Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Oct. 12-15 2012, Act City, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
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Marcos will present several unreleased ELT coursebook materials, and explain how he conceived them. These materials are under various stages of completion, from
soon to be commercially released, to own-classroom-use only, to being on indefinite hold. They will serve as catalysts to discuss ELT materials development, including the importance of classroom trials, editorial control
and censorship, the role of methods and theory, the impact of emerging technologies, thoughts on the industry's future, etc.
Bio:
Marcos Benevides is a Japan-based teacher and writer of ELT materials. He is
co-author of the critically acclaimed Widgets: A task-based course in
practical English (Pearson, 2008). His second title, Fiction in Action:
Whodunit (Abax, 2010), is the first Japan-produced work to win the English
Speaking Union's prestigious Duke of Edinburgh Book Award, and is currently
shortlisted for the British Council's Cambridge International Award for
Innovation (the "ELTons", to be announced on Feb 23rd). He teaches at J. F.
Oberlin University in Tokyo, and blogs at
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