Saturday11/0409:00 10:25Exchange HallPlenaryPlenary session by Donald Freeman

Saturday11/0410:40 11:25Exchange 5WorkshopStrictly Come CELTA. An analogy and some thoughts on feedback Jo Gakonga (elt-training.com)

What kind of CELTA trainer are you? An ebullient, ever positive Bruno Tonioli or an abrupt and plain-speaking Craig Revel Horwood? And does a numerical assessment system (seveerrrn!) give helpful clarity, or prevent proper attention being given to feedback comments? In this interactive workshop on feedback, we will explore some analogies between Strictly Come Dancing and CELTA. Sequinned attire optional.

Saturday11/0411:25 12:00Exhibition HallCoffee Break

Saturday11/0412:00 12:30Exchange 5Pronunciation coachingWayne Rimmer (IATEFL PronSIG Coordinator)

Pronunciation is primarily a physical process as learners need to experience how to form target sounds. In an analogy with sport, swimming is used as the parallel, simply showing learners what to do is not sufficient and leads to drowning. The correct technique needs to be coached so that the mechanics become natural and fluent. This talk addresses this.

Saturday11/0412:35 13:05Exchange 7Market smarter to sell higher as a freelance trainerChristina Rebuffet-Broadus (Freelance, Grenoble, France)

In the competitive training market, it is crucial for freelance trainers to prove their added value and differentiate themselves if they want to ask for higher prices. This talk presents proven tools and techniques to do just that. We will also identify common marketing practices to avoid if you want to increase your chances for successful sales.

Saturday11/0413:05 14:05Lunch Break

Saturday11/0414:05 14:50Charter 2-3Workshop Jazz and the dark matter of teachingAdrian Underhill (United Kingdom)

My view is that spontaneity and playfulness are essential to learning and creativity. Although spontaneity is everywhere in our lessons, it remains, like dark matter, largely unseen. Our methodology does not value it sufficiently for it to be discussed, critiqued, practised or improved. This workshop offers a thinking frame for spontaneity, practical activities and discussion.

Saturday11/0415:05 15:35Cobden 2 Talk

Four weeks of pain: is the CELTA worth it?Elizabeth Davies (ELTC, University of Sheffield)

Does an intensive CELTA course affect trainees pre-existing beliefs about teaching and learning? Does input received on a pre-service course influence classroom practices? How do beliefs and instructional practices interact and change? Come along and find out what my research revealed about the process of teacher learning and how this may aid the design and implementation of future CELTA courses.

Saturday11/0415:50 16:35Exchange 9A new way to teach readingKen Lackman (Freelance)

An approach to teaching reading that actually provides students with strategies to become better readers rather than just test their comprehension. This session will demonstrate a simple lesson framework which gives students practice with transferable strategies to improve comprehension and acquire vocabulary. Lessons are completely student- centred and no preparation is required beyond finding a suitable text.

Saturday11/0416:35 17:10Exhibition HallCoffee Break

Saturday11/0417:10 17:40Charter 2-3TalkForever grammar: what every teacher needs to knowMartin Parrott (Freelance)

The subjective, complex and ever-shifting nature of the English language pub requires a life-long commitment from us to extend, deepen and revise our understanding. This talk will explore core skills and knowledge that teachers need. It will also challenge some of the modern approaches to teaching grammar and question assumptions made about the Dark Ages of ELT in the 20th Century.

Saturday11/0417:55 18:25Exchange 10Intermediate plateau: helping our students with authentic materialIla Cristina Coimbra (Brazil)

As English teachers, we often have students who cannot move forward from the intermediate level. The aim of this talk is to discuss what the intermediate plateau is, why students are unable to move beyond it, and how teachers can include videos, podcasts, newspapers and articles in their lessons in order to help their learners to go further.

Sunday12/0408:15 08:45Cobden 3How to become a successful freelancer Mike Hogan

In this session well look at whats involved in being a successful freelancer. Well cover these three key areas:1) Organizational details budgeting & finances, flexible schedule, security,2) How to get work self-marketing & professionalizing yourself,3) How to keep work quality control, referrals, and solid admin.

Sunday12/0409:00 10:10Exchange HallPlenary session by Joy Egbert

Sunday12/0410:25 11:10Exchange 7How to increase your market worth as an EFL teacherCarol Bausor (ILTC)

This workshop provides a template to be applied if you wish to earn more money doing the job you are already so good at: EFL teaching. Wherever you work, whatever your status, the chances are that you use many skills, but probably not those that will increase your market worth: attend this workshop if you are interesting in changing.

Sunday12/0411:10 11:45Exhibition HallCoffee Break

Sunday12/0411:45 12:15(If time allows)Poster 15

The Ultimate Guide to CELTA and self-publishingEmma Jones & Amanda Momeni (Munich Volkshochschule)

The Ultimate Guide to CELTA is a self-published book written for trainees about to begin a CELTA course. The authors, CELTA trainers themselves, will introduce you to the book, present you with feedback from trainees and tutors who have already used it to their advantage and provide information about how to become self-published.

Sunday12/0411:45 13:00(if time allows)Charter 2-3CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH SIGNATURE EVENT The language debateSpeakers:Scott Thornbury, Silvana Richardson,Jeanne McCarten andMonica Poulter.

Sunday12/0411:45 12:15Central 3-4TalkWorking with readers and genre using a project-based approach Rafael Monteiro (Escola Mobile, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Teachers often struggle to get teenagers involved in reading pre- established graded readers. In this talk I aim to explain how I have implemented the project-based approach based on the genre of the set text. I will also show how this kind of approach can be adapted to other teaching contexts, and I will provide participants with some practical ideas.

Sunday12/0412:30 13:00Exchange 2Are trainers really omniscient?Ushakiran Wagle (Capital College and Research Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal)

In this talk, I shall share the modality and components of an EFL teacher training programme guided by the principle of activity-based instruction. How this innovation changed the notion trainers as omniscient and how the novel experience increased motivation in trainees will be shared. Finally, how the experiential tasks and the reflective components were interwoven will also be presented.

Sunday12/0413:00 14:20Lunch Break

Sunday12/0414:20 14:50Exchange 7TalkEnabling teachers to teach emerging middle class studentsHenrique Moura (Seven Idiomas)

The aim of this talk is to help teachers understand how the rise of emerging markets has given millions of young adult students access to education in the last decade, the characteristics and needs of these students, and the seven abilities teachers must develop to better help these students become speakers of English as a foreign language.

Sunday12/0415:05 15:35Charter 4Initial teacher training: challenges and innovations in course design Willy Cardoso (Freelance)

How to provide more opportunities for experiential and reflective practice in initial qualifications? How can we offer pre-service trainees more than a survival kit in TEFL? In this talk, I will discuss how 4-week courses can boost teaching practice hours, reframe the role of lesson planning, and adopt a materials-light approach.

Sunday12/0415:50 16:35Exchange 11Grammar: deixis - pointing this way and thatPaul Davis (Pilgrims)

Learners make loads of mistakes with the basic guts of English - this, that, the, a, one, some, any. These little pointing words are (mis)used every time they speak or write. I'll offer some practical exercises to deal with this early on or to 're-teach' at higher levels. An experiential workshop, although brief reference will be made to research and corpus data.

Sunday12/0416:35 17:10Exhibition HallCoffee Break

Sunday12/0417:10 18:15Exchange 3FORUM ON NON-NATIVENESS IN ELT: IMPLICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE, AND CREDIBILITY

Monday12/0408:15 08:45Central 5How to move into language school management Andy Hockley

This session will look at starting the transition from teacher to manager - including reasons why you might think about making that move, ways of developing to prepare yourself to take on new responsibilities, and issues that you might want to be aware of. Come and see what is involved.

Monday12/0409:00 10:10Exchange HallPlenary session by Ann Coton

Monday12/0410:25 10:55Exchange 6Embedding quality deep in the schools culture: passion or threat? Bruna Benedetti Caltabiano (Caltabiano Idiomas)

Schools are in need of a new approach to quality, one that goes beyond the traditional Total Quality Management and where teachers are passionate about quality as a personal value rather than threatened by performance indicators. The purpose of this talk is to show the results of an action research aiming at engaging teachers in building a culture of quality.

Monday12/0410:55 11:30Exhibition HallCoffee Break

Monday12/0411:30 12:35Central 3-4FORUM ON THOUGHTS ON THE OBSERVATION PROCESS

Monday12/0412:05 12:35Cobden 2Promoting more meaningful learning and critical thinking in classJ. Daniel Martin Neto & Claudia Freitas Triumpho (CEL LEP Idiomas)

The majority of our current teaching materials claim to follow the principles of CLT, advocating that meaning is paramount. However, many exercises suggested in textbooks are neither meaningful nor take into account critical thinking skills. In this talk, participants will realize that minor but significant changes in exercises will make learners more engaged in meaningful and authentic communication.

Monday12/0412:35 13:35Lunch Break

Monday12/0413:35 14:20Exchange 9Pronunciation to go: learning to learn from the dictionaryMark Hancock (Freelance)

Pronunciation is one area where learners tend to be very teacher- dependent. In this workshop, we will see how the dictionary can be a tool for learner independence. We will try out classroom activities to raise awareness of pronunciation support in the 9th edition of Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, and help learners exploit this resource to the full.

Monday12/0414:35 15:20Exchange 11Frameworks for creativity in materials designJill Hadfield (Unitec, New Zealand)

In this workshop theoretical insights into the writing process (Hadfield in Harwood 2013 and EJALTEFL 2014) will be directly applied to the practice of materials development. Participants will try out a range of activities for before, during and after writing: framing principles; finding core energies; dialoguing; imagining scenario; trying out; and checking.

Monday12/0415:35 16:05Central 3-4Teacher Development Special Interest Group Open Forum

Monday12/0416:05 16:40Exhibition HallCoffee Break

Monday12/0416:40 17:10Exchange 10Teacher Training and Education Special Interest Group Open Forum

Monday12/0417:25 18:30Central 3-4Bridging the technophobe-technophile gap in teacher training and developmentTessa Woodward & Daniel Monaghan (Hilderstone College)

On recent teachers courses participants have come from both new technologies-lite and new technologies-saturated settings. They have varied too in the support, training and practice time given to them. Add layers of personal difference (and indifference) to the issue of technological medium and the trainer has an interesting group to work with. We offer a possible common ground for all.

Tuesday14/0411:10 11:40Central 7TalkThe natural CELTA - a farewell to language?Joanna Stansfield & Emma Meade-Flynn (International House London)

Should language analysis take centre stage on a CELTA course? If you removed explicit instruction on language systems from input sessions, and instead focussed on developing practical teaching skills, could trainees still 'acquire' language awareness? This talk aims to explore these questions. We will evaluate teaching practice outcomes of this, drawing on trainer, trainee and student reflection and observations.