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Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers

Tesol EVO Sessions: January 9th 2012 - February 11th 2012 

Join us for online conversations with passionate & committed members of
YLTSIG working with Young Learners and Teenagers

Wendy Arnold - Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto - Nik Peachey - Marie Delaney - Charles Goodger - Susan Hillyard

Stephen Krashen - Graham Stanley - Alexander Sokol - Hans Mol - Niki Joseph (see bios here)

Session Description

The  IATEFL Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest group (YLTSIG)  is really pleased to invite you to join  its EVO  session for 2012. Over the five week session we invite you to join us in one of the best virtual staffrooms online.

YLTSIG members,  all well-known dynamic members of the English Language Learning Community, will be joining us to share their particular expertise on a wide variety of subjects. Participants will be able to discuss and share experiences, ideas, thoughts through the regular online meetings,special needs, difficult pupils, very young learners ... all just part of the programme.

See our presenter list here >

Objectives

By the end of the five week session participants will have:

• joined the session's special Yahoo group discussion forum.. 
• practiced using the online platform Adobe Connect. 
• participated in the online meetings. For participants not able to make a particular meeting, recordings will be online shortly after ech event is over.. 
• joined in the email discussions with the presenters, who will be available for all sorts of questions and discussion both immediately after their presentations and for a number of days afterwards.. 
• connected with other educators from around the world, who are all passionate about English language teaching especially to Young Learners and Teens. 

Target Audience

All those involved with or interested in the Teaching of English to Young Learners and Teenagers. 

We are hoping that participants will have basic internet communication skills (emails, browsing online). Practice sessions and tutorials will be available for the online platform used for the sessions. It is advisable for participants to have a headset with microphone for the session (a very cheap one will be fine!) and if you are too shy to speak you will still be able to "chat" i.e. write.

Weekly Outline

Week 1 (Jan 9th - Jan ...)

This first week will be devoted to meeting participants and moderators and getting familiar with the tools to be used during the session : Yahoo Groups, Twitter, Adobe Connect. Participants will be invited to introduce themselves and exchange via email or online sessions.

Weeks 2 - 5  

Each week will have two special guests. Participants will be able to prepare for the sessions as our guests will provide pre-reading or viewing before the session.

After the session, participants will be invited to discuss with the presenter via the Yahoo group email.

Big efforts will be made to vary the times of the sessions, in order to accommodate participants from around the globe, but we are of course dependant on the busy schedules of our guests.

In case participants cannot make it to a session, a recording will be made available. This means that participants will always be able to join in the online email discussion, whatever their time zone or personal commitments.

A full and detailed programme will be made available nearer to kick off.

Meet the Moderators

	Dennis Newson M.A. (Cantab), P.D.E.S.L (Leeds) taught EFL in Africa, Arabia, Norway and Germany in middle schools, secondary schools, teacher training colleges, a technical university and an arts university. He was a consultant for short periods in Bosnia and Kosovo, and conferences have taken him to Poland, Hungary, Las Palmas, Russia and England. He has developed his interest in SL since his alleged retirement. He is also a member of the Iatefl GISIG committee (global issues), the YLTSIG committee and moderator of the YLTSIG online discussion list and online events. He  did his first EVO session as a co-moderator for a project about teaching foreign languages in Second Life.
	ffinlo Kilner I am the Academic Manager of a company that provides language holidays for teenagers and children around the UK. I am also (new) co-editor of the IATEFL YLT Sig C&TS (Children & Teenagers) magazine. I trained as a graphic designer and worked for a number of years in brand and web design as well as taught in UK primary schools as part of the creative curriculum project where artists work with classes and their teacher on art-based projects. I have also been an EFL teacher since 1986, working mostly in language schools in Europe and the UK (I know!) but have only just reappeared on grid after three years rearing pigs, sheep and hens on a smallholding on the Welsh border. I now live in Cornwall, England. I hold a PGCE in Further Education as well as RSA Diploma.        Email: ffinlo@sul-schools.com
	Helen Davies I'm Helen Davies, currently living and working in France. I  work as an English teacher in state schools and have worked with young learners, special needs pupils and teens. I'm also involved in teacher training for primary school teachers.  I'm very happy to have just finished my Masters in online language learning and am passionnate about using technology with my pupils. As a member of the YLTSIG committee with Dennis and ffinlo, we have been trying to increase and improve our group's online activity.

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