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ELT Calendar for Osaka City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Osaka City.

May 18th (Saturday) 2019

TUJ Distinguished Lecturer Series: Second Language Pragmatics: Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Naoko Taguchi (Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Venue: TUJ Osaka Center: Osaka Ekimae Bldg. 3, 21st Floor, 1-1-3-2100 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0001 (map)
Brief description: Pragmatics, an area within linguistics, is concerned with how people use language in a social context and why they use it in particular ways.

June 29th (Saturday) 2019

TUJ Distinguished Lecturer Series: Issues of (mis)communication in Science and Mathematics Classrooms--the Surprising Importance of Language
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Timothy Fukawa-Connelly (Temple University, U.S.A.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Venue: TUJ Osaka Center: Osaka Ekimae Bldg. 3, 21st Floor, 1-1-3-2100 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0001 (map)
Brief description: This course will synthesize the results of various classroom-based (content-based) studies of language and communicative practices in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) classrooms.

July 20th (Saturday) 2019

TUJ Distinguished Lecturer Series: Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition: Implicit and Explicit Learning and Their Interface
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Nick Ellis (University of Michigan, U.S.A.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Venue: TUJ Osaka Center: Osaka Ekimae Bldg. 3, 21st Floor, 1-1-3-2100 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0001 (map)
Brief description: We learn language through our experiences of using language. Usage-based approaches to language investigate how this happens.

November 10th (Sunday) 2019

englishbooks.jp Education Day for ELT Teachers Autumn 2019 in Osaka
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: TBC
Organization: englishbooks.jp
Venue: Hearton Hotel Kitaumeda 3F 3-12-10 Toyosaki, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, 531-0072 (map)
Brief description: Come to talk with, learn from and share ideas with some of Japan's favourite authors of English learners' textbooks! Gain teaching tips, valuable inspiration, and have a look through the presenters' educational materials designed to motivate learners of all ages! A must for all those teaching English as a foreign language! Reserve in advance to get a gift bag! You are welcome to our event without registering, but if you register for this event, you will have a special registration desk at the event where you can pick up an event bag with free gifts courtesy of publishers.

Groups Active In Osaka City

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

• Osaka JALT (87 events)
• Temple University Japan (76 events)
• Osaka IIEEC Study Group (48 events)
• IAFOR (23 events)
• Osaka British Council (20 events)
• ETJ Osaka (16 events)
• Pearson Japan (16 events)
• Oxford University Press (15 events)
• OUP Kids' Club (12 events)
• NPO Teaching English Methods Institute (11 events)
• Institute of International Education in London (10 events)
• ETJ Certificate Course (9 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (9 events)
• Nellie's Group, Ltd. (9 events)
• Cambridge ESOL Centre JP172 (6 events)
• ETJ (6 events)
• Cambridge English Language Assessment - JP004 (Luna International) (5 events)
• englishbooks.jp (4 events)
• Macmillian LanguageHouse (4 events)
• Apricot Publishing (3 events)
• CEFR and Language Portfolio (3 events)
• Cypris Society (3 events)
• LET National (3 events)
• Task-Based Learning SIG of JALT (3 events)
• English Resource (Osaka) (2 events)
• ETJ Kyoto (2 events)
• General Union (2 events)
• Matsuka Phonics (2 events)
• mpi (2 events)
• National Geographic Learning (2 events)
• School Owners SIG of JALT (2 events)
• The Asia Association for Global Studies (2 events)
• Tokyo British Council (2 events)
• Vocabulary SIG of JALT (2 events)
• Alma Publishing (1 event)
• Compass Publishing Japan (1 event)
• Edcamp Kansai (1 event)
• ELF Learning (1 event)
• GALE SIG of JALT (1 event)
• GenkiEnglish.com (1 event)
• International Pacific College in New Zealand (1 event)
• Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (1 event)
• Little America Book Store (1 event)
• MASH Collaboration (1 event)
• McGraw-Hill (1 event)
• Pragmatics SIG of JALT (1 event)
• The Japan Language Testing Association (1 event)