KEYNOTE SPEECH: ESOL on the Edge, Rob Peutrell, Central Nottingham College and Action for ESOL

This introduction to the conference aims to get across a range of ideas from that of ESOL on the edge of oblivion to being at the cutting edge of professional organisation and identity in further and adult education.  Rob is a key voice in NATECLA and Action for ESOL as well as a founder member of Tutor Voices, the new professional association for FE lecturers. 

Getting creative with grammar teaching, Jo Gakonga
 
Teaching grammar sometimes gets a bad press. In this practical workshop we will look at some of the evidence that teaching grammar explicitly is useful for adults and give you some hands-on, take-it-into-the-classroom-on-Monday ideas for tasks that can liven up your grammar teaching and give learners opportunities to use the target language repeatedly in creative situations.

Bringing the Outside In (and making it fit), Sam Shepherd
 
This workshop will look at ways to bring the learners’ outside lives into the classroom, and make use of these in a meaningful and interesting way to generate language which can be exploited as language learning activities . We will look at some practical classroom ideas, as well as how these approaches can be developed to fit in with observation and inspection regimes which may require a more teacher-led, fixed input approach.

Using targets to improve learners' speaking and writing, Tamzin Berridge

Students often say that they want to improve their speaking and writing, but they generally don’t find it easy to articulate exactly what they want to improve or what they need to do to achieve it, making it difficult to prepare lessons and activities that will meet their needs.

This session will explore ways of getting learners to take responsibility for improving their own speaking and writing by setting their own goals, which can be assessed by themselves, their peers and their teachers.


Where next for ESOL – British values, museums and integration, Bev Davies

‘Just because I’m not a stereotypical British person, it doesn’t mean I am not into bunting, cake and tea. I’m as British as anyone else.’ 
 
As ESOL practitioners, let’s make the most of the rich and diverse resources that encapsulate our society’s values in our local museums. Let’s use them to support our students to discover and debate identity and stereotypes, integration and cultural values, British values and human values. Let’s make the experience learner-led, relevant and meaningful. Practical ideas, new ideas, critical ideas to take away.

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