IATEFL Online 2018 | TeachingEnglish

Here you can watch recordings of the plenaries and a selection of talks from the IATEFL 2018 conference. Find talks covering current issues in ELT, presentations about innovative approaches, forums with practical teaching ideas, and more. Presented by English language teaching professionals from around the world, these recordings will help you stay up-to-date and inspire your teaching.

The IATEFL Online project is a British Council / IATEFL partnership.

Teaching writing visually: smarter sentences and shapely texts

Sarah Blair looks at 'sentence energy' as a way to engage effectively with writing.

Questions with gestures: examples from Chilean EFL classrooms

Katherina Walper looks at examples of questioning techniques.

Living to tell the tale: a history of language testing

In this plenary talk, Barry O'Sullivan looks at the history and relevance of language testing.

British Council signature event: Remote teaching - bridging the gap

This event looks at the effectiveness of remote teaching and the British Council partnership with Plan Ceibal in Uruguay.

Oxford University Press Signature Event: Beneficial consequences of assessment

This event explores the opportunities and pitfalls of assessment.

I can see clearly now: rethinking teacher training observation tasks

Alastair Douglas looks at the effectiveness of observation tasks.

Leadership for sustainable teacher development and improved pupils' learning

Dalia Elhawary provides an overview of a recent innovative leadership project.

Effective peer assessment as a step towards independent learning

Agnieszka Luczak talks about the importance of peer assessment and strategies for doing this.

The importance of being earnest: can teachers learn from students?

Martina Sindelarova Skupenova talks about students as teachers and teachers learning from them.

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