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Day 2: Saturday 28 February
Time Venue Activity
14.00 – 15.00 Various PARALLEL SESSION 3
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14.00 – 15.00 Main Hall Can teachers teach? An introduction to Demand High, Jim Scrivener
Contemporary teachers have become mainly classroom managers and
operators of materials. Is this really what we wanted when we became
“communicative”? When I observe lessons I often see a teacher doing little
more than announcements to start up and close down activities. There is a
lack of “up-close” skills, no “hands-on” language work and minimal
engagement with the process of learning. This talk asks whether current
ELT may have painted itself into a corner. As an alternative I will propose
“Demand-High”, an argument for active, interventionist, challenging
teaching.
Jim Scrivener is a writer, trainer and Teacher Training Ambassador for
Bell. He wrote the prizewinning books Learning Teaching, Teaching English
Grammar and Classroom Management Techniques.
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14.00 – 15.00 G01/02 The Survey of ELT Research in India: how can it help you?
Paul Gunashekar, Lina Mukhopadhyay and Richard Smith
In this talk we invite you to interact with the contents of the Indian ELT
research database which has been developed by EFL University, Warwick
University and British Council India via consultations with 25+ institutions
over the last two years. We discuss academic and technical issues
underlying its construction, demonstrate ways it can be searched for
different purposes, and provide an overview of its contents. Finally we
show how this is a dynamic database which you can update with details of
your own research.
Paul Gunashekar is a Professor in the Department of Materials
Development, Testing and Evaluation, and Dean, Publications at the
English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He edits the EFLU
research journal Languaging, and is the Indian English consultant to the
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Lina Mukhopadhyay teaches at the Department of Materials
Development, Testing and Evaluation, EFL University, Hyderabad, India. She
researches in SLA, bilingual education, and language assessment
Richard Smith, University of Warwick, UK, coordinates the TELC network
(bit.ly/telcnet-home) as well as IATEFL's Research SIG
(http://resig.iatefl.org).
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14.00 – 15.00 G03 'Located' teacher education: redesigning the curriculum of a teacher
training programme from a socio-cultural perspective, Meera Srinivas
The presentation examines the curriculum of a distance training
programme for English teachers in rural, backward areas, from a sociocultural
perspective. It critiques the 'top-down' approach of the curriculum
that ignores the socio-cultural constraints of learning and the 'voices' of
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