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Day 1: Friday 27 February
Time Venue Activity
11.45 – 13.00 Various PARALLEL SESSION 1 continued
Rosemary Orlando teaches in the MSTEFL degree programme in New
Hampshire, USA and in Vietnam. Additionally, she has trained teachers in
many different countries and contexts.
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11.45 – 12.15 102 Monitoring and evaluation: 9000 Malaysian English language teachers,
Annette Zammit
This talk presents the monitoring and evaluation of the Pro-ELT project, a
language proficiency and methodology project for 9000 Malaysian English
teachers. Innovative data collection methods are explored including pre-
and post-course online testing (Aptis), participatory video and new
software for observing lessons.
Annette Zammit is the project deputy director for the Pro-ELT project.
She has worked in education in Sri Lanka, Malta and Malaysia.
12.30 – 13.00 Monitoring and evaluating country-wide cascaded teacher training in
South Africa, Joanne Newton
Cascaded teacher training allows for large-scale impact, but in South
Africa, our undertaking to train 300,000 teachers of English has left us
with questions. Is the training getting from the department officials to the
teachers? Is the training making a difference in the classroom? This
presentation will suggest monitoring and evaluation procedures for
cascaded training and discuss interventions that can help ensure quality
teacher education at scale.
Joanne Newton is the English Language Teaching Adviser for the British
Council in South Africa.
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11.45 – 12.15 103 In-service English teacher education through District Centre for
English: an impact study, Doss Munusamy
Do pre-service English teacher education programmes help teachers to
achieve subject proficiency and professional competence in English
language teaching? Mechanically organized in-service training
programmes have little impact on teachers. But after the advent of District
Centre for English Scheme in the UT of Pondicherry, its impact on teachers
and other institutions is very high because of its various interventions and
its modus operandi.
Doss Munusamy is an Academic Coordinator in ELT Centre, attached to
Achariya World Class of Education, Pondicherry. His areas of interest are
ESP and teacher education.
12.30 – 13.00 ESL teacher training: the weakest link, Rajinder Ahluwalia
Although India has a Bachelors in Education (B.Ed.) degree course to train
school teachers, surprisingly, no formal training course exists for college
teachers. It is assumed that a good MA in English is sufficient to teach ESL
effectively to undergraduates. However, the declining standards of ELT in
colleges indicates the failure of our existing model. In my presentation I
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