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AL: Adult Learners
BE: Business English
DRAM: Drama-based Lessons
ESP: English for Specific Purposes
FrL : French Learners
GV: Grammar & Vocabulary
HE: Higher Education
HUM: Humour
IntC: Intercultural Issues
LT: Language Testing
LIST: Listening Skills
MANGT: Classroom Management
MAT: Material's Design
Mlev: Multilevel Classroom
PRON: Pronunciation
PRIM: Primary School Learners
READ: Reading Skills
SPEAK: Speaking Skills
TECH: Technology in the Classroom
TEST: Testing & Assessment
TTD: Teacher, Training & Development
Wcond: Working Conditions
WRIT: Writing Skills
YAL: Young Adult Learners
Room RDC 10: Jon Hird : "Yeah, but ... No, but ... The language of opinions" - (SPEAK, GV) - Macmillan Education
Room RDC 11: Denny Packard : "Peer Feedback to Improve Student Presentations" - (SPEAK, YAL)
Room 111: Daphne Chisholm-Elie & Gabriella BENKŐ : "Making learning stick with agile teaching" - (TTD, BE) - Business Class Solutions
Room 112: Maria Sosnovska : "Mindfulness and Teaching English in Tough Times" - (TECH, IntC) - Cancelled
Room 112: Joanna Paolinelli : "Creating an inclusive learning environment" - (TTD, TECH) -LanguageCert
Room RDC 10: Noureddine Azmi: "Teaching Soft Skills in the ESP Classroom" - (HE, ESP)
Room RDC 11: Saraswati Dawadi & Agnes Kukulska-Hulme: "Children's use of technology for learning English" - (ESP, TECH)
Room 111: Thanh Do & Thuy Vu: "Storytelling in ICC Development" - (IntC, AL)
Room 113: Teresa Bestwick: "Personalising our language learning journeys" - (YAL, SPEAK) - TESOL Spain
Opening Plenary Session:
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Leadership in Language Education
Dr. Andy Curtis (Saturday 19 November, 2022 at 10:25 am)
Poor leadership costs lives. Of all of the many brutal lessons that the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, the global loss of life, on an unprecedented scale, due to poor leadership and lack of leadership, is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of lives lost, possibly even more. Fortunately for us, as language educators, the stakes are nowhere near as high. But even in our TESOL world, poor leadership of language teaching and learning institutions takes its toll on the learners and the teachers. Given that, one would assume that our field would be filled with relevant, practical guides to help language educators become “good” leaders. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, that is not the case. Whilst we are inundated with books on technology, methodology, the post-colonial politics and practices of ELT, etc., etc., etc., books on leadership in language education are woefully few-and-far between. To address that conspicuous absence in our field, 10 leading language educators summarized a total of more than three centuries of lived experience of leadership in language education. This plenary presentation will, then, summarize the main lessons learned from this ground-breaking collection.
Room RDC 10: Spencer Salas: "Short texts, new words, and adolescent readers" - (GV, YAL)
Room RDC 11: Eftychis Kantarakis & Ruby Panagiotis Polygennis - "Teaching for a better world: SDGs in the ELT class" - (IntC, PRIM)
Room 111: Laura Edwards: "Reduce, reuse, recycle - improving efficiency" - (TECH, TTD)
Room 112: George Kokkolis-Papadopoulos - "Flipped Learning: Flipping the EFL Classroom" - (TECH) - Express Publishing
Room 113: Dr. Olive Nabukeera - "Teaching ESL while Black in the United States" - (IntC, ESP) - University of Southern California, LA
Room RDC 10: Charlotte Bulkeley: "Meaning First, Then Sound in Spelling Instruction" - (GV, SPEAK)
Room RDC 11: Oderay Quijada & Zuleika Zapateiro - "Revise, Repeat, Retain for Vocabulary Teaching" - (GV, PRIM) - Panama TESOL
Room 111: Leo Selivan: "Embedding assessment into classroom activities" - (AL, TECH) - DELTA Publishing
Room 112: Fiona Mauchline - "How do you like your eggs?" (YAL, AL)
Room 113: Mary Michaelides-Le Belicard - "Developing skills through role-playing"(HE, BE) - SKEMA Business School
All members are encouraged to attend. Come and meet the TESOL France team in person.
Room RDC 10: John W. Wilson - "Collaborative PechaKucha Presentations" (AL, SPEAK)
Room RDC 11: Katy Kelly: "Developing reading joy in YLs" (PRIM, READ)
Room 111: Colin Mackenzie: "Building rapport from the very first lesson" (MANGT) - IMT Atlantique
Room 112: George Wilson: "Rethinking teacher training for the 21st Century" (TTD, IntC) - British Council France
Room 113: Zaira Sanchez Ponce & Andrea Donaji Reyes Pineda: "A resemblance to reality: the perspective of Mexican teachers" (MANGT, YAL) - Escuela Normal No. 4 de Nezahualcoyotl
Room RDC 10: Adriana Bocu: "Accents: Getting students to speak great English" (PRON, SPEAK)
Room RDC 11: Elena Soboleva: "Designing an effective course for young learners" (PRIM, MAT)
Room 111: Catherine Aygen: "Business English as a Lingua Franca as a tool for your French Students" (FrL, AL)
Room 112: Ian Lebeau: "Global citizenship on academic English programmes" (HE, AL)
Room 113: Vasiliki Vlachou: "Alternative Assessment: The Portfolio in writing" (WRIT)
Sunday Plenary Session:
The Importance of Reflective Practice Before, During and After Covid
Thomas S.C. Farrell (Sunday 20 November, 2022 at 10:10 am)
The COVID pandemic continues to cause pain and loss around the globe, and it has also enormously impacted how teachers of English to speakers of other languages conduct their lessons regardless of the context they are teaching in. The pandemic continues yet teachers still have to teach. Thus, it has become even more important to reflect on our practice. Reflective practice involves teachers systematically looking at what they do, how they do it, why they do it, what the outcomes are in terms of student learning. In this plenary presentation I discuss what reflective practice is and conclude with four key principles of reflective practice for language teachers.
Room RDC 10: Liana Berkowitz & Fadila Arar: "Test Anxiety and Coping Strategies for Foreign Language Learners" (TEST) - ETS Global
Room RDC 11: Mansoor Al-Surmi: "L2 writing from sources: The explicit instruction of paraphrasing" (WRIT, AL)
Room 111: Rachel Marie Paling: "How coaching can help learners postpandemic" (TTD, YAL)
Room 112 Charles-Henri Discry: "Productive Doubting: Benefits and Impacts" (HE, TTD)
Room 113: Evan Frendo: "BELF - recent research and implications" (BE, ESP)
Room RDC 10: Jelena Colovic-Markovic: "How to focus on vocabulary in ES/FL Listening and Speaking" (GV)
Room RDC 11: Richard Palmer: "Eccentric ways to teaching foreign languages" (HE, AL)
Room 111: Lilit Bekaryan & Lusine Harutyunyan: "Taming the Dragons with Pitches" (BE, SPEAK)
Room 112: Gabriella Kovács: "Language Coaching: Supporting Adult Learners" (AL, BE) - ILCA
Room 113: Joanna Paolinelli : "Creating an inclusive learning environment" - (TTD, TECH) -LanguageCert
On Sunday, November 20th we'll hold a Q&A session with our two plenary speakers, Dr. Andy Curtis and Thomas Farrell.
Please use this form during the colloquium to submit questions for this session.
Questions may be submitted in this format until 2 PM on Sunday the 20th.
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