Manchester Programme

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PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS
PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS (PCES)
Pre-Conference Events (PCEs) held on Friday 10th April were specifically for delegates who wish
to concentrate on a particular topic. PCEs are planned as professional development days and
participants receive a certificate of attendance.
Please visit www.iatefl.org for details on next year’s Pre-Conference Events (details online from
June 2015) and for details on all other SIG events, held worldwide throughout the year.
This year, the Special Interest Groups who organised Pre-Conference Events were:
BUSINESS ENGLISH AND TESTING, EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT JOINT PCE - Testing more than
just English – What do we need to know and how can we test in the best way for our purposes?
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AND BALEAP JOINT PCE - Employability and transferability
in EAP and ESP
ES(O)L: Challenges, issues and developments in ES(O)L teaching and learning
GLOBAL ISSUES: Debate, discussion, dialogue: triggers for change
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT: People management for the academic manager
LEARNER AUTONOMY: Language learner autonomy – getting started
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: Technology in action
LITERATURE, MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES: 101 ways of teaching a poem: Bringing poetry into
language teaching
MATERIALS WRITING: The material writer’s essential toolkit
PRONUNCIATION: Practical pronunciation teaching
RESEARCH: Developing as a researcher
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT: Challenges and rewards - getting to
the heart of the matter with exploratory practice
TEACHER TRAINING & EDUCATION: Exploring trainee and trainer
beliefs and practices
YOUNG LEARNERS AND TEENAGERS: Learner first – teens
IATEFL ASSOCIATES’ DAY
IATEFL has 130 Associate members. An Associate is another
Teaching Association (TA) that has entered into a mutually
beneficial relationship with IATEFL. A benefit of becoming an Associate lies in linking up to a
network of international TAs, and through this, a network of language educators from all over the
world and from a range of diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
The Associates’ Day on 10th April was a chance for representatives of these TAs to get together
and discuss matters of common concern. One of the overarching aims of most TAs is to build
professional communities.
We thank our sponsor of the Associates’ Day, Trinity College London.