TESOL-SPAIN 42nd Annual National Convention
8-10 March, 2019, Oviedo, Asturias
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Plenary speakers
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Opening Plenary
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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 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 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.
