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Joint TEASIG & LTSIG webinar: Exploring the impact of Generative AI on language education: insights from teachers
Speakers: Evelina Galaczi & Nahal Khabbazbashi It feels like every morning we wake up to hundreds of opinion pieces on the use of Generative AI (Gen-AI) in education, but there is surprisingly little research into how English teachers are actually using this technology. In this webinar, we will explore language teachers’ use and attitudes to Gen-AI […]
Joint TEASIG & TDSIG Webinar: Analysing teachers’ discourse around assessment: A critical discourse analysis perspective
Speaker: Viktor Carrasquero The presentation: The British Council uses standardised criteria to assess our teachers’ classroom performance. These include assessment, understood as a formative, continuous practice, which “helps students and teachers monitor progress and achievement”. In recent years, there has been an organisation-wide drive to consolidate our teachers’ technical and practical understanding of assessment, which has […]
TEASIG PCE 2024: Item writing: from theory to practice
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Joint TEASIG & IPSEN SIG webinar : Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Practice: Candidate Reactions to Global English Accents in a Listening Test
The British Council is a leader in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, important themes for our products around the world, whether in the arts, society, inclusive education, teaching English for in the exams that we offer. In 2020, the test production and quality assurance teams of Global Assessments began to implement a new EDI policy […]
TEASIG & ESPSIG Joint Conference in Switzerland
Zurich University (School of Health) Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9, Winterthur, SwitzerlandThe IATEFL TEASIG and ESPSIG are pleased to announce a two-day joint conference in Winterthur, Switzerland. Our theme will bring together a diverse range of researchers and practitioners in ELT to share their views and practices on current global trends concerning language assessment and ESP. The main focus of the conference will be on the assessment of ESP. We are also […]
IATEFL TEASIG & YLTSIG webinar
The presentation: Much thought has been dedicated to the role of feedback in the English language teaching classroom as well as in general education. My aim is to present an Action Research study carried out at lower secondary level that sought to identify the perception of students regarding the type of formative feedback they were […]
IATEFL TEASIG webinar
TEASIG: Bridging the Gap: Developing Authentic Intertextual Reading-into- Writing Tasks for Academic Admissions Testing Speaker: Dr. Nathaniel Owen
TEASIG & PronSIG Joint Webinar
How far can we trust the results of an AI-marked speaking assessment? There has been a lot of speculation about the future impact of AI on language teaching and learning, but in this webinar I will talk about a live use of AI. I will discuss the creation of an automated speaking test, looking at […]