EXHIBITION
Saturday 5 September
Exhibition Room
10.00 – 18.00
Sunday 6 September
Exhibition Room
10.00 – 18.00
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Saturday 5 September 2020
- A short introduction of the trainer (Nikolas Theodorou, C.E.O. EQnomics Consulting) and how EQnomics relates to the language-learning industry.
- Overview period March 2020-June 2020, what feedback did this provide us with that we can use to our advantage henceforth? (what worked and what didn’t?)
- The 3 pre-installed mechanisms of the human brain (how do they work and can we exploit them to our benefit?)
- Processing new data at work and at home
- Q&A
- The Revised Michigan ECCE & ECPE, May 2021: An overview of the changes & new materials to help prepare students for the new exams.
- i Wonder Pre-Junior: Online or in class, Wonder is the beginning of wisdom! An amazing, brand new Pre-Junior course with a unique combination of innovative tools, to allow full exploitation of course content online, in class, or both!
As things currently stand, we have indeed managed to flatten the curve of the pandemic, however now is the time to use strategy and planning in order to raise the business curve and return to a new normality. Within this 1-hour webinar, our objective is to offer participants meaningful information and also allow for plenty of Q&A, during which we hope to offer tips and advice in order to propel the audience towards finding solutions. Although we do not promise to resolve deeply rooted issues, we do guarantee that this session is not a marketing event and we do not use it for the purpose of promoting our services.
An overview of the headlines:
Idioms are everywhere and they take many forms; they are an essential component of competence in a first language and are often identified with a high level of competence in a second language. But they are a mystery: their behaviour in L1 and L2 is different.
The ‘mystery’ explored in this talk is based on the hypothesis that for the L1-user (or ‘native speaker’ of English) idioms of all kinds come easily and make for fluency. Paradoxically, for the L2-user of English (or ‘non-native’ speaker) English idioms of all kinds tend to come with great difficulty and rather than make for fluency they often slow the speaker down and make for awkwardness.
In the speaker’s experience – and in his research – L2 learners of English can reach very high levels of competence in grammar and vocabulary, indeed in these two areas they often surpass their ‘native’ counterparts. The ‘stumbling block’ comes with idioms: why should this be so? And is it a ‘stumbling block’ at all?
But the highest level of competence in a language is what the presenter refers to as ‘creative idiomaticity’. The presenter will look at the way both L1 and L2 users bring creativity to the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), by each drawing on their own cultural and linguistic resources and he will attempt a redefinition of the notion of fluency, which takes into account the needs and capabilities of the diverse users of ELF – and the realities of the classroom.
A hands-on webinar with best practices and tips on how to deliver engaging exam classes with the Gold Experience 2nd edition series by Pearson. Plan ahead the ideal blended lessons and feel confident both in face-to-face and online classroom!
How can we incorporate the latest findings in neuroscience as well as principles and tools from coaching into the traditional process of language teaching with practical steps to facilitate learning? Through neuroscience we know that no two brains are the same, so the question is how to tailor-make learning to clients´ needs, without books, but with clear and structured targets and brain friendly conversations relating to grammar to facilitate potentially faster, more efficient, sustainable and cost-effective results. It is essential as an educator to fully understand how the brain is impacted and affected while learning, in particular the emotional brain and learning blocks, and be able to coach our learners beyond the blocks into a more effective learning state. This talk will explore all of the steps that Neurolanguage Coaching takes to make the learning process more brain friendly, looking at the process itself, the way we communicate and also how to stimulate connections and associations for our language learners, constantly peaking curiosity, so that the learning becomes a fascinating and enjoyable journey for coach and coachee.
What role do games play in Junior classes? We will explore this question through BFF – Best Friends Forever, our new junior course, and suggest ideas for various games, which are guaranteed to liven up your classes!
It contains engaging tasks and topics which challenge students to stretch their cognitive abilities. The series is fully up-to-date with the ECCE 2021 changes! Interactive students’ components are now available for online lessons!
National Geographic Learning has some of the most amazing solutions for synchronous and asynchronous teaching that make transition to online teaching seamless! Close Up, Impact, Perspectives for teenagers, but also Look and Our World 2nd Edition for Primary learners come with their own Online practice and Digital books!
Join us to discover how you can use them both in physical and digital classrooms.
Teaching is considered one of the most rewarding, yet stressful professions. Exemplary teachers that aspire to give their all for their students often find themselves feeling emotionally depleted and fatigued. In times of increased stress and uncertainty, being able to manage stress and burnout becomes more important than ever. This presentation will examine the effects of toxic stress and identify the symptoms of burnout. It will encourage the educator to venture into a journey of self-exploration in order to cultivate resilience. To increase one’s ability to deal with stress and pressure, bounce back from disappointments, solve problems and cope with everyday challenges.
Don’t let online learning leave your students feeling isolated and unmotivated. This presentation will provide some tips for building a sense of community online in order to enhance student engagement and language learning.
The talk examines two aspects of the classroom situation:
(1) Connecting with books and other materials in a more engaging way.
Books are great and take a lot of the strain out of lesson preparation, but they don’t always provide exactly what we need. Unfortunately, some teachers feel they should follow the book page by page, line by line. My message is – don’t. If you like the book – use it. If you quite like it – adapt it. If you don’t like it – ignore it, even if your students say – why didn’t we do that exercise?
(2) Getting students more involved in what happens in the classroom.
Students trust their teachers to make decisions about the content of a lesson, but they are often better served if they are also responsible for deciding on or creating lesson content. Teachers should always ask themselves – did my class say or write anything new today, or were their responses merely ones which an exercise demanded?
The concept of inter-linguistic and inter-cultural mediation is increasingly present in ELT. It is a response to the way English is used in a global society hence its inclusion in CEFR competences, ELT syllabuses and assessment. This workshop looks at key features of linguistic mediation, and presents hands-on activities which involve mediating or re-presenting received information in language classes.
EUROLTA training equips individuals to effectively teach any language they are proficient in, with certificates and accreditation overseen by the ICC. Coventry University has used EUROLTA to develop one of the UK’s largest language programmes.
With many of us making the shift to remote teaching and learning it seems all the more important to remember to maintain the human aspect of language learning. What could be more human than the need to create? In this session, Nik Peachey will share ideas, exercises and activities which foster our students’ creativity and enable them to use language in a creative way. The activities will show how the remote classroom can be leveraged to make language learning and the use of language a creative and engaging experience.
In this webinar, we will discuss how we can teach YL’s online and we will present meaningful tasks that can engage our Young Learners for synchronous and asynchronous teaching.
During the lockdown, many of us had to take our classes online. This meant adapting our approaches because many of our usual techniques would not work so well in this new environment. But was it all bad? In this session, I will share some of the lessons I learnt about teaching pronunciation which helped during the lockdown, but which may also be of value once face to face teaching returns.
Being a teaching professional is not simply about having the right teaching credentials and being in good academic standing, it involves a commitment to being innovative and transformative in the classroom and helping both students and colleagues achieve their goals. A dictionary definition of professionalism reads as follows: professionalism is the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person; and it defines a profession as a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation (Merriam-Webster, 2013). However, according to Bowman (2013), professionalism is less a matter of what professionals actually do and more a matter of who they are as human beings. Both of these views imply that professionalism encompasses a number of different attributes, and, together, these attributes identify and define a professional.
In this plenary session, the presenter(s) will review the literature on professionalism and present definitions of what it means to be a professional. Other content to be covered include the myths associated with professionalism and the challenges EL educators face when being professional. General and field-specific strategies for improving one’s professionalism will also be shared.
If there is one thing that educators need now more than ever, it is resilience. Our profession has faced huge challenges this year, and our students need us to be able to support them to be calm and as anxiety free as possible. We can only do that if we consider our own wellbeing. This talk will look at five ways in which we can manage stress and build our inner resilience. From how to improve collaboration, to developing self-care strategies, to how to sustain positivity in the face of challenges, this talk will provide a roadmap for how to feel less stressful in education.
Reading can be a tough sell to a generation increasingly raised on short-message, screen reading, and classes often tend to drag or divide when we ‘do a reading’, particularly with longer texts. For example, in B2+ exam preparation classes!
This extremely practical, lively session offers easy-to-implement, interactive tricks and techniques plus a genuine focus on Reading skills, to add both ‘gamification elements’ and a really productive, ‘Communicative’ focus to our classrooms. I will offer at least 54 different routes for Pre-, During and Post-Reading to help you broaden your Reading toolkits.
Sunday 6 September 2020
- New Age, New Norms, New Tools: A unique LMS Platform for the digital classroom!
- The Flibets: A new learning galaxy for preschoolers! The Flibets take your students to an amazing new world of learning through exploration and play!
- Generation
- Spacing
- Elaboration
- Retrieval
- Reflection
Pragmatics is how we use various tools including tone, body language, and word choices to achieve goals in a particular situation context. Learn why it matters and how to practice pragmatics with drama activities.
Going online at primary level during lockdown has been challenging. With teachers forced to go virtual overnight, the development of a learning programme had to be tailored on the go and adjustments were made to make online teaching and learning more effective. The lack of training and experience in the use of virtual platforms were some of the first stumbling blocks to overcome both by families and teachers.
This presentation aims to broaden online learning and teaching best practices in primary education, taking into account the virtual experience honed over time from the moment schools were forced to go virtual in Argentina in March until now, in what is considered to be one of the longest quarantines worldwide.
Ideas that have proved useful will be shared. From the relevance of communication flow at schools and the importance of simultaneous in-house training to the value of striking a balance between synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning, it will refer to the development of strategies on how to keep students’ motivation high, introducing a variety of dynamics to make these interactions more effective and meaningful and providing concrete examples. Last but not least, the concept and emphasis that in this virtual scenario, less is more and the fact that bonding with students has proved essential for “collective survival” and empowerment will be presented.
Find out more about the important changes affecting all sections of the MSU-CELC from December 2020 onwards in order to make it even more candidate-friendly.
Reading fiction has so many benefits for language learners. Fiction express is an innovative, interactive book platform full of fun activities and teaching material. Learners are able to vote between different plot lines, talk to the author while writing and improve their learning results. Reading fiction has never been so fun.
In this short talk, I’ll outline five top tips any teacher can put into practice in their classroom to ensure that their lessons become more lexically rich. We’ll look at how to foster linguistic awareness, alliterative approaches to correction, the triple Ex rule, personalising practice and more!
What role do games play in Junior classes? We will explore this question through BFF – Best Friends Forever, our new junior course, and suggest ideas for various games, which are guaranteed to liven up your classes!
Human beings are creatures of narrative. Stories define us. We use stories to entertain, stories to build relationships, stories to understand the world, stories to communicate. Story and language are inseparable. In this practical session, I will show you how to recognise, collect and develop your stories for the virtual or face-to-face classroom. I will then demonstrate some essential skills for interactive teacher-led storytelling.
At this time when ELT Professionals are required to combine online with classroom teaching, there is a growing need for a successful blend of print and digital material that supports teaching in a flexible way. Express Digibooks is the only gamified digital platform that allows the use of our books online and offline. Track students’ progress, communicate effectively with parents, motivate learners and bring your classes into the future!
Do you want your students to learn effectively? Do you want them to become independent learners?
The problem with the way students practice is that they think all that matters is time and effort ‘If I keep at it long enough, I am going to get better’ or ‘If it is painful, it’s got to be good for me’. Alas, these two notions are at best only partly true. Everybody knows that unless you take your pills regularly, medication is not going to be effective and people often have painful memories of what happens if they overdo it at the gym. For best results, you need to do the right thing, at the right time in the right way.
Whatever it is one wants to learn (be it dancing, maths, IT skills, languages, chess, maths or cooking) Cognitive Science has discovered five Key Strategies which can hugely improve one’s performance:
Join us to learn how to offer innovative exam delivery solutions, that enable students to take international English language exams online with remote, live invigilation, and enrich your portfolio with our new LanguageCert Test of English (LTE).
Check out this exciting and informative presentation of Ultimate English, Hamilton House Publishers’ new series for D and E classes, followed by a demonstration of its interactive whiteboard software and a Q&A session.
We are living in unprecedented times, education is in upheaval, educators are key role models for the future. One of the major quests of the educator is as Curtis says to “relieve the suffering of the classroom,” and the more we understand the brain and emotional triggers, the more we can help our learners. Making learning more suited to individuals, making learner focused and centered upon the learners is absolutely key, to make sure that, as Terry states, “Anyone can learn how to learn easier, better, faster, and that learning to learn is the most important skill a person can acquire.”
As a panel we will discover how Curtis, Terry and Maria Laura see the added dimension that neuroscience and psychology can add to enhance the learning process and in all disciplines, not only language learning but also as Maria Laura says “to assist translators in the translation of interpreting field” and for all topics in schools and educational institutions.
Join me, Rachel, together with Curtis, Terry and Maria Laura in a unique LIVE panel discussion forming a triangle spanning the earth Canada, Argentina, Japan and me sitting in the middle in Spain.
We will also be responding to your questions and comments regarding this topic, so do send in your questions and on the day we will try and address as many as we can.
During the weekend 4 Townhall meetings will be conducted during which members of Teachers Associations from around the world will discuss How the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted teachers and teachers’ associations in their area and how they are preparing for the new school year.
The conclusions from each meeting will be presented during this panel for you to get the latest insights on how to best prepare for the new school year.
Students can learn grammar through reading comprehension.
Knowing grammar and being able to identify language patterns can help students understand the reading passages easier and faster.
It is a two way street.
Claro Software makes ClaroRead for Windows, Mac and Chromebook and apps for iOs and Android. You will see how they make reading, writing and studying so much easier for people with dyslexia or difficulties in concentrating. I’ll show you how to have any text read aloud and demonstrate spelling and homophone checking, word prediction and a shortcut button to Dragon (speech-to-text software). You will learn how to use Auto Converter or the scanning button to make all documents accessible. There are lots of extra tools in the Extras menu including screen tinting, mind mapping and an audio recording tool and I’ll show you how they work. Then I will demonstrate ClaroRead Chrome and its features and finally our easy-to-use apps.
In this session we will review how the megatrends – digital transformation, globalisation, and demographic changes – are shaping skill-based demands through the creation and destruction of jobs as well as changing the nature of existing occupations.
▪ How to set up an effective professional development programme that targets the global market.
▪ How lifelong learning (LLL) systems and strategies can be enhanced to increase the participation of individuals and employers in education and training.
Language is a constantly changing organism. Using some examples of recent and no-so-recent linguistic changes we will explore the reasons why language change is inevitable, look at how grammar emerges from usage (both at historical and developmental level) and highlight some so-called grammar rules that offer little value to the learner and even misrepresent how language is used.
REGISTER AREA
*You can register online until 2020-09-06