Dear colleagues and students,
Catch up with what you might have missed from last week's IATEFL Birmingham 2016 conference for English language teachers.
You can now find all five plenaries, 37 conference sessions and 54 interviews with movers and shakers, all available to watch on demand and free of charge on IATEFL Birmingham Online. Here are some of our highlights from the 50th IATEFL Annual Conference.
The British Council Birmingham Online Team
You can now catch up with all plenaries, sessions and interviews at
Watch Scott Thornbury's informative and illuminating review of the major developments in English language teaching since the sixties
1966 and all that:
A critical history of ELT
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Catch up with Silvana Richardson's
compelling argument for non-native
speaker teachers
The 'native factor', the haves and the
have-nots ... and why we still need to talk
about this in 2016
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Professor David Crystal asked: how has the English language changed in the past 50 years - and what does the future bring?
Who would have thought it?
The English language 1966 - 2066
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Diane Larsen-Freeman asked us to consider the complexity of language acquisition and to make affordances for our language learners
Shifting metaphors from computer input to ecological affordances
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Carol Lethaby and Patricia Harries
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Andrew Wickham and Philip Kerr
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Alan Maley
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Abayneh Haile and Rukundo Kanrukundo
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The panel answers questions on how teachers can overcome constraints, when and how to push learners, and more.
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Three Hornby scholars talk about the change initiatives they'd like to see in teaching in South Africa, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
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Jeremy talks about how coursebooks, despite criticism, can be more useful now than ever before
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Burcu and Marek talk about some the the issues surrounding non-native teachers in ELT and the development of TEFL Equity.
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