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Inter-ELTA Members’ Day PechaKuchas
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 […]
Gabriella Kovács Review
ELTAS Saturday Online Workshop, 13th March, 2021 The Rationale behind LC in Business English for Adult Learners/Tertiary Education with Gabriella Kovács 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Take part in dissertation research project!
How do ESL/EFL teachers react to potentially non-standard language constructs? Take part in dissertation research project! My name is Xavier Martel and I am studying an MA in English Language Teaching (Distance Learning) at London Metropolitan University. I would like to invite you to participate in this research project, which forms part of my MA […]
Take part in the 2020 Besig Conference on November 14 – 15!
Take part in the 2020 Besig Conference on November 14 – 15! Dear ELTAS Members, As you know, BESIG holds the hugely popular conference for Business English teaching professionals every year. And this year is no exception, despite the – well, you know all about the „current situation“! https://besig.iatefl.org/event/33rd-iatefl-besig-online/ The 2020 conference will be held […]
Essentials of Teaching Legal English workshop on August 1st
Our sister organization HELTA in Hamburg is offering an online workshop covering essentials of teaching legal English on August 1st from 2:00 – 5:15 p.m. As an extra perk of your Eltas membership, you can attend this workshop free of charge. To sign up contact .
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– Eltas Tech Group
Interested in expanding and sharing your knowledge of technology for the classroom? The Eltas Tech group for Eltas members meet monthly on alternating Wednesdays and Saturdays for ca. 90 minutes. Send a short email to chair to sign up. Not an Eltas member yet? Join us!
– Chat and blog
When Eltas’ individual members log in to the website they’ll see we have added two chat rooms: One is for general discussion and a tech room for exchanging ideas about technology for the office and classroom. There’s also a new blog section Teaching Tips & Links where members can post ideas for the classroom. Log […]
We will prevail!
Many thanks go to Eltas member, Andy Yarahmadi, for this inspirational song in times of Covid-19.
Upcoming webinar – Your Legal Rights and Options
Written by: Nicole Heusser It’s a bit short notice, but Patrick Mustu, lawyer and language trainer in Düsseldorf will present an online presentation on Thursday April 16 about the current situation for freelance language teachers. In this webinar, the focus will be on your rights as workers, as well as an overview of the various […]
Members Forum Guidelines
Welcome to Eltas Members Only Forum. This forum is a private forum for individual Eltas members to freely exchange ideas and thoughts share resources get and give aid to other members Due to space restrictions, we kindly ask you to keep media uploads to a minimum. Thank you.
Online committee meeting…we’re getting the hang of it!
Written by: Nicole Heusser Last Friday, our committee met for the second time this year. This was held online, as was our Inter-ELTA meeting two weeks ago. We agreed on postponing Michelle Jagger’s May workshop to September. But we could still have a webinar in May, although with another speaker. More info to follow as […]
AGM on 18 January 2020
The AGM was held after Marcela Harrisberger’s workshop on 18 January. Following a review of the year by committee members and a look at our financial statement, the 2019 committee was formally released from their duties and the 2020 Committee duly elected. Unfortunately, Michelle Jagger will not be continuing as part of the team–a big […]
Eltas had a “smart” start to 2020 on January 18th
thanks to Marcela Harrisberger and her motivating workshop “Smart Practice – Strategies for adult students to potentialize self-study results”. Marcela shared theoretical and practical knowledge and participants were kept busy exploring ways of encouraging information retrieval to optimize language acquisition. Here’s a link to Marcela’s website with related information. Workshop handouts can be found in […]
