The C Group Presenters - IATEFL 2018, Brighton UK

9 April 2018 – PCE - Monday

Global Issues SIG & Visual Arts Circle Joint PCE: A Workshop in Three Acts
Speakers:
Kieran Donaghy: Social Justice and the Visual Arts in English Language Teaching
Linda Ruas: Introduction

Literature SIG: Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools
Speaker:
Amos Paran: Teachers’ Views of Using Literature in Foreign and Second Language Secondary Classrooms: an Exploratory Study

Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG: Assessing Listening
Speaker:
Thom Kiddle: Creating Listening Assessments

Young Learners and Teenagers SIG: Children’s right, children’s future: practical applications in TEYLs Speakers:
Carol Read – Early Years
Jennifer Dobson: Young Little Tech Teachers

10 April 2018 – Tuesday

10:40-11:25. Auditorium 2. Adrian Underhill (with Piers Messum and Roslyn Young)
Language is for expression before it is for communication

10:40-11:25. Restaurant. Danny Norrington-Davies
Exploring learner-generated reasons in different teaching contexts

10:40-11:25. Room 10. Elena Kuznetcova
Emotional intelligence: What makes a manager?

10:40-11:25. Syndicate 1. Jennifer Dobson
Taking responsibility for safeguarding primary learners online

10:40-11:25. Oxford. Jeremy Harmer
Root and branch: how students own their own English stories

10:40-11:25. Dukes. Kieran Donaghy
Values and short films in language teaching

10:40-11:25. Buckingham. Malu Sciamarelli
Literature for all: creative texts for every class

11:55-12:25. Balmoral. Alan Maley The way we were

11:55-13:10. Buckingham. Amos Paran
Researching literature in the language classroom: patterns and possibilities
(Panel with Sandie Mourao, Petra Kirchoff, Friederike Klippe and Christian Ludwig)

12.05-12.35. Durham. Nick Bilbrough (with Rida Thabet)
Remote theatre for children in challenging circumstances

12:40-1:10. Lancaster. Rose Aylett
Tasty taboos: making PARSNIPs palatable for teachers and students alike

14:10-14:40. Durham. Andrew Wright
Writing stories and language teaching

14:10-14:40. Restaurant. Vicky Saumell
Implementing a project-based learning programme: a step-by-step guide

14:55-15:40. Room 11. Chris Walklett
The Message - constructing meaningful, usable EFL materials from songs/song lyrics

14:55-15:40. Room 1. Dina Blanco-Ioannou
Developing a Healthy Sense of Self: ELT for Life’s Purposes

14:55-15:40. Restaurant. Janice Bland
Learning Language from an unreliable narrator: the idiom principle

14:55-15:40. Oxford. Margit Szesztay
Social intelligence for teachers

14:55-15:40. Syndicate 3. Marjorie Rosenberg
The Disney Creativity Strategy in the business English context

14:55-15:40. Restaurant. Janice Bland
Learning language from an unreliable narrator: the idiom principle

16:55-17:25. Syndicate 3. Alan Pulverness
“By indirections find directions out”: evolution of a transnational project

16:55 - 17:55. Dukes. Jana Jilkova and IP&SENSIG committee
Inclusive Practices and Special Educational Needs Open Forum

19:00-20:00. Syndicate 3 & 4. The C Group Meeting.

11 April 2018 – Wednesday

10.20-10.50. Cambridge. Carol Read
Little sponges? Child development and early foreign language learning

10.20-10.50. Oxford. Jim Scrivener
Forget methodology. Learners just need more (and better) practice

11:05-11:35. Room 1. Marisa Constantinides
Ms Holistic vs. Mr McNugget – conversations about grammar teaching

12:05-12:50. Oxford. David Heathfield
Students sharing folk tales: an intercultural exchange

12:05-12:50. Lancaster. Niki Christodoulou
Practicing Core Reflection: Bringing out the best in EFL teachers

12:05-12:50. Room 6. Sian Etherington
Talking together about EFL research: issues, challenges and ways forward

14:15-14:45. Room 6. Daniel Xerri
Supporting Teacher-Researchers Through the Development of Research Literacy

14:15-14:45. Cambridge. Maria Heron (with Claudia Mewald)
PALM: an interactive platform for language learning in 8 languages

16:00-16:30. Hall 4. Linda Ruas
F is for fake: how students deal critically with post-truth

16:45-17:15. Syndicate 2. Geoff Tranter
Dealing with diversity in the classroom

16:45-17:15. Syndicate 4. Ian Lebeau
Teaching 'British culture' after the Brexit vote

17:30-18:15. Auditorium 2. Hania Kryszewska
Using modern poetry for language practice in the ELT classroom

19.00-21.00. Auditorium 2. Andrew Wright & David Heathfield
Sharing Stories

12 April 2018 – Thursday
10:20-10:50. Hall 4. Adrian Tennant
Labels - not the way forward!

10:20-10:50. Restaurant. Letizia Cinganotto (with Heike Philip)
Learn English with the method of loci in immersive worlds

14:20-15.00. Auditorium 2 (Interactive Language Fair). Harisimran Sandhu
How autonomy can help drive your school to excellence

14:20-15:05. Room 3. Sabrina Bechler
Mediation in the Primary Classroom

14:40-15:05. Cambridge. Tessa Woodward
Teacher development over time

16:20-16:50. Buckingham. Michelle Hunter
Group dynamics and speaking in class ‘rounds’

17:05-17:50. Room 1. Judit Feher
"I don’t know." - the benefits of uncertainty in the classroom

17:05-17:50. Balmoral. Russell Stannard
Developing learner independence through online platforms

13 April 2018 – Friday

11:05-11:35. Buckingham. Aleksandra Popovski
Graphic novels in the EFL classroom

Please check the Creative Methodology for the Classroom course at Pilgrims website.