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To send us ideas on topics to either discuss in a round-table meeting
or that you would like to see presented in a seminar, send us an email at seminar@tdf-esl.com. Thank you. We
value your teaching experience and knowledge.
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China – UK – USA
comparative studies of Education Systems
(POSS. SPEAKERS: Someone from US Embassy, so. from BC, s.o
from Chinese Edu system)
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Seminar
Keith O’Hare
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The growth of
Learning and teaching of Chinese
(POSS. SPEAKERS: Chinese pod CEO, Confucius institutes,
China academy manager, Chinese learners… )
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Seminar
Keith O’Hare
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3. Making money in
ELT in China.
How to make money – what are the going rates for ELT
related jobs; proofreading, translating, recording work, materials
development, publishing…etc…I know we have done something similar before, but
people keep asking me about this topic!
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Round-Table
Keith O’Hare
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Raising Awareness
of Society Issues in Chinese schools – helping children see the bigger
picture
Many Chinese students may not be aware of bigger society
issues inside and outside their country….how can teachers help them?
(POSS. SPEAKERS: BC project manager of Climate Change project
in Chinese schools, …. )
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Seminar
Keith O’Hare
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Corpus-based
language teaching
Corpus-based language/English teaching is a
domain/direction worth
talking and exploring
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Round-Table
Andrew Kong
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Diversity in the
Classroom
Maybe connected to above one. How can teachers face issues
(and help students face issues) like racism, discrimination, handling
disablilty and so on. Diversity in ELT, is China justified in
discriminating so much against non'native speakers...does it even know
it is doing it?
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Seminar
Keith O’Hare
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Accuracy versus Fluency
It seems to be a
fact that learners who are confident speakers speak with a kind of fluency
but have inaccurate pronunciations, often speed up their speaking in order to
sound native and speak with poor grammar (often to the point of being
misunderstood). I contrast, there are those who attempt to be exact in their
sentence structures, often self-correct themselves and pronounce words slowly
and accurately. This is usually at the expense of fluency (may be painfully slow).
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Round-Table
Richard Janosy
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Assessment in
English classrooms
(POSS. SPEAKERS: someone from CET, …. )
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Seminar
Keith O’Hare
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1. Reading in a
digital age
Do we need to read books anymore; should we be teaching
how to read websites and mobile phone messages?
How can we use the popularity of things like Harry Potter
in our classrooms?
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Round-Table
Keith O’Hare
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2. Getting parents
to read to their kids
China plans to launch a series of activities from April to
October to promote book reading habit among its citizens, especially
children, young people, women and rural residents.
The activities include book discounts, prize contests for
book reports, opening of new libraries in rural areas and urban communities,
and book donation to disaster and poverty-stricken areas, according to a
circular issued jointly by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of
China Central Committee and the General Administration of Press and
Publication on Sunday.(People’s
Daily)
How can we contribute?
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Round-Table
Keith O’Hare
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How learner’s
speaking can damage their English
We often ask our learners to speak, speak, speak but in
the absence of a native English speaker who is willing to correct them (i.e.
an English teacher that is, since the average native speaker who is not a
teacher is too polite to want to correct them), they are just repeating their
mistakes and reinforcing them. Lot's more to be said about that. How may we
help them to pay attention to their English? …
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Round-Table
Richard Janosy
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your ideas…
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round-table or
seminar
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