1. Classroom Assessment |
Sandra McKay |
2. Developing a Philosophy of Language Teaching |
Graham Crookes |
3. Extensive Reading: Helping Students to Become EFL Readers |
Richard Day |
4. Communicative Activities for EFL Learners |
Robert Gibson |
5. Culture and English as an International Language
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Sandra McKay |
6. Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary |
Sandra McKay |
7. Approaches to Teaching Writing |
Sandra McKay |
8. Motivating Foreign Language Learners |
Richard Schmidt |
9. Attention & Awareness in Language Classrooms |
Richard Schmidt |
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1. Classroom Assessment
by Sandra McKay
This session will focus on classroom assessment as opposed to standardized tests. We will begin by discussing the various purposes of classroom assessment and then explore specific strategies for assessing learning in all four skills.
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2. Developing a Philosophy of Language Teaching
by Graham Crookes
Increasingly, teachers of all kinds are being asked to specify their philosophy of teaching. Identifying key values and beliefs, as well as their practical implications, is a useful way for language teachers to develop. This presentation will present some central historical trends that feed into language teaching, from the point of view of their values and central concepts, and also identify other main features of a philosophy of teaching, such as "aims." This presentation will be followed by a discussion period in which participants will begin to explore this important topic, while simultaneously extending their command of advanced professional English.
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3. Extensive Reading: Helping Students to Become EFL Readers
by Richard Day
This workshop introduces the participants to extensive reading, an approach to teaching EFL reading that allows students to have exciting, meaningful experiences that motivate them to read even outside their EFL classes and, at the same time, prepare them for academic reading.
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4. Communicative Activities for EFL Learners
by Robert Gibson
This workshop will be concerned with Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Several interactive communication activities and strategies will be demonstrated followed by information about how they can be applied in a comprehensive approach to language learning. We will illustrate how the activities can be used to foster both fluency and accuracy. We will also show how a “focus on the forms” of English can be a natural extension of the communication activities. By the end of the session, participants will have several new communicative activities and will have experience in creating new ones that are appropriate to their students’ proficiency levels and interests. Readings and materials will be provided.
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5. Culture and English as an International Language
by Sandra McKay
This seminar will explore the role of culture in the teaching of an international language in an Asian context. The seminar will begin by describing the characteristics of English as an international language. Then we will discuss how culture plays an important role in language teaching in the teaching of vocabulary and language appropriateness, the development of language materials, and the choice of teaching methodology.
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6. Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary
by Sandra McKay
This seminar will explore various ways of presenting new vocabulary in both beginning and intermediate level English language classes. We will begin by discussing what it means to know a word. Then we will examine various ways of introducing and using vocabulary items including semantic mapping, lexical phrases, and vocabulary notebooks.
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7. Approaches to Teaching Writings
by Sandra McKay
This workshop begins by introducing four major approaches to the teaching of composition. It then describes various strategies for promoting writing in the language classroom. The last part of the workshop presents various principles for responding to students’ essays.
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8. Motivating Foreign Language Learners
by Richard Schmidt
This workshop session reviews current theories and findings regarding motivation and second language learning, with a special focus on what teachers can do to more strongly motivate their students.
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9. Attention & Awareness in Language Classrooms
by Richard Schmidt
This workshop session will review what is known about conscious and unconscious processes of learning as they apply to second and foreign language learning, with particular focus on the roles of attention and awareness. Connections will be made between cognitive processes and instructional interventions such as task-based and content-based language teaching, input enhancement, recasts, and other techniques for making form-meaning connections salient to learners.
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