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LTWA is proud to host Dr Gianfranco Conti for a day of professional learning on Saturday 3 May 2025. Dr Conti is the author of many best-selling books for language teachers ‘The Language Teacher Toolkit’ and is internationally renowned for his popular award-winning blog ‘The Language Gym’ whose mission is the dissemination of current research in a language that is accessible to classroom practitioners.
Dr. Conti has been teaching Languages for about 30 years. He has taught French, English, German, Italian and Spanish at primary, secondary, further education and university level. He has been Head of languages at various secondary schools in Britain and overseas. You can read his full biography HERE. His books can be found HERE.
He will present two practical and motivating workshops suitable for all Languages teachers. You can join us for one or both of the sessions. This evidence-based course will provide delegates with thorough evidence-informed training in the design and implementation of Extensive Processing Instruction and of the MARS EARS framework for the teaching of languages.
MARS EARS pedagogical cycle:
MARS – Modelling, Awareness-raising, Receptive processing and Structured production
EARS – Expansion, Autonomy, Routinisation and Spontaneity
The pedagogical rationale for each activity and tasks sequence will be provided throughout the course.
Workshop 1: 9:00am – 10:00am (Registration at 8:30am)
In this workshop Dr Conti will focus on the evidence-based pedagogical rationale for the approach drawing on research into Cognitive Load Theory, Syntactic Priming, Comprehensible Input, Memory Decay, Phonological Memory, etc.
Workshop 2: 10:15am – 11:15am
This workshop will lay out the principles of process-based listening instruction, drawing on research from Professor John Field and Conti and Smith (2019) and will include a hands-on demonstration of interactive-listening games in the Malay language.
Workshop 3: 11:30am – 1:00pm (Registration at 11:15am)
Workshop 4: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Workshop 5: 2:45pm – 4:00pm
These workshops will focus on pushed output structured production and fluency building tasks, based on research into Phonological Memory, Retrieval practice, Deep processing and Fluency training. A demonstration of speaking activities will be included.
Dr Conti will outline an instructional sequence based on skill-acquisition theory and research designed to convert input into fluent output through a principled framework which has been adopted by language educators in many classrooms around the world, i.e. Gianfranco’s MARS EARS pedagogical cycle.
| Date: | Saturday 3 May 2025 |
| Location: | UWA Club, Seminar Room 4 Hackett Entrance #1, Hackett Drive CRAWLEY WA 6009 |
| Cost: | LTWA Members $100 for workshops 1 and 2 $150 for workshops 3, 4 & 5 $200 (saving of $50) for the entire day (workshops 1-5) |
| Non-members $150 for workshops 1 and 2 $250 for workshops 3, 4 & 5 $350 (saving of $50) for the entire day (workshops 1-5) |
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Limited places available
