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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week sees the start of TEC15 in Hyderabad. If you can't be there, why not follow the conference events with TeachingEnglish online?
For the classroom, we have an article and activity on the theme of storytelling to celebrate cultural diversity, and to celebrate St David's Day on 01 March, why not give our lesson plan on Wales a try?
We also invite you to participate in our seminar in March - Creating a climate for innovation in language learning.
And finally, our featured blog of the month award goes to Adam Simpson's post - The greatest creative writing activity ever.
We hope you find these useful. Deb
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 | The fifth International English Language Teacher Educator Conference (TEC15) in Hyderabad starts this Friday, 27 February. Ensuring Quality in English Language Teacher Education is the theme with a focus on quality in both pre-service education and in-service training. Several talks will be live-streamed for you to watch online and the TeachingEnglish team will be conducting interviews with speakers as well as reporting from the conference. |
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| | | Featured blog of the month for February 2015 | |
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|  | Our latest featured blog of the month is Adam Simpson's The greatest creative writing activity ever from his blog teachthemenglish.com Adam wrote this post in response to one of the daily questions on the TeachingEnglish facebook page about a favourite lesson plan or activity that you come back to and use again and again. In the post, he describes his all time favourite activity which not only enables students to practise their language skills but is adaptable to different ages and levels. Read more
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| | More than ever the world needs young people who are internationally-minded and able to participate positively in an interconnected and interdependent world. This means promoting a step change in our approach to multilingualism and cultural awareness. We would like to invite you to participate in a think tank and workshop to explore what we might do to promote new ideas in language learning. Join us in London or live online on Wednesday 11 March 2015, 1800 - 2100. Think differently! Try something new! Creating a climate for innovation in language learning. Register now
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 | This Essential UK lesson plan is part of series of our entitled Destination UK. Task 1 introduces Wales and gives you the chance to find out how much your students already know about the country. Task 2 is a guessing game for students to identify four internationally famous Welsh celebrities and Task 3 is a quiz about Wales. Task 4 is a jigsaw reading task from the British Council's UK in focus website and Task 5 looks at the Welsh language. Task 6 asks students to plan a trip to Wales in groups and prioritise activities they'd like to do. Read more
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 | This is a story-telling activity which involves the whole class, and may be used with adult or younger learners.
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 | Many of us work with groups of students from more than one cultural background while others teach largely monocultural groups of students. In both cases, there is opportunity to celebrate diversity through the telling of traditional tales, whatever the age group and profile of our students. Folk tales from all cultures have universal themes and at the same time tell us about specific features that can illuminate and alter our perception of those other cultures, often through metaphor. I know of no other medium which can give language learners such insight into another culture as the sharing of stories. Storytelling acts as a celebration of cultural diversity, provides students with support in their language learning and builds self-esteem. In this article some examples of my own experience of storytelling in the language-learning context will illustrate these assertions.
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