On Monday 18 April 2011, on the penultimate day of the IATEFL Annual Conference in Brighton, England, approximately 250 people crammed into a hot and sweaty room. Four speakers, three hours, one moderator, and no powerpoint. The next few posts will attempt to summarize a rich and often heated event. Scott Thornbury opened proceedings and […]
Month: April 2011
The Road to Brighton Pier (is paved with good intentions…)
I am sitting on a coach at the moment, being chauffeured down to Brighton for the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) Conference, which is due to start tomorrow with the Special Interest Group (SIG) Pre-Conference Events (PCEs) – if there is one thing that our profession isn’t short of, […]