ELT 5

PLENARY SESSION: SUCCESS WITH TEACHING

Balancing real world content with imagination and creativity

SPEAKER: JEFF STRANKS by Cambridge University Press

As students grow and develop through significant changes in their lives, their psychological needs develop and change also.

In this presentation Jeff Stranks looks at how our teaching must reflect these changes by providing different challenges to our students. The talk contains demonstrations of a number of practical ways of how effective teaching can be provided by applying the latest findings in cognitive psychology to the classroom.

Jeff Stranks holds the RSA DTEFLA and has a Masters degree in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. He has extensive experience in ELT as a teacher and as a teacher trainer, principally in the UK with the Bell Schools, and in Brazil with Cultura Inglesa Rio de Janeiro. He is an assessor for the Cambridge ESOL DELTA examination.

Currently a freelance writer, Jeff has several titles published in Europe and is co-author with Herbert Puchta of the highly successful series English in Mind with CUP.