On 19-20 April 2020, IATEFL held a Global online Get-together 2020, a two day professional development web conference for the English language teaching community. The webinar platform used was Adobe Connect. This was a comprehensive weekend of webinars put together in a relatively short space of time to make up for the deferment of the […]
Cobden 3: Our showcase room in Manchester Can you flip a summer pre-sessional? And how? These were the questions posed at the University of Sheffield over two years ago, in the quest for a solution to the (not unpleasant) issue of having more students than classrooms. Guest blogger Claire Basarich, alongside the Director of Technology […]
Every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, we published some recordings from the LTSIG archives. All of these were captured at the IATEFL PCE in Liverpool (2013), our SIG day in Liverpool (2013), as well as our SIG day in Harrogate (2014) and at Digital ELT Ireland, 2015. Detailed information about those events can still […]
Every Thursday for next 10 weeks, the Learning Technologies Special Interest Group will be publishing a recording of a presentation from the archives. These will mostly be for Members only, accessible via the Members’ Area of the website. We will share news via our social media channels of the latest video every Thursday, with the […]
This is a brief review of ‘VR in the EFL class’ by Raquel Ribeiro and ‘Using immersive 360 videos to reduce language anxiety’ by Sarah Rogerson and Tom Booth. They were written by our Glasgow 2017 Roving Reporter, Will Leung. Note: This is a previously unpublished review by our Roving Reporter at the conference. If […]
We have a plan. We have a poster. We are very excited about this. Our Pre-Conference Event (PCE) in Manchester next year, as previously announced on our social media channels, is going to take an in-depth look at Artificial Intelligence (AI). We touched upon this topic in our PCE in Liverpool earlier this year. This […]
IATEFL Head Office have announced details of scholarships being awarded to attend the 2020 annual conference, which takes place in Manchester, UK, 18-21 April next year. The conference was previously held in this city in 2015. Each year IATEFL offers a great range of conference scholarships to enable teachers, trainers and other ELT professionals the opportunity to […]
by scholarship winner and roving reporter, Serrana Muniz Forum on Teaching and Learning Online Susana Galante, Lowri Mair Jones and Maggie Sokolik at the Forum The LT SIG Showcase event opened with a forum on teaching and learning online. The subject was analysed from the perspective of three presenters that come from very different contexts, […]
