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2012
IATEFL in Eger - presentation by David A. Hill
Author: Editor / City & Guilds
HARRISON AND THE ELT TEXTBOOKS
David A. Hill
Freelance, sponsored by City & Guilds
Starting from the English used by Harrison, a Ghanaian boy in a British primary school from Stephen Kelman’s 2011 Booker Short-listed novel Pigeon English, we will examine the nature of the Englishes are found in the real world. We will see how these relate to the English found in ELT textbooks, and what we might do in class to integrate them, thereby ensuring that our students can master the different codes necessary to succeed in the real world and the ELT educational world, not least in the passing of City & Guilds International Spoken ESOL.
2011
IATEFL 2011 conference in Poland
Author: Marek Doskocz / City & Guilds
This year's annual IATEFL Poland conference took place at the Warsaw University of Technology, the internationally highest-ranked Polish technical college. As always, the event attracted numerous household names in ELT, among them professor Michael McCarthy, Michael Swan, Catherine Walter, Paul Seligson, Hugh Dellar, Jamie Keddie, Grzegorz Śpiewak, JJ Wilson, Pete Sharma, to name only some, who shared inspiring and practical ideas with hundreds of the conference participants.
2011
IATEFL Conference - The Brighton Experience
Author: Editor / City & Guilds
Besides the famous Pier and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton had another powerful attraction in April this year, at least for the world of English Language Teaching: the IATEFL Conference, now simply referred to by teachers as Brighton 2011. Brighton - the scene of pleasure-seeking and the hub of the English world of artists - has now enticed a multitude of English teachers from all over the world who were flooding the conference venue - the Brighton Centre - with a keen interest to find out about the recent developments that will define English teaching for the future to come.