Penny Ur

We are thrilled and deeply privileged to welcome Penny Ur as the Featured Keynote Speaker for our hybrid ELT Conference, "Current Technologies in EFL: Making Learning Student-Centered and Inclusive." Prof. Ur is a renowned English Language Teaching expert with over 40 years of experience as a teacher, educator, and author. Known for her practical, research-based insights, she has trained countless teachers and is widely recognized for her influential publications. It is our honor to have her talk to Bolivian English teachers and students.

Inclusivity and activation in the classroom

Abstract:

Often some students – particularly in large classes – find themselves excluded from active participation in a lesson. This is not normally because they are being deliberately neglected, or because a teacher is unaware of the differing needs and preferences of the learners. It is more usually simply because many conventional classroom procedures only activate a minority of students. In this talk I’ll suggest a number of teaching strategies that can facilitate participation by most, if not all, members of the class, whether in teacher-fronted, individual or collaborative procedures, and that in general will foster inclusivity and active learning in the classroom.

Biodata:

Penny Ur has extensive experience as an English teacher in primary, secondary and tertiary education and has taught courses for teachers at Oranim Academic College of Education and Haifa University. She has also lectured extensively at conferences worldwide. She is particularly interested in practical aspects of effective English language teaching, and the place of research as a source of professional knowledge. She was for ten years the editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series. Her books include Grammar practice activities (2nd Edition) (2009), Vocabulary activities (2012), A course in English language teaching (3rd edition) (2024), published by Cambridge University Press.

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