Pre-Conference Event 2017

Glasgow 2017 PCE and SIG Day

This year the theme of the LitSIG PCE was Using Films for English Language Teaching. This was a joint event with the Creativity Group with the opening address given by Alan Maley. We put together a quite comprehensive, diverse and interesting programme and the feedback we received from delegates was highly positive. Heartfelt thanks to the British Film Institute for sponsoring Mark Reid to give a talk on how films can facilitate the learning of a foreign language.

The PCE counted on speakers with large experience using films  for language teaching and learning such as Kieran Donaghy  and Jamie Keddie; teacher trainers who regularly use film in their sessions, such as Malu Sciamarelli, Claudia Ferradas and Rob Hill;  and academics working on the field of literature and language, such Richard Wilson, Chris Lima and Eduardo Lima.

The LitSIG Day consisted of workshops such as  Peter Grundy’s  on extensive reading and Malu Sciamarelli on using paintings to develop writing skills. There were talks by Lena Vaneyan on the Boris Pasternak Museum in Russia,  Rob Hill on creative writing based on classic novels, and Sam Duncan and Amos Paran shared the findings of their research on teachers’ perceptions and practices when using literature with secondary school students.  Shakespeare was present in the talks of John Gardyne and Frank Prescott.

For more details of the presentations, please check the LitSIG programme here.

A short report will appear in the next issue of Voices and a full  in the next issue of the LitSIG Newsletter.