOL certificate workshop)
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie - just by Kyoto station (map)
Brief description: Teachers will discuss and practice a range of activities. Teachers will also discuss their own and others’ activities.

Groups Active In Kyoto City

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

• Kyoto JALT (92 events)
• ETJ Kyoto (35 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (32 events)
• National JACET (6 events)
• Peace as a Global Language Conference (6 events)
• Oxford University Press (5 events)
• Pearson Japan (5 events)
• Evolution of Language (4 events)
• Task-Based Learning SIG of JALT (4 events)
• CALL SIG of JALT (3 events)
• Extensive Reading Foundation (3 events)
• Kansai LET (3 events)
• Kansai JACET (3 events)
• Kyoto Notre Dame University English Language and Literature Association (3 events)
• Research Group for Teaching Conversation in Japan (3 events)
• Bilingualism SIG of JALT (2 events)
• Cambridge English Language Assessment - JP004 (Luna International) (2 events)
• CUE SIG of JALT (2 events)
• PanSIG Conference (2 events)
• Testing and Evaluation SIG of JALT (2 events)
• The Japan Second Language Association (2 events)
• GALE SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science (LEIS) at Ritsumeikan University (1 event)
• Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (1 event)
• Japan Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (1 event)
• JSL SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (1 event)
• Kyoto Institute of Technology (1 event)
• Kyoto University (1 event)
• Learner Development SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Literature in Language Teaching SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Macmillian LanguageHouse (1 event)
• Maruzen Bookshops (1 event)
• OUP Kids' Club (1 event)
• Society of Writers, Editors and Translators (1 event)
• Teacher Development SIG of JALT (1 event)