Language Teaching Conference 2025

Presentation

The 11th ELCT 2020 took place on Tuesday 30th June 2020 between 6pm and 7pm BST. The 2020 conference was a short evening event in form of a Zoom workshop.

‘A taster in Sophrology: bringing calm and balance in daily life’ with Sandrine Singleton Perrin.

Sophrology is a mind-body training system based on a realistic attitude to the challenges of modern everyday life, which can help us to increase our sense of wellbeing and relieve stress and anxiety, even during crisis times such as the current one.

Sandrine is a former Essex colleague in the Department of Language and Linguistics. She taught French at university level for many years, but has decided to hang up her 'teaching shoes' to train as a sophrologist.

• View the presentation notes (.ppt) from the event

Programme

• Programme (.pdf)

Workshops

• Language, identity and accent (.pdf) - Ella Jeffries
• African languages: From Cape to Cairo, via Colchester (.pdf) - Hannah Gibson
• Swahili taster session hand-out (.pdf) - Hannah Gibson
• A short introduction to signed languages (.pdf) - Laurel Lawyer
• Re-learning a childhood language (.pps) - Monika Schmid
• White Paper: Primary Languages Policy in England (.pps) - Florence Myles

Programme

• Programme (.pdf)

Workshops

• The ups and downs of language profiency (.pps) - Monika Schmid
• Reviving language profiency (.pdf) - Yuni Kim
• Speech monitoring in language production - the effect of anxiety (.pdf) -  Nan Zhao
• Teaching with heart and soul (.pdf) - Christina Gkonou
• Podcasts: making speaking fun - a practical workshop (.pdf) - Emma Hopper
• Confidently using literature in language teaching: Teachers' perceptions and students' voices (.pdf) & Literature example (.pdf) - Neophytos Mitsigkas
• Why bilingualism matters and goes beyond knowing two languages (.pdf) - Florence Myles
• Round Table for primary language teachers (.pdf) - Florence Myles and Angela Tellier

Programme

• Programme (.pdf)

Workshops

• 'Doing' literature in the language classroom (.pdf) - Dounia Bissar
• Making use of freewriting as a teaching tool (.pdf) - Tracey Costley
• Bilingualism and research studies in the classroom (.pdf) - Claire Delle Luche
• Supporting ML transition from primary to secondary school (.pdf) - Dr Marina Dixon
• Multi-level flipped classroom teaching (.pdf) - Emma Hopper
• Creative writing via online platform (.pdf) - Ignazia Posadinu

Programme

• Programme (.pdf)

Workshops

• The new GCSE (.pdf) and A-Level specifications (.pdf) - Rhona Thomson, AQA examination board
• From creative signs to creative writing (.pdf) - Emma Hopper
• Understanding teachers' emotional and social intelligence: Dr Christina Gkonou (the project is externally funded by the British Council and the findings have not yet been published).
• Using (digital) mind-maps for teaching vocabulary, translation and creative writing (.pdf) - Susanne Krauss
• Strategies for memorising vocabulary (.pdf) - Dr Phil Schofield
• Teaching translation (.pdf) - Stefanie Green, Farlingaye High School

Workshops

• Reading Aloud as a teaching and learning tool (.pdf) and text analysis (.pdf): Anni Müller
• The role of Memorised Phrases in language learning (.ppt): Professor Florence Myles
• Anxiety in foreign language learning and teaching: listening to students: (.ppt) Dr Christina Gkonou
• Creating Language Games (.ppt): Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss and Carla Marciano