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[gregd75]

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to our first regional conference to be held in downtown Guadalajara on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th June 2010.

The title of the conference is 'CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS IN ELT'

There will be the following plenaries;

1. Emphasizing learner context in ELT by Dr. Douglas Goodwin

2. Are there new challenges in ELT? By Francisco Lozano

3. Communicating globally: challenges and solutions by Dr. Caroline Moore

On top of these interesting talks, there will be commercial and paper presenations as well as the following workshops to participate in;

1. Are you talking to me?, Millennial behavior in the classroom
2. Jazz chants, a way of feeling the beat in your body to understand spoken English
3. Classroom management: How to go about it
4. Collaborative activities for advanced learners
5. Students aren't mushrooms: Tips and strategies to create interactive motivation
6. Reading plus a little more
7. Mixed ability classes along with differentiated instruction
8. Grammar as idea: Concept attainment instruction in the EFL classroom
9. The inductive approach: Rejigging PPP
10. Foldables
11. Teaching heterogeneous classes
12. Games and spare activities for children
13. KILL SILENCE - rocking to music in the EFL classroom
14. Brain gymnastics: Empowering the brain to learn English
15. Helping each other
16. Grammar in use: Task-based assessment (2 parts)
17. Challenged by young learners behavior?
18. Language is culture: What we can learn from socio-cultural theory
19. Repeat after me! A thing of the past?


Entrance for the two days is just $220 pesos for non-members and $120 pesos for MEXTESOL members, refreshments included.

For more information and to look at the conference schedule, please visit our webpage www.jaliscomextesol.org

Hope to see you there!

[gregd75]

A representative from the SEP will also be coming to explain the new rules that will govern English teaching and English schools in the very near future.

Come along to find out about these important changes

[TheLongWayHome]

I'd go if it were called Challenges and Solutions TO ELT.

[gregd75]

Very interesting point!

For future events, what titles/themes would be interesting?

[Dragonlady]

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[Guy Courchesne]

[Dragonlady]

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[gregd75]

Well.

Challenges and solutions in ELT was meant to define the problems and talk about the solutions that we, English language teachers experience within our career of English Language Teaching (such as classroom management, discussing collaborative activities for advanced learners etc)

I would read Challenges and solutions to ELT as being about solving the problems English Language Teachers have with our chosen profession (such as the rise of Chinese as a language, or distance learning programmes etc)

All I can say is thank goodness that I am just the president of the chapter and I have a superb academic committee (by this I mean real English teachers, coordinators and directors from the best Unis in the city) working on the content- this is a team effort, I'm just one of a the team but proud to be helping out other teachers to develop profesionally, which is what it's all about, right?

[Phil_K]

Sense of homour bypass, teachers! TLWH was definitely being ironic!

[gregd75]

Announcing a late, but important addition to the conference schedule;

La SEP tiene un nuevo esquema para reconocer la experiencia y los estudios de los maestros de ingl�s que no tienen licenciatura como docentes. El Proceso de Acreditaci�n de los Docentes de Ingl�s es una evaluaci�n integral que permite obtener el t�tulo de T�cnico Superior Universitario o bien de Licenciado en Ense�anza del Ingl�s. Esta sesi�n le dar� una visi�n clara sobre el proceso y de los pasos que tiene que seguir.

El lic. Mauricio Ch�vez Ruiz es Jefe del Departamento de Programaci�n, Operaci�n, An�lisis y Evaluaci�n de la Acreditaci�n y Certificaci�n de la Secretar�a de Educaci�n P�blica.

Will you come along?