ARTESOL

The presentation ¨Empowering English Learners with Games and Creative Activities¨ has been selected by ARTESOL affiliate members as Best Presentation at the 2022 ARTESOL Convention.  The presentation was nominated for TESOL Best of Affiliates award.

Each year up to eight TESOL affiliates present sessions at TESOL Convention. These sessions are submitted as the best session from over 100 affiliate conferences. TESOL International is responsible for the selection of the BEST sessions. These eight Best of Affiliates presentations, a mix of in-person and virtual, will be included in the 2023 TESOL International Covention.

Empowering English Learners with Games and Creative Activities

Games are whole language activities that foster the development of the four language skills, cater for the three learning styles and bring energy. Students feel empowered when they are part of games and feel they can take action and make decisions for themselves and their group. In this workshop the presenter will show some examples of games making the audience participate in the activities. Participants will leave the session empowered and full of energy and ideas about how to implement games into their lessons.

Licenciada Celeste Grimau – director of STEPS, international speaker, specialist in games and creativity, story teller, drama student and writer. Author of Vitamin Shock Games. ARTESOL Board member

To learn more about former Best of Affiliate Sessions, click here.

Dear colleagues,

We’re pleased to announce that the call for papers for our 46th Annual National Convention “Km0: The Road Ahead Together”, which will be held at EOI Jesús Maestro in Madrid on the 10-12th March 2023, is now open. Please click on this link https://www.tesolspainmadrid2023.com/callforpapers to access the speaker presentation proposal form and information about grants offered. The deadline for submissions is 15th October 2022.

TESOL Spain

This is a special invitation to a series called “English Out and About,” produced by RELO Andes, consisting of 10 episodes of about 15 minutes each. During each episode, four language specialists travel to various sites in the US and guide us through fun facts, history, and culture. In addition, each episode gives a fun, engaging lesson in English. This series is meant for someone at the B1 level (lower intermediate) who wants to learn a bit about the US and improve their English at the same time. In addition to the videos, there are some practice activities to go along with each lesson and links to additional resources for both learners and teachers of English.

Episode 0 will be aired on May 18. Link: https://app.box.com/s/iy7fkd6qn2iwb8dstuu324oe9tkf2vwc

The first episode will be aired on May 25. One episode will be aired per week for ten weeks – last episode will be aired on July 27.

Previous episodes can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/reloandes/