Education With Vision: CELT 2008 in New York City
Eleanor Pease, eleanor.pease@nyack.edu
As previously announced, Nyack College will host the 2008 CELT (Christians in English Language Teaching) Conference on Wednesday, April 2, at its New York City location, 361 Broadway in lower Manhattan, just blocks from Ground Zero. The conference theme is “Education with Vision” and we hope you will join us!
The conference offers English and foreign language teachers dynamic plenary sessions, workshops, networking, and informative exhibits. Adjournment will allow time to attend the opening plenary session of the 2008 TESOL Convention.
In addition to elective sessions, there will be two plenaries. The first speaker is Dr. Zoltan Dornyei, of Nottingham University, who is internationally known for his many research-oriented and pedagogical ELT publications, including seminal work in psycholinguistics, especially on motivation. Among his books are Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press, 2007). The second plenary speaker is Lavinia A’Costa, ESL coordinator at the Downtown Learning Center of the Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York. She is a dynamic, bold, and innovative speaker and educator with a vision. Lavinia is gifted and led by the Spirit to work with adult English language learners. Her program recruits volunteers who receive training in a tuition-free program at Nyack College, and Lavinia and her volunteer staff serve more than 80 students.
Don’t forget to register for CELT 2008. For more details on how to do so, along with continuing updates, follow the CETC e-list and visit the Christians in English Language Teaching wiki at http://christiansineltconferences.pbwiki.com (password: celt). For further information please contact Eleanor Pease at 845-675-4549, eleanor.pease@nyack.edu, or 1 S. Blvd, Nyack, NY 10960.
Please note that Christians in English Language Teaching, though international, has no connection with the international TESOL organization.
Dr. Eleanor J. Pease is chair of the TESOL Department of Nyack College in Nyack, New York. She spent many years in Japan, served as chair of CETC last year, and continues on the leadership team as past chair of the caucus for 2007-08.
