We are happy to announce the Tim Phillips has fully recovered from this illness that forced him to cancel his workshop in January. He has rescheduled his workshop on Developing Learners’ 21st Century Skills to March 16th. Tim will be looking at the skills our learners require to enable them to survive and succeed in […]
AGM – the Committee has two new members!
The ELTAS Annual General Meeting was held after our workshop on the 19th January 2019. Chaired by Michelle Hunter, there were short presentations from all committee members on their role within the committee and our plans for 2019. Ingrid presented the ELTAS accounts for 2018 and all ELTAS members discharged the committee for last year. […]
First Workshop of 2019 was a great success!
Faced with a last minute change to a planned workshop with Tim Phillips (NGL) on 21st century skills, Andy Vogt-Nas stepped in to moderate an excellent interactive workshop on what to do when disaster strikes and you don’t have material to fall back on, with the title: “Oh no what a personal disaster to YESSS- […]
Change to planned workshop topic on Saturday January 19th followed by AGM
We have all experienced things not going to plan. Today, when Andy Vogt-Nas got a call from Tim Phillips (NGL) to say he was just too sick to give his workshop on Saturday, she came up with a great idea to ensure ELTAS doesn’t disappoint its members. This is an interactive workshop to find adhoc teaching solutions, […]
A very productive committee meeting in the Forum 3 cafe
On Saturday January 12, five members of the ELTAS committee met to discuss our next workshop and AGM this weekend. Half of the committee members were unable to attend due to illness or travel commitments, but we still had a very productive meeting in the Forum 3 café , a place we will go back […]
Developing Learners’ 21st Century Skills with Tim Phillips
Those of you who have been to a workshop presented by Tim Phillips know you are in for a treat, those who haven’t been to one of his workshops before, please come along. You will get lots of great ideas for the ELT classroom in 2019, there are still spaces available! Save the date! 19.01.2019 from […]
Happy 30th Anniversary Eltas!
Lots of smiles and laughter at ELTAS workshop and Xmas celebration
What a lovely way to finish off a year of successful ELTAS workshops! Geoff Tranter got us smiling and laughing out loud with his ideas on how to bring humour to the English classroom. He gave us lots of new things to try and some lesson ideas for classes in the run up to Christmas. […]
Teaching English to Sse Tschörmanns with Stefan Fodor
We had a full house at our workshop “Teaching English to Sse Tschörmans with Stefan Fodor” on October 20th. Members and guests enjoyed exploring similarities and differences in English and German. Many thanks to Stefan for sharing his insight and experience teaching both languages. Members can find Stefan’s slides in the Members only area after […]
ELTAS committee meeting – exciting plans for 2019
On Saturday, 13th October, the committee team met for the first time after the summer break. There was a lot to discuss and decide on! In November Karin and Kiara are going to attend the BESIG-conference in Iasi/Romania. I’m sure they’ll return with lots of ideas and names of speakers for future Workshops. Have you […]
Places still available for Stefan Fodor’s workshop on “ Teaching English to Sse Tschörmans”
In order to teach English effectively, we need to be aware of the similarities and differences between English and German for our German speaking students. In this workshop, Stefan will give us tips on speeding up the learning progress and on how to anticipate potential problems. Sign up today! Teaching English to Sse Tschörmans […]
Andy’s workshop presentation and notes now available to download
On the 29th September 2018, over 30 ELTAS members met to attend Andy’s workshop on phonological English with the creative title of “the slippery tongue’s articulate performance”. Andy shared her experience in this area and gave us an insight into how language is produced and then shared with us some games and activities to practice […]
Committee Meeting on July 29th
Committee members met in Stuttgart to discuss arrangements for upcoming events and other organizational issues. We’re exploring ways to make Eltas even stronger in the future and looking forward to 2019 when Eltas will celebrate its 30th year anniversary!
Materials from all day workshop in June now available to download!
Our two speakers at our all day workshop on June 9th, Rebecca Sprengel and Marjorie Rosenberg have sent us their slide presentations, These are now available to all our members. Just log on and check the MEMBERS ONLY section of this website to get access to all these materials. Alternatively click on this link: Slide Presentations Rebecca and Majorie […]
Link to Issue 262 of IATEFL Voices Magazine
Inside you will find articles, reviews, IATEFL news as well as a spotlight on Research SIG and the annual conference in Brighton 2018. Click here to read the latest edition of Voices
ELTAS magazine now available as .pdf
Most of our members should have received our ELTAS magazine by post. I think you will all agree it was a good read. We have now uploaded the .pdf Version in the members section. Please log in and go to the MEMBERS ONLY section of the Website and click on Eltas News.
Early bird registration for BESIG conference 2018 in Iasi/Romania
The early bird booking for the 31st Annual IATEFL BESIG Conference (16-18 Nov 2018) in Iasi, Romania has now opened and lasts until 1 September. After that, online booking will continue until 26 October. Visit http://besig.iatefl.org/event/iasi/for detailed information about the conference. All current IATEFL Associates – SPECIAL OFFER: IATEFL are once again offering a special […]
Workshop on September 29th followed by a tour of the library
We are happy to announce that Andy Vogt-Nas will be hosting our next workshop in September with the title: Phonological production of English – The slippery tongue’s articulate performance. With her background in psycholinguistics, she an expert on language production and with her help, we will look into speech production and how errors are made. […]
Free spaces at workshop on Saturday 9th! Book before 5pm today
Just to let those of you who haven’t secured your place at our all day workshop this Saturday, there are still some spaces available. Don’t miss out on the morning Session with Rebecca Sprengel from 11 am to 1pm : ONE TO ONE From Teacher to Coach and the afternoon session from 3pm to 5 pm: […]
9.06 spaces still available for all day workshop!
You may have had difficulties registering for our next all day workshop on the 9th June at the Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart. We had some technical problems which have now been resolved and there are still some spaces available. Our sincere apologies! This is an all day workshop, a morning session with Rebecca Sprengel and an afternoon presentation […]
Missed Jennie’s workshop in April? All materials now available online!
Jennie has kindly sent us her slide presentation and handouts from her workshop on April 21st. These are now available to all our members. Just log on and check the MEMBERS ONLY section of this website to get access to all these materials. Alternatively click on this link: Slide Presentation/ Handouts on Podcasts – Jennie Wright (you must be logged […]
