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Featured Session - International Conference 2015
An Intercultural Approach to Creativity in the Primary English Classroom
This interactive talk explores how teachers of primary-aged learners can use intercultural materials and activities to enable children to develop their creativity and English language skills. Ideas will be presented in relation to best practice in primary ELT and illustrated with practical and engaging examples, which have been used successfully in classrooms throughout the East Asia region.
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Invited Second Session
Doing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Primary English Language Programmes
This talk will explore age-appropriate approaches to enable teachers to incorporate equality, diversity, and inclusion when teaching primary English. We will consider creative ways to embed intercultural understanding and diversity in syllabus and task design via an outcomes-based methodology.
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Speaker Bio-Sketch
David Valente is an associate consultant for ELT Consultants www.elt-consultants.com based in Thailand. His specialisms are primary and secondary learners (ages 6 to 17). He has 17 years experience in ELT including teacher / trainer training for primary, secondary and vocational contexts and has authored teachers’ handbooks and numerous courses based around authentic materials. He has worked with Ministries of Education, publishers, private training institutes and education providers. He is Editor of the Children and Teenagers (C&TS) publication for the IATEFL YLT SIG and is also a Cambridge English Language Assessment Young Learner Extension to CELTA tutor / assessor.
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Speaker Online Materials
IATEFL YLT SIG C&TS. Digital Issue 1, 2015. Hot Topics in Teaching Children and Teenagers Special Feature: Doing Diversity in Language Programmes for Children and Teenagers, pp. 82-92.
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?EID=ef8bd251-42d...
David Valente’s participation in the 2015 Korea TESOL International Conference and English Expo is sponsored in part by IATEFL’s Young Learners & Teenagers Special Interest Group (IATEFL YLT SIG).
See the full list of Major Speakers at the KOTESOL International Conference and English Expo at http://koreatesol.org/ic2015/MajorSpeakers
