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ReSIG: Teacher Research and for the Global South Online Conference

Ahead of the IATEFL International Conference in Belfast, this IATEFL Research SIG conference focuses on ‘Teacher Research and/for the Global South’.

The event will feature plenary sessions, poster presentations by teachers and teacher mentors involved in teacher research, and a panel discussion of specialists from countries in the Global South who will problematise and debate the concept of ‘Global South’. The event will be held online with the purpose to make it as inclusive and accessible as possible, particularly for the Global South participation.

 

Prof Rama Mathew is Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Delhi, and a former Dean. Previously she taught at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, where she was involved in English-language education with a specific focus on language teacher education and assessment for more than 20 years. She has worked as Project Director of many national and international projects focusing on teacher development and language assessment. Her current research interests include teaching English to adult and young learners, continuing professional development, and proficiency assessment, including online assessment.

Panel discussion

Eric Ekembe holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon and holds a tenure position as lecturer in the above discipline at the Higher Teacher Training College, Yaoundé. He has presented papers at international conferences and was the plenary speaker for the ReSIG & GISIG 2019 joint PCE event in Africa TESOL conference in Abuja. He runs the CAMELTA Research Group. He has been Seasonal TEFL trainer for the American Peace Corps in Cameroon and has equally been TESOL International conference proposal reviewer for three years respectively. Eric’s research interest is postcolonial discourse in ELT. He has published research articles in internationally peered-reviewed journals and is co-editor of Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century Global Dispensation: Research in Language, Literature, & Education in Africa.

Mariana Serra is a teacher and a licentiate in English. She holds a diploma in E-learning and distance learning and she is attending an MA Program. For professional development purposes, she has studied in the USA and Spain. She was one of the winners of Aptis for Teachers Action Research Awards (British Council) in 2015 and was selected again, for a different project, in 2016-2017. For over ten years she has worked in universities and secondary schools teaching English as a FL and she has worked as a Head of Department mentoring teachers for several years. Her interests are in Applied Linguistics and Materials Development.

Prem Phyak is an applied linguist and a teacher educator, with research interests in language policy, multilingualism, language ideology, critical pedagogy, teacher identity/agency and social justice in language education. He has pursued M.Ed. in English Language Education from Tribhuvan University (Nepal), MA TESOL from the UCL Institute of Education (UK) and PhD in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA). Prem has extensive experiences of working with teachers, policy makers, students, and parents on a wide range of topics such as course development, teacher training, and multilingual education, particularly in under-resourced contexts. Currently, Prem teaches at the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.


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Event details

Event type:

SIG Event
Research

Date:

30/04/2022 - 10:00 until 30/04/2022 - 17:00 UK time

Fees:

IATEFL member 5GBP
Non member 10GBP

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