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ELT Calendar for Kyoto City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Kyoto City.

October 28th (Sunday) 2018

Teaching Games And Songs Effectively
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (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
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: David Paul
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: Teachers will discuss and practice a range of activities. Teachers will also discuss their own and others’ activities.

November 4th (Sunday) 2018

Content and Language Integrated Learning: What, Why, and How?
Time: 10:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Plenaries: Sandra Kouritzin (University of Manitoba and Kwansei Gakuin Visiting Scholar), Shinichi Izumi (Sophia University); call for papers due September 30
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto (map)
Brief description: We invite you to submit a proposal for a 25-minute talk on your experience with CLIL. Topics might include activity ideas, curriculum design, L1/L2 language use and purpose, or best practices and pitfalls.

November 25th (Sunday) 2018

Context-based teaching for very young learners
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: Teachers will look at how to set up context based situations so that children use language more naturally. This will include how to incorporate High Frequency Sight Words and CVC words into fun speaking activities that get young learners very familiar with these very useful words.

Story-Based Teaching For Very Young Learners
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Scott Crowe
Organization: Language Teaching Professionals
Venue: Kibou No Ie Multicultural Center network Salon, 31, Higashi Iwamoto-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto (map)
Brief description: Teachers will look at how to choose a story and how to re-work a story so that it matches a target language. This will include how to choose a good story for the type of target language being focused on and how to build speaking activities around that.

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 (90 events)
• ETJ Kyoto (35 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (18 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)