Our third plenary speaker, Dr Thomai Alexiou, is a familiar name to Greek and Thessalonikians in particular for her outstanding work in Aristotle University's School of English. Thomaï
Alexiou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of
English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her expertise is
on early foreign language learning, methodology
of teaching languages, vocabulary and material development for young learners.
She has also authored and edited
textbooks for children learning English as a foreign language. One of these
books, Magic Book 2 has been shortlisted for the
MacMillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing (ELTons 2014).
1.
Your plenary session will focus on re-evaluating vocabulary
in the TEYL context. Which areas of vocabulary presentation and acquisition
will the session mainly address?
The session will address issues on vocabulary development
and vocabulary assessment for very young learners. A number of possible
vocabulary assessment tools will be presented while I will also present
Pic-lex, a new vocabulary measurement tool for young learners.
2.
In your opinion, what is one aspect of the TEYL environment
which needs to be explored further?
3.
Based on your long experience as a University professor,
what do you feel should be the priority of English Language students who aim at
becoming EFL/ESL teachers?
The first
thing they need to have is enthousiasm to teach. The first thing they should
get from University is inspiration and knowledge of Pedagogy.
4.
Our 26th Convention focuses on practical suggestions to
solving classroom issues. Which areas of ELT do you feel could benefit the most
of a more hands-on approach?
This can
be a very long list really…Monitoring progress through alternative assessment,
classroom management issues, technological tools and applications in ELT etc
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