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What a fantastic conference! What a receptive audience! A great weekend…thanks to everyone who helped organise the conference and who attended! If you missed the information on the OHTs in the plenary, click here: {{link https:/PDFs/OHTs_plenary.doc Plenary OHTs}} For some

It’ll be a great pleasure to present at this conference Saturday 29 April, in Sibiu Sessions are: Plenary Controversies in language teaching I will examine three “controversies” in language teaching: 1. The course book conundrum 2. Teaching grammar 3. The

As I’m sure everyone is now aware the BBC have been adding more and more radio programmes to their podcasting “experiment”. One of the most recent additions is the BBC World News Bulletin. This is a five minute summary of

Hi all just a big thanks to everyone who helped make this event so successful at IATEFL in Harrogate – Miranda Hamilton, Caroline Moore and Dr Gilly Salmon the three wonderful speakers and panellists, Max de Lotbiniere from the Guardian

Just to say that it was great meeting everyone at the British Council conference in Bologna and the TESOL conference in Madrid. In case you missed the {{link https:/PDFs/bologna__handout.doc Handout}}, just click on the link!

What do YOU think about technology in ELT? Do you use it? What will happen in the future> In order to vote in advance of the IATEFL conference debate on technology, just visit: {{link http://www.onestopenglish.com/survey/q.asp?sid=94&k=cmngpldtrb Guardian Weekly / OneStopEnglish debate}}

For information on The Guardian Weekly and OneStopEnglish debate on the “Learner of the Future” at IATEFL next month, visit: {{link http://www.onestopenglish.com/IATEFLdebate.htm IATEFL debate}} I look forward to seeing you there!

It was most pleasant to take a trip down memory land last Thursday, presenting at d’Overbroeck’s College 6th Form, the site of the former Swan school. Thanks to organiser Helen Wood. It was lovely to see H.A. again :-) The

Have just added another little 3-page “how to”. This time for the OBED CD-ROM. If you haven’t bought it, have a look at Pete’s {{link https:/pages/mat4teach/cd/cd_OBED.htm review}}. If you already have this fine book and CD-ROM, you can down the

The first 2006 issue of the BESIG magazine Business Issues is now out. The lead article is about Corpus Linguistics and Business English. On the Internet / CD-ROM page, Barney Barrett describes new ideas for searching, and there is also