This training focuses on effective pronunciation teaching, emphasizing clear communication over accent elimination.

 We’ll explore how to help learners be understood (intelligibility), make understanding easy (comprehensibility), consider the role of accent, and improve voice quality. 

The session offers practical strategies and classroom activities to support diverse learners in becoming confident English speakers. 

It is ideal for English language teachers, teacher trainers, and educational leaders working with multilingual students. It’s also useful for curriculum designers looking to integrate effective pronunciation teaching methods.

This session for English Language Teachers explores how AI tools can enhance both the design and delivery of second language learning experiences. 

Participants will discover practical ways to integrate AI into their teaching. This integration aligns with the broader goal of preparing students to thrive in a world where technology is rapidly shaping every aspect of life.

Many adult English learners struggle with a persistent sense of stagnation, especially in their productive skills like speaking. Feelings of slow progress, frustration, and even failure can overshadow their journey, creating a cycle of negative emotions that ultimately hinders language acquisition. Teachers, as well as students themselves, happen to overlook these emotional barriers, yet they play an essential role in learning success.

This session explores ChatGPT-generated activities designed to alleviate speaking anxiety and promote a sense of accomplishment in one-on-one online lessons. 

By addressing these common but underappreciated challenges, we’ll equip teachers with tools to transform learner setbacks into confidence-building breakthroughs, accelerating both progress and motivation.

As teachers, we often grapple with the challenge of engaging our students deeply and encouraging them to use language in meaningful, productive ways. A common pitfall is dedicating excessive time to sourcing materials, only to end up feeling overwhelmed and resorting to last-minute lesson planning. Instead, the key lies in creatively reimagining and adapting the resources already at our disposal. Creativity is a ready-to-use and everlasting resource that can transform our teaching. By granting students the space and freedom to break away from rigid patterns and conventional language use—and by modeling this ourselves as teachers—we can unlock remarkable levels of linguistic and creative expression.

In this session, we shall look into some writing ideas and how they may help bringing social justice discussions to the English language classes.

Paulo Freire has once said that “reading the world always precedes reading the word”. Different realities can be portrayed by literature, which also provides context for grammar and vocabulary teaching. By reading such texts, students can relate them to their lives. By seeing their realities on print, they can exercise a more active skill: writing. They can show their stories to the world in writing contests and, with that, realize that their place abroad may also be in an assembly delivering a speech that calls out for action and responsibility on some of the hardest questions that have haunted humanity. 

We will share two projects undertaken with young learners to illustrate how literature and writing can motivate students and raise awareness about identity. The second will portray how images and short descriptions may be used to teach sentence structure and allow students to talk about subjects that matter to them.

Although the role of education is undeniable in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 5: Gender equality, many teachers struggle to find the strategies to address gender equity in the English class.
My presentation will explain how gender equity can be addressed together with the teaching of English Language contents and skills.
The main objective will be to discuss strategies to teach our curricular contents and while doing so, raising awareness of gender bias, visibilising inequalities, including realities that have been historically and systematically excluded from both society and the curriculum, and fostering the rejection of discrimination. 

The talk will consist of an outline of practical proposals which will help teachers approach their classrooms through the lens of gender equity. These proposals include: integrating our ELT contents with gender equity, approaching emerging situations as teaching opportunities.

Examples of activities done in class and material will be shown, together with a reflection upon our responsibility as teachers to provide students with an inclusive education and how our syllabus and the English language itself can be used as allies and invaluable opportunities for critical education. 

This session tackles the gap between theory and classroom reality when it comes to learner autonomy.

Many teachers know autonomy is a buzzword, but struggle to turn abstract concepts into practical steps. We’ll explore why autonomy matters—how it fuels motivation, deepens learning, and equips students to thrive beyond your classroom walls—and learn practical techniques to foster self-directed learners.

Participants will learn to:

• Co-create learning goals with students and empower them to manage their emotional and metacognitive growth.
• Identify barriers—overreliance on the teacher, low strategy awareness, weak metacognition—and adapt tasks to keep everyone moving forward.
• Build in quick cycles where learners plan actions, monitor their progress, and evaluate outcomes.

This workshop will begin by exploring common challenges faced in the online classroom and practical ways to overcome them. We’ll then dive into what student engagement truly means, why it matters, and how to maintain it throughout your lessons. By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with tried-and-tested tips and actionable strategies to keep engagement high at every stage of your online class.

This workshop explores the role of vocabulary and grammar in communication, challenging views like the “zero-focus on language” approach. It addresses misconceptions about explicit linguistic instruction hindering fluency, offering a practical, integrated perspective.

Participants will engage with an inductive, context-based teaching sequence, emphasizing the three dimensions of language: form, meaning, and use. The session concludes with a collaborative task to design tailored inductive sequences, providing practical tools to balance linguistic accuracy and fluency.

This workshop equips teachers with practical tools to integrate linguistic elements into their lessons in a structured, logical, and simple way, ensuring that students discover language patterns actively and meaningfully.

In today’s diverse and multilingual classrooms, traditional teaching methods often struggle to fully engage students and tap into their diverse linguistic backgrounds. This session addresses the challenge of keeping learners motivated while helping them use their own language resources in a meaningful way. By integrating games into language teaching, educators can create fun, inclusive environments that foster collaboration, creativity, and deeper language learning.

Learn how to effectively use both digital and non-digital games to boost student engagement, encourage intercultural communication, and enhance language proficiency.

Teachers will walk away with ready-to-implement game-based activities that align with their learning objectives, making language lessons more interactive and dynamic.

This session offers a comprehensive exploration of practical techniques for supporting neurodivergent students in educational settings.

Through sharing a diverse array of strategies encompassing class organization, classroom engagement, and assessment, educators will gain valuable insights into fostering inclusivity and optimizing learning outcomes for all students.

From innovative class organization methods to interactive classroom activities and tailored assessment approaches, participants will be equipped with actionable resources to create supportive learning environments that promote the success and well-being of neurodivergent students.

This session will focus on the theory behind Differentiated Teaching as well as the concept itself.

The necessity of differentiation in teaching is more relevant than ever, as classes consist of mixed-ability students, making it challenging for teachers to help all students individually move a step forward every day.

In addition to addressing academic needs, differentiation reinforces students’ motivation, confidence, and performance.

Lack of motivation, low self-esteem, and distraction are situations students often find themselves in, with teachers trying hard to overcome these challenges—sometimes successfully and other times not as much. This makes differentiated teaching more essential than ever. Practical tips and examples from real lesson plans will be discussed and highlighted as tools to equip and help teachers implement and adapt this vital method of Differentiated Teaching.