May 2002
Home- May 3rd (Friday) 2002 1
- Constitution Day (Kenpou-kinen-bi)
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Nagano JALT
13th Suwako Charity Walk
5/3 8:00 AM-2:30 PM, Nagano City
Prof. Takayuki Hanazato (tentative)
- May 9th (Thursday) 2002 2
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Tokyo PC Users Group
Bringing Wireless Internet to Foreigners in Japan
5/9 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Tokyo
Kathleen McMahon, Westport Communications Inc.
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Tokyo IIEEC Study Group
Study Group meeting
5/9 9:45 AM-12:00 PM, Tokyo
Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
- May 10th (Friday) 2002 1
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Tokyo British Council
Teacher training & development for teachers of English in junior and senior high schools
5/10 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Tokyo
British Council
- May 11th (Saturday) 2002 8
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Testing and Evaluation SIG of JALT
Testing and Evaluating SIG Conference (TESEV) 2002 (day 1 of 2)
5/11 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Kyoto City
Keynote speech: J.D. Brown of the University of Hawaii, and 14 presentations
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CUE SIG of JALT
CUE 2002 Conference: Curriculum Innovation (Day 1 of 2)
5/11 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, Kyoto City
Various speakers
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Nellie's Group, Ltd.
Seminars for Business English Teachers (Nellie's Seminar Series)
5/11 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tokyo
Roger Barnard, Jonah Glick, Mark O'Neil
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Jelly Beans
Genki English Teacher Training Seminar
5/11 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Kagoshima City
Richard Graham and Will Jasprizza, Genki English
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Okayama JALT
Peace Love and Pragmatics
5/11 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Okayama City
Michael Guest
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Jelly Beans
Genki English Teacher Training Seminar
5/11 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sendai-shi City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Richard Graham and Will Jasprizza, Genki English
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Kitakyushu JALT
Homework -- A Panel Discussion
5/11 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Patricia Kasamatsu, Erika Matsui, Tony Ruiz, Andrew Zitzmann
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Bilingualism SIG of JALT
Bilingual Development Forum (BILDF) 2002 (day 1 of 2)
5/11 9:00 AM-5:15 PM, Kyoto City
Various speakers
- May 12th (Sunday) 2002 12
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Fukuoka IIEEC Study Group
Study Group meeting
5/12 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Fukuoka City
Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
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ETJ Hiroshima
Out of the Hat: Challenge, Choice, Chance and Children
5/12 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Hiroshima City
Chris Hunt
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JALA
Anthropological Linguistics
5/12 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Several speakers
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Fukuoka ACET
Teaching English to Children
5/12 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Fukuoka City
see web site for details
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Niigata JALT
Read with Me and I Will Read: Activities that Work with Elementary School Children
5/12 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Niigata City
Setsuko Toyama and Julian Whitney
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Kanazawa JALT
Making the Most of Your English Language Textbook: New Ways to Bring ELT Materials to Life
5/12 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture
Ivan Sorrentino, Cambridge University Press
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Yokohama JALT
Intercultural Instruction Ideas & Motivating Projects
5/12 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Scott Bronner of Waseda University's Center for International Education
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Matsuyama JALT
Public Directives in Japanese and American English: Implications for L2 Learners
5/12 2:15 PM-4:20 PM, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
Carol Rinnert
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CUE SIG of JALT
CUE 2002 Conference: Curriculum Innovation (day 2 of 2)
5/12 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Kyoto City
Various speakers
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Testing and Evaluation SIG of JALT
Testing and Evaluating SIG Conference (TESEV) 2002 (day 2 of 2)
5/12 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Kyoto City
Various speakers
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Bilingualism SIG of JALT
Bilingual Development Forum (BILDF) 2002 (day 2 of 2)
5/12 9:00 AM-5:15 PM, Kyoto City
Various speakers
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Nagoya IIEEC Study Group
Study Group meeting
5/12 9:45 AM-12:00 PM, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
- May 17th (Friday) 2002 1
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CALL SIG of JALT
JALTCALL 2002: Local Decisions, Global Effects (Pre-conference workshop)
5/17 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Hiroshima City
Brian Teaman; Joseph Lauer
- May 18th (Saturday) 2002 3
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The Japan Second Language Association
The 2nd Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (day 1 of 2)
5/18 Time TBA, Kyoto City
Plenary Speaker: Kazue Kanno, University of Hawaii
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Nagasaki JALT
More Ideas and Activities for Children's EFL Classes
5/18 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Nagasaki City
Helene J. Uchida, Little America English Schools
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CALL SIG of JALT
Computer Assisted Language Learning CALL Conference (day 1 of 2)
5/18 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Hiroshima City
Dr. Mike Levy as Keynote speaker
- May 19th (Sunday) 2002 8
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The Japan Second Language Association
The 2nd Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (day 2 of 2)
5/19 Time TBA, Kyoto City
Plenary Speaker: Kazue Kanno, University of Hawaii
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Osaka JALT
Two presentations: 1) Effective Communicative Teaching Ideas for All Ability Levels, 2) Textbook Activities: Making Them Work for You
5/19 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, Osaka City
1) Gerald Williams and Alison Mackenzie, 2) Rebecca Arthur
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Shizuoka JALT
Pronunciation and Business Materials Writing
5/19 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Shizuoka City
Christopher Jon Poel, Musashi Kogyo Daigaku and Robert M. Homan, International Christian University
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Gunma JALT
A Distance Learning Workshop about the TALK Learning System
5/19 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture
Josef Messerklinger and Johann Junge
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Okinawa JALT
The Psychology of Difficult Students
5/19 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Nishihara City, Okinawa Prefecture
Curtis Kelly
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Saitama JALT
Winning the Struggle to Teach High School Students to Communicate
5/19 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Saitama City
Phil Julien, Saitama Medical University
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CALL SIG of JALT
Computer Assisted Language Learning CALL Conference (day 2 of 2)
5/19 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City
Dr. Mike Levy as keynote speaker
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ETJ Aichi
Teaching English to Children
5/19 9:30 AM-11:45 AM, Aichi City
Elin Melchior and Michael Hunter
- May 20th (Monday) 2002 3
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Language Teaching Professionals
Teaching English to Children, Certificate Course (day 1 of 6)
5/20 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City
David Paul, author of Finding Out, Communicate, and more.
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Kumamoto JALT
Current research in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Australia (session 1 of 2)
5/20 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, Kumamoto City
Mike Levy
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Kumamoto JALT
Current research in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Australia (session 2 of 2)
5/20 4:15 PM-5:50 PM, Kumamoto City
Mike Levy
- May 21st (Tuesday) 2002 1
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Language Teaching Professionals
Teaching English to Children, Certificate Course (day 2 of 6)
5/21 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City
David Paul, author of Finding Out, Communicate, and more.
- May 22nd (Wednesday) 2002 1
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Language Teaching Professionals
Teaching English to Children, Certificate Course (day 3 of 6)
5/22 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City
David Paul, author of Finding Out, Communicate, and more.
- May 23rd (Thursday) 2002 1
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Language Teaching Professionals
Teaching English to Children, Certificate Course (day 4 of 6)
5/23 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City
David Paul, author of Finding Out, Communicate, and more.
- May 24th (Friday) 2002 2
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Language Teaching Professionals
Teaching English to Children, Certificate Course (day 5 of 6)
5/24 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City
David Paul, author of Finding Out, Communicate, and more.
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Tokyo British Council
Teacher training & development for teachers of English in junior and senior high schools
5/24 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Tokyo
British Council
- May 25th (Saturday) 2002 5
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Language Teaching Professionals
Teaching English to Children, Certificate Course (day 6 of 6)
5/25 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Hiroshima City
David Paul, author of Finding Out, Communicate, and more.
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West Tokyo JALT
On-line Drills for Learning and Teaching
5/25 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Tokyo
Kobayashi Etsuo
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Akita JALT
Social Aspects of Communication and Their Relationship to Teaching English as a Second Language
5/25 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Akita City
R. Jeffrey Ringer, Ph.D.
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Miyazaki JALT
Applying the Uniqueness Principle in Language Classrooms: Tools & Tasks
5/25 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Miyazaki City
Bill Pellowe, Kinki University Kyushu Campus
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Fukuoka JALT
Integrating Tasks into the Foreign Language Classroom
5/25 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Fukuoka City
David Beglar
- May 26th (Sunday) 2002 9
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Iwate-Aomori JALT
The Cancer of Competition: Games in the EFL Classroom
5/26 10:00 AM-12:30 PM, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Chris Hunt
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ETJ Certificate Course
The Certificate in Teaching Japanese Students
5/26 10:00 AM-5:30 PM, Tokyo
Rob Waring, Maurice Jamall, David Paul, Curtis Kelly
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Nagoya and Gifu JALT
Tunes and Tales in the Classroom (Using stories and songs in language lessons)
5/26 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Brad Deacon and Brian Cullen
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Ibaraki JALT
Which Kanji Dictionary Can Best Meet Your Kanji-Learning Needs?
5/26 1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Mary Sisk Noguchi, Meijo University
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ETJ Yokohama
Yokohama ETJ Workshops
5/26 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kaya Yoshida, Sean Ryan, Daniel Woods
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Yamagata JALT
The Accelerated Learning Cycle
5/26 1:30 PM-4:00 PM, Yamagata City
Charles Adamson, Miyagi University
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ETJ Kagoshima
All Materials Good and Bad
5/26 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Kagoshima City
Tayako Nakamitsu
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Sendai JALT
Task-based Business Communicative Activities
5/26 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
Jonah Glick, Pearson Education
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Osaka IIEEC Study Group
Study Group meeting
5/26 9:45 AM-12:00 PM, Osaka City
Contact IIEEC for speaker details.
- May 30th (Thursday) 2002 2
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Nagoya University
Second Language Acquisition Research: Scope, Goals, and Future
5/30 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Michael Long, University of Hawaii Manoa
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Nagoya University
Development of an SLA-theory Based CALL Evaluation System
5/30 2:45 PM-4:15 PM, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Catherine Doughty, University of Hawaii Manoa
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