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ELT Calendar for Osaka City

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Osaka City.

October 19th (Saturday) 2019

TUJ Distinguished Lecturer Series: Analyzing Rating Data Using a Many-Facet Rasch Measurement Approach
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Carol Myford (The University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Venue: Osaka Ekimae Bldg. 3, 21st Floor, 1-1-3-2100 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0001 (map)
Brief description: In performance assessment settings, raters use measurement tools such as rating scales or scoring rubrics to evaluate students' performances or products.

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.

November 23rd (Saturday) 2019

Today is Labor Thanksgiving Day (Kinrou-kansha-no-hi)

TUJ Distinguished Lecturer Series: Theory and Practice of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Mike Bostwick (Katoh Gakuen English Immersion, Japan)
Organization: Temple University Japan
Venue: Osaka Ekimae Bldg. 3, 21st Floor, 1-1-3-2100 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0001 (map)
Brief description: The role of content -- how much does it belong in the foreign language class and how it should be integrated with language learning outcomes to promote language learning -- has been a debate since the 1980's (Pally, 1999).

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 (79 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)
• CUE SIG of JALT (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)