About NATESOL
NATESOL is an organisation for teachers in the northwest of England who work in English Language Teaching. Members come from a variety of different backgrounds and work across all the phases of education from nursery through to higher education.

Sessions are held on weekday evenings or on Saturday morning. Details of times and venues are posted to all teachers on our database in advance of each session.

Sessions are organised by a committee of volunteers who meet regularly. Members of the organisation are encouraged to join the committee; you can never have too many people to help out. There is an Annual General Meeting which this year (2005) will be held on 7th December.

Membership
Membership runs for one academic year (September to July). This includes attendance at all 6 of the NATESOL sessions. Individual membership is £9 per annum; Institutional membership is £40 per annum. Institutional membership provides for up to 5 members of staff to attend each NATESOL session. Non-members pay £3 per session; students and concessions pay £2.

To renew your membership, become a new member, or just
receive information about future sessions, then please
contact: Will Nash 100A Barlow Moor Rd, Manchester M20 2PN.

Sheila Anthony: A role for citizenship in the language classroom

Tuesday 18th. March 2008

6.30 (Registration & Refreshments) — 8.30 pm

Venue: University of Manchester, Ellen Wilkinson Building (formely Humanities), Oxford Road
(Opposite Holy Name Church, behind Manchester Academy) Room B4.3

The languages classroom would seem to be a natural starting point for exploring issues of citizenship and the global dimension. The session will provide some background information and then move on to consider possible ways of incorporating these elements into the teaching of languages.  Examples will be given from modern foreign languages and the advantages to be gained in terms of curriculum content and in terms of helping young people to prepare to take their place in society will be examined. In addition there will be recommendations about useful resources and opportunities to engage in activities and discussion with other participants in the session.

Sheila Anthony has recently retired from her post as Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Training (Modern Foreign Languages) at Manchester Metropolitan University MMU).  Previous to this she had many years experience teaching French and German at secondary level in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where many of her pupils spoke English as a second or additional language.  She is at present engaged in some research with Dr. Gee Macrory of MMU, looking at the ways in which PGCE trainee teachers have tried to include citizenship in their teaching.

Past events

2008
Mon 4th Feb: General and spcial English. Gareth Rees.

2006
Weds 18th October: Vocabulary Development sponsored by Pearson Longman

Weds 21st June: ESOL and the Performing Arts. Janine Waters.

Saturday 13th May: Teacher Initiated Enquiry: Images and Options. Julian Edge, Ian Kaplan and Adrain Underhill.

Wednesday 15th March: ESOL and Skills for Life: Taking Stock.

Thursday 26 January: Making Warmers: A workshop: David Seymour.

2005
Wednesday 7th December: Not Just Carrots and Sticks: Jan Bell and Roger Gower.

Wednesday 12 October: Millions of Words: Creative Words & the ESOL Classroom: Ron Carter.

Tuesday 24 May: Corpus Investigations for Grammar Teaching: Martin Hewings plus interactive whiteboard demonstration.

Wednesday 20 April: Practical solutions sponsored by Longman ELT. Peter Moor, Mark Foley, Diane Hall and Judith Wilson.

Saturday 12th March: Vocabulary Development: Ideas for high and low levels preparing for exams sponsored by Macmillan. Roy Norris and Rachael Roberts.

Tuesday 25th January: Responding to the learning needs of ESOL students with low levels of English literacy. Lisa Karlson.

Earlier events
Language focus in a task-based approach. Dave Willis.

Teacher Development Day. See: Oxford University Press

Dogme and after: Dancing in the dark? Scott Thornbury sponsored by Macmillan, venue: ELTC, UMIST, Manchester.

Authoring Information and Learning Technology. Keith Gould and Paul McGuinness, venue: Manchester University.

Grammar, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll. Moira Davie, venue: City College, Bridgewater House, Manchester.

New English File Elementary. Cristina Latham-Koenig, OUP Author Tour, venue: ELTC, UMIST, Manchester. Read a review [April 04] of the event. A montage [May 04] of pictures [NB—This is a large file].

IELTS Training Session with Andrew Preshous and Sam McCarter.

Issues in Reflective Practice in Teacher Development. Adrian Underhill, sponsored by Macmillan, venue: MMU, Didsbury, Manchester. Feedback from this session. Reflections on this session from James Connelly and Ian Caughlin.

Current committee
Sue Goldrick—Chair
Glynnis McCourt—Minutes person
Sian Etherington—Marketing
Gary Motteram—Website manager
Jonathan Nicolson—Treasurer
Will Nash—Membership secretary
Jane Cabot
Stephen Pennells
Patrick Prinsloo

Committee Documents
AGM Minutes 2002
Chair's Report 2002-3

AGM Minutes 2003
Chair's report 2003-4

AGM Minutes 2004
Chair's Report 2004-5

Useful Links
Please email suggestions for useful links to the web page manager: Gary Motteram

Gate House Books

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