41st International Annual IATEFL Conference & Exhibition
Dates
April 18 to 22, 2007
Venue
Aberdeen, Scotland
Plenary speakers
*Guy Cook, professor of applied linguistics, University of Reading, UK
Guy Cook has worked as an EFL teacher in Egypt, Italy, the UK, and Russia, as a lecturer at the University of Leeds, and as head of TESOL at the London University Institute of Education. He has published widely on discourse analysis, the theory and practice of language teaching, literature teaching, translation, and language play.
*Professor Mike Sharwood Smith, School of Management and Languages, Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mike Sharwood Smith has taught linguistics, applied linguistics, second language acquisition studies and English as a Second Language in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in various countries. He is currently involved in the teaching of linguistics and advanced EFL and is assisting in the translation and interpreting programme.
*Maggie Farrar, assistant director, National College of School Leadership (NCSL), University of Nottingham, UK
Background information
IATEFL stands for the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. The mission is to link, develop and support English languageteaching professionals throughout the world.
IATEFL was founded in the UK in 1967 and now has over 3,500 members in 100 different countries all over the world.
IATEFL holds its International Annual Conference & Exhibition every spring. It is attended by around 1,500 ELT professionals from over 70 countries. It involves a 4-day programme with over 300 talks, workshops and symposiums, allowing particpants to see the latest ELT publications and services in a large resources exhibition involving around 70 ELT related exhibitors.
For more information, please go to www.iatefl.org/conference.
