CFP: Telling ELT Tales out of School

[Francis Hult]

http://www.elt-emu.org/index.html

 

The 3rd International ELT Conference

 

"Telling ELT Tales out of School"

 

Faculty of Education, Eastern Mediterranean University, main campus, North Cyprus

 

Once upon a time, a tale was told describing the events in the city of Babel. Ever since, it has been through language and teaching tales that language pedagogy has evolved. Around the end of the first millennium, a pedagogical grammar was developed by an Anglo-Saxon scholar called Aelfric. The boundless imagination of such language practitioners over the centuries has helped build a storehouse of fascinating told and untold tales. These tales narrate old and new, failure and success, and tradition and innovation in teaching practice. They are tales that continue to inspire us because they are rooted in professional experience.

 

The ELT culture has exerted a powerful influence on language education internationally. On behalf of the ELT Department of Education Faculty at the Eastern Mediterranean University, we would like to invite you to tell ELT "tales out of your school", to share tales from different settings, learners and teachers, as well as e-tales about innovative practice in your context. We genuinely believe that at our convention we will all learn lessons from these tales about maximizing learning, empowering teaching, exploiting resources and fostering cultural awareness. 

 

THEMES

Maximizing learning:

Learner-centered Instruction 

Learning Process 

Learning Outcomes 

Individual Learner Differences 

Learner Autonomy/Independence 

Learner Language/Interlanguage 

Learner strategies 

 

Empowering teachers:

Teaching Strategies 

Teacher Training 

Professional Development 

Teacher Talk 

Teacher Motivation 

 

Exploiting resources:

Curriculum/Syllabus Design 

ELT Management 

Materials/Aids/Realia

Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) 

Common European Framework 

Corpora in Language Education

 

Fostering cultural awareness:

English and Englishes 

English as a Lingua Franca 

Cross-cultural Awareness 

Critical Thinking Skills 

Multiple Literacies 

 

Deadline for submisson: 25 December, 2009
Early registration: 15 February-15 March, 2010
Registration: 16 March-26 April, 2010

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