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ELT Calendar for Kyoto City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Kyoto City.

May 27th (Sunday) 2018

How children learn
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: TESOL (Young Learners) Certificate Workshop: A comparison of different theories and the implications of these theories for classroom practice.

Child-centered learning
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: TESOL (Young Learners) Certificate Workshop: What is child-centered learning and how can we incorporate child-centered methods in our classes? Teachers will compare teacher-centered and child-centered methods.

June 23rd (Saturday) 2018

TBLT in Asia 2018
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM
Speaker: Plenary speakers Hayo Reinders (Unitec, Auckland, NZ), and Natsuko Shintani (Auckland University); call for papers due March 15, 2018
Organization: Task Based Learning Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Ryukoku University, Fukakusa Campus (map)
Brief description: The 2018 Task-Based Learning and Teaching in Asia Conference will be held June 23-24. The aim of this international event is to enable language educators and researchers from across Asia to share ideas and discuss various aspects relating to the theory and/or practice of Task-based Learning and Teaching in Asia.

June 24th (Sunday) 2018

Teaching phonics
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: TESOL (Young Learners) Certificate Workshop: 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: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: TESOL (Young Learners) Certificate Workshop: Teachers will look at a range of activities for teaching phonics. .

TBLT in Asia 2018 (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM
Speaker: Plenary speakers Hayo Reinders (Unitec, Auckland, NZ), and Natsuko Shintani (Auckland University); call for papers due March 15, 2018
Organization: Task Based Learning Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Ryukoku University, Fukakusa Campus (map)
Brief description: TBLT in Asia 2018 will be held June 23-24. The aim of this international event is to enable language educators and researchers from across Asia to share ideas and discuss various aspects relating to the theory and/or practice of Task-based Learning and Teaching in Asia.

July 22nd (Sunday) 2018

Teaching listening and communication
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: TESOL (Young Learners) Certificate Workshop: 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: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: TESOL (Young Learners) Certificate Workshop: Writing is the most difficult of the four skills, but mastering writing greatly improves the children's ability to internalize language.

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 (89 events)
• ETJ Kyoto (34 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (12 events)
• Peace as a Global Language Conference (6 events)
• Oxford University Press (5 events)
• Pearson Kirihara (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)
• National JACET (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)