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IATEFL 2018 This is your guide to the next four days with us. Listen to talks by our leading ELT experts and learn about our latest digital innovations.
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Talks
TALKS
Tuesday 10 April
Time
The ESL classroom: going beyond the text CHRISTOPHER BARKER
IELTS General Training Writing Task 1: rising to challenges SARAH PHILPOT
Wednesday 11 April
Time
10.40–11.25 Balmoral, Hilton Brighton Metropole
Empowering girls and women with English language education in China
10.20–10.50 Room 3, Brighton Centre
10.40–11.25 Room 1, Brighton Centre
Integrating life skills into English language programmes
Room
Silvana Richardson and Gabriel Diaz 11.25–11.55 Stand 26 Maggioli discuss teacher development Coffee break Hyper polyglots: what can they teach us?
12.40–13.10
SCOTT THORNBURY
Tell us what you want, what you really, really want
12.40–13.10
KAREN BARNS, TRISTAN ESTALL
Oxford, Hilton Brighton Metropole Syndicate 2, Brighton Centre
Peter Watkins and Herbert Puchta discuss teacher development books
13.10–14.10 Lunch break
How to get teenagers talking
14.55–15.40 Balmoral, Hilton Brighton Metropole
GWENDYDD CAUDWELL
Changing the right things or changing things right? SINEM ATAMSOY KOSAN
Stand 26
Oxford, Hilton Brighton Metropole
17.40–18.10
Oxford, Hilton Brighton Metropole
STUART VINNIE
Teaching IELTS to lower levels CLAIRE WIJAYATILAKE, SUSAN HUTCHISON
Auditorium 2, Brighton Centre
Using controlled grammar exercises to 12.05–12.50 Balmoral, pick up the pace Hilton Brighton JOSEPH CHAPPLE Metropole Safe speaking environments – What? Why? How?
14.15–14.45
ZOLTAN DORNYEI Designing tests to encourage collaborative discussions among A2 learners IVANA VIDAKOVIC, KATHRYN DAVIES
ADRIAN DOFF
14.55–15.40 Syndicate 4, Brighton Centre
16.55–17.25
11.05–11.35
BEN KNIGHT
Helping learners to listen
Just like me: near-peers as role models 15.55–16.25 Hall 4, and content creators Hilton Brighton LAURA PATSKO, BEN GOLDSTEIN Metropole Does exam practice make perfect? Depends on the practice
XIANGDONG GU
Room
Durham, Hilton Brighton Metropole
16.00–16.30 Room 1, Brighton Centre 16.00–16.30 Balmoral, Hilton Brighton Metropole
WEDNESDAY | STAND 26
Calling all exam teachers!
Your chance to tell us what we could do better and get your teacher support pack. Meet the team behind official preparation materials for Cambridge English Qualifications and IELTS.
TUESDAY–THURSDAY | STAND 26 TUESDAY | STAND 26
Scott Thornbury book signing!
16.25–16.55 Scott Thornbury will be signing copies of his new pocket book (available at our stand with a 50% discount) during Tuesday’s afternoon coffee break.
Collect your free classroom poster and win a Cambridge Satchel Our free poster with online activities is a great teaching tool for your classroom. Everyone who collects their free poster from stand 26 will be entered into a prize draw to win one of three Cambridge Satchels.
Talks
Thursday 12 April
Friday 13 April
Time
10.20–10.50 Oxford, Hilton Brighton SILVANA RICHARDSON, GABRIEL DIAZ MAGGIOLI Metropole
Teacher training in the 21st century – is CELTA still relevant?
10.20–10.50 Dukes, Hilton Brighton Metropole
Access to English for refugees & asylum seekers
Avoiding lumps in your ELT blend: rethinking blended course implementation
Time
Room
Inspired professional development: the road ahead
SARAH ROGERSON, CHLOE SHAW
11.05–11.35
Room 6, Brighton Centre
CLARE HARRISON
MATTHEW ELLMAN
Learning by design: creating a virtuous 12.05–12.35 Room 1, circle for progression Brighton Centre SIAN MORGAN, RON ZERONIS
Feedback and motivation for Young Learners
What can data tell us about online learning?
12.05–12.35 Oxford, Hilton Brighton Metropole
Unlocking and enabling critical thinking in EAP students
12.50–13.20 Oxford, Hilton Brighton Metropole
Using collaborative work to maximize impact on short IELTS courses
15.20–15.50 Lancaster, Hilton Brighton Metropole
Spotlight on creative drama. Bringing stories to life
GORDON LEWIS, CAROLINE THIRIAU
To ‘errr’ is human: strategies for higher-level IELTS speaking success GREG ARCHER Latin American language reform: success stories from a changing environment JOSÉ ALBERTO COSTA, EVELINA GALACZI
Fit for purpose: designing tests for online language learning MAGGIE DUNLOP, KATE INGHAM
AKEELA CADER
RACHEL JEFFRIES
16.20–16.50 Auditorium 2, Brighton Centre
THURSDAY | STAND 26
Chat to our academic English experts!
TUESDAY–THURSDAY STAND 84–86
50% off books ELT Cambridge books and material from our partnered stand, The Bournemouth English Book Centre.
Are you a teacher of academic English? Come and speak to our experts at the stand. They’ll be available to answer your questions and to share information about research, impact studies, global trends, our new publishing, and the resources available to support teachers of academic English.
Brighton up your day with a free ice cream! 11.00–16.00 daily
10.20–10.50 Oxford, Hilton Brighton Metropole 11.05–11.35
Dukes, Hilton Brighton Metropole
11.05–11.35
Oxford, Hilton Brighton Metropole
LYNNE STEVENSON, SARAH ALBRECHT
TAM CONNERS-SADEK
Room
12.05–12.50 Cambridge, Hilton Brighton Metropole 12.05–12.50 Balmoral, Hilton Brighton Metropole
PANEL DISCUSSION
What will language learning look like in the future?
Join the party!
Pop-up talks from Cambridge Assessment English
Evening party hosted by Cambridge Assessment English
Be the first to find out how you and your learners can benefit from our latest tech innovations for teaching, learning and assessment. Listen to our cutting-edge talks during your coffee and lunch breaks. Pop-up talk stage, exhibition hall
Wednesday 11 April 18.30–late Komedia Brighton
Wednesday 11 April Experiential learning: VR and ELT 11.45 | MARY WHITESIDE
Speaking with robots: Tech for talking
What are your plans for the future? How do you see your role in ELT changing? Cambridge Assessment English in collaboration with ELTjam will be showcasing perspectives on the future of learning and assessment. Join us for a relaxed evening of discussion, networking, music and refreshments.
13.40 | DAN FROST
Thursday 12 April Reading screens: The future of the written word 11.45 | ED JONES
Game on: A new world of learning and assessment 14.00 | MARY WHITESIDE
Inspiring assessment, personalising learning
Collect your free ticket from stand 26
16.00 | TOM BOOTH
TUESDAY–THURSDAY | STAND 26
Quiz your way to the top and win an Amazon Echo Dot! Go head to head with IATEFL delegates and quiz yourself on your digital knowledge with our Quiz your English app. 1. Download the app 2. Log in and go to Settings 3. Select Join a group 4. Enter code IATEFL18 5. Play the Digital Teacher topic! Reach the top of our Digital Teacher leader board by 12.00 GMT+1 Thursday 12 April to win. See our competition terms and conditions at: bit.ly/quiztandc
Visit our stand to find out more and play the app on our giant iPad!