An Evening with Elka Todeva at Satoyama Dining restaurant in Osaka/Umeda

After JALT2013, you hopefully "had your fill" of presentations, but you still have to eat on Tue. night, so please join us for...

An Evening with Elka Todeva at Satoyama Dining restaurant in Osaka/Umeda

Date and Time:
Tuesday, 29 October 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Speaker: Elka Todeva of SIT Graduate Institute

Join us for a relaxing evening over dinner with Professor Elka Todeva of the SIT Graduate Institute, and one of this year's Featured Speakers at JALT2013.

Meet at Satoyama Dining restaurant on the 17th floor of the Hankyu Terminal Building.

RSVP to osakajalt@yahoo.com by Monday, Oct 28, so we can be sure to reserve enough seats.

Elka Todeva holds a doctorate in English applied linguistics and a master’s degree in British and American literature, English linguistics, and simultaneous interpretation. At SIT Graduate Institute since 1993, she teaches and does research in the areas of second language acquisition, English applied linguistics, critical pedagogy, language analysis, multilingualism, teacher cognition, and ecological approaches to teaching. A native of Bulgaria, Elka began working in the US as a visiting Fulbright scholar. Her publications include The Multiple Realities of Multilingualism: Personal Narratives and Researchers’ Perspectives (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009), three ESL textbooks, two English dictionaries, and numerous articles on language acquisition and learning, English linguistics, discourse, brain-friendly teaching, multimedia, and reflective practices.

For more about Elka, please see http://www.sit.edu/graduate/5454.htm

Details of her presentations at JALT2013 can be found at http://jalt.org/2013/schedule.php

Saturday, Oct 26, 4:15 - 5:45
Grammaring: A probe into its theory and practice

Sunday, Oct 27, 5:00 - 6:00
Gifts along the journey: Milestones in ELT

RSVP to osakajalt@yahoo.com by Monday, Oct 28, so we can be sure to reserve enough seats.

Location:
Satoyama dining restaurant, Hankyu Terminal Building 17F, (near Hankyu Umeda)

Guide to Location: http://r.gnavi.co.jp/k593000/map/

Fee for JALT members:
1500 yen for dinner buffet + 500 yen for nomihodai

Fee for one-day members:
2500 yen for dinner buffet + 500 yen for nomihodai