Nick Bilbrough shares the story of The Hands Up Project and how this award winning charity has used English language to build connections between children around the world, all via the platforms we are becoming so familiar with. Through opportunities of remote theatre and presentations, learners develop their interpersonal skills in a truly meaningful way. Nick will share some examples from five years developing in this field and look at ways in which your own school may like to be involved.
Read MoreThis talk presents a case study looking at the teacher interaction, use of technology and CPD generated from the videoconferencing-mediated co-teaching of refugee children in Gaza.
Speaker(s): Maricarmen Gamero
Date: 4 April, 2019 - 11:05 Europe/London
Duration: 30 minutes
Read MoreThis plenary talk reviews and challenges some of the major developments in the teaching of EFL since the mid-sixties.
Read MoreNick Bilbrough esteve envolvido no ensino de línguas por mais de vinte anos, em diversos países do mundo.Trabalhou em cursos de treinamento para professores de línguas e é orador regular em conferências ao redor do mundo. É o autor de dois livros da série Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers: Dialogue Activities (2007) e Memory Activities for Language Learning (2011).
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Recorded Sunday 4 November 2018
Read MoreRead Haneen and Nick’s article in IATEFEL voices
Read MoreFive girls from Khan Younis, Gaza go to the UK to perform their play 'Inner Thoughts' at the first Hands up Project conference in London. This was their prize for winning the first Hands up Project playwriting competition.
Read MoreThe EL Gazette is a free publication for language teachers anywhere in the world. You can read Nick's article "Many Hands, Light Work" about the innnovative team teaching going on in the Hands Up project here.
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