Skill and sub-skill: making skills teachable, learnable and transferable
FREE TALK WITH JOHN HUGHES, “PERSONALISATION IN AN IMPERSONAL WORLD”.
27 June 2018
Venue: The Southern Regional Teachers’ Association
@ Anglo-Continental, Student Centre
29-35 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth BH2 6NA
This event was sponsored by:
ABOUT STEVE TAYLORE-KNOWLES
Steve Taylore-Knowles has spent almost two decades in ELT as a writer, a trainer, an examiner and a teacher. He has written a number of successful courses for adults, including Open Mind from Macmillan, which includes life skills as an integral part of the course. He regularly speaks at events throughout the world on various aspects of English language teaching and learning. Steve is now based in his native county of Lancashire in the north of England, where he lives with wife Jo and young daughter Scout.
Free workshop with Steve Taylore-Knowles
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
18.00- 20.00 hours
Venue: The Southern Regional Teachers’ Association
@ Anglo-Continental, Student Centre
29-35 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth BH2 6NA
Refreshments and a goodie bag will be provided!
This is event is sponsored by:
Our students need to develop skills of different kinds, from language skills to life skills. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll consider what’s involved in breaking these skills down into teachable and learnable chunks and how specific task sequences work to develop these skills.
About Steve Taylore-Knowles
Steve Taylore-Knowles has spent almost two decades in ELT as a writer, a trainer, an examiner and a teacher. He has written a number of successful courses for adults, including Open Mind from Macmillan, which includes life skills as an integral part of
the course. He regularly speaks at events throughout the world on various aspects of English language teaching and learning. Steve is now based in his native county of Lancashire in the north of England, where he lives with wife Jo and young daughter Scout.
Things to do with Reading Text
Free workshop with Dr Peter Watkins
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
In association with Cambridge University Press
This workshop will begin by looking at the place of reading in a language programme and what teachers believe about the teaching of reading. We will then move on to look at a range of very practical classroom activities that aim to promote not only reading skills, but also develop the learners’ awareness of discourse and language. The activities will be analyzed and evaluated, allowing us to build theory from classroom practice. Such theorisation of practice is seen as being key to teachers’ professional development.
About Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins has been involved in teacher education for many years, including both pre-service and in-service programmes. He is a currently the Course Leader for the MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His main research interests relate to teacher education and teacher education materials writing. His publications include Learning to Teach English (Delta Publishing, second edition 2014, first edition 2005), Cambridge English Teacher: Vocabulary and Pronunciation (Cambridge University Press, 2012),The CELTA Course Trainee Book and The CELTA Course Trainer’s Manual (both co-authored with Scott Thornbury, Cambridge University Press, 2007). He has also contributed frequently to English Teaching Professional.