The IATEFL Annual Conference in Cardiff was a fantastic experience in many aspects, and I’m referring both to the face 2 face conference and the *virtual* one. Starting with Cardiff Online, I believe we have advanced a lot in terms of online coverage. Each year new changes are introduced, new challenges have to be met [...]
Posts Tagged ‘iATEFL’
Looking back at Cardiff
Posted in ELT issues, tagged iATEFL on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cardiff Online
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged iATEFL, Online conference on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here we go again. The third year in a row that the BC and IATEFL are sponsoring the Online Conference and once again I’m one of the moderators of the Literature. Media and Cultural Studies Forum. It’s hard work, especially if you are also attending the conference on site but it is fascinating.
I’d like to [...]
What’s in a name?
Posted in Literature in ELT, tagged iATEFL, LMCS, Shakespeare on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Indeed, this week this famous Shakespearean question should be asked about the man himself. What’s in his name that still attracts so many of us? People are in favour or against using Shakespeare in ELT; they are in favour or against using simplified versions; they are in favour or against modernising his language; in favour [...]
‘Don’t let him rest in peace’
Posted in Literature in ELT, tagged English Literature, iATEFL, LMCS, Shakespeare on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is going to be a busy week indeed. Besides the e-tutor course and all the other online stuff, I am also moderating the LMCS fielded discussion on Shakespeare which started this Sunday 1st June and goes on for a week.
Shakespeare in ELT is our third fielded discussion in the SIG and Alan Pulverness kindly [...]
The Exeter experience
Posted in ELT issues, tagged ELT conference, England, iATEFL, LMCS on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After just over an year I was back in England. This time as a speaker at the 42nd IATEFL Conference in Exeter. I was generously invited by the Conference committee to be one of the Distinguished New Voices this year and as so I was able to present my talk on the Critical Literacy in ELT [...]
