CLIL and Cultural Diversity: A Winning Combination

CLIL discussion and practice has mainly focused on the relationship between content and language to varying degrees. Culture,

serve as the perfect springboard to dive into cultural issues, an essential and integral aspect of both content and language.Focusing on culture and providing strategies to give it the importance it deserves will help reframe CLIL as more than addressing language and content. Additionally, giving general English teachers effective tools so as to help them introduce CLIL in their language classrooms will increase the opportunities of using CLIL and taking advantage of its many benefits.

Tackling stereotypes in ELT

Both native and non-native speakers of English have encountered some form of stereotype in their ELT career. We’ll examine how these are often false and the possible implications. In addition, choosing materials and language that don’t perpetuate common stereotypes can have a direct effect on how our students view themselves and the world around them. We sometimes unconsciously aid in pre-conceived notions that our students have. Making smart choices and leading by example is critical to breaking biases both in and out of the classroom. Join me for an eye-opening talk on how the language and materials we use can make a difference.

Impact by design

Cambridge English Qualifications deliver positive impact across all levels, and on many dimensions of teaching/learning. Let’s look at some findings from impact studies in Peruvian schools to see how preparing and sitting for our exams has transformed , as well as the ways in which standardised assessment can interact with a virtuous teaching/learning cycle in an institution.

Language Assessment: Latest trends and pathways for success

Language assessment has become one of the fastest growing areas in ELT worldwide, heightened by the crescent need

actors require that students are able to validate in different contexts what they know and how they apply it, but, how about teachers? Assessment is not only about judging but also about informing. Informing those individuals and groups in charge

seeks to provide the participants with a review on the latest trends in language assessment and how those trends can be turned into pathways for success for English language learners.

Taking the stress out of speaking in the EFL classroom

Generally speaking, a second language is learnt in order to communicate in various situations, yet for one reason or another, a certain percentage of students feel reluctant to speak freely in almost any situation. In this workshop, we will look at some classroom activities that are designed to take the fear out of speaking and to encourage verbal proficiency.

c o n f e r e n c e r e v i e w s

libreríainternacional

SBS

VICKY SAUMELL (pearson)

BRAD BAWTINHEIMER (cambridge university press)

PABLO TOLEDO (cambridge Assessment English)

MARTÍN CAICEDO (oXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS)

DAVID WHITE (eL CULTURAL - AMERICAN SCHOOL)