[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 20 | August 25, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Language Teaching

TILT ’14

in Association with IEEE

With Special Focus on

Teacher Cognition and Language Education

14th & 15th November 2014

www.tilt2014.com

Organized by Department of English,

Sathyabama University,  Chennai, India

www.sathyabamauniversity.ac.in

About the conference

TILT ’14 addresses the needs and issues related to ongoing professional development of language teachers, practitioners and researchers at all levels and contexts. It focuses on the question of what constitutes the knowledge base of language teaching and how it relates to the processes and content of teacher education. This theme includes research and perspectives on teachers’ knowledge, teacher learning in formal and informal contexts; teacher socialization, professional development, and the nature of disciplinary knowledge. The conference aims at bringing together teacher educators to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices and to initiate and sustain a meaningful professional dialogue across languages, levels, and settings. The conference is an outcome of the National Conference held by the Department of English in the early 2014, where the participants expressed the need to educate the language teachers in the various dimensions of teaching English in SL contexts. (more…)