What is TESOL France
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TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) France, an affiliate of TESOL Inc. and IATEFL, is a non-profit organization of teachers of English in France. Its purposes are to stimulate professional development, to disseminate information about research, books and other materials related to English, and to strengthen instruction and research. Further Information |
Call for Papers for the Annual Colloquium
Meeting the Real Needs of Our Learners
Plenary Speaker: Michael Swan
Deadline: July 31st
Event Date: Friday, 7 November and Saturday, 8 November 2008
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.
Proceedings from The Great Debate
Is the current concours system (CAPES and Agrégation) the best method for selecting and preparing future English teachers in France?
In association with RANACLES, APLIUT and SAES
On March 29th 2008, this event took the form of a bilingual French-English round table followed by comments from guest speakers and ending with a question and answer session.
The Proceedings of this event are now available for download. Click here to download.
Contributors include: Alain Cazade, Dennis Davy, Marie-Annick Mattioli, and Laurel Zuckerman.
In addition, Vera Dickman's informative presentation on "How are teachers trained for today's French National Education system?" is also available for download. Click here to download.
TESOL France Regions
Coming to a Town Near You...
Already a member of TESOL France but frustrated at not being able to attend events regularly?Thinking of joining TESOL France but put off by the fact everything seems to happen in Paris?
TESOL France Regions is an exciting new initiative that plans to set up chapters in different parts of the country. TESOL France Grenoble is the first of our regional chapters. We hope other cities will be joining us in the not too distant future
Further Information
So to Speak: Developing Spoken Communication Skills
Si je puis m'exprimer ainsi
Last year's colloquium was devoted to the teaching of spoken communication in all its forms. Speakers included two experts in spoken English: Jane Arnold and Ron Carter.Further Information
Teachers Telling Tales
Materials for Teaching Spoken Language
by Ivor Timmis
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Thanks to corpora, we now know more than ever before about what native speakers of
English actually do when they speak the language The publication of substantial
sections on the grammar of spoken English in the Longman Grammar of Spoken and
Written English (Biber et al 1999) and the Cambridge Grammar of English (Carter
and McCarthy 2006) is clear evidence of the considerable corpus-based research into
spoken language which has been carried out in recent years. The challenge for
teachers and materials writers is to decide what to do with these detailed and ever
more comprehensive descriptions of spoken language. This article seeks to address
that challenge. Read the document |
The Logic of Spoken English and How to Teach It
by Dave Willis
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Spoken English is often described as untidy, disorganised, even ungrammatical.
But the fact that we all use it effectively and successfully belies these descriptions.
We will look at samples of spontaneous spoken English and list its salient features.
We will go on to discuss why it is the way it is.
Finally we will look at pedagogic strategies to make our learners more aware
of the nature of spontaneous spoken language, and will design exercises to capitalise on this awareness. Read the document |
Video
Using Drama in the Classroom
| In this video clip from a recent workshop, Tonya Trappe, author of ‘New Insights into Business’ and the ‘Intelligent Business’ series, shows how drama can be used in the classroom. Click on the image to watch. |