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I got my first teaching job in 1984, working at a large boy's secondary school in El Obeid, Sudan. This experience made it very clear to me that there's a lot more to teaching English than just being able to speak the language!
Sunday - January 27th, 2013
Publication:
Modern English Teacher Vol 22 No.1
There are so many ideas and concepts in ELT competing for our attention that sometimes it's hard to see the wood for the trees.This article and map is intended as a way of keeping the big picture in view. Below, you will find a PDF of the shorter article, as published in the MET. You will also find the more complete article written up after the plenary talk at TESOL Spain.
Sunday - January 20th, 2013
A balanced, pragmatic point of view is all very well, but an extreme, polar position is so much more noticeable! There have been plenty of polar positions in the history of ELT, and for every polar position, there is the polar opposite.
Sunday - January 20th, 2013
A game to raise awareness of the need to steer a course between conflicting positions in ELT
Wednesday - December 5th, 2012
Event date:
Saturday, February 23, 2013 - 11:15
ELT these days has so many diverse regions that it is difficult to find your way among them. In this talk at the APAC conference in Barcelona, I'm presenting a bird's-eye view of the field to help navigate through all of the currents of thought and acronyms in the field. More about this here.
Event date:
Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 16:15
Venue:
Mar 10: TESOL-SPAIN 36th Annual Convention
Location:
Mar 10: Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad de Filología
Read a full article based on the talk on the PDF at the bottom of this page. Listen to the podcast of the talk. How does technology relate to the human touch? And what else apart from these is there in the world of ELT?
Monday - November 26th, 2012
Event date:
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 (All day)
Mark Hancock: I will be presenting a workshop entitled "Pronunciation for listeners: making sense of connected speech" at the conference on the Tuesday. I'm also speaking at the pronunciation sig pre-conference event.
Tuesday - November 20th, 2012
Hakan Senturk began his presentation with a contextualization of his ideas within the development of the Dogme movement. He traced the origin of Dogme to Scott Thornbury’s call for a more conversation-driven materials-light approach to teaching which focuses on language that naturally emerges in the lesson rather than a pre-conceived syllabus as laid down by a coursebook.
Tuesday - November 20th, 2012
(Photo: Chuck Sandy)
The main thrust of this very lively, participative and practical session was to stimulate and provide us with opportunities to take a step back from our role as teachers in the classroom, and reflect on and explore the ‘self’ – who we are outside the classroom.
Monday - November 19th, 2012
(Photo: Vice-president Debbie West and President Bethany Cagnol opening the conference)
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EVENT
There were 68 hour-long talks/workshops, punctuated by 3 plenaries, distributed across a Friday evening, a full Saturday and a short Sunday, and a total of some 350 participants at the event.
Monday - November 19th, 2012
Leo Selivan’s presentation was founded on the insight that synonymy in English can usually be traced to the hybrid history of the language. In most synonymous pairs, one member of the pair can trace its history to Germanic influence, and the other, to Latinate influence. An example of the might be ‘buy’ and ‘purchase’.
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