Manchester Programme

Saturday 11 April
Session 1.6 : 1710-1740
Session 1.7 : 1755-1825
Exchange 10
100 audience
Talk
RES, TTEd
The development of cognition and beliefs on CELTA courses
Karla Leal Castaneda (Oxford House College)
Widely known for its intensity and heavy focus on practical skills, the
CELTA course has been critiqued for hindering trainee teachers’ cognitive
development. Looking at trainees' previously-held beliefs about language
teaching, this talk explores how their thinking develops and readapts
during the course, in relation to the input received, the demands of
teaching practice and the overall assessment criteria.
e, le, a
Exchange 11
150 audience
Talk
TTEd, YLT
‘Bloomifying’ tasks – how to develop thinking skills in task-based
learning
Dina Blanco-Ioannou
(University of Applied Sciences Northwestern
Switzerland (FHNW), Institute of Secondary Education)
Exploring the relationship between Bloom’s Taxonomy and task-based
learning, this talk focuses on how you can promote the 5th skill – thinking -
through the implementation of meaningful tasks. By the end of the session,
you will understand how to design tasks for the secondary school
classroom that provide a more rewarding, supportive and enriched
language learning experience for your learners.
e, le, s
SATURDAY
1755-1825 Session 1.7
Central 3-4
140 audience
LTSIG Day
Learning Technologies Special Interest Group Open Forum
The LTSIG Open Forum is an opportunity for members and prospective
members to meet the Learning Technologies SIG committee. The LTSIG
Coordinators will provide an account of the SIG’s activities over the past
year and members will be encouraged to discuss future plans.
e = experienced audience
le = less-experienced audience
p = primary teaching
s = secondary teaching
t = tertiary teaching
a = adult teaching
prodprom = promoting a particular book or product
pub = speaker is representing or sponsored by a publisher but is not focussing on a particular book or product
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