The C Group

World Teacher's Day - British Council events

9/19/2017

Some members of the C Group will be participating in the British Council events to celebrate World Teachers' Day.

On 28 September, Rebeca Duriga, Sue Leather, Linda Ruas, and Malu Sciamarelli will be talking about 'Global issues and creative classroom Teaching'.

On 5 October, Chrysa Papalazarou, Carol Read, Linda Ruas, Malu Sciamarelli, and Adrian Tennant will be debating 'Social Issues in the creative English language classroom, followed by Nik Peachey's webinar ‘Creativity and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’

All the events will look at some tangible and practical ideas from one of the British Council most recent publications ‘Integrating global issues in the creative English language classroom’.

Follow the links below and join us!

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Call for contribution to volume: ESOL provision in Ireland and the UK: Challenges and Opportunities, Publisher Peter Lang

9/8/2017

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Freda Mishan (Course Director Structured PhD TESOL, School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick) is preparing a volume for publication in Peter Lang's series 'Language, Migration and Identity' edited by Professor Vera Regan of University College Dublin (see attached flyer). The book has the working title: 'ESOL provision in Ireland and the UK: Challenges and Opportunities'. She is pleased to invite you to contribute a chapter to this volume.

In outline, the book proposes to examine the current state of the area of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), with reference to key stakeholders - ESOL learners, providers and researchers. With contributions from these stakeholders in Ireland and in the UK, the volume is intended to describe, portray and investigate the ESOL landscape at this pivotal moment in the history of European migration. Today's ESOL providers are confronted with an unprecedented upturn in numbers of hitherto unfamiliar populations of migrants with unique profiles and needs. Aspects of ESOL provision to be critically examined in the volume include language support, models of cultural integration, professional development of ESOL practitioners, curriculum development for ESOL and ESOL policy.

A distinctive feature of the volume will be the inclusion of case studies or ‘vignettes’ from ESOL practitioners to present ‘living’ portraits of ESOL practice on the ground, so I would value contributions from colleagues working in ESOL provision. This volume is intended to fill an urgent gap in this area, offering both a snapshot of the ‘state of the art’ of ESOL in the UK and Ireland, and projections of how the needs of new migrants are to be addressed going forward. In tandem with these aims, it is hoped to portray the contemporary migration situation in Ireland and the UK not solely as a challenge but as an opportunity for the burgeoning of linguistic and cultural diversity.

She would be delighted to hear expressions of interest in contributing either a chapter or a ‘vignette’. If you are interested, could you send her an abstract of circa 300 words of your proposed chapter/vignette by the end of September. In addition, she would be pleased to hear of a colleague who you think might be interested in contributing.

Freda Mishan: Freda.Mishan@ul.ie

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Bonnie Tsai Scholarship for 2018

8/16/2017

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Bonnie Tsai was everything we expect in a Creative Pilgrims Trainer. She inspired thousands of teachers across the world. The most rewarding way for us to keep her memory alive is to encourage other teachers to be brave and not afraid to express their creativity.

So once again we are pleased to announce a further Bonnie Tsai Scholarship, where the prize for your creativity is a free 2 week Creative Methodology for the Classroom course at Pilgrims in 2018 including 2 weeks accommodation!

To win the scholarship submit an entry consisting of two parts in which you:

describe how you see the role of creativity in your classroom approx. 500 words
present your own lesson plan/ project which illustrates how you implement creativity, min 45 minutes long

Follow the Humanising Language Teaching guidelines for in-house style available at www.hltmag.co.uk/jun17/guidelines.htm

You are more than welcome to include visual material and photos to illustrate your lesson/ project. If this is the case, please embed them in the text or provide links to websites, but do not send separate attachments.

Please submit your entry by e-mail by December 15th, 2017 to
hania.kryszewska@pilgrims.co.uk and write in the subject: Bonnie Tsai Scholarship (BTS) so that the entry does not get ‘lost’ among other HLT contributions.

The entries will be judged by a panel of three judges (in alphabetical order): Paul Davis, Hania Kryszewska and Mario Rinvolucri.

The results will be announced in the February 2018 issue of HLT and by e-mail (to the winner).

The winning entry, as well as some selected entries, will be published in Humanising Language Teaching Magazine in later issues in 2018.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Originally posted at
HLT Magazine Year 19; Issue 4; August 2017, ISSN 1755-9715
Reposted here with permission.

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ELTons Award for Innovation in Learner Resources - Winners

6/28/2017

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The C Group members Averil Bolster and Peter Levrai won the 2017 British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Learner Resources for their course, Develop EAP, a language and academic skills course for university students based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

To read more about the award and their course, click on the link below:

englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/events/eltons/years-eltons/2017-eltons-winners/winners-2017-eltons-awards

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Integrating Global Issues in the Creative English Language Classroom

6/28/2017

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The new British Council publication 'Integrating Global Issues in the Creative English Language Classroom' is out and free to download. To have access to the book, click on the image below.

This publication provides innovative ideas for teaching creatively while raising awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It is edited by the C Group members Alan Maley and Nik Peachey. Most of the writers belong to the C Group too.

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Webinar with Karen Saxby

5/7/2017

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Storytelling and story-making for Cambridge English: Young Learners
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

For more information, click on the image below:

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Webinar with Dimitris Primalis

5/7/2017

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Webinar on creativity with Dimitris Primalis. For more information, click on the link below:

tesolmt.org/dimitris-primalis-thinking-outside-the-efl-box/

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Drama in Education Conference

4/27/2017

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International Symposium “Seeds of Innovation in Foreign Language Teaching”

2/19/2017

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We are pleased to announce the International Symposium “Seeds of Innovation in Foreign Language Teaching”, which will be held at the University of Huelva (Spain), on 23rd February 2017.
This Symposium is organized by the Group “ReALL” (Research in Affective Language Learning), based at the University of Huelva. We aim to study the influence of affective factors in language learning and teaching from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains.
This international bilingual Symposium (Spanish/English) includes a combination of short dynamic presentations given by well-established international researchers in the fields of Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Education and Neuro-education, as well as workshops where PhD candidates present their own research. All speakers are members of our current Research + Development project (I+D+i) “Musical Aptitude, Reading Fluency and Intercultural Literacy of European University Students” (MUSICLANG).

“Seeds of Innovation in Foreign Language Teaching” will offer timely contributions for language researchers and teachers organized into four panels:

Affect in Language Teaching
Music in Language Learning and Teaching
ICTs and Language Learning
Literature and Culture

Programme: https://goo.gl/hIlJtc
Date: February, 23rd, 2017
Place: Salón de Actos y Aula de Grados, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Huelva
Registration: https://goo.gl/8Rzwqj

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ETAS JOURNAL SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON DRAMA AND THEATER IN EDUCATION

2/12/2017

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ETAS Journal invites submissions for its Special Supplement on Drama and Theater in Education Spring Edition 2018.

Click on the link below for more information on how to submit your articles:

www.e-tas.ch/journal/calls-submissions/call-papers-spring-journal-2018

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