Michael Swan

TESOL France's 27th Annual Colloquium

Meeting the Real Needs of Our Learners

Plenary Speaker: Michael Swan

Author of Practical English Usage and Basic English Usage (OUP). Co-author, with Catherine Walter, of the Cambridge English Course series, and of How English Works and The Good Grammar Book (OUP)

Michael Swan has had extensive experience with adult learners and has worked with many teachers around the world.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Domain-specific or even skills-specific English for business, economics, medicine, tourism, and science and technology, just scratches the surface and thus presents additional challenges for teachers, materials designers, test developers, administrators, and students. As more programs are emerging, we feel addressing this issue may assist teachers in their classroom teaching and program design efforts.

We therefore welcome contributions including:

  • English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and its multiple disciplines
  • Learner needs analysis
  • The learner-centred classroom
  • Domain-specific test development and assessment
  • The General English teacher in the domain-specific classroom
  • The 20-hour course - meeting the demands of short courses
  • Finding your teaching "niche."
  • Course design in ESP
  • The multi-disciplinary classroom - when a group has varying needs.
  • Cross-disciplinary task development - tasks that meet a wide range of needs.
  • Cross-disciplinary speaking, reading, listening, writing, and vocabulary activities
  • Using authentic learner material
  • Meeting needs outside the classroom - extracurricular approaches

Please include:

  • Name of speaker(s) + affiliate (where necessary)
  • Title and synopsis of workshop / paper: approx 100 words.
  • Language of delivery (French / English),
  • Target audience - e.g. experienced / less experienced trainers, or both
  • Publisher sponsored workshop. Please include name of publisher,
  • Biodata. 100 words max,
  • Any time during the event when you will not be available,
  • Technical needs.
NB: In the past, TESOL France Colloquium attendees have greatly enjoyed workshops that have been more practical than theoretical.

Important Dates:

  • Deadline for submission of proposals: July 31st, 2008
  • Notification of acceptance: September 1st 2008
  • Details of preliminary schedule: October 1st, 2008
  • Event Date: Friday, 7 November and Saturday, 8 November 2008
Papers are to be submitted in doc or PDF format via e-mail and sent to: tesol@enst.fr