ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#41 | December 9, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Confluence V will be held on February 21-22, 2014. As always, the thrust area will be Teaching and Learning English as a Second  / Foreign Language.

Each year, the response to Confluence has been growing, the last count being nearly 500 delegates at Confluence IV. It has served as an excellent meeting place for students and teachers alike and has allowed participants to gain from each others’ experience and expertise.

KEY SPEAKERS

Confluence V will see globally renowned stalwarts in ESL / EFL sharing the dais. We at Confluence are proud to have them as an integral part of our program and are sure that their expertise will benefit teachers and learners of English alike.

Christine Coombe has a Ph.D in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State University. She is currently on the English faculty of Dubai Men’s College. She is the former Testing and Measurements Supervisor at UAE University and Assessment Coordinator of Zayed University. Christine is co-editor of Assessment Practices (2003, TESOL Publications); co-author, A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners (2007, University of Michigan Press); co-editor, Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness in EF/SL Contexts (2007, UMP); co-editor, Language Teacher Research in the Middle East (2007, TESOL Publications), Leadership in English Language Teaching and Learning (2008, UMP) Applications of Task-based Learning in TESOL (2010, TESOL Publications), The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment (2012, Cambridge University Press) and Reigniting, Retooling and Retiring in English Language Teaching (2012, University of Michigan Press). Christine’s forthcoming books are on research in task-based learning and research methods in EF/SL. (more…)