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Young Learners_Teens2012
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Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers
Tesol EVO Sessions: January 9th 2012 - February 11th 2012
Join us for online conversations with passionate & committed members of YLTSIG working with Young Learners and Teenagers
Session Description
The IATEFL Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest group (YLTSIG) is really pleased to invite you to join its EVO session for 2012. Over the five week session we invite you to join us in one of the best virtual staffrooms online.
YLTSIG members, all well-known dynamic members of the English Language Learning Community, will be joining us to share their particular expertise on a wide variety of subjects. Participants will be able to discuss and share experiences, ideas, thoughts through the regular online meetings : special needs, difficult pupils, games and language aims, very young learners, technology for teens... ... all just part of the programme.
Objectives
By the end of the five week session participants will have:
- joined the session's special Yahoo group discussion forum..
- practiced using the online platform Adobe Connect.
- participated in the online meetings. For participants not able to make a particular meeting, recordings will be online shortly after ech event is over..
- joined in the email discussions with the presenters, who will be available for all sorts of questions and discussion both immediately after their presentations and for a number of days afterwards..
- connected with other educators from around the world, who are all passionate about English language teaching especially to Young Learners and Teens.
Target Audience
All those involved with or interested in the Teaching of English to Young Learners and Teenagers.
We are hoping that participants will have basic internet communication skills (emails, browsing online). Practice sessions and tutorials will be available for the online platform used for the sessions. It is advisable for participants to have a headset with microphone for the session (a very cheap one will be fine!) and if you are too shy to speak you will still be able to "chat" i.e. write.
Sponsors
TESOL CALL-IS, Secondary Schools IS and IATEFL Young Learners and Teens SIG
Weekly Outline
Week 1 (Jan 9th - Jan 15th)
This first week will be devoted to meeting participants and moderators and getting familiar with the tools to be used during the session : Yahoo Groups, Twitter, Adobe Connect. Participants will be invited to introduce themselves and exchange via email or online sessions.
Weeks 2 - 5
Each week will have two special guests. Participants will be able to prepare for the sessions as our guests will provide pre-reading or viewing before the session.
After the session, participants will be invited to discuss with the presenter via the Yahoo group email.
Big efforts will be made to vary the times of the sessions, in order to accommodate participants from around the globe, but we are of course dependant on the busy schedules of our guests.
In case participants cannot make it to a session, a recording will be made available. This means that participants will always be able to join in the online email discussion, whatever their time zone or personal commitments.
A full and detailed programme will be made available nearer to kick off.
Here's the group of presenters:
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The importance of early literacy teaching in the ELT context
Wendy Arnold is an English Language Teaching (ELT) Consultant, teacher and trainer trainer with extensive international experience. Her background is in ELT teaching/training and educational management. She has experience of curriculum reform as well as design and implementation of ELT training programmes at primary/elementary level for Ministry of Education teachers. She is an author and primary ELT materials writer with several major UK publishers. She specialises in early literacy. (MA in Teaching English to Young Learners (York), PGCE (Hong Kong), CELTYL, CELTA)
www.elt-consultants.com
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Little Tech for Big Results
Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto is co-author of Let’s Go (OUP), one of the world’s best-selling English courses for children, and program director for the International Teacher Development Institute (iTDi). An EFL teacher and teacher trainer since 1985, she has conducted workshops throughout Asia, the U.S. and Latin America. Her motto is "Always try new things," so these days, when she's not teaching, writing, or giving workshops, you'll often find her online exploring the potential of social media for professional development. If you'd like to explore with her, you can usually find her on her blog,Teaching Village, her wiki, on Twitter or on Facebook.
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Technology with teens - developing materials and practices for the digital generation
Nik Peachey is a freelance teacher trainer and consultant doing a wide range of tasks from designing online teacher training courses, research and design for new digital teaching products, exploring new ways of delivering teacher training, instructional design of web based and mobile learning products and writing materials to enable teachers to make best use of available technologies. He has worked with a diverse range of both big and small companies that include the British Council, the Open University, Cambridge ESOL, The Consultants-E, IATEFL, International House and Study Group.
He also works as an associate trainer for Bell Educational Trust and is a visiting lecturer on the University of Westminster MA TESOL course. He's been working in ELT since 1992 first as a teacher and then as a teacher trainer, ICT trainer and ELT writer and then as a project manager for the BBC | British Council's Teaching English website. Find out more about Nik here.
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Dealing with challenging learners - why do some pupils make us feel they are unteachable?
Marie Delaney is an Educational Psychotherapist, MFL / EFL Teacher and Teacher Trainer and NLP Master Practitioner. She has extensive experience of working with challenging behaviour– both staff and pupils! She has worked on outside school projects – at DYP a Mentoring and Education programme in Hackney, London - as well as in schools as a Learning Support Unit manager for pupils at risk of exclusion and as Learning Mentor /LSU co-ordinator for primary and secondary schools in the London Borough of Havering. She was also a trainer and moderator on the National Training for Learning Mentors and worked as Emotional Literacy Consultant in a challenging secondary school in Essex.
She is currently working in a school for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in Cork as well as offering training and consultancy.
She has been Director of Studies for International House in Poland and Course Director for Teacher Training at Pilgrims, Canterbury, UK. She has trained teachers worldwide. Her main interests are introducing therapeutic approaches into mainstream schools to develop realistic strategies for challenging behaviour. She is the author of ‘Teaching the Unteachable’ 2008 Worth Publishing, UK and ‘What can I do with the kid who...’ 2010 Worth Publishing UK.
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Kick starting the Teaching Module
The carefully balanced use of TPR techniques and expressive mime and dance accelerate memorization, guarantee long-term recall and favour correct pronunciation of words and language chunks.
Charles Goodger is from London, the founder of FunSongs Education speaks six languages (four fluently) and plays three musical instruments. is an English teacher, text-book writer, and since 2011 a teacher trainer for Pilgrims in Canterbury and works as an Esperto Linguistico at Bologna University. Charles has held workshops for teachers in China, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, France, Germany, Italy, Estonia, Spain and England.
Find out more about Charles' work at Charles Goodger: FunSongs Education website shortlisted for an ELTons award for excellence and innovation by the British Council in 2011.
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Sounds fun! Playing with Sounds in the English Language Classroom
Susan Hillyard holds a B.Ed. from Warwick University (U.K.) in Dramatic Arts and Sociology and has worked as a classroom teacher, a Head, or a teacher trainer in eleven countries, using drama for education and language learning.
She has taught at two major teacher training colleges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she is currently based. She is the former Educational Advisor for The Performers Theatre and an educational consultant travelling to six or seven countries each year.
She has co-authored a Resource Book for Teachers “Global Issues” for OUP, and has authored and taught an online course: From Learning Creatively to Teaching Creatively.
In Argentina she’s the driving force behind the provision of English language teaching in special schools, shanty town schools, hospital schools, orphanages and home visits to students with severe and terminal illnesses.
This workshop is based on the philosophy of “Confidence First, Fluency Second and Accuracy Third”. It emphasises active learning in ELT and offers a series of activities for helping students to play with English sounds in a practical way leading to more confident use of the voice and ultimately to better pronunciation. It is based on the idea that teachers do not often work sufficiently effectively with the oral skills particularly the sounds of English.
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THREE SHORT PRESENTATIONS:
The Comprehension Hypothesis vs. The Skill-Building Hypothesis: Why accept a delayed gratification hypothesis when the gratification never comes?
Developing Academic Language: How the language teaching profession has backed the wrong horse.
Pleasure and Ecstasy: Is language acquisition a junior ecstasy?
Stephen Krashen is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California.
He is best known for developing the first comprehensive theory of second language acquisition, introducing the concept of sheltered subject matter teaching, and as the co-inventor of the Natural Approach to foreign language teaching.
He has also contributed to theory and application in the area of bilingual education, and has done important work in the area of reading.
He holds a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA, was the 1977 Incline Bench Press champion of Venice Beach and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He is the author of The Power of Reading (Heinemann, 2004, second edition).
His recent papers can be found at www.sdkrashen.com.
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Gamify your classroom : computer games and language aims
Graham Stanley ( blogefl@gmail.com) spends half of his working life as a teacher of English at the British Council Young Learner Centre in Spain) and the other half working as social media consultant on projects for the British Council such as aPLaNet (looking at personal learning networks for teachers) and ITiLT (Interactive Whiteboards).
He has a M.Ed. (University of Manchester, UK) in ELT & Educational Technology, and is also coordinator of the IATEFL Learning Technologies Special Interest Group. He blogs at http://blogefl.blogspot.com and http://www.digitalplay.info/blog and is co-author of themethodology book for teachers interested in using computer games for language teaching and learning, 'Digital Play' (Delta Publishing,2011).
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An EFL teacher and thinking skills: married or divorced?
Alexander Sokol comes from Riga, Latvia, where he used to work as a secondary school EFL teacher for 13.5 years. He is now the academic director of TA Group - an educational company dealing with teaching, teacher education, research and consulting in the field of teaching thinking (www.ta-group.eu).Alexanderis the principal developer of The Thinking Approach to language teaching and learning. He has got a PhD in thinking skills in language education from the University of Strasbourg.
Thinking is definitely a buzz word today. Most EFL teachers agree that it is important to develop learners’ thinking skills. Moreover, many of us tend to believe that we actually develop learners’ thinking in EFL classrooms, as learning a language is always about improving one’s thinking. However, under a close examination this ‘marriage’ often appears fake. A large number of EFL teachers hardly ever make any contribution to the development of their learners’ thinking. Some even believe that it is harmful to teach thinking in the language classroom.
In this talk he will speak about the place of thinking in the EFL classroom and pose a few questions a modern EFL teacher should be able to answer.
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Seven Secrets of Successful EFL
Hans Mol is a writer, teacher trainer and teacher working from Australia. He has contributed to, written and co-written many primary, secondary, tertiary and adult ELT courses. Some are for specific markets such as market-leading Real English, and Realtime, for Dutch schools; Take Shape (Macmillan, for South American schools, with Paul Davies), Next Stop, Magic Adventure (Rokus Klett, for eastern European schools, with Niki Joseph). He has contributed to many Macmillan courses, and to the Macmillan English Campus and Onestopenglish. He’s also co-authored an EFL dictionary for young learners. His ESAP course English for Tourism and Hospitality (Garnet, UK) is co-winner of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Recent publications are English Grammar for Teens (FLTRP, China, 2012). Other grammar publications are Grammar Gear (ThiemeMeulenhoff, for Dutch teenagers), and Grammar for Young Learners, a teachers´ resource book (Oxford University Press). A new business course, Business Update (Garnet, with Joanne Collie) will appear early 2012 as well as extended teacher resources for Macmillan’s Brainwave. He also writes and produces songs for the teaching of English.
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Niki Joseph holds an MA in Education. She has worked as an EFL teacher, teacher trainer and director of studies in many countries including Brazil, Italy and Portugal. She has taught children (preschool and primary) teenagers and adults at all levels (both general, exam-focused and university programmes). She has trained teachers for in service programmes, teacher development programmes and the TKT exam. She has been an examiner for Cambridge ESOL for many years.
Niki has co-authored course materials including a primary course for Portugal Hoola Hoop (Porto Editora, Portugal) which was short-listed for the prestigious ELTONS awards in 2010, Magic Adventure (Rokus Klett) and English Grammar for Teens, (FLTRP China). For more information, see www.eflwriters.com.
She is an active member of IATEFL YLTsig committee. www.yltsig.org She is also editor of Appinep Bulletin a journal for Portuguese primary teachers.
She is regular presenter and participant at EFL conferences.
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Join this session
Sign up for the session starts on Jan 2nd, 2012 .
The action starts on Jan 9, 2012.
Note:
When you register for the group, you will have to be approved by the moderator in order to reduce the possibility of "unwanted" members (such as spammers).
Meet the Moderators
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Dennis Newson
M.A. (Cantab), P.D.E.S.L (Leeds) taught EFL in Africa, Arabia, Norway and Germany in middle schools, secondary schools, teacher training colleges, a technical university and an arts university. He was a consultant for short periods in Bosnia and Kosovo, and conferences have taken him to Poland, Hungary, Las Palmas, Russia and England. He has developed his interest in SL since his alleged retirement. He is also a member of the Iatefl GISIG committee (global issues), the YLTSIG committee and moderator of the YLTSIG online discussion list and online events. He did his first EVO session as a co-moderator for a project about teaching foreign languages in Second Life.
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ffinlo Kilner
I am the Academic Manager of a company that provides language holidays for teenagers and children around the UK. I am also (new) co-editor of the IATEFL YLT Sig C&TS (Children & Teenagers) magazine. I trained as a graphic designer and worked for a number of years in brand and web design as well as taught in UK primary schools as part of the creative curriculum project where artists work with classes and their teacher on art-based projects. I have also been an EFL teacher since 1986, working mostly in language schools in Europe and the UK (I know!) but have only just reappeared on grid after three years rearing pigs, sheep and hens on a smallholding on the Welsh border. I now live in Cornwall, England.
I hold a PGCE in Further Education as well as RSA Diploma.
Email: ffinlo@sul-schools.com
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Helen Davies
I'm Helen Davies, currently living and working in France. I work as an English teacher in state schools and have worked with young learners, special needs pupils and teens. I'm also involved in teacher training for primary school teachers. I'm very happy to have just finished my Masters in online language learning and am passionnate about using technology with my pupils.
As a member of the YLTSIG committee with Dennis and ffinlo, we have been trying to increase and improve our group's online activity.
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