Studiedag talen Lingofest 2025

• Boost Your Students' Reading Skills - Isabel Pasmans (pedagogisch adviseur Provincie Antwerpen)
  

Dive into the world of reading strategies with this comprehensive workshop. In this interactive 90-minute workshop, you'll explore a variety of effective reading techniques, experiment with engaging activities, and discover a range of reading lessons designed to boost your students' comprehension and enjoyment of texts.

A dynamic and practical approach will equip you with the tools to implement reading exercises that not only improve literacy but also make reading an exciting and integral part of your classroom. Whether you're aiming to deepen your students' understanding or introduce new ways to approach texts, this training offers valuable insights and creative methods to enhance your teaching.

• Boost Your Students' Speaking Skills -Isabel Pasmans (pedagogisch adviseur Provincie Antwerpen)
  

Unlock the potential of your English lessons with this dynamic training session, "Boost Your Students' Speaking Skills." In this engaging 90-minute workshop, you'll discover a variety of short, easily implementable activities and games designed to motivate your students to speak more confidently and frequently in class.

A dynamic, interactive and hands-on approach will inspire you to integrate speaking exercises that make learning fun and interactive. Whether you're looking to energize your classroom or find new ways to encourage student participation, this workshop provides practical and readymade material to transform your teaching methods.

• Whose grammar is it anyway? Teaching grammar in a changing world. - Bruno Leys (Vives Brugge, auteur Breakaway, Takeaway, High Five en Fastbreak)

The significance of teaching grammar in ELT is sometimes a controversial issue. The debate about the role of grammar seems to mainly focus, however, on whether to and how to teach grammar. Proponents of direct instruction, clash with advocates of an inductive approach, awareness-raising, second language acquisition (SLA) or a more lexically oriented route. What seems less prominent in this discussion is which grammar should be taught exactly. The grammar found in coursebooks and grammar reference books remains largely unchanged. Nevertheless, language is constantly evolving and it may be necessary to critically scrutinise which grammar items need to be presented and in what way.

One of the aspects to consider is the growing attention for English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Some of the research suggests that ELF users not only passively adopt ongoing processes in English. Multilingual speakers with their multilingual identities may also contribute to the creation of patterns and even to shaping the core grammar of English.

Another element is the changing world we live in. The growing awareness of inclusivity and evolutions in language usage in social media are also influencing present day English. As a result of this, some grammar items, pronouns and verbs for example, may need a different treatment in grammar grids and exercises.

Participants will be invited to actively reflect on the presented aspects and on the relevance of these insights for their own teaching context. At the end of the talk there will be room for further questions and discussion.