IATEFL

In a completely different context I saw a wonderful talk at IATEFL from a lady using “Dogme” with her business clients.

C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

IATEFL is headed by NOT one of us (though it is difficult to say in what way he differs!).

N is for Native-speakerism « An A-Z of ELT 2010

I wonder how events such as IATEFL and the national association events would look without publishers, authors, stars and the associated course books?

C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Although, I do think to some extent this is being done at conferences such as IATEFL nowadays.

NESTS/non-NESTS – who’s BEST? (Part One) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

(There are 2 teacher trainers in Hamburg Germany who I suspect could also vouch for that – they gave a wonderful presentation on it at IATEFL this year)

C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Trawling around the IATEFL conference rooms that focused on Chinese students was not much use as the speakers all spoke about a type of Chinese learner that was as far removed from those in my classroom as I was.

R is for Reticence « An A-Z of ELT 2010

We have a discussion about textbooks on the IATEFL Young and Teenage Learner SIG last October which covered some of these and other points.

C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

When I next ran into him, at an IATEFL Conference a year or two later, he was still fuming.

September « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

We were lucky enough to have a workshop demonstrating PDL led by Eugene Schaefer at the drama symposium at IATEFL Harrogate.

F is for First Lessons « An A-Z of ELT 2010

With that in mind, I was reminded recently that it was 10 years ago that I coined the term “grammar McNuggets” (in a talk at IATEFL Dublin in 2000).

G is for Grammar McNuggets « An A-Z of ELT 2010