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ELT Calendar for Osaka Prefecture

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Osaka Prefecture.

July 1st (Saturday) 2017

Summer Seminar: Business and Intercultural Negotiation
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:20 PM
Speaker: Chris Bates (Interfas management consulting company, Taiwan), Kumiko Murata (Waseda University), Tim Craig (Doshisha University)
Organization: The Business English Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Rooms F401 and F402 Iwasaki Kinenkan Blog, Kansai University Senriyama campus, Suita-shi, Osaka-fu
City: Suita City
Brief description: JALT Business Communication SIG, Kansai University, SIETAR Kansai, and the JALT Osaka and Kyoto chapters are proud to present the "Business and Intercultural Negotiation" conference, to be held July 1st and 2nd 2017, at Kansai University, Osaka.

TUJ Osaka Distinguished Lecturer Series: Oral Corrective Feedback in Language Pedagogy and SLA
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Rod Ellis (Curtin University, Australia)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Venue: Temple University Japan, Osaka map
City: Osaka City
Brief description: The purpose of this seminar is to explore the extent to which the approach to correcting learners oral errors evident in popular teacher guides is compatible with research that has investigated the effect of oral corrective feedback on second language acquisition.

July 2nd (Sunday) 2017

Summer Seminar: Business and Intercultural Negotiation (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Chris Bates (Interfas management consulting company, Taiwan), Kumiko Murata (Waseda University), Tim Craig (Doshisha University)
Organization: The Business English Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Rooms F401 and F402 Iwasaki Kinenkan Blog, Kansai University Senriyama campus, Suita-shi, Osaka-fu
City: Suita City
Brief description: JALT Business Communication SIG, Kansai University, SIETAR Kansai, and the JALT Osaka and Kyoto chapters are proud to present the "Business and Intercultural Negotiation" conference, to be held July 1st and 2nd 2017, at Kansai University, Osaka.

July 29th (Saturday) 2017

JALT Task-Based Language Teaching Mini-Conference: Tasks in Practice
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University); call for poster sessions due June 15th
Organization: Task Based Learning Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Temple University, Osaka
City: Osaka City
Brief description: A mini-conference presented by the TBL SIG, featuring a poster session of practical TBLT lesson ideas and a special workshop by well-known TBLT researcher Lourdes Ortega from Georgetown University.