'The ESOL event of the year' 'Empowering' 'Great choice of workshops'
North Thames hosted National Conference on 6, 7, 8 July 2007 at City University, London. This year’s conference engaged with the politics, principles and practices of ESOL and the place of language and learning in the lives of teachers, learners, and society as a whole.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, journalist, broadcaster, author of ‘Who do we think we are? Imagining the new Britain’ (2000), and advocate of social justice for migrants and their families gave the keynote speaker on Friday evening. Her talk was entitled:
'Blaming the victim - Language, Integration and Political Failures'.
Yasmin's keynote address - dvd available from National Centre
There was an exciting range of workshops and themes and a series of mini workshops to introduce new faces and ideas.
Sunday
On Sunday, after the morning workshops, Helen Casey chairs the NATECLA ESOL Question time panel of influential voices - with the DfES and NIACE returning to talk and listen to us one year on from ‘More than Language’.
Q & A session
http://www.natecla.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=227The NATECLA conference is the ESOL event of the year - an opportunity not to be missed.
Our main sponsor for 2007 National Conference was Trinity College London.
Our other sponsors were
Cambridge ESOL Examinations
English Speaking Board
LLU+
National Research Develpment Centre (NRDC)
Pearson Education
Skills for Life Strategy Unit
We are grateful to them all for their support of our conference.
