Day (4): Coverage of IATEFL Manchester 2015

 Opening Plenary by :Harry Kuchah 
                                            Lecturer in TESOL
                                         University of Bath

 

 Harry Kuchah in IATEFL Plenary on Day (4)

 

ELT in Difficult Circumstances: Challenges, Possibilities and Future Directions
 

To see the plenary,click on the following link:

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2015/session/plenary-harry-kuchah


To download the slideshares and handouts of the IATEFL'S Plenary,click on the following link:

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/files/harry-kuchahiateflhandoutdoc/download?token=cliSV0sg

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/files/harry-plenaryppt/download?token=QZg6qehe


Now let's see what Harry says in his interview with Kristeen :

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2015/interview/interview-harry-kuchah

My View of the Plenary 

Harry Kuchah and the Poor Conditions of Education

The percentage of  ESL/EFL students is getting higher around the world,particularly in the Third World Countries.These students exert termendous efforts despite the harsh conditions they get through during their language .For instance,crammed classrooms ,insufficient coursebooks ,unavailability of bookstores ,slight exposure to the English langauge .Moreover, the cultural restrictions is another intricate issue that could impede the students from learning.

 

 

 Professor David Crystal read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language studies, did some research there at the Survey of English Usage under Randolph Quirk (1962-3), then joined academic life as a lecturer in linguistics, first at Bangor, then at Reading. He published the first of his 100 or so books in 1964, and became known chiefly for his research work in English language studies, in such fields as intonation and stylistics, and in the application of linguistics to religious, educational and clinical contexts, notably in the development of a range of linguistic profiling techniques for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He held a chair at the University of Reading for 10 years, and is now Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor.

David Crystal’s authored works are mainly in the field of language, including several Penguin books, but he is perhaps best known for his two encyclopedias for Cambridge University Press, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Recent books include Wordsmiths and Warriors: the English-language Tourist's Guide to Britain (2013, with Hilary Crystal), Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (September 2014), and You Say Potato: a book about accents (October 2014, with actor son Ben Crystal). Other co-authored books include Words on Words (2000, a dictionary of language quotations compiled with his wife and business-partner, Hilary - Wheatley Medal, 2001) and Shakespeare’s Words (2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (2005), the last two in collaboration with Ben. Other Shakespeare work includes a regular article for the magazine of Shakespeare’s Globe, Around the Globe. Think On My Words, an introduction to Shakespeare’s language, appeared in 2008. 

To see his interview at the IATEFL Conference,click on the following link:

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2015/interview/interview-david-crystal