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Saturday, August 14
10:00 -10:15 AM GMT
Conference announcements by the Conference Chair
10:20-10:50 AM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Differentiated instruction: myth and reality
Annie Altamirano, Teacher trainer, TESOL-Spain
This session offers guidance to teachers to understand what differentiation is and what it is not and how to differentiate different elements of the lesson. I will finally offer tips for managing a differentiated lesson.
10:20-10:50 AM GMT
Concurrent session
(45 minutes)
Teaching pedagogy in the context of world Englishes: going beyond the traditional paradigm
Aicha Rahal, PhD Researcher, Hongrie
This presentation suggests a lesson plan to raise students’ awareness of the new reality of English and prepare them for international communication. This presentation recommends the adoption of a bottom-up curriculum.
10:50- 11:20 AM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
What are you listening to? Podcasts in the classroom
Lorie Mattox, UPP Senior Instructor, Cote d'Ivoire
Looking for a new way to engage language students’ listening and oral communication skills? Try podcasts. This presentation discusses undergraduate students listening to a podcast series, developing a case for or against the current convicted murder for a mock trial as the final assessment.
10:50-11:20 AM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Effective facilitation skills for teachers in COP's centers
Kessia Kiwia, Primary school teacher from Tanzania
This session shares a study that collected data from various Regions in Tanzania. The study recommends that COPs should be done all over the country with a close supervision to empower stakeholder’s modern methodologies in teaching English language.
10:50-11:20 AM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Teacher training - epistemological foundations
Richard Fielden-Watkinson, Academic Programme Manager, British Council
This session shares personal experiences, strategies and research findings which relate to how we can encourage teachers to engage with the theoretical fundamentals of language teaching and learning and the corresponding emerging research.
11:30 AM-12:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Improving English in African state schools: routes to strategic reform
Michael Carrier, Managing director, Highdale Consulting
This talk shares my experiences of language teaching reform projects in African schools which have focused on building English skills and employability.
11:30 AM-12:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Affiliates Forum
TELTA, Tanzania: Ayoub Msuya
11:30 AM-12:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Learning ‘through the lens’ in a limited technology resources context
Moussa Ngom, Teacher from Senegal
This presentation will share with teachers some techniques to do project based learning using technology.
12:00 - 12:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Globe: Practitioners are doing it for themselves
Sarah Mount & Alan Pulverness
This talk will examine the key characteristics of a CoP through the example of Globe, a new online space designed as a ‘community of communities’.
12:00 - 12:15 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(Teaching Tip: 15 minutes)
Empowering communities across Angola: training learners and creating English clubs
Teófelo Domingos, Angola
This session shares ideas about different ways to empower teacher through English language teaching and communities of practice in Angola.
12:45 -1:45 PM GMT
Plenary talk (60 minutes)
Speaker: Aubain Adi
Session Title: Teacher Agency and Voice through Communities of Practice
This session explores communities of practice as a way for becoming more responsive to the African 21st century English language teaching challenges. The presenter will examine the gaps in teacher education curriculum and reflect on some examples of CoPs as opportunities for building teacher voice and agency.
2:00-2:45 PM GMT
Featured session
(45 minutes)
Intercultural education in the English classroom for nation-building in Africa
Harouna Malgoubri, Ph.D., University Joseph Ki-Zerbo of Ouagadougou
In this session, I discuss the rationale for African countries to integrate an intercultural perspective in education policies. I also explore the multiple avenues that intercultural education offers the English teacher to reach his educational goals while contributing to nation-building processes at the grassroots level.
2:00- 2:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Integrated skills project-based learning through original EFL theater productions
Tiffany Ambiel , English Language Fellow, Antananarivo, Madagascar
This session will present a roadmap for successful implementation of the curriculum for this successful EFL theater course with a focus on cultural and skills integration and project-based learning as a whole, in addition to suggestions for integration in-part into other course contexts.
2:00- 2:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
The Academic Phrasebank: Data-driven sentence patterns for academic writers
Joachim Castellano, Associate professor, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan
The Academic Phrasebank is a resource for academic writing in English. The presenter will share how he has used this online resource as a supplementary material for a thesis writing class. This session can improve writing in academic English.
2:50- 3:20 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Collective teacher research in Burkina Faso: reflections and future directions
Alexis Cherewka, former English Language Fellow in Burkina Faso and PhD candidate at Penn State University & Lydia Sawadogo, English teacher in Burkina Faso and alumna of Fulbright TEA
This is case study of a short-term collective teacher research project in Burkina Faso. After introducing teacher research and the context of English language teaching (ELT) in Burkina Faso, reflections on the project and suggestions for other teacher-researchers are shared.
2:50- 3:20 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Teaching aids for easier learning
Irene Maganga English teacher, Tanzania
Have you ever wondered how easier it would be to teach using teaching Aids? This presentation will enable participants to gain knowledge on the use and importance of teaching aids in the English language classrooms.
2:50- 3:20 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Affiliates Forum
TETO, Togo: Segno Amekofia Botri
ATES Senegal: Aly Sarr Nda
3:30- 4:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Affiliates Forum
Nile TESOL, Egypt: Samir Omara
Burkina Faso: Rose Kienou
GETC: Abdoulaye Konate
3:30- 4:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
The role of a leaner profile in student-centred practices in ELT classroom
Sharon Ummoti, English teacher from Tanzania
This presentation intends to show the importance of aligning teaching with the learner profile in the process of teaching and learning ELT. This includes building effective relationships and developing an inclusive classroom.
4:00-4:45 PM GMT
Featured session
(45 minutes)
Harnessing the potential of CoPs for ELT advancement: A Senegalese perspective
Mariama Ndong, English teacher in Senegal with an MA in International Education Leadership and Policy, University of Leeds
In Africa where English is generally either a foreign, second or even third language, and where formal training of teachers is often insufficient, CoPs constitute a propitious recourse for continuing professional development. This session will critically explore and draw lesson learnt in order to better harness both in-person and virtual CoPs in Senegal for more effective service to ELT in the country.
4:00- 4:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Curricular innovation and instructional materials: the experience of Ivorian schools
Ernest Kalotoueu Gbeada, English teacher
This session will present a roadmap for successful implementation of the curriculum for an EFL theater course with a focus on cultural implemented in classes in Côte d'Ivoire. The session recommends for policy makers an effective policy of material design and teacher training.
4:00- 4:45 PM GMT
Featured session
(45 minutes)
Research centres beyond borders: An interconnected network for global impact
Rania Khalil, Acting Director of the (RCIS) at The British University in Egypt
The session aims to introduce attendees to the BUE Research Centre for Irish Studies (RCIS), its objectives, available opportunities for international research collaboration, academic exchange, early and mid-career researchers’ support and upcoming events. The session will include samples of previous work and links to allow immediate engagement with the research centre.
5:00-5:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Ensuring effective communities of practice via social media
Elie Satingo Migan, EFL Teacher, Benin
This session offers guidelines for teachers and teacher associations to successfully manage WhatsApp groups so as to build a strong community of practice in our African context.
5:00- 5:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Effective professional learning communities
Samir Omara, English teacher and President of NileTESOL, Egypt
This session will share tips for teachers to keep PLCs growing and sustainable. Teacher need to always be engaged in reflective and challenging dialogues, address the most pressing instructional challenges within their own contexts, provide constructive feedback and support each other.
5:00- 5:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30minutes)
Teachers’ survivability and professionalism during the pandemic
Dinesh Yadav, College teacher, Nepal
This presentation attempts at exploring teachers’ attitude towards their professionalism. It also attempts to find out what sorts of professional activities they were involved in during the lockdown period and to justify the intent if there is a direct linkage between survivability and professionalism.
5:30- 6:15 PM GMT
Featured session
(45 minutes)
Communities of practice and career path development in Africa
Liz England, Teacher trainer and consultant
Please join us to explore TESOL career path development! Learn more about a research-based foundation for studying our careers. Share your own career milestones and goals and hear about others’ too. Participants will leave this session with more confidence and abilities to succeed throughout your career.
5:30- 6:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Mentoring teachers with large classrooms in Africa: Case of Cameroon
Caroline Linyor Tata, Teacher from Cameroon
Large classrooms are common in most schools in Africa, and Cameroon in particular. This session gives allowance to participants to share their experiences on large classroom sizes and difficulties faced. It further provides possible mentoring functions and tasks to teachers to improve on teaching and learning in such a context.
6:30-7:15 PM GMT
Featured session
(45 minutes)
Storytelling as a tool for English language teaching
Rasheedat Sadiq, English teacher and storyteller, Nigeria
This session outlines ways for bringing the African oral tradition of storytelling into the classroom as a tool for teaching English. It provides techniques and strategies that bring about improved learner engagement and varied practices of both receptive and productive skills.
6:30- 7:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Teaching English vocabulary in English
Bethe Schoenfeld, EAP Lecturer, Western Galilee College
This workshop offers the EFL or EAP teacher and student practical skills for teaching English vocabulary in the English language without resorting to translation. Participants will learn how to use punctuation clues, morphology, educated guessing in context, and patterns of organization to understand unknown words.
6:30- 7:00 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Reinforcement of students' confidence in written composition
Koffi Ouattara, English teacher, Côte d’Ivoire
This presentation is an action research with an explanatory orientation that aimed at investigating some classes in order to find an explanation to problems linked to writing skills. The results pointed at students demotivation due to many reasons. For that reason, we experience an alternative model to improve their work.
7:00- 7:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
Affiliates Forum
CINELTA Cote d'Ivoire: Dieudonne Aka
Angola ANELTA: Caetano Capitao
7:00- 7:30 PM GMT
Concurrent session
(30 minutes)
COIL exchanges: one click away the world
Rafael Márquez Flores & Gloria Angélica Ortíz Barroso, UPAEP, Mexico
This session aims to explain the main characteristics of COIL and the planning framework, which includes in-classroom strategies, activities, and evaluation resources necessary to help design their lessons. Attendees leave the workshop with helpful resources and websites to support themselves should they decide to embark on this endeavor.
7:45- 8:00 PM GMT
Conference closing remarks by the Conference Chair