Does the language that you speak influence your behaviour? And is the opposite true too? Does your personality influence the way you manage to speak a second language? Please share your experiences with us on this site. If you end up being a TEFL teacher it is very helpful to have some acting in your [...]
TDSIG and LAKMA, Lithuanian Teachers’ Association are happy to invite you to a joint conference entitled ELT IN THE DIGITAL AGE from 22 to 23 September 2011 at Vilnius Pedagogical University, Studentu St. 39, Vilnius, Lithuania. New technologies and social media reshape the way today’s learners access information and gain knowledge. Teachers respond differently to [...]
Here’s the presentation put together by Nicky Hockly’s group, which I also participated in. I’m the unshaven one showing my loyalty by wearing the TDSIG t-shirt.
It is going to take place at Vilnius Pedagogical University http://www.vpu.lt/ The Conference invites ELT teachers, researchers, teacher educators and decision makers to exchange, discuss and develop their ideas on the challenges of the digital world. The conference programme is expected to offer many opportunities for contact between ELT practitioners and researchers via plenary speeches, workshops, [...]
Five more days to go and then our Unplugged Conference is on in Barcelona. http://www.tdsig.org/unplugged/ You can also register on the day in reception at OxfordTEFL if the online registration doesn’t work. I will now continue our discussion on Giving Feedback. On our annual IATEFL Conference in Brighton we had an interesting PCE entitled ‘Does my bum [...]
Anthony Gaughan, teacher trainer, will be one of our facilitators at the TDSIG Unplugged Conference in Barcelona on May 21. Find out more. REGISTER NOW!
Luke Meddings will be giving a Dogme demonstration lesson, along with Scott Thornbury, at the Barcelona Unplugged Conference in May. Register now, as places are limited. Find out more
I’ve always felt that dogme, a genuinely learner-centred approach that turns top-down orthodoxy on its head, is intrinsically linked to teacher development. It may now be true to say that teacher development must be linked intrinsically to dogme, if the latter’s gradual evolution from a critique of materials overuse into a framework teaching approach is [...]
More teacher development events in Eastern Europe. The 18th International IATEFL Slovenia Conference will be held in Topolšica, from 10 to 13 March 2011. Leni Dam, Lindsay Clandfield, Judy Copage, Marie Delaney, and Eamonn Shanahan are amongst the speakers. You can get more information about the plenaries and speakers, along with titles and abstracts for [...]
“ELT, life, the universe and everything” Harrogate, 7 April 2010 This is a Pre-Conference Event with a difference: in the world where change is the only constant, we are going to challenge the need to stick to things as they are and venture into the universe of the unplanned, where anything can happen. The structure [...]
