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ELT Calendar for Tokyo

Events of professional interest to language teachers in Tokyo.

Upcoming Deadlines in Tokyo

Call for papers due June 30th (Friday) 2017
CUE English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Symposium
The fourth CUE English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Symposium will be held September 9, 2017 at Keio University.

July 8th (Saturday) 2017

TUJ Tokyo 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, Tokyo map
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 16th (Sunday) 2017

ETJ Chiba July Workshop
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Nicky Sekino
Organization: ETJ Chiba (English Teachers in Japan)
Venue: 3F, Shin-Koiwa Chiku Center Access: 5 min. walk from Shin-Koiwa on the JR Sobu Line Address: 2-17-1 Shin-Koiwa, Katsushika-ku Phone: 03-3653-7141
Brief description: Theme 1: Content-Based Textbooks for Task-Based Learning Presenter: Nicky Sekino Bio: Mr. Nicky Sekino is an experienced teacher of English.

August 4th (Friday) 2017

The Fourth World Congress on Extensive Reading
Time: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Shuhei Kadota, Richard Day, Loh Chin Ee, Jennifer Bassett, and many more
Organization: Extensive Reading Foundation
Venue: Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus, Tokyo (access)
Brief description: The World Congress gathers all those involved with the extensive reading approach -- students, teachers, scholars, writers and publishers -- under one roof for a conference dedicated purely to extensive reading.

August 5th (Saturday) 2017

The Fourth World Congress on Extensive Reading (day 2 of 4)
Time: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: TBA; Call for papers due February 28th, 2017
Organization: Extensive Reading Foundation
Venue: Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus, Tokyo (access)
Brief description: The World Congress gathers all those involved with the extensive reading approach -- students, teachers, scholars, writers and publishers -- under one roof for a conference dedicated purely to extensive reading.

August 6th (Sunday) 2017

The Fourth World Congress on Extensive Reading (day 3 of 4)
Time: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: TBA; Call for papers due February 28th, 2017
Organization: Extensive Reading Foundation
Venue: Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus, Tokyo (access)
Brief description: The World Congress gathers all those involved with the extensive reading approach -- students, teachers, scholars, writers and publishers -- under one roof for a conference dedicated purely to extensive reading.

August 7th (Monday) 2017

The Fourth World Congress on Extensive Reading (day 4 of 4)
Time: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: TBA; Call for papers due February 28th, 2017
Organization: Extensive Reading Foundation
Venue: Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus, Tokyo (access)
Brief description: The World Congress gathers all those involved with the extensive reading approach -- students, teachers, scholars, writers and publishers -- under one roof for a conference dedicated purely to extensive reading.

August 29th (Tuesday) 2017

JACET 2017: The 56th International Convention (day 1 of 3)
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:50 PM
Speaker: Plenary speakers Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna) and Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew (Nanyang Technological University)
Organization: Japan Association of College English Teachers
Venue: Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25, Shibuya, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo
Brief description: As we head toward the first quarter of the 21st century, the importance of communication at a global level is becoming increasingly evident.

August 30th (Wednesday) 2017

JACET 2017: The 56th International Convention (day 2 of 3)
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:50 PM
Speaker: Plenary speakers Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna) and Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew (Nanyang Technological University)
Organization: Japan Association of College English Teachers
Venue: Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25, Shibuya, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo
Brief description: As we head toward the first quarter of the 21st century, the importance of communication at a global level is becoming increasingly evident.

August 31st (Thursday) 2017

JACET 2017: The 56th International Convention (day 3 of 3)
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:50 PM
Speaker: Plenary speakers Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna) and Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew (Nanyang Technological University)
Organization: Japan Association of College English Teachers
Venue: Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25, Shibuya, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo
Brief description: As we head toward the first quarter of the 21st century, the importance of communication at a global level is becoming increasingly evident.

September 16th (Saturday) 2017

CUE ESP Symposium
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Sue Starfield (UNSW), Barbara DuBabcock (City Uni HK), and Masako Terui (Kindai). Call for posters due June 30th
Organization: College and University Educators Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Venue: Keio University, Tokyo
Brief description: This is the fourth ESP Symposium offered by the JALT CUE SIG; this year in collaboration with the JALT BizCom SIG and Yokohama JALT Chapter.

Groups Active In Tokyo

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

• Tokyo British Council (127 events)
• Language Teaching Professionals (85 events)
• ETJ Tokyo (65 events)
• Tokyo IIEEC Study Group (65 events)
• Oxford University Press (61 events)
• SCBWI (60 events)
• Temple University Japan (58 events)
• Tokyo JALT (53 events)
• Nellie's Group, Ltd. (52 events)
• West Tokyo JALT (46 events)
• Tokyo PC Users Group (44 events)
• Tokyo Chapter of FEW (40 events)
• ETJ Chiba (29 events)
• TC Columbia (29 events)
• English Teaching Workshop (26 events)
• International Business Communicators (25 events)
• OUP Kids' Club (24 events)
• Japan Market Expansion Competition (21 events)
• Pearson Kirihara (21 events)
• Cambridge English Language Assessment - JP004 (Luna International) (17 events)
• Institute of International Education in London (16 events)
• Japan Intercultural Institute (16 events)
• JALT International Conference (14 events)
• NPO Teaching English Methods Institute (12 events)
• The Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo (12 events)
• PGL Conference (11 events)
• ETJ Certificate Course (10 events)
• eigoTown (9 events)
• National JACET (9 events)
• CDF (Classes de Francais) (8 events)
• ETJ (8 events)
• JACET ESP SIG Kanto (8 events)
• CALL SIG of JALT (7 events)
• ELT Career and Professional Development Conference (7 events)
• Macmillian LanguageHouse (7 events)
• ACTJ (7 events)
• TEL Book Fair (7 events)
• Teaching Younger Learners SIG of JALT (6 events)
• Amnesty International, Group 78 Tokyo (5 events)
• Anaheim University (5 events)
• Cambridge ESOL Centre JP172 (5 events)
• CUE SIG of JALT (5 events)
• Engaged Pedagogy Association (5 events)
• Japan ASCD (5 events)
• Linguapax Asia (5 events)
• Maruzen Bookshops (5 events)
• Meisei University International Study Centre (5 events)
• The Japan Language Testing Association (5 events)
• The Japan Second Language Association (5 events)
• Lakeland College Japan (4 events)
• EF Education Japan (4 events)
• EFL Arena (4 events)
• Extensive Reading Foundation (4 events)
• FETJ-Tokyo (4 events)
• Independent Learning Association (4 events)
• International Christian University (4 events)
• Kanto LET (4 events)
• Kanda Gaigo University (4 events)
• Nakasendo English Conference (4 events)
• Pragmatics SIG of JALT (4 events)
• Society of Writers, Editors and Translators (4 events)
• The English Resource (4 events)
• The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (4 events)
• AGEnT (3 events)
• Apricot Publishing (3 events)
• Association of International Behavioral Studies (3 events)
• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports Science and Technology (3 events)
• Kanto JACET (3 events)
• Kids English Education Project (3 events)
• Learner Development SIG of JALT (3 events)
• Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (3 events)
• Research Group for Teaching Conversation in Japan (3 events)
• Teacher Development SIG of JALT (3 events)
• FLP SIG of JALT (3 events)
• The International Language and Gender Association (3 events)
• The Society for Intercultural Education, Training, And Research (3 events)
• Vocab@ (3 events)
• Asian Studies Conference Japan (2 events)
• Australian Embassy (2 events)
• CoFFET (2 events)
• Elementary School Thematic English Education Movement (2 events)
• Institute of English Teaching to Children (2 events)
• Intrapersona (2 events)
• Japan Association for Asian Englishes (2 events)
• JJ Fellowship (2 events)
• JSHS SIG of JALT (2 events)
• LLL SIG of JALT (2 events)
• Matsuka Phonics (2 events)
• McGraw-Hill (2 events)
• Meisei University (2 events)
• Moodle Association of Japan (2 events)
• mpi (2 events)
• The Japanese Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education (2 events)
• Waseda University (2 events)
• Tokai University Foreign Language Center (FLC) (2 events)
• Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (2 events)
• Alma Publishing (1 event)
• Amnesty International (1 event)
• Bunkyo Gakuin University (1 event)
• Cambridge University Press (1 event)
• Compass Publishing Japan (1 event)
• English Hands (1 event)
• ExcitELT (1 event)
• Extensive Reading SIG of JALT (1 event)
• FETJ-Chiba (1 event)
• IFG Asia (1 event)
• International Pacific College in New Zealand (1 event)
• J-VARG SIG (1 event)
• Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (1 event)
• Kanto International Senior High School (1 event)
• Ochanomizu University (1 event)
• Oxfam Japan (1 event)
• Reitaku University Tokyo Research Center (1 event)
• Scientific Education Group (1 event)
• Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (1 event)
• Soka University (1 event)
• Sophia University LIFIC (1 event)
• Speech, Drama and Debate SIG of JALT (1 event)
• Rikkyo University (1 event)
• Super Simple Learning (1 event)
• Teachers College Columbia University Japan Alumni Association (1 event)
• Business Communication (BizCom) SIG of JALT (1 event)
• The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (1 event)
• The Oyako Net (1 event)
• Waseda University (1 event)
• University Teachers Union (1 event)