Vol. 4 Issue 6 – Event: Second International conference for English language teacher educators, March 3-5, Hyderabad, India

The second international conference for English language teacher educators will be held from 3 to 5 March 2012 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad. The conference focuses on the theme of Assessment and Evaluation of English Language Teacher Education, Teaching and Learning. The theme is designed to focus our attention on the importance of setting, achieving and maintaining standards which lead to better quality and more accountability, not just at the practitioner level, but also at the programme levels. 

The conference will feature plenary sessions, panel discussions and parallel sessions on the conference themes – programme evaluation, assessing and evaluating continuing professional development, teacher assessment and certification, assessing language capability, continuous comprehensive evaluation, evaluating teacher performance. Some of the key speakers are Rod Bolitho (NILE), Rama Mathews (Delhi University), Amol Padwad (ELTAI), Jacob Tharu (Specialist in Evaluation) and the British Council UK consultants Adrian Tennant and Marianne Tudor-Craig.

For more information visit the event website or write to TEConference.Enquiry@in.britishcouncil.org for more information.