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ICELL 2013: Envisions innovations in teaching and learning English</h1><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:468px">
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KUALA LUMPUR: The International Conference on English Language Learning (ICELL) 2013 was launched today by Deputy Education Minister 1, Datuk Mary Yap Kain Ching to create a platform for planners and policy implementers to meet and appraise issues relating to English language teaching and learning.</h2>
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Themed “English in Action”, this international conference features world-renowned ELT experts from Malaysia, New Zealand, United States and the United Kingdom, who will share practical and innovative ELT methods. Although the guest speakers are from different backgrounds, they firmly believe in making the teaching of English fun and interactive. The theme targets to reinforce existing teaching methods while encouraging teachers to reexamine them from a different perspective.</div>
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The opening ceremony also saw the launch of “The Learning Club” (TLC), a social learning platform or a new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), which offers the latest social media tools and online learning for effective personal and professional development. The site is aimed at allowing students to be more motivated in learning and interacting with one another, as well as with teachers and tutors.</div>
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Mary said, “The Ministry of Education Malaysia acknowledges the efforts of institutions working towards making English a working language. Conferences like ICELL are great avenues for professional learning communities.”</div>
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“The many facets of implementation regarding improving English in our schools and the role of teachers are arguably the most important. More than anything else, our students look to teachers for guidance as role models and inspiration to master a language that everyone acknowledges is important for their future,” she added.</div>
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Held from 8.30am to 5.00pm, this inaugural conference is brought together by ELS Language Centres (ELS) in collaboration with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). It serves as a pre-conference workshop series to UPM’s International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICELT) 2013, which will be held in Melaka from 18 to 20 November 2013.</div>
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Prof. Datuk Dr. Mohd Fauzi Hj. Ramlan, Vice Chancellor of UPM said, “UPM has always been proactive with regards to the teaching of the English language in Malaysia. To further promote the language, UPM and ELS have initiated many well-known international conferences.</div>
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Amongst them are the Malaysia International Conference on English Language since 1996, and the International Conference on English Language since 2009. UPM’s partnership with ELS in English language teaching and learning in Malaysia has been a positive and fruitful one.”</div>
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Chief Executive Officer of ELS Malaysia, Prof. Emeritus Dato’ Dr. M. Mahyuddin Dahan said, “The ICELL conference is a platform to further provide opportunities to the teaching community at home and abroad to showcase and share teaching and learning experiences. We hope that by sharing, collaborating and facing challenges together, all practitioners of English language teaching and learning in Malaysia will be able to achieve our desired goals in nation building.”</div>
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“We would especially like to acknowledge UPM, a valued partner of ours in this effort for many years. It is our hope that the future will bring even closer co-operation between UPM and ELS, working with the Ministry of Education to fulfill the aims and objectives of the Malaysian Education Blueprint towards a better tomorrow,” he added.</div>
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ICELL’s mission is to provide a common ELT platform for language practitioners, experts, researchers and policy makers from Malaysia and other countries to promote effective English language learning through competent teaching. It offers the opportunity to the ELT fraternity to exchange ideas, best practices and innovation in language pedagogy. This will serve as a springboard to re-examine traditional delivery systems and theories of language teaching in the light of technological innovation and advancement.</div>
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