ELTWeekly Issue#3 – Worldwide ELT events
By Tarun Patel
British Council’s 12th National ELT Conference 2009, Colombia
Conference theme: Perspectives in Bilingualism: Current views and trends
Day / Date: April 23 – 25, 2009
Place: Universidad de La Salle, Sede Chapinero, Bogotá, Colombia
Proposals for sessions should fall on one of the following topics in relation to Bilingualism:
- Issues in EFL, ESL, CLIL, Content Based Learning, immersion programmes, and international curriculum (IB, CIE etc)
- Global views: Intercultural communication, culture and identity, English as a global language
- Evaluation & Assessment: Benchmarks, testing, and the role of International Exams
- Spanish and English coexisting in the bilingual classroom
- EFL teachers in Content-Based learning classrooms
- Teacher development for non ELT specialists
- Non native English-speaking teachers: challenges and paradigms
- Effective practices in the elementary, secondary and higher education classrooms
- Research in bilingualism in the our context
More information available here: http://www.britishcouncil.org/colombia-eltconference.htm
ELT-Con 2009 is the fourth English language teaching conference organised by the Penang English Language Learning & Teaching Association (PELLTA). This biennial ELT conference offers a professional platform for teachers, teacher trainers, lecturers, researchers and all others involved in the field of English language teaching to exchange knowledge, expertise and experience, form networks and forge friendships among professionals.
Conference theme: Language Matters : New Ways of Looking at English Language Teaching & Learning
Day / Date: April, 22 – 24, 2009
Place: Bayview Hotel ~ Penang ~ Malaysia
Sub themes:
- Teaching & learning in the digital age
- Redefining the role of the language teacher
- Grammar in the language classroom
- Teaching the slow & the gifted
- Professional & teacher development
- Managing change in the ELT trends & curricula
- Teachers as learners & researchers
- English for specific purposes
- Material selection & production
- Testing & evaluation
- Multiliteracies & ELT
- English language for living skills
- Language teaching & culture.
More information available here: http://eltcon.webs.com
TESOL Convention Denver 2009
Day / Date: March, 26 – 28
Place: Denver, Colorado USA
The 43rd Annual TESOL Convention will start on Thursday March 26, 2009 and run through Saturday March 28, 2009 and will be held in scenic Denver, Colorado. Join TESOL to immerse yourself in the theme of Uncharted Mountains, Forging New Pathways. Meet us in the great west for all that the annual convention and Denver have to offer.
More information available here: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/convention2009/
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ELTWeekly Issue#3 
December 29th, 2008About... Tarun Patel
This author published 569 posts in this site.Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.
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