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Don’t forget that the last date to submit your Expressions of Interest to participate in the 2015 English Australia Action Research in ELICOS Program is Thursday 29 January 2015. The Program is a wonderful opportunity to explore an area of interest in the classroom, develop your professionalism, engage with others who are passionate about teaching and reinvigorate your teaching practice.
‘This is a fantastic collaborative, supportive and empowering program. Fabulous all round.’ (2014 Program participant comment)
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TESOL’s Electronic Village Online (EVO) is a unique opportunity to participate in free 5-week online sessions for English language teachers offered in January and February. Sessions are open to anyone around the world and will include collaborative online discussions or hands-on virtual workshops. Registration is from 5-12 January. English Australia member college teacher and teacher trainer, Arizio Sweeting, will be moderating an EVO session: Teaching Pronunciation Differently, which looks fantastic.
The IATEFL Testing Evaluation and assessment Special Interest Group will be holding a webinar on 7 January 2015 at 5pm GMT. Luke Harding, University of Lancaster, will be speaking on: Adaptability and ELF communication: the next steps for communicative language testing? Unfortunately, this isn’t a very convenient time in Australia (to find out what time the webinar airs in your location, please check the world clock here) but the webinar will be recorded and available to anyone on the IATEFL website for a limited time afterwards.
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You can gain open online access to the 10 most downloaded articles of 2014 from Cambridge Journal’s Language Teaching. Interesting reading! http://linkis.com/cambridge.org/TfOiy
For those of you who are interested in peer review of students’ writing, Isabela Villas Boas has published a new blog post with Ten tips for peer revision of EFL writing, which is well worth a read.
Volume 3.2 of Papers in Language Testing and Assessment: An international journal of the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand has just been published. This issue is the first of a two part special issue 'Assessing Language in Higher Education,' guest-edited by Kathryn Hill. Papers are available online in open access format at: http://www.altaanz.org/current-issue.html
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Are you an academic or other type of ELICOS manager who is looking to reinvigorate your staff professional development program in 2015? If you are, then hold tight for the launch of English Australia’s Guide to Best Practice in Managing Professional Development, which will happen in February. This is a guide to current best practice in managing PD as it happens in ELICOS colleges around Australia and it will no doubt provide you with a lot of ideas and inspiration for professional development in your workplace.
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Abstracts are invited for presentations at the fourth combined conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA), the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ) and Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ) to be held in Adelaide from 30 November to 2 December 2015. The conference theme is ‘Learning in a multilingual world’ and the deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2015. For more information, please click here.
The call for papers for the next TESOL International Association Regional Conference, which will take place in Singapore on 3-5 December 2015, is now open until 15 April 2015. The theme is ‘Excellence in Language Instruction: Supporting Classroom Teaching and Learning.’ For more information, click here.
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2015
February
28-1 March CamTESOL Conference , ‘English: Building Skills for Regional Cooperation and Mobility’, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Remember you can sponsor a Cambodian teacher to attend this too.)
March
18-20 Language Testing Research Colloquium , ‘From Language Testing to Language Assessment: Connecting Teaching, Learning, and Assessment’, Toronto, Canada
May
7-8 NEAS Management Conference, Doltone House, Sydney
June
11-13 CAES (Centre for Applied English Studies) International Conference, ‘Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy,’ Hong Kong
September
23-25 English Australia Conference, ‘Looking ahead: change, challenge and opportunity’, Brisbane Hilton, QLD
November
23-26 4th Language Education and Diversity Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, call for papers now open until 1 February 2015
19-21 The 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing, ‘Learning to Write for Academic Purposes,’ AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, call for papers now open until 27 February 2015
30 Nov-2 Dec TESOL International Association Regional Conference, ‘Excellence in Language Instruction: Supporting Classroom Teaching and Learning, National Institute of Education, Singapore, call for proposals now open until 15 April 2015
Did someone else at your college forward this to you? If you have an English Australia member college email address you can sign up for PD Updates directly – just contact easec@englishaustralia.com.au .
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