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ELT Calendar for Kyoto City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Kyoto City.

October 27th (Sunday) 2019

Songs, chants and rhymes in the classroom
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Herman Bartelen
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map: https://ltprofessionals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Kansai-TESOL.-map.pdf)
Brief description: Songs, chants and rhymes can add a whole new fun dimension in the classroom as children respond well to music and rhythm.

4 Corners Tour and Practice Session for JALT 2019
Time: 12:45 PM - 4:50 PM
Speaker: Donna Brinton, Denise Haugh, Michael Hollenback, Leigh McDowell, and Liz Leigh
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Doshisha Women's College Imadegawa, Rikushinkan Rm 205
Brief description: Come listen to Donna Brinton, one of the JALT 2019 Plenary Speakers, and others present on various topics. Kyoto JALT strongly recommends this for people who can not make it to the international conference in November.

Child-centered story telling
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Herman Bartelen
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map: https://ltprofessionals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Kansai-TESOL.-map.pdf)
Brief description: Storytelling is an essential element in TEYL classrooms. It is engaging and fun, and can teach all of language skills.

November 24th (Sunday) 2019

Teaching in elementary schools
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Aurora Dobashi
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue:
Brief description: What is happening with English classes in public elementary schools? How can we make the best use of the materials? How can we work well in team teaching situations.

Activities that are effective in both large and small classes
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Aurora Dobashi
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: (just by Kyoto station) Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map: https://ltprofessionals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Kansai-TESOL.-map.pdf)
Brief description: There are many activities that work well only in small classes. Many teachers neeed activities that are effective in large classes and can also be adapted to smaller classes.

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 (95 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (38 events)
• ETJ Kyoto (35 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)