NEWSLETTER 6
REVIEWS
Two unsolicited reviews of the site have been published
in the last few months in ESLMag by Christine
Meloni and in TESOLArabia's Perspectives
Magazine by Jim Buckingham. Click on the
authors' names to see the articles and let
me know if you agree with them.
REGISTER
With over three hundred registered users on the site database, there is almost
certainly someone linked here who is near you or has similar research and teaching
interests. If you would like to join us or find a kindred spirit, please send
me a "register me" email
and I'll get you on the database and / or put you in touch. Use me and the site
to put you together.
DISCUSSION
BOARDS
There are now eight boards up and running which have been
viewed a total of over 730 times.
Now if we can get everyone to post when they view --- we'd have the start of
the largest ELT conversation in the world.
The
Journal Writing Forum is our attempt at an online journal on journal writing
and now gives you a sneak view at how seven of us over four continents are putting
our TESOL presentation together.
The
General Board now has eight boards on six main themes:
A call for all DELTA
tutors to get together and share their expertise.
English as a
creative and descriptive language.
The
MSc Discussion List Archive Project.
Distance
Learning - doctorates.
Research
and the Net.
Web
Design Tools.
So, please join us by:
visiting the discussions
registering on the discussion list
replying to the discussions already started
starting your own thread.
SITE
UPDATE
The pages that have seen the most growth over the last
few months are:
Skills - with new links and pages on each of the four.
Lesson Planning - with a traffic
lights approach that really works.
ELT Management - with my DREAM
Management approach and Faculty Appraisal
course in development.
Materials evaluation
If you see any gaps as
you browse through or need something that is not here, just
email me and I'll do everything that I can to fill that gap and need.
ELT
EVENTS
As always, the next few months see a hive of professional
activity around the world:
EgypTESOL
4th Annual Convention - Best Practice in TEFL. Cairo. November 28-30.
Online Educa Berlin - The 9th
International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training. December
3-5.
CTELT 2003 -
The Future of Language Assessment, December 10-11.
(Re-) Locating TESOL in an
Age of Empire - A two-day symposium. December 15-16.
The Ninth EFL Skills Conference - American University in Cairo, Egypt. "Integrating
EFL Skills: Strategies for the Teacher, Creativity and Assessment". E-mail
the organisers for more information, January 21-23.
TESOL Ukraine. IX TESOL - Ukraine Conference.
January 29-31.
Thailand TESOL, ELT 2004: Prioritizing
Teacher Development, January 29-31.
Knowledge Management International Conference
and Exhibition - "Towards Intelligent and Co-operative Nations"
- Penang, Malaysia. February 13-15.
Serving TEA to Young Learners - University of Cyprus, Organized by CyTEA, IATEFL
and the University of Cyprus, 27 - 29 February 2004. Please contact Pavlos
Pavlou for more details.
9th International ELT Conference
- Bilkent University - Turkey - Ankara. "Challenge in Learning: Helping
Learners Realise Their Full Potential." March 4-6.
TESOLArabia 2004
- The annual conference in Dubai this year on Standards in English Language
Teaching and Assessment, March 10-12.
TESOL Greece - 25th Annual Convention,
"Looking Back and Looking Forward: 25 Years of TESOL Greece". March
13-14.
TESOL-SPAIN - 27th Annual Seminar.
"Process, Progress and Portfolios: Frameworks for Learning". Madrid,
March 26-28.
TESOL2004 Convention -
Long Beach, California. March 30-April 3.
The
38th Annual IATEFL Conference - Liverpool. April 13.
International Conference
on English Language Teaching Instruction and Assessment - Taiwan. April
24-25.
The Fourth International Symposium
on ELT in China - New Directions in ELT in China and around the world. Beijing.
May 20-24.
Annual Conference for Teachers of English
2004. "Reflective Teaching" - Dominican Republic. June 10-16.
If you would
like to see a specific conference in 2003 included in the newsletter, just let
me know by email on Conference To Include.
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as part of his PhD with
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