March 12^th, 16:00 – 17:00 local time Bucharest, Romania

Online Training

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.If only clear communication were as simple as looking in a mirror. But if George Bernard Shaw is right about communication, it’s hugely problematic in our L1, let alone in an L2. And yet in this fearful period of human history, it’s more essential than ever. So how can help our students develop this most precious of life skills? In this entirely interactive workshop, we will explore multiple ways to engage our students in a range of communicative activities, all of which are designed to maximize the receptive and productive aspects communication. This will be a comprehensive review of both the pitfalls and best practices of communication training, always bearing in mind how unique our responsibility as language teachers is, given that “language is a system for the expression of meaning” (Richard & Rogers, 2001).

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Alastair Grant- Teacher Development

 

Alastair Grant is an experienced English Teacher, Teacher Trainer, Academic Director, ELT author and public speaker. He is Head of English at Colegio Nuevo Las Lomas in Buenos Aires and a teacher trainer for International House Montevideo, where he runs the Cambridge Delta 1 teacher-training course and where he was previously Director of Studies. He works as a consultant on the profesorado de inglés at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Buenos Aires, where has lectured on both Discourse Analysis and Methodology. He was also Director of Studies at International House in San Isidro, Buenos Aires and Colegio San Luis in Victoria, Buenos Aires.

March 26^th, 11:30 – 13:00 local time Bucharest, Romania

Online Training

I propose a pedagogical shift: bring classroom language to life by fully integrating pronunciation into all learning activities in a new way that invites a vivid and personally meaningful practice of grammar, vocabulary and discourse….. and that saves time.
By pronunciation I mean more than sounds: I mean the totality of the way we use our voices in order to affect other listeners, and the way we hear others doing the same.
Pronunciation is already in everything we do, in every moment of every lesson. It is embedded in all 4 skills, in remembering, storing, recognising and recalling, and in the internal activities of assembling and rehearsing an utterance before speaking.
Thus pronunciation is already integrated, and yet our methodology does not exploit that. I shall discuss this pedagogical shift .
I will also suggest practical classroom strategies that you can tailor to your own teaching style and use at any level, and ways to use them in our new online classrooms.

Adrian Underhill

 

I work as a teacher, trainer, consultant, writer and speaker. I’m a past President of IATEFL, current IATEFL ambassador, trustee of International House London, and series editor of Macmillan Books for Teachers. Also author of Sound Foundations and designer of the Sound Foundations phonemic chart.
My current projects include leadership development, the future of teacher training and professional inquiry. I am interested in teaching beyond methods, and in bringing
playfulness, spontaneity, improvisation and storytelling into classroom learning. All my adult life I have drunk tea and played jazz in local bars.

 

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