Plenary Speakers

Getting There

Abbreviation Table for Talks

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

Friday, Nov. 18th

Registration opens at 16:00 in Hall 4 on the Ground Gloor (rez de chaussée = RDC)

16:30 - 18:00 - Friday Colloquium Opening & Unplugged BarCamp

Session A - 18:15 - 19:15 (click to see the talks)

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

19:15 - 21:00 - Welcome Cocktail Apero & Networking

Saturday, Nov. 19th

Registration opens at 8:00 in Hall 4 on the Ground Gloor (rez de chaussée = RDC)

Session B - 9:00 - 10:00

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

Saturday Welcome

Opening Plenary: 10:25 - 11:35 | Andy Curtis: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Leadership in Language Education (Salle des Fêtes)

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.

Coffee Break - 11:35 - 12:00

Session C - 12:00 - 13:00

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

Session D - 14:30 - 15:30

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

15:40-16:40 - TESOL France AGM (Salle des Fêtes)

All members are encouraged to attend. Come and meet the TESOL France team in person.

Coffee Break - 16:40 - 17:00

Session E - 17:00 -18:00

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

18:00-19:00 - Cocktail Dinetoire Reception

Exhibitors and Poster session:

visiting posters, stands & networking

(1st Floor Hall 4)

19:30 - 21:00 - Saturday Evening Entertainment (Salle des Fêtes)

18:00 - 19:00 Cocktail Dinetoire Reception: Posters, Exhibitors & Networking

Poster Presentations

19:30 - 21:00 Saturday Evening Entertainment: Open Mic/Mike & Games (Salle des Fêtes)

Sunday, Nov. 20th

Registration opens at 8:00 in Hall 4 on the Ground Gloor (rez de chaussée = RDC)

Session F - 9:00 - 10:00

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: 10:10 - 11:20 | Thomas Farrell: The Importance of Reflective Practice Before, During and After Covid (Salle des Fêtes)

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.