The IATEFL Interactive Language Fair
Twelve presenters races through their presentations while trying to give an image of what their topic is all about. This was no ordinary session since the audience had a role in this too. When the presenters finished, the audience was invited to walk around the gallery and ask them questions.
The following are the presentations:
1) CPD through social networks by Konstantina Ntomprou invites teachers to build their own personal learning network.
2) Creating a culture of reading by Ganesh Gnawali invited participants to learn about English in Nepal and whether English is considered as a barrier for them.
3) English for academic purposes by Natalya Eydelman: discusses the way in which she teaches her students to learn to comment on their peers' essay drafts.
4) English for specific academic purposes by Elena Velikaya: she teaches BA students courses on how to write a cv, a research project, do a job interview, apply for a job and write conference papers among many other topics.
5) Detextualizing Japanese college conversation courses by David Wood: the courses aim to develop communicaive abilities in different contexts
6) Fostering critical thinking in mass higher education by Ekua Amuna Sekyi: focuses on teaching large classes with as many as 250 students and successfully developing a sense of critical thinking.
7) New Ideas of multicultural approach to foreign language teacher education by Lyudmila Khalyapina: focuses on the use of inter-cultural communication and cognitive linguistics within the teaching methodology.
8) Encouraging student evaluation of language learning resources by Elizabeth Lammons
9) Learning technologies by Kiros Langston: focuses on two British Council courses trialled in Tunisia.
10) Learning vocabulary in today's world by Maria Lucia Sciamarelli: focuses on the elements of fun and technology when teaching
11) Paying it forward coaching colleagues to ICT intergration by Anne Fox: focuses on using digital tools in the classroom
12) Kids read by Caroline Cameron: focuses on an initiative which tries to convey the message that reading is fun through various activities.
