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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Renowned researchers and materials writers will be at the 10th ABCI Conference. Below, you can find more information about them.

Gustavo Ioschpe

Sponsored by Cultura Inglesa São Paulo

Gustavo Ioschpe is an Economist. He graduated in Political Sciences and Strategic Administration from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and qhas got a Masters Degree in International Economy and Development, from Yale University. He writes for important Brazilian news media, such as Folha de São Paulo and Veja magazine. He has already written for Yale Daily News, and different periodicals such as Educação, República, Bravo!, and Carta Capital. His book “A ignorância custa um mundo” was awarded the Jabuti Prize in 2005. Ioschpe takes part in some of the most important educational foundations in Brazil, he is one of the founders of Todos pela Educação, a Brazilian NGO, and he is on the board of Instituto Ayrton Senna, Instituto Ecofuturo, Fundação Iochpe and Fundação Padre Anchieta. In 2011, Gustavo Ioschpe was invited by Rede Globo to be the Education specialist in the network special series “Jornal Nacional no Ar - Blitz da Educação", which visited 10 schools in five different cities throughout Brazil.

Penny Ur

Sponsored by Cambridge University Press

Penny Ur was educated at Oxford, where she read Hebrew and Arabic, and at Cambridge (PGCE). She completed her MA TEFL at Reading University in 1987. She has thirty years’ experience as an English teacher in elementary, middle and high schools in Israel. From 1980 she has also been teaching pre-service and in-service courses at Oranim Academic College of Education and Haifa University, at BA and MA level. She has presented papers at TESOL, IATEFL and various other English teachers’ conferences worldwide. She has published a number of articles, and was for ten years the editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series. Her books include Discussions that Work (1981), Five Minute Activities (co-authored with Andrew Wright) (1992), A Course in Language Teaching (1996), Grammar Practice Activities (2nd Edition) (2009), Vocabulary activities (forthcoming), A Course in English Language Teaching completely revised and updated ( 2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. She is also the editor of Active Grammar (2011).

Eric Baber

Sponsored by Cambridge University Press

Eric Baber is currently President of IATEFL, the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. IATEFL currently has 4000 members from around the world, 100 Associated teachers’ organisations, and holds an annual conference which attracts nearly 2,300 delegates face-to-face and around 50,000 participants online.

He is passionate about all things technology-and-education related, in particular exploring new technologies and how they can be put to best use for teaching and learning. He has published a number of books and articles in this area and continues to engage in relevant research.

Susan Holden

Sponsored by Macmillan

Susan Holden is an experienced teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer who originally trained as a teacher of drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London). She collaborated with colleagues at the Cultura Inglesa São Paulo in the development of Culture World between 2009 and 2011.

MaryAnn Christison

MaryAnn Christison is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Urban Institute for Teacher Education. She teaches courses in the undergraduate, M.A., and PhD programs. She was TESOL President 1997-98 and serves on the Board of Trustees for The International Research Foundation (TIRF) for English Language Education (www.tirfonline.org). She is the author of over 80 published articles and 17 books on research and language teaching and has worked with over 15,000 English language teachers in 30 countries.

Paul Seligson

Sponsored by Richmond

Paul Seligson has been involved in TEFL for 30 years and is well-known throughout Latin America for giving lively, highly practical talks and training sessions.

He has taught in Algeria, France, Egypt, Venezuela, the UK and Spain where he was ADOS for 5 years at the British Council in Valencia. He also set up and ran his own school in Brighton and has vast experience at all levels of school management.

He has an MA in TEFL and is a CELTA assessor and LCCI examiner. His many primary, secondary and adult publications include Helping Students to Speak for the Richmond Teacher’s Handbook Series, of which he is also the chief editor, Power 1 and 2 (Richmond) and English Teacher’s Portfolio (British Council, Brazil). He has trained teachers in over 35 countries.

He has run COTE, DOTE, CELTA, DELTA, FTBE, Graduate and Post-graduate courses and given hundreds of conference sessions worldwide.

He works from Brighton as a freelance teacher, trainer, author and consultant

Kathleen Bailey

Sponsored by Cengage

Kathleen Bailey received her M.A. in TESL and her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She is a professor of Applied Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies as well as a professor in the TESOL masters program at Anaheim University.

From 1998-1999, she was the president of the international TESOL association. She currently serves as the President of the International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) and is the Chairman of its Board of Trustees.

Dr. Bailey’s research interests include teacher education, supervision and development; second language acquisition; language assessment; classroom research; and research methodology. She has been honored as a recipient of the James E. Alatis Award for service to TESOL, and is a two-time recipient of the Allen Griffin Award for Excellent in Teaching in Monterey County.

Herbert Puchta

Sponsored by Helbling Languages and Cambridge University Press

Dr. Herbert Puchta is a full time writer and teacher trainer. He has been a plenary speaker at numerous international conferences, and has conducted workshops and given seminars in more than 30 countries.

For almost three decades, he has carried out research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Herbert has co-authored a number of bestselling course books for the teaching of English as a foreign language, and written numerous articles and resource books.

Until recently, Herbert was President of IATEFL, the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

Jim Scrivener

Sponsored by Sponsored by Bell-Centres

Jim Scrivener is the Head of Teacher Development for Bell Educational Services. He created the Bell Online Delta, is the Director of the Bell Teacher Campus for two months during the summer at Homerton College, Cambridge and is involved with many of Bell’s teaching training and development projects.

His publications include Learning Teaching (Macmillan ELT) which won the ARELS Frank Bell Prize 1995, Oxford Basics: Teaching Grammar, Teachers' Books and Portfolios for Straightforward, two business coursebooks for OUP and he has many articles on onestopenglish.com. His most recent book, Teaching English Grammar (Macmillan ELT) won the HRH Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union 2010 award as “Best Entry for Teachers”.

Professor Scrivener has worked in many different countries over the years, including two years in Kenya, three in the USSR and seven in Hungary. He is a frequent conference presenter and course leader around the world. He was head of the team that designed the Euro exams, now widely taken in Central Europe and has been actively involved with Cambridge ESOL exams including design of their online teacher portfolio. He recently designed and implemented the first Online Delta course. Previously he has been Head of Teacher Training for International House, Hastings and Director of Education for IH Budapest.

BEN GOLDSTEIN

Sponsored by Richmond

Materials writer and English language teacher, Ben was born in London but now lives in Barcelona. His areas of research lie in the role of images in teaching, intercultural awareness and using literacy texts. His course books New Framework and the forthcoming series The Big Picture are published by Richmond.

JEREMY HARMER

Sponsored by Pearson

Jeremy Harmer has taught in Mexico and the UK and is currently on the faculty for the MA TESOL at the New School University, New York. He has trained teachers and offered seminars all over the world. A writer of both course material and methodology, his titles include How to teach Writing (2004), the extensively revised second edition of How to Teach English, and the fourth edition of The Practice of English Language Teaching, all published by Pearson. He is the General Editor of the ‘How to’ methodology list. Recent projects have included involvement in the new TDI -‘Teacher Development Interactive’ an online self study course for ELT practitioners.

LINDSAY CLANDFIELD

Sponsored by Macmillan

Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer and international author. He is the main author of Macmillan´s new adult course Global that won the ESU award in 2010. Lindsay has given workshops in more than 20 countries and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals relating to ELT.

NICKY HOCKLY

Sponsored by Learning Factory

Nicky is the Director of Pedagogy of The Consultants-E (www.theconsultants-e.com), an online training and development organisation which helps teachers learn about technology. She has been involved in EFL teaching and training since 1987, and is author of several methodology books about technology in EFL. She specialises in online teaching and training via virtual learning environments such as Moodle, and the application of ICT in the language classroom. She is currently writing a book about digital literacies. You can read more about Nicky at: www.theconsultants-e.com/about/team/NickyHockly.aspx.