Invitation to HUPE Conference
17th January 2012
The 20th Annual HUPE Conference will be held in the Grand Hotel Adriatic, Opatija, 19-22 April 2012 under the Auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia, Mr Ivo Josipović. As HUPE are our partner organization, one of you can repsent us at this great event. If you are interested, contact our President Michaela Trnová as sson as possible. MSSUA covers 50 % of the travel cost, Hupe pays the Conference fee and accommodation.
This year’s plenary speakers include : Marija Andraka, David Crystal, Olha Madylus & Lindsay Clandfield.
We would love to welcome you there and provide you with a memorable experience both professional and of the beautiful town of Opatija – the Pearl of the Adriatic.
Join us and fellow ELT professionals from Croatia and the world to discuss, reflect on and develop ideas. The conference will offer many opportunities for professional contact and development.
An invitation is extended to everyone who is willing to share their good classroom practice and innovative ideas to submit their proposals by January 31, 2012
http://www.hupe.hr/HUPE_Speaker_Proposal_Form_2012
For any further enquiries and assistance please contact our IATEFL representative marinah1960@yahoo.com
International Conference for Teachers of English in Reykjavík
17th January 2012
Iceland is venturing on its first International Conference for Teachers of English on June 7-9, 2012 in Reykjavík
The title is "Making Sense Through Writing" but papers and posters are welcome on a variety of relatd subthemes. We´d like abstracts (1500 characters) to be sent to "Your Host in Iceland" (see below by February 14th. For further details visit: Either this website or this one.
Technical English, Germany
Pyramid´s popular teacher training courses are taking place once again in 2012. These courses will provide you with a sound basis forentering the potentially lucrative field of Legal English, Medical English and Technical English training.
Introduction to Teaching English for Technical Purposes
3rd - 7th September 2012
Venue: Römer Villa, Neu-Ulm / Germany
Trainers: Vicki Hollett, Jeremy Day, Cornelia Kreis-Meyer, Paul East, Claire Hart.
Reduced price for IATET members
Full details available at: www.technicalenglish.biz
Materials by British Council
The Olympic Games- resources by the British Council
11th October 2011
The British Council has launched its English for 2012 web materials
on the following two sites:
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/english-for-2012
www.britishcouncil.org/englishfor2012
ELT SIGNPOSTS 2011
26th Sept 2011
BRNO, 9th - 11th September 2011
The next three-day conference organized by our association was held in Brno from 9th to 11th September 2011, at Pedagogical faculty of Masaryk University. There were be a lot of interesting workshops as well as plenaries given by
Peter Grundy (Friday)
Anne O'Keefe (Friday)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Saturday)
Sheelagh Deller (Saturday)
Michael Hall (Saturday)
David Spencer a Shawn Wilden
You can download
- the presentation Sharing-reading-with-young-learners given by Naďa Vojtková
- the presentation "Active learning stategies to avoid drop-outs: Don´t Give Up! online workshops for language educators" by Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Kroupová
- Peter Grundy's Grundy-plenary-use-and-usage, Grundy-workshop-being-a-good-writer and Grundy-workshop-english-through-art
- Communities of Practice by Michael Hall The-seniors-told-us
- M. Ždímalová and her Teaching-of-listening-at-a1_b1-levels
- Maja Jerkovič- Storytelling in secondary schools Storytelling-in-secondary-schools, Storytelling-in-secondary-schools-handout-1 and Handout-2-warm-up-once-upon-a-time
Check ELT SIGNPOSTS 2011 website here
the opening ceremony
Conference, Greece
8th August 2011
TESOL Greece, 33rd Annual International Convention
Theme: Teaching, Testing and Technology
Date: Saturday March 17th and Sunday March 18th, 2012
Venue: Hellenic American Union, 22 Massalias St., Athens, Greece
Event Coordinator: TESOL Greece
17, Kapodistriou str.
10677 Athens
Greece
Tel/Fax: (+30) 210.7488.411
Website: http://tesolgreece.org
E-mail: tesolgreece@gmail.com
Event link: here
19th Annual HUPE Conference
11th June 2011
As a Moravian and Silesian Association of Teachers of English representative, I had the great pleasure to attend the annual conference of our partner association HUPE (the abbreviation stands for Hrvatsko Udruženje Profesora Engleskoga Jezika, i.e. Croatian Association of Teachers of English).
Read the report by Daniela Valíková here
JOIN THE BRITISH COUNCIL TEACHING ENGLISH ELT e-READING GROUP
6th February 2011
The ELT e-reading Group was created by a collective of English language educators from all over the world with the technical support of the British Council. It aims at encouraging ELT professionals to read literature in English, helping to build bridges between cultures and contributing to build tolerance and intercultural competence through the discussion of works literature. read more here
