On Saturday, 15 June 2019, Trinity College London and Regent's University London held the 4th annual Future of English Language Teaching conference in London. Delegates around the UK and abroad participated in workshops and presentations on themes pertinent to English Language teachers. The vision was simple: to offer very high quality CPD to English teachers, working with both world-leading figures and local experts, exploring central themes relating to the future of ELT.
The objective of the event was to help teachers improve their skills and practices through easy access to professional teacher-training. If you'd like to find out more about the talks, presentations and workshops at the event, you can view the slides by clicking on the titles in pink below. Please note that we have only included speakers who are happy to share their presentations.
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Younger Learners |
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Annamaria Pinter: The possibility of working with children as co-researchers in language classrooms Anna Britton: Beyond EL – Why we need to incorporate Emotional Intelligence in to the YL classroom. Elaine Boyd: Using feedback to accelerate progression & promote learner autonomy & self-regulation Kate Smook: Challenging the Challenge of Teenagers. Ceci Cabrera: Neurodiversity, a teacher’s ally. |
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Lynda Taylor: Framing academic literacy: considerations and implications for language assessment Alex Thorp: Soft skills in a hard discipline - Facilitating learner success in EAP through positive psychology. Tony Prince: The EAQUALS Language for Academic Purposes Framework. |
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Technology |
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Renata Wilmot: On the highway to TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) Sandra Piai: How can we develop initial training courses to better support teachers in the 21st century? Ben Beaumont: Using technology to develop teachers’ ‘Professional Vision’. William Morrow: Flipping the CELTA - Creating space on a full-time training course. Ray Parker: COVAID - Taking the terror out of observation. |
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Teacher Education |
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Penny Ur: Applied linguistics research – Tom Garside: Good IDEARS: A sustainable model for contextually-informed teacher development cycles in local TESOL setting Marek Kiczkowiak: From EFL to ELF: The Future of English Language Teaching Sinead Laffan: That's what we've always done! Rethinking Pre-service Teacher Training Sheila Thorn: Teaching listening: Where does it all go wrong, and how can we put it right? Constantine Ioannou: Accommodation and Inclusiveness for Language Learners |
Trinity College London and Regent’s University were delighted to receive an Award for the 2018 Future of English Language Conference from The Fair List organisation. The Award was presented by Tessa Woodward from The Fair List to representatives from Trinity College London and Regent’s University in recognition of the gender balance of the speaker panel they had jointly assembled for the 2018 Future of English Language Conference hosted in London last summer.
Trinity and Regent’s University have also been recognised by EVE (Equal Voices in ELT) with an ‘EVE of the Year’ purple category award for the gender balance of its 2018 Future of ELT Conference speaker line up. This year we were delighted to have women presenting in all 4 plenaries. Find out more here.
This year we are joining up our Transformative Teachers Webinar Series and the Future of ELT conference to explore themes and issues raised at the event, and bring them direct to your screen with interviews with FoELT 2019 presenters like Annamaria Pinter's below and recordings of presentations on the day.
English language teacher, trainer and examiner Lucy Muirhead blogged about some of the presentations she attended at the event. If you'd like to find out what she took away from the sessions, click on the images below.
