Manchester Programme

Areas of interest
Storytelling and improvising: creativity
at play
Film-music, film and TEFL – realizing a
vision
Twistin’ my melon! Creative uses for
song lyrics in EFL
Fostering EFL learners’ audio-visual
competences using films and TV shows
Teaching literature using the five
senses
Poetry in teaching: incorporate verse in
your everyday classroom
Approaches to introducing
contemporary poems in ELT
Grammar templates for the future with
poetry for children
Motivating ESL learners using folktales
How poetry can aid students'
comprehension
MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
Sounds good, looks good: using short
video clips in ELT
Video for all - video for language
learning and teaching
Dictogloss redux: grammar dictation in
a digital age
Improving English-taught course
delivery at university
Uncovering expertise in coursebook
writing
Intermediate plateau: helping our
students with authentic material
Practical advice on creating authentic
Medical English listening materials
Shakespeare now: resetting and
retelling Shakespeare’s plays
Exploiting "ear slips" and misplaced
boundaries in oral skills instruction
Using English picture book storytimes
to build confidence in ELL
Hacking the classroom with creative
augmented reality projects
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Help your students to master their
vocabulary faster
However, while, thus... how to teach
transitions successfully
Can a picture tell a thousand words?
Getting started with blended and online
learning
English for academics
The three worlds of Chinese school-age
English learners
Language input through project-based
learning: why and how
Learning on the job: professional
development through materials writing
Subskills: the key to unlocking texts
Addressing mismatches between
classroom context and coursebooks
Premier Skills English: an action
research project on teaching vocabulary
Managing renovation and change in ELT
curriculum and materials development
Classic exercises and why they work in
the 21st Century
Mini-conference simulation: creating an
‘event’ to develop business
communication skills
LearnEnglish Schools: ICT solutions for
contexts with limited internet access
Emails for teaching pragmatics in the
ESL classroom
Whole class creativity in the L2
classroom
How poetry can aid students'
comprehension
Learning listening: the challenge of
unscripted language
Creative grammar
Taking flight from the OK plateau
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