A Mid-summer's Day Micro-conference
7/4 1:00 AM-5:00 PM, Osaka City
Samuel Sorenson, Michael Iwane-Salovaara, Cameron Romney, and Gerry Yokota
TUJ Tokyo Distinguished Lecturer Series: Developing and Promoting Learners' Ability to Understand Real-world Spoken English
7/4 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tokyo
Elvis Wagner (Temple University, U.S.A.)
Qualitative research: Methods, applications, questions
7/4 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Kyoto City
Amanda Gillis-Furutaka (Kyoto Sangyo U.), Blake Hayes (Ritsumeikan U.), Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka (Ritsumeikan U.), Robert O'Mochain (Ritsumeikan U.), Thomas Amundrud (Nara U. of Education)
The 27th Annual Conference of JACET Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter
7/5 10:00 AM-5:50 PM, Kagoshima City
Several speakers
Technology and Language Learning
7/5 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Nishihara City, Okinawa Prefecture
TBA
Okinawa JALT 2015 Elections
7/5 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Nishihara City, Okinawa Prefecture
July Pigate meeting: Student iPad Presentations for the Language Classroom: A basic introduction
7/11 1:30 PM-4:00 PM, Kumamoto City
Joseph Tomei (Kumamoto Gakuen University)
TUJ Osaka Distinguished Lecturer Series: Developing and Promoting Learners' Ability to Understand Real-world Spoken English
7/11 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Osaka City
Covering Your Bets: The Reading/High-Frequency Vocabulary Connection
7/11 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Okayama City
Charles Browne
Done in 60 Seconds: Bottom-up listening tasks for beginners
7/11 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Fukuoka City
Branden Kirchmeyer (Sojo University)
(1) Setting up an extensive reading course; (2) Inspire or perspire? Getting students speaking
7/11 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Andy Boon (Toyo Gakuen University)
(1) Here we are now, motivate us; (2) Inspire or perspire? Getting students speaking
7/12 1:30 PM-4:00 PM, Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture
Creating a framework for defining and supporting meaningful communication in the EFL young learner classroom
7/12 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Miyazaki City
Hiroki Iwakiri (Akae Elementary School), Keisuke Ishizuka (Kunitomi Elementary School)
HAFU: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan (2013) Film Screen & Panel Discussion
7/12 4:15 PM-7:00 PM, Hiroshima City
Panelists: Rachael Burke, PhD, and others to be announced
Asia-Pacific Virtual Exchange Association (APVEA) 2015
7/18 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Muroran City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Melinda Dooly (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Thom Rawson (Nagasaki International University)
Designing A Project-based ESP Curriculum in Japan
7/18 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Chofu City, Tokyo Metropolis
Paul Daniels (Kochi University of Technology)
(1) Grading the Activity Not the Material; (2) Get Them to Ask You: Making Self-Intro Lessons More Student-Centred
7/18 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Gifu City
(1) Mark Kulek (Gifu Kids); (2) Steven Charles (ALT, Gifu)
Summer Moodle Workshop
7/18 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Muroran City, Hokkaido Prefecture
Masumi Kameda (Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi)
Nakasendo English Conference 2015
7/19 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Saitama City
Various speakers
(1) L2 Possible Selves of Japanese University Students; (2) Applying the ARCS Model of Motivational Design
7/19 2:15 PM-4:20 PM, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture
(1) Sarah Faherty (Sojo University); (2) Roderick Lange (Ehime University)
Round Table Discussion
7/26 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
Round table
ETJ Chiba July Online Workshop Teaching Reading in English Sight-Reading vs. Progressive Phonetic Construction
7/26 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Tokyo
Erik Kaye and others
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