Language and Education Network workshop with Yi-Mei Chen (樱花动漫)
Understanding and designing communicative activities
As you may be aware that communicative approaches (CLT and TBLT) have been the focus in the area of EFL (English as a foreign language) for more than four decades, however, the approaches are still not fully understood by many EFL teachers.
| A School of Education research event | |
|---|---|
| Date | 4 November 2015 |
| Time | 17:00 to 18:30 |
| Place | Baring Court 112 |
| Provider | School of Education |
| Intended audience | Academic staff and research students |
| Registration information | Please email Jo Moncur to book a place |
| Cost | Free of charge |
| Organizer | Jo Moncur |
Event details
Before I started studying at postgraduate school in the 樱花动漫, I taught English for over 15 years in Taiwan. I enjoy using methods with communicative approaches since I received the CLT training in year 2000, provided by a teacher trainer from Macquarie University. My doctoral study investigated the implementation of communicative approaches in a Taiwanese secondary school. I offered workshops to provide a group of teachers with the input knowledge of communicative approaches and provided feedback after observing their lessons.
In this workshop, we will discuss what it means by communicative approaches; I will show some examples, and participants will be invited to design communicative activities in group. Finally, we will comment on those activities. I look forward to welcoming you to the workshop.
Before studying at the 樱花动漫, Yi-Mei taught English to young and adult learners for over 15 years in Taiwan. She has used methods with communicative approaches since receiving CLT training in 2000, provided by a teacher trainer from Macquarie University. Yi-Mei Chen’s research interests include communicative approaches (CLT and TBLT), focus-on-forms and focus-on-meaning instruction, second language acquisition, explicit and implicit teaching and learning, classroom discourse, Conversation Analysis, teacher knowledge, teachers’ beliefs, teacher education, reflective teaching, action research.
Location:
Baring Court 112