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Saturday 11 April<br />
Session 1.3 : 1405-1450<br />
Charter 2-3<br />
500 audience<br />
Workshop<br />
GEN<br />
Charter 4<br />
1405-1435<br />
190 audience<br />
Talk<br />
GEN<br />
Jazz and the dark matter of teaching<br />
Adrian Underhill (United Kingdom)<br />
My view is that spontaneity and playfulness are essential to learning and<br />
creativity. Although spontaneity is everywhere in our lessons, it remains,<br />
like dark matter, largely unseen. Our methodology does not value it<br />
sufficiently for it to be discussed, critiqued, practised or improved. This<br />
workshop offers a thinking frame for spontaneity, practical activities and<br />
discussion.<br />
The playful approach: activating children's self-learning learning language<br />
strategies<br />
Opal Dunn (Freelance<br />
Freelance)<br />
Bruner explains the main characteristic of play is not its content, but its<br />
mode. Many adults recognise a playful approach but lack playful language<br />
in English. This presentation presents books in the Introducing English to<br />
Young Children series that include suggestions to develop tuning-in skills<br />
and teacher-talk. Young children absorbing language respond positively to<br />
this approach, re-using their self-learning language strategies.<br />
le, p<br />
prodprom<br />
SATURDAY<br />
Cobden 1<br />
20 audience<br />
Workshop<br />
YLT<br />
Cobden 2<br />
60 audience<br />
Workshop<br />
GEN<br />
Helping ESOL students navigate the complicated US university<br />
application process<br />
Elizabeth Wentzel (Wycliffe College)<br />
Surprised international teachers with little experience of the American<br />
university application process have to help students answer essay<br />
questions such as “How are you quirky?" We will broadly cover everything<br />
from US standardized tests to application essays to recommendation<br />
letters to scholarships. Teachers will leave with further resources to help<br />
their ESOL high school students navigate the US system.<br />
Fun listening<br />
Lindsey Gutt (York University English Language Institute)<br />
This workshop will share a variety of activities that teachers can do to<br />
enhance their students’ listening skills. Using interactive activities based<br />
on authentic materials is a fun way to get students to focus on various<br />
sounds, words and meanings when listening to English. Participants will<br />
learn about, discuss and experience a mixture of listening tasks firsthand.<br />
le, s<br />
e, le, p, s,<br />
t<br />
e = experienced audience<br />
le = less-experienced audience<br />
p = primary teaching<br />
s = secondary teaching<br />
t = tertiary teaching<br />
a = adult teaching<br />
prodprom = promoting a particular book or product<br />
pub = speaker is representing or sponsored by a publisher but is not focussing on a particular book or product<br />
Please note that some presenters have requested a maximum audience size.<br />
Therefore, please check the audience size in the left-hand column of each entry.<br />
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