(according to the Preview Brochure)

 

PCEs, 1^st April

• Learning Technologies

• Russell Stannard - What can technology do for assessment and feedback

 

• Literature & Materials Writing:

• Christina Klein Wolf (and Eduardo Wolf) - Shakespeare for language and literature students: choosing extracts, designing
• Alan Pulverness - BritLit: Teachers doing it for themselves

 

• Young Learners and Teenagers:

• Hendrik Dirk Lagerwaard - Making English Your Own: Developing ELF-Aware Lower Secondary Students

 

• Learner Autonomy:

• Rose Aylett - Hands tied or hands-free? Using constraints creatively in teacher development (Poster)

 

 

ADDITIONAL SESSIONS:

• Tania Pattison - How to write successfully for IATEFL Conference Selections (Wednesday)
• Daniel Xerri - How to reflect on research talks at the conference (Wednesday)

 

EVENING SESSIONS:

• The C Group Meeting (probably on Tuesday)
• Andrew Wright and David Heathfield – Sharing Stories (Wednesday)
• Tessa Woodward - The Fair List, UK (Wednesday)

 

TUESDAY, 2^nd April

• Stefania Ballotto - The four acts of language - statement, question, exclamation, command
• Malu Sciamarelli – Children’s books are never just for children
• Vera Cabrera Duarte - Through the tunnel: a way into significant learning
• Rachel Harris - How to develop positive discipline with teens and young learners
• Harry Kuchah and Amol Padwad (with Richard Smith, Rama Mathew, Prem Bahadur Phyak) - Teacher agency and English language teaching in difficult circumstances
• Fiona Mauchline - 10 tips to make vocabulary accessible to all your students
• Sarah Mercer (with Elena Oncevska Ager) - Drawing on positive psychology to support language teacher well-being
• Paul Seligson - Playful - yet purposeful - reading
• Adrian Underhill - Creating contexts for learners' self-expression
• Tessa Woodward - Been teaching and teacher training for a long time?
• Beatrix Price - Vision and mission in English language teachers’ associations (part of the Forum on Teachers’ Associations)
• Hendrik Dirk Lagerwaard (The C Group Scholar) - Through others we become ourselves: agency in the secondary classroom
• Harisimaran Singh Sandhu - Spaced Repetition Systems: the neuroscientific approach to vocabulary acquisition

 

WEDNESDAY, 3^rd April

• Danny Norrington-Davies (with Nick Andon) - How do experienced teachers deal with emergent language?
• Marcela Cintra - Developing professionalism in ELT to boost language learning
• Robert Hill - Asking the right questions: making and choosing effective after-reading activities
• Hanna Kryszewska - From communication to mediation in B1+ language classes
• Letizia Cinganotto (with Heike Philp) - GUINEVERE - learn a language through games in virtual worlds
• Carol Read - Promoting high-quality thinking in the early years
• Marjorie Rosenberg - Adding spice to the mix in the business English classroom
• Motikala Subba Dewan - EMI: additional input for ESL development in rural Nepal
• Brian Tomlinson - Performing the coursebook
• Efi Tzouri - Utilizing performance art to empower social justice in refugee groups
• David Valente - "I’m not in my coursebooks" - hidden identities and silenced voices”
• Daniele Xerri (with Odette Vassallo) - Assessing teacher discourse in a spoken English proficiency test
• Chris Walkett - With a little help from my (ELT) friends
• Andrew Wright - Useful ways of using stories and poems you find
• Forum on Rethinking language teacher training and development:
  • Rob Bolito - Teachers' decision-making about training and development
  • Maria Heron - Are CELTA and Delta the end of the road?
  • Alan Maley - Developing expertise through experience
• Rose Aylett - Hands tied or hands-free? Using constraints creatively in teacher development

 

 

THURSDAY, 4^rd April

• Aleksandra Zaparucha – PLENARY: Under one roof: considerations on integrating content and language
• Jen Dobson - Integrating soft skills in materials for early years
• Kieran Donaghy - Maximising the language learning of senior learners
• Jill Hadfield - How to create interactive online tasks
• David Heathfield - Storytelling includes and supports Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic learners
• Jana Jilkova - CMC: the power of curiosity, motivation and creativity
• Amos Paran - CPD through MOOCs: what teachers implement in their classrooms

 

FRIDAY, 5^rd April

• Amol Padwad (with Katherine Bilsborough, Evan Frendo, Mercedes Viola) – PLENARY: Future directions in ELT: where are we headed?
• Sue Leather - Equal voices in ELT: expanding our horizons
• Tania Pattison - Writing EAP speaking materials: ten principles
• Chaz Pugliese - For goodness' sake do things differently next Monday morning!
• Alan Pulverness - Back to the future: the postmethod condition revisited
• Geoff Tranter - Bias - discrimination - preconceived ideas - prejudice: a topic for language classes?
• Tom Kiddle - Choosing an online teacher development course with confidence (part of the Forum on Online professional development)

 

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