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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:23:05
From: Daniel Xerri [daniel.xerri at um.edu.mt]
Subject: Researching ELT History: A Hands-on Workshop

 
Researching ELT History: A Hands-on Workshop 

Date: 03-Apr-2017 - 03-Apr-2017 
Location: Glasgow, Malta 
Contact: Daniel Xerri 
Contact Email: daniel.xerri at um.edu.mt 
Meeting URL: http://resig.weebly.com/iatefl-resig-pce-2017.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; History of Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

This one-day event aims to show how uncovering ELT history can provide useful
new perspectives, both for our own professional practice and for the field
more generally.
 
>From an initial focus on participants' language learning and professional
histories, we will consider broader historical findings in order to better
situate ourselves as individuals and as a profession. On this basis, we will
consider historiographical issues relating to the fallibility of memory and
'folk memory' and the reliability or otherwise of different kinds of secondary
and primary sources.
 
There will be input on and practice in historical methods, with a particular
focus on hands-on activities relating to oral history, textbook history and
use of documents. The day-long workshop (led by Richard Smith and Friederike
Klippel) will be of interest and use to practising teachers and teacher
educators as well as to students currently researching their own topics,
historical or otherwWe would like you to bring (if possible):

1) Something (e.g. a textbook, exercise book or document) related to and, if
possible, significant in your or your parents' (or grand-parents'!) language
learning experience.
2) Something (e.g. a conference handbook, training notes, certificate,
official letter, textbook, lesson plan, teacher resource book) related to and,
if possible, significant in your history/development as an ELT professional.
3) Any ideas for histories you would like to investigate further, perhaps with
examples of artefacts / sources associated with them. Feel free to consult us
via email in advance in relation to your ideas: Richard Smith
(R.C.Smith at warwick.ac.uk) & Friederike Klippel (klippel at lmu.de), so that we
can make the workshop as useful as possible to you. However, you do not need
to come with any specific ideas for a historical research project.

We would like you to bring (if possible):

1) Something (e.g. a textbook, exercise book or document) related to and, if
possible, significant in your or your parents' (or grand-parents'!) language
learning experience.
2) Something (e.g. a conference handbook, training notes, certificate,
official letter, textbook, lesson plan, teacher resource book) related to and,
if possible, significant in your history/development as an ELT professional.
3) Any ideas for histories you would like to investigate further, perhaps with
examples of artefacts / sources associated with them. Feel free to consult us
via email in advance in relation to your ideas: Richard Smith
(R.C.Smith at warwick.ac.uk) & Friederike Klippel (klippel at lmu.de), so that we
can make the workshop as useful as possible to you. However, you do not need
to come with any specific ideas for a historical research project.

We look forward to working with you! Richard Smith and Friederike Klippel
 

Program:

IATEFL Research SIG Pre-conference Event, Glasgow, 3 April 2017
Researching ELT History: A Hands-on Workshop
Richard Smith and Friederike Klippel

10:00:
Introductions

10:15:
Warm-up activity (your own language learning history) & establishing the
academic framework

11:15: Coffee break

11:45:
Memories, myths & primary sources

12:45: Lunch

14:00:
Oral history, textbook history & uses of documents

15:10: Tea break

15:40:
Putting it all together: formulating a mini-research project

16:40:
Questions and conclusions





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