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| Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we celebrate the upcoming IATEFL conference in Harrogate with a podcast interview with Glenda Smart and a focus on the IATEFL Special Interest Groups.
We also have a summary of the exciting E-merging forum and a recording of our latest webcast on writing classroom materials and corpora in the classroom.
And finally we have a couple of inspirational blog posts for you to read. We hope you find these useful. Best wishes Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | This week we interview Glenda Smart about the forthcoming IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) conference. Glenda, the Executive Officer of IATEFL, talks about the first ever IATEFL conference and discusses how the conference has grown. We also get a glimpse of some of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes to plan and organise the conference each year.
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| | | IATEFL Special Interest Groups | |
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| | With the IATEFL annual conference fast approaching, we look at some of the Special Interest Groups who work year round to provide development opportunities to teachers around the globe. IATEFL's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) give teachers and other ELT professionals opportunities to share knowledge and best practice and specialise in key areas of English Language Teaching and Learning. Read more about the SIGs |
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 | Read our latest blog post by TeachingEnglish associate Kyle Mawer - Using online games for language learning. Kyle Mawer is an award winning digital play expert, blogger, author of the teacher development book 'Digital Play' and international presenter on the use of video games in ELT. Read more
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| | E-merging Forum 4 is over but you can still catch up on all the events that were happening online. In this post we will sum up all the events that were happening online on the last day of the forum. Read moreYou can also watch interviews and catch up on all the forum blogs here |
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| | A focus on materials development | |
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 | If you missed the live webcast, then watch the recording of 'More than just a worksheet: How to write effective classroom materials' with Rachael Roberts, followed by Adam Kilgarriff talking about 'Corpora in the classroom without scaring the students'. Rachael's seminar comprises plenty of practical examples, and participants carry out a number of short tasks. Adam discusses the spectrum of corpora through to dictionaries and shows how we can engage students by getting them to build their own corpus, on a topic that excites them. Watch here |
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| | Chuck Sandy - When the student is ready | |
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| | "You don't need to be in a classroom to teach, you know. You don't have to be in a school to learn," Cid told me. "A teacher doesn't draw lines," he said. "A teacher is the line and that line has to form a circle," he told me. "Pull everyone into that circle you are. That's what teachers do. That's what we're doing here," he said. In need a bit of inspiration? Read more about Chuck Sandy's connection with the poet Cid Corman. Read more |
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