TESOL France 25th Anniversary

2006 Colloquium on Innovation

17-18 November 2006
Télécom ParisTech, 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris

As we mark our 25th Anniversary and following the success of our recent Best of BESIG event, run jointly with IATEFL BESIG, this year’s TESOL France Annual Colloquium is aiming high. With Innovation as the title there’s plenty of scope for talks that are stimulating, interactive and most of all innovating!

There’ll be something for everyone. Cutting edge technology will be there, but so will new ways of using Shakespeare, not to mention innovative – and we mean “innovative” - ways of teaching grammar. Here's our exciting line-up of speakers:

Plenary sessions

Jane and Dave Willis:

Innovations: Waves of the Future

Mario Rincolucri:

Listening and Reading are Elaborative Not Simply Receptive Skills

 

Workshops
Dave Allen
Action Research – A Tool to Benefit Language Teachers and Learners

Gary Anderson + Emily Jaguello:

Back to the Future with the Cambridge E-classroom

Eric Baber:

Innovative Technology in the EFL Classroom

Rita Baker:

The Global Approach to Understanding English Tenses

Ian Bell:

What’s New in Testing? (LCCI)

François Bourachot:

GlobalEnglish: How to Better Communicate in English through the New Web Technology

Denis Davy:

Lexical Innovation in English

Steve Flinders:

Bringing Management Training into the Business English Classroom

Pascale Gouteraux:

The Communicative and Utterer-centred Grammar Methodology Workshop: an Integrated Approach

Glenys Hanson:

The Challenges of a Distance Learning Course at “Licence” Level

Michael Howard:

The London Tests of English

Joyce Kling:

Can You Spot a Great Idea

Bob McLarty:

Optimise Your One-to-One Teaching Time

Manuel Garduño +
Pauline Moore:

Reading Online: Does it Make a Difference?

Joy Johnston:

Teaching Intonation to Enhance Communication Skills

Jean-Remi Lapaire:

Grammar on DVD: an Essay in Body-motion Conceptualization

Hester Lott:

New Horizons in Grammar Teaching

Susan Loubet:

Developing Innovative Class Materials: the Opportunities Presented by Podcasting

Mario Rinvolucri:

How to Teach Oral Grammar

Rex Stewart:

American Comic Books Used as Authentic Texts

Hugo Masse, Leticia Hernández + René Pedroza:

From Internot to Cyber-savvy: Breaking Technophobia Barriers in ELT

Tonya Trappe:

Shakespeare in the “Intelligent Business” English Classroom

Dave Vale:

Toys and Teaching English

Dave Willis:

Teaching Lexical Phrases and Lexical Patterns

Jane Willis:

Task-based Language Teaching: Teachers’ Solutions to Problems Encountered

William Yeago:

Innovation in Legal English

 

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>List of speakers and abstracts

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