ELT Webinars

Podcast Possibilities: Enhancing Language Skills in the Classroom

Laura Wilkes

28th Feb 5.00 Rome time zone

Podcasts continue to rise in popularity with forecasts for global listenership exceeding 500 million for 2024. What's more, with over 5 million shows, this form of media offers a treasure trove of (often) free resources that we can adapt for the language classroom. In this workshop, podcaster and teacher trainer, Laura Wilkes, shares how we can use podcasts as a teaching resource with our teenage and young adult English language students. Laura will share practical examples of how freely accessible podcast content, such as The Goalkeepers Podcast Series by ELi Publishing, can be used to develop learners' language skills as well as their creativity.

Laura Wilkes is a video and podcast coach who helps educators record content to grow their community. Before becoming a coach and establishing Communicating for Impact, Laura taught English, trained teachers, and led academic teams worldwide for fifteen years. Laura is also the producer for the TESOL Pop podcast, which provides bite-sized episodes on teaching, trends, and careers for educators.

Future-Ready English: A Journey into Multimodal ELT Instruction

Rob Howard

6th March 5.00 Rome time zone

Explore the transformative potential of integrating multimodalities in the ELT classroom. This talk delves into the dynamic synergy of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic elements, fostering enhanced language acquisition. Discover innovative strategies, tools, and pedagogical approaches that engage diverse learner preferences, creating a rich and immersive learning environment and enhancing overall comprehension and retention.

Rob Howard is the Online Language Center and Business Language Training Institute owner, EFLtalks founder, a teacher, trainer, coach, writer on business English, entrepreneurship, one-to-one, online teaching and teacher development. He is IATEFL Poland President, past IATEFL BESIG Joint Coordinator, Gallery Teachers Masterclass presenter, iTDi TOEFL trainer, and Independent Authors & Publishers co-founder.

Unlocking the Magic of Learning: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling in Young Learner Classrooms

Vanessa Reis

13th March 5.00 Rome time zone

Witness the enchanting transformation of young learners as they come alive through the captivating world of stories. The intrinsic connection between storytelling and language acquisition creates a vibrant tapestry of imagination and motivation that etches English language skills into the minds and hearts of students. Join us for an interactive webinar where we share practical and effective teaching techniques, unveiling some of the many secrets of using The Story Garden series to engage students so that learning English becomes an enjoyable and memorable experience for everyone. Glory, Glory, it’s time for a Story Garden story!

Vanessa has been a passionate EFL teacher for the past 28 years and counting. She has taught English language learners from the ages of 3 to 60+. She currently teaches at Escola Superior de Educação in Porto, Portugal, where she teaches English language, literature and various subjects related to the methodology & didactics of teaching English. Vanessa divides her time between writing coursebooks, giving teacher training sessions around the world, teaching English and completing her Doctorate degree in the field of coursebook design, which is one of her many interests.

Boost your Students' Productivity: Promoting Productive Skills

André Hedlund

20th March 5.00 Rome time zone

Speaking and writing skills are often considered by most teachers very challenging. In order to get students to produce more, we need to carefully prepare the environment to offer more opportunities for them to use these skills. Participants will reflect on teaching strategies and hands-on techniques to empower students to excel in oral and written communication.

André Hedlund is a Chevening Alumnus with a Masters Degree in Psychology of Education from the University of Bristol. He is an education consultant, speaker, and lecturer on bilingualism and cognition in graduate courses. Academic Director of EdYOUfest, a teacher trainer at LanguagEd, a board member of BRAZ-TESOL’s Mind, Brain, and Education SIGs (Special Interest Groups), he’s also the author of The Owl Factor: Reframing your Teaching Philosophy, and writes ELT materials and articles for different magazines and his website andre-hedlund.com.

Young Learners Exams – Say it! Hear it!

Jane Ritter

27th March 5.00 Rome time zone

In this webinar, we’ll look at some fun ways to focus on pronunciation and develop listening skills, all the while keeping your learners happy and confident as they prepare for YLE tests. We'll explore practical and engaging classroom activities to help your students prepare and look at creating a positive, supportive classroom that encourages students to do their best.

Jane Ritter is a teacher, teacher trainer, author and editor, with over 20 years’ experience teaching primary, secondary and adult learners. She is passionate about building students’ confidence in the classroom and supporting newly qualified YL ELT teachers. She lectures in Language at two Universities in Naples and hosts a Teachers Talk Radio programme. www.teachyounglearners.com

Building Wellbeing with Young Learners

Nina Lauder

4th April 5.00 Rome time zone

What is wellbeing and how can we introduce wellbeing into the English language classroom? In this webinar we will look at how wellbeing is defined and its impact on learning. Following this, we will investigate ways to introduce activities that are linked to being aware of emotions, taking care of physical health and building a sense of community into our lessons. Come along and find out how to build wellbeing in class with your young learners!

Nina Lauder, who was born in Canada and is based in Spain, is a certified teacher trainer and an ELT and CLIL expert who has been working in the field of education for decades. She currently works as a university professor, teacher, educational consultant and materials writer. She has handled tasks in over thirty countries and has co-authored top-selling ELT and CLIL coursebooks. She is the co-author of ELI's series for pre-primary, Pandy the Panda. She has also written resource books for teachers and material for Flipped Learning. For more information, visit her website: http://www.ninalauder.com

Hello! How are you? What do you do in your free time?

Jane Cadwallader

10th April 5.00 Rome time zone

We all teach children to read, listen, ask and answer and write about their own and other people’s lives; their preferences, hobbies and daily routines ... And we revisit and extend this area throughout all the stages of learning. Reading and learning about how others live also fits in with wider learning and SDG 16 (promoting peaceful and inclusive societies) as children see the connections between us and others, the challenges we share and the challenges which are different. This webinar will look at practical examples -from the Real Lives Graded readers collection by Eli Publishing - of how to integrate and use readers which are set in a different time / culture as a jumping off point for work on vocabulary and language to do with describing lives and also for understanding and respecting others.

Jane Cadwallader has taught English to children of all ages for over 30 years. She lives and works mainly in Spain but also spends many months of the year working for an NGO in Uganda. She has given talks to teachers in many parts of the world and has co-authored courses for Primary EFL. Her great love is writing readers and she has been doing this for ELI for over 10 years. She works in partnership with the wonderful Argentinian artist, Gustavo Mazali and together they have written over 40 readers and won a number of nominations and awards in the Young Learner category of the Extensive Reading Foundation.

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