Convention 2019

 




TESOL-SPAIN 42nd Annual National Convention
8-10 March, 2019, Oviedo, Asturias

 






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Plenary speakers
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Opening Plenary

JJ Wilson  

You can watch his plenary again in our You Tube channel. 


Saturday Plenary

David Marsh




 


Closing Plenary

Teresa Ting

You can watch her plenary again in our You Tube channel. 



 


JJ Wilson

Biodata

JJ Wilson is the writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University, USA. He teaches classes in ESL Methods, Linguistics, Publication, and Creative Writing. He has co-authored several ELT courses, including Total English, and Speakout, which won the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union prize and was shortlisted for an ELTons award. His methodology book, How to Teach Listening, also won an English Speaking Union prize. JJ writes fiction under the name JJ Amaworo Wilson. His novel, Damnificados, won three awards, and was included on Oprah’s Top 10 list. JJ has lived in 10 countries and trained teachers in 30.

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David Marsh

Biodata

David Marsh has contributed to the development of education in Finland over 25 years, alongside being involved with developing transformative educational processes in Asia, Europe the Middle East and North America.  He co-launched Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the 1990s, has contributed to over 150 publications, and received 5 degrees from the United Kingdom, Finland and Spain. He is currently developing competence-based English language learning pathways that combine CLIL with transversals across the curriculum. These are being developed to enable change management in historically low-attainment contexts. His current work-in-progress is The Children of Cyberspace: Towards a New Understanding, due for publication in 2019.

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Teresa Ting

Biodata

Teresa harnesses knowledge regarding how rats’ brains learn in laboratories (holds PhD in Neuroscience) to design materials for teaching complex content to students in classrooms. CLIL-materials she developed received the 2013 ELTon’s Award. These materials and their theoretical underpinnings have been used in CLIL teacher-training courses (Pilgrims, Bell, Universities of Vienna, Madrid etc.) and developing additional CLIL-materials (e.g. in the CUP “Talent” series, 2018). She is a tenured Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Calabria, Italy.

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Learn more about the speakers

Daniela Avello García    Steve Oaks   Borja Uruñuela    Sebastian Paredes    Chris Roland

C
hris Kuntz    Emilia Carballo     Charlotte Giller   Karen McDonald    Oscar González Cabo

Rebecca Place   Ceri Jones    Michelle Guerrini
 

Video Interviews


Elena Vercher Ribis, First-Time Speaker Grant winner
Daniela Avelló, winner of TESOL-SPAIN Global Grant for speakers from Africa, Asia or Latin America
Ryan Gornall, winner of ROBIN DE ANDRÉS GRANT (presentations relevant to infant, primary and secondary education in Spain). Read the blog entry on his experience at the Convention.
Nicole Alonge and Shawn Redwood, Comillas Pontifical University 
Teresa TingUniversity of Calabria, Italy. Plenary speaker 



Handouts and PPT Presentations

Sebastián Paredes    Charlotte Giller  PPPresentation    Emilia Carballo    Gerard McLoughlin

Birgit Strotmann and Ana Isabel Díaz Garrido    Karen Muckey    Rebecca Place PPPresentation 

Karen McDonald PPPresentation    Michelle Guerrini    Hilary Plass PPPresentation 

Dianne Excell PPPresentation    Dave Tucker    Amanda McLoughlin    Johanna Sterling

Michèle Rankin


Session previews

Steve Oaks    Donna Fields    Oscar González Cabo