Written by: Rachel Tsateri Did you attend the 2nd Inter-ELTA members’ day online event? It was a great opportunity for all Germany ELTAs members to meet, network and share ideas for best practices. There was a plenary talk by Ian McMaster, 3 PechaKuchas, and roundtable discussions, as well as hands-on workshops. In this post, Tom […]
Happy New Year from ELTAS!
Happy New Year from ELTAS! Wishing all Eltas members and visitors a happy, healthy and inspiring 2022! We’re pleased to announce that Eltas members Cate Jakszta and Rachel Tsateri will be regularly sharing teaching tips and ideas from ELT on the Eltas blog. Originally from the U.K., About Cate: She taught in Japan for eleven […]
ELTAS CHRISTMAS EVENT on 4th DECEMBER 2021
Luckily, this year the ELTAS Christmas Event on 4th December could finally take place face-to-face at the International School of Management (ISM), Maybachstraße 20 in Stuttgart. We all enjoyed this new venue very much! Before celebrating Christmas accompanied by Andy Yarahmadi’s amazing “The End Game Band“, we had a very interesting swap shop with Katrin […]
IATEFL BESIG Conference 2021 Review
At IATEFL BESIG conference 2021 on agile retrospectives practice at an iteration end, was a tour through key aspects of business English as a discipline today.
A look at Pedagogical Approaches to the Teaching of Formulaic Language (FL)
A look at Pedagogical Approaches to the Teaching of Formulaic Language (FL) Written by: Rachel Tsateri Recently, I attended a great webinar, organised by the IATEFL Research SIG. The presenter was Dr Ana Pellicer-Sanchez and the topic was: Pedagogical approaches to the teaching of formulaic language (FL). In this post I’ll provide a short summary […]
Review of Pearson’s Wendy Nash-Steer Workshop
In this review of Pearson’s Wendy Nash-Steer workshop, it was refreshing, enjoyable and very interactive time about tips and tricks for online teaching: Zoom with “Boom.” The workshop participants had a lot of interesting discussions in the breakout rooms about their individual experience with online teaching, their favourite tools, success and failures as well as […]
ELTAS’ Tim Phillips Workshop Review on September 18, 2021
In ELTAS’ Tim Phillips workshop, there were two reasons to look forward to this event on September 18, 2021. The first was that the workshop by Timothy Phillips titled “Practical approaches to integrating soft skills development in your teaching and training” was sure to be interesting and enlightening. The second was that it was the […]
Eltas meets “offline”!
It was fantastic to finally meet in person at Tim Phillip’s workshop “Practical approaches to integrating soft skills development in your teaching and training” on September 18th at ISM’s spanking new venue in Maybachstrasse. After an afternoon of learning and exchanging, we did some catching up at while chowing down at a nearby Chinese restaurant. […]
Member’s review of Rachel Paling’s workshop
On Saturday July 17th, 2021, ELTAS hosted a workshop by Rachel Paling, “Transforming grammar through Neurolanguage Coaching Conversations” The participants, from ELTAS and partner organizations from around Germany, included people who had already taken Rachel’s training courses, as well as people like me who were coming to Neurolanguage Coaching for the first time. Rachel explained […]
Sunny solutions on a summery afternoon
Written by: Andrea Vogt-Nas Our joint ELTAS/ELTAF venture hosted another of Patricia de Griese’s workshops on Saturday, 12 June: “Dealing with difficult students” Despite the summery weather a number of ELTA members across Germany took part in the online event. Prior to starting, participants had the possibility for a quick chat in the teachers’ lounge. […]
May 2021 Committee Update
May 2021 Committee Update Recently, at the Annual General Meeting on May 14th (online), long-term committee member Koi Burkhart was voted in to take over the treasurer and membership secretary position from Ingrid Abele who has done a fantastic job in this key role for so many years. Ingrid is working closely with Koi to […]
“100 days a chair” by Andy Vogt-Nas, Chair
Chairman. The term originated in Britain in the Middle Ages. The Lord or Baron sat on an elaborately decorated chair while others sat on plain benches. As furniture was scarce, the chair and other furniture were transported to his different properties as and when he visited them. The term Chairman of the Board as in […]
A short review of Bob Dignen’s workshop
Written by: Katrin Beringer Thanks to the announcement on our ELTAS website I attended the online workshop “A hands-on approach to soft skills and leadership development for ELT professionals” with Bob Dignen on 17th April. Hosts were our sister organisations from Ulm and Berlin – it was a highlight and one of the many examples […]
TTEdSIG Teacher Training On May 1st!
Join IATEFL Teacher Training and Education SIG for this exciting and useful one-day online conference on 1 May 2021 (free of charge) https://www.iatefl.org/events/221
Book review: On Point B1 Pre-intermediate English
Reviewed by Karin Scheffold-Mokler Title: On Point B1 Pre-intermediate English Authors: Louis and Cathy Rogers Publisher: Delta Publishing, 2020 ISBN: 978-3-12-501263-9 Copyright: Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH, Rotebühlstraße 77, 70178 Stuttgart Overview: This new course book offers a refreshing and very well-structured innovative course consisting of the course book itself and a workbook plus audios online. […]
The Rationale behind LC in Business English for Adult Learners/Tertiary Education with Gabriella Kov...
ELTAS Saturday Online Workshop, 13th March, 2021 Reviewed by Michelle Hunter Gabriella Kovács inspired us with her enthusiasm for and commitment to a coach-approach to language teaching. Her stated mission: to call attention to a more holistic, person-centred approach which adds dimension to ongoing language learning practices. In our short time together, Gabriella presented […]
Adding Value to Your Work Using Language Coaching with Gabriella Kovács
Nearly marking an anniversary for online workshops at ELTAS, on March 15, we hosted Gabriella Kovács on the Rationale behind LC in Business English for Adult Learners/Tertiary Education. In this online workshop, Gabriella introduced our members to the value that coaching can add to their work and some tools for getting started as a Language […]
First committee meeting of 2021
Written by: Nicole Heusser What takes three hours and about fifteen minutes, is extremely productive and takes place online? Yes, you are right, it was our first committee meeting of the year. Last Saturday, the new committee met for the first time. Andy VN, our new chair, started the meeting with an icebreaker activity. She […]
An interview with Katrin Beringer
Written by: Rebecca Sprengel Ever tried to herd cats? Well our former chair, Katrin Beringer, was expert at it using all her people skills, tact and humour. This month’s article is dedicated to Katrin who I had the pleasure of interviewing. Katrin, you will be deeply missed. Why and when did you choose to […]
AGM on 5 February 2021
Written by: Nicole Heusser No, unfortunately we are nowhere back to normal. This is why our Annual General Meeting was held online for the first time in the history of ELTAS! Despite the unusual location, the meeting went on as normal. After a warm welcome from our leaving chair Katrin, the chair of the AGM […]
Fossilisation, Reflection & Learning Strategies
Fossilisation, ‘the long term persistence of plateaus of non-target-like structures in the interlanguage of nonnative speakers’ (Selinker and Lakshmanan, 1992, p.197) refers to the idea that a learner’s interlanguage system reaches a point where the development of some or all of their interlanguage forms ceases, without having reached a native-like state. As I said in […]
