IATEFL 2014: Linguistic landscapes, lexical sets, and recording students

The next series of sketchnotes from the 2014 IATEFL conference in Harrogate is in fact a set of 3 different talks: “Linguistic landscapes” by Stephen Greene, “Lexical sets, texts, and vocabulary choice” by Andrew Walkley, and “Recording students to raise awareness of pronunciation strengths and weaknesses” by Lesley Curnick. All of the talks provided practical ideas: ways to get students noticing and questioning language around them in the real world, ways to help them manage and acquire vocabulary in texts, and techniques to help learners become aware of their own issues in pronunciation.

Linguistic landscapes by Stephen Greene

Lexical sets, texts, and vocabulary choice by Andrew Walkley

 

Recording students to raise awareness of pronunciation strengths and weaknesses by Lesley Curnick

If you’re interested in materials writing, you may find the notes from the IATEFL Materials Writing SIG pre-conference event useful:

• Jeremy Day’s “Experiments in self-publishing” 
• Katherine Bilsborough’s “Becoming a digital author”
• Laurie Harrison’s “Writers in the digital age”

And if you want to try your hand at sketchnoting (and who doesn’t??), the post “For those of you wondering about sketchnotes at IATEFL 2014…” may help you get started! Have fun!