Guidelines for Presenters

The SPELT International conferences provide productive and exciting opportunities for professional development in interactive and innovative sessions. The conferences also provide excellent opportunities for networking and sharing ideas with teachers all over Pakistan. Thus, SPELT International Conferences are unique opportunities to classroom practitioners to learn and share. Proposals are being invited on classroom practices, research in language teaching and learning and their relationship with each other.

 

Contributions can be related to any area, or issue in EFL/ESL including:

• teaching the four skills

• testing and evaluation

• teaching language through literature

• teaching/learning in large classes

• teacher training, education, and/or development 

• teaching young learners

• classroom management techniques

• learning strategies/learner-centred teaching

• research in progress

The following types of presentations are being solicited:

a) Paper: (50 minutes) which includes 15 minute question/answer time. It discusses something that the presenter is doing or has done in relation to either theory or practice. Handouts and audio-visual aids are used to illustrate the presenter's ideas.

b) Workshop: (50 minutes or 1 hr 50 minutes) The workshop leader should use very little lecturing. The workshop should emphasize on participants' activities (in groups or pairs) helping participants solve a problem or develop a specific teaching technique. Step by step procedure of the workshop alongwith a short description of activities should be outlined.

c) Demonstration: (50 minutes) A demonstration is used for showing rather than telling a technique for teaching or testing with only a brief (not more than 5 minutes) reference to the underlying theory. Handouts and audio-visual aids may be used for exposition of the activities.

d) Colloquium: (50 minutes or 1 hr 50 minutes) A colloquium provides both short formal presentations and participant discussion. It is an opportunity for group presentations in which issues, ideas and techniques can be discussed and shared.

e) Poster Session: With display of teaching materials/visual aids or project(s) in progress, the presenter(s) informally share experiences with participants.

 

While writing the paper/workshop outline please keep the following points in mind:

1. In general, presentations should be based on practical classroom experiences as far as possible.

2. All sources of ideas and references should be acknowledged.

3. The paper/workshop outline should

a) be typed in double space.

b) have the title, the presenter(s) name and the name of institution and telephone/contact number.

c) be proofread for typing/other errors

 

The last date for submission of abstract is July 30th, 2000.