IATEFL Annual Conference, Birmingham 2016
Friday 15th April in Executive Room 10, at 2:10-2:40pm
ABSTRACT for my talk:
With less emphasis on language accuracy and more on academic competency, UK universities have high expectations of their foreign students. This talk will explore how a teacher’s silence, ie: active listening, combined with simple probing questions, demanded higher of students on a pre-sessional course and pushed them to think more deeply for themselves.
Why I wanted to talk at IATEFL 2016
The first blog I posted here explains what motivated me to send in a proposal to talk in Birmingham in 2016 - the 50th anniversary of this wonderful conference. Now that the proposal has been accepted, I want to build a path towards the session where I hope you will join me to continue discussions and explorations of how a thinking environment can work in our world - teaching English as a foreign language and / or for academic purposes.
