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British Council and AVALON presents:

A flavour of TESOL Arabia

Friday 11th March, 2011
It is our pleasure to be able to bring a flavour of TESOL Arabia's 17th annual international
conference (http://www.tesolarabia.org/conference/ ) to Second Life this Friday.

The theme for this year’s conference is Rethinking English Language Teaching: Attitudes,
Approaches and Perspectives, and because of this we will be holding a guided discussion for
language teachers related to this as well as retransmitting live one of the conference plenaries.

Location: Rooftop Discussion Area, British Council Isle Arrivals

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BritishCouncil%20Isle/230/162/54

Events:

1) Rethinking Language Awareness *

Peter Grundy
Viewing language awareness in the traditional way as explicit, conscious knowledge of linguistic
forms works better for the structural approaches of the past than for the more holistic, functional
approaches to language teaching that we favour today. So how do we rethink this important
concept? (more info: http://tinyurl.com/6gkdjbv)

Time: Dubai 9.00 /GMT-UTC 5.00 / CET 6.00 / PST 21:00 (Thurs)
(for your local time: http://timeanddate.com/s/1zj7 )

2) Rethinking Language Teaching in Second Life *

moderated by Baldric Commons and Frank Spearmann, AVALON course teachers

Join a guided discussion about language teaching in Second Life, moderated by two of the
AVALON project teachers, who will be sharing their experience of teaching in Second Life. We will
be thinking about the changing attitudes, approaches and perspectives to language teaching that
have taken place in this virtual world. Come and participate and share your point of view.

Time: Dubai 13.00 /GMT-UTC 9.00 / CET 10.00 / PST 01:00

(for your local time: http://timeanddate.com/s/1zj9)

Other events

Apart from these events, there'll be an opportunity for people in Second Life to meet some of the
conference participants who have decided to access the virtual world at the British Council stand
at the conference in Dubai.

* both of these sessions will be recorded and made available to listen to after the event