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Michael Rost
Monday, October 13 (Tokyo)
10:30 - 11:15
Monday, October 13 (Tokyo)
15:00 - 15:45 |
Michael Rost is author and series editor of popular communication and online courses, including the Impact Series, the English Firsthand series, and Longman English Interactive. He specializes in oral language development and teacher development. |
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Dr. Yukio Tono
Monday, October 13 (Tokyo)
12:00 - 12:45 |
Dr. Yukio Tono is an associate professor at Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Corpus Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. His primary research interest is second language vocabulary acquisition, corpus-based analysis of learner language, corpus applications for ELT. He is also well-known as an instructor for the popular TV English conversation program on NHK, called "100-Go de Start Eikaiwa." |
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Marc Helgesen
Monday, October 13 (Tokyo)
13:30 - 14:15
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Marc Helgesen Professor, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University is a popular teacher trainer who has led workshops on five continents. He is an author of more than 100 articles, books and textbooks including the popular English Firsthand series. |
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Marcos Benevides
Sunday, October 19 (Osaka)
10:30 - 11:15
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Marcos Benevides is an assistant professor at Kansai Gaidai University. He has taught EFL in Japan for ten years, at almost every level from elementary school to a graduate course on pedagogy. |
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Junko Yamanaka
Sunday, October 19 (Osaka)
12:00 - 12:45
Sunday, October 19 (Osaka)
15:00 - 15:45 |
Junko Yamanaka is Academic Advisor / Teacher Trainer at Trident College of Languages, Nagoya. She is also an Academic Consultant for Pearson Longman and Vice Chair of the Extensive Reading Foundation. |
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John Wiltshier
Sunday, October 19 (Osaka)
13:30 - 14:15 |
John Wiltshier has been a teacher for 19 years, 13 of which have been in Japan. John has presented nationally and internationally in Europe and the U.S. He is an author of English Firsthand Access and Success and works as an Associate Professor at Miyagi University. |
