41st Annual Conference Aberdeen 2007

Plenary Speakers

Guy Cook, Agnes Enyedi, Mike Sharwood Smith And Maggie Farrar
View Mike Sharwood Smith's presentation online

IATEFL / British Council Aberdeen Online

For the first time IATEFL and the British Council worked together to enable teacher audiences worldwide to participate via the internet and get a taste of what happened over the five days of the annual IATEFL conference. Our interactive web coverage included:

• video and audio recordings of some of the presentations and workshops
• interviews with presenters and delegates
• text reports from the event via a dedicated website
• online special interest forums running alongside the main conference programme
• daily blogs from roving reporters supported by IATEFL and the British Council ELTeCS Scheme

Registration and participation is open to all, starting Wednesday 11th April. For more details on how to get started, visit:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/iatefl2007

Poster Presentations At Aberdeen

Three of the poster presentations from Aberdeen are available to be downloaded

Vocabulary retention in foreign language - Birsen Tutunis, EFL teachers' awareness of ESP in teacher education in Japan - Shigeru Sasajima and Teaching literacy through phonics to YLs in an FL context - Mandana Arfa Kaboodvand

Aberdeen 2007

Aberdeen has many names: The Granite City, The Oil Capital of Europe, The Silver City by the Golden Sands and The Floral City. Each name gives a hint of a special feature. For Aberdeen, Scotland's third city, has many buildings made of granite, one of the hardest and most enduring stones ( Examples are, the turreted Town House, the Citadel and Marischal College).

The discovery of off-shore oil has brought many cultures and nationalities here. Aberdeen is a cosmopolitan metropolis with two universities, a 5 star Maritime Museum and restaurants, coffee shops and tea rooms aplenty.

There's a fine white sand beach less than a mile from the city centre and Aberdeen has won the 'Britain in Bloom' contest many times. Aberdeen-Grampian is stuffed full of castles, coastal roads, golf courses and of course good fishing and whisky! It was a very interesting place for us all to be!