Past presentations
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Past Presentations
Over the past 15 years Rose has presented at a range of local, national and international conferences. She has given many presentations, seminar papers and workshops on aspects of her work.
The themes of her presentations include:
- The socio-pedagogic theory of classroom teaching
- A class-centred framework for understanding language teaching
- Integrating social and pedagogic priorities in the language classroom
- Facets of the group development process
- The evolution of classroom cultures
- The party-games syndrome
- A critical evaluation of communicative language teaching
- The relevance (or otherwise) of communicative language teaching for different teaching contexts
- Teaching grammar in ways that enhance class cohesion
- How and why experienced teachers switch between roles
- Student roles in the language classroom
- Hidden discourses in the language classroom
- The role of humour in the language classroom
- The basis of teacher on-the-spot classroom decision-making
- Managing tricky individuals in language classes
- Teaching flexibly
- How to vitalise the learning experience
- The principle of balance
- How to develop rapport with classes of language learners
- Accommodating diversity in language classes