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

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016

Catch up with plenaries from IATEFL Birmingham 2016 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 Watch Scott Thornbury's plenary Watch Scott's interview 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 Watch Silvana's plenary Watch Silvana's interview   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 Watch the plenary Watch the extended Q&A session Watch the interview with Professor Crystal   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 Watch Diane's plenary Watch the interview with Diane Watch the extended Q&A session   Catch up with speaker sessions from IATEFL Birmingham 2016 Changing the way we approach learning styles in teacher education Carol Lethaby and Patricia Harries ELT conversation: the ELT industry today Andrew Wickham and Philip Kerr Ten great educators and their legacy Alan Maley Creating a Pan-African network of teacher associations in Sub-Saharan Africa Abayneh Haile and Rukundo Kanrukundo   Catch up with interviews from IATEFL Birmingham 2016 Q&A with Margit Szesztay, Scott Thornbury and Hugh Dellar The panel answers questions on how teachers can overcome constraints, when and how to push learners, and more. Interview with Vuyokazi Makubalo & Pipit Suharto & Urmila Khaled (Hornby scholars) Three Hornby scholars talk about the change initiatives they'd like to see in teaching in South Africa, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Interview with Jeremy Harmer Jeremy talks about how coursebooks, despite criticism, can be more useful now than ever before Interview with Burcu Akyol and Marek Kiczkowiak Burcu and Marek talk about some the the issues surrounding non-native teachers in ELT and the development of TEFL Equity.