Thursday 31 October 2013
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Sunday 27 October 2013
OUR PLENARY SPEAKERS
Plenary I - Simon Etherton, British
Council, Chennai
The employability
skills toolbox: Is English the Key?
Simon
Etherton is the Senior Training
Consultant for the British Council South India supporting the planning and
implementation of State Partnership teacher education programmes in Karnataka,
Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Previously Simon has worked as the Head of English
Training for the Ministry of Education in Oman and as a lecturer at the
University of Exeter in the UK. Areas of specialism include initial literacy,
practitioner research and teacher knowledge.
Plenary II - Dr.
Ramani, P.N. ELT
Consultant, Chennai
ESL
Classroom to Workplace - Preparing Learners for the Transition
Dr. P.N Ramani, ELT
specialist, curriculum developer, teacher trainer, ELT administrator and
quality assurance expert in the higher education sector, is currently a
freelance ELT/English Studies consultant in Chennai. A teacher with over
40 years of experience mostly at the tertiary level, author of several ELT course
books and research papers, and content head for a set of educational CD-ROMs
for learning English at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels, he has
initiated and implemented curricular reforms in ELT in India and the Middle
East, guided research at M. Phil. and doctoral levels as well as the Master's
level, evaluated PhD and MPhil dissertations/theses, and has been a ‘Reader’
and reviewer of quality audit portfolios (i.e., self-study reports) of higher
education institutions in Oman.
Plenary-III:
Michelle Stabler-Havener, Regional English Language
Office (RELO)
Teaching
Oral English for Employability Using Communicative Language Techniques
Plenary IV – Shefali Kulkarni, British Council, Chennai
Communicating effectively
through English: the confidence conundrum
Shefali
Kulkarni works as a Senior Teacher Trainer with the British Council. She has
extensive experience in teaching at all levels and teacher training. She has
worked as a corporate trainer for more than 13 years. She is interested in
learner autonomy and inclusive education.
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