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| Regular readers will know that the TeachingEnglish website has hosted a number of Guest Writers. Why not have a look at our archive where you can find articles and blogs by ELT luminaries such as Adrian Underhill, Carol Read, Adrian Holliday and Michael Swan.
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| | | | | Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have news of the Teacher Educator Conference in Hyderabad which you can follow online, and the BBELT Conference in Mexico on 7 and 8 March.
Registration for TKT Essentials is also now open - the course starts on 10 March, and Dr Maggie Sokolik returns to report on the experience of running her first MOOC (massive open online course) in the latest EnglishAgenda podcast.
For the classroom this week, why not check out our featured blog of the month for exciting ideas on creating attractive and
interesting teaching materials?
And finally, if it's EAP you're looking for, then join our seminars live from Bristol on academic listening and the function of
laughter. We hope you find these useful. Best wishes Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC | | |
| | |  | T he main theme of this year's conference in Hyderabad is Innovation in English Language Teacher Education. Follow the conference live and online this week! Check out our blog posts, interviews with speakers, links to the live stream and more.Read more
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| |  | TKT Essentials is now open for registration and the course starts on 10 March. It is for inexperienced teachers or teachers in pre-service training, experienced teachers wanting to refresh their knowledge, experienced teachers wanting to gain knowledge of Communicative Language Teaching and teachers preparing for the TKT test. Read more
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| | | | | The "Best of British English Language Teaching" conference (BBELT), organised by the British Council Mexico, will take place on 7 and 8 March 2014 at Gran Melia Hotel, Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City. There is also a free, one day course on 6 of March for the first 150 people to sign up for BBELT and confirm their attendance.
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| | | | | Our latest blog of the month award is for Emma Segev and her post Top 10 Tools for Creating Teaching Materials. Emma describes quick and easy ways to create interesting and visually appealing teaching materials, including mindmaps and quizzes for students preparing for exams, infographics and word cloud generators as well as a range of multimedia tools for creating video presentations and adding audio to images. Read more | |
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| | | | On Wednesday 26 February, the seminars team will be in Bristol with seminars which focus on English for academic purposes. Edward de Chazal will give a practical presentation which will explore the nature of academic listening, roles of the listener and purposes of listening. Emma Greenhalgh will disseminate recent pioneering research from her MA in Applied Linguistics dissertation, into the extent and function of laughter in university seminars and will discuss possible implications for EAP teaching. Watch LIVE online. Read more
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| | | | Listen to the latest EnglishAgenda podcast where Dr Maggie Sokolik returns to report on the experience of running her first MOOC (massive open online course) aimed at developing writing skills for English language learners. We hear about the numbers of students signing up to the course as well as some of the lessons learned by Dr Sokolik, who designed the course and has taught writing and technical communication at UC Berkeley since 1992. Read more | | |
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