Young Learner conference reports

In addition our very own Wendy Arnold has summarised many Young-Learner-related talks below. These are for the benefit of (and restricted to) members of Young Learners Special Interest Group

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IATEFL Annual Conference 2006

• Critical approaches to culture in English Language Teaching
  Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina
  

• Learning from the Vietnam experience: implementing a YL programme
  Jaynee Moon
  

• The glass bead game:killing 25 birds with 2 stones
  Andrew Sheehan – Chile
  

• Multiple Intelligence
  Bonnie Tsui
  

• A different ball game
  Penny Ur

IATEFL Annual Conference 2006 Pre-Conference Event: Content and Language Integrated Learning.

Video recordings:

IATEFL Annual Conference 2005

• YLsig PRE CONFERENCE EVENT and 20th Birthday, Tuesday 5 th April, 2005

•  Wendy Arnold's comments – Pulling the threads together

• Plenary – Alison Wray – Idiomaticity in an L2 – linguistic processing as a predictor of success - 6th April, 2005

• YLsig programme – Carol Read – Scaffolding children's talk and learning - 6th April, 2005

• Kari Smith (Oranim Academic College of Education , Israel ) who presented 'Standards - accept or reject?' - 6th April, 2005

• Janet Orr – Trends in young learner EFL curriculum content - 6th April, 2005

• Leni Dam and Lienhard Legenhausen – Developing learner autonomy with young learners  - 6th April, 2005

• Caroline Nixon – Ants in their pants, how to have fun teaching fidgets (strategies) - 6th April, 2005

• Over exposure – using a digital camera in the YL classroom by Andy Jackson  - 6th April, 2005

• Plenary Rod Bolitho – British ELT and the mainstream – the legacy of the late 20 th century - 7th April, 2005

• Kay Bentley – Eventually I will figure out – a YL speaks - 7th April, 2005

• Otha Madylus – Effective classroom Management for YL - 7th April, 2005

• Caroline Linse and Fran Gamboa – Using and creating big books for the YL classroom - 7th April, 2005

• David Marsh, David Graddol, Gisella Lange – Learning English or learning in English – will we have a choice? - 8th April, 2005

• Vivienne Yu – How reading strategies affect success in extensive reading - 8th April. 2005

• Trevor Doble – The classroom assistants projects – a Spanish success story - 8th April, 2005

• Su-Chuan Liang ( Taiwan ) – Young learners and vocabulary – a study of word attack strategies - 8th April, 2005

• Peter Bendell – Slippery Rules- 8th April, 2005

• Symposium – materials - 9th April, 2005

• Co-ordinator: Alan Maley

• 5 panel members: Irma-Kaarina Ghosn ( Lebanon ), Brian Tomlinson ( England ), Laila Rumsey, Salam Affouneh & Tarek Ibrahim Hamada (UAE), Carmen Wilson ( Brazil ) and Jayakaran Mukundan ( Malaysia )