Join us for the fifth session of “Revisiting Uncharted Realms” Webinar Series hosted by TESOL Türkiye on January 8, at 20.00 (GMT+3). Our fifth session, titled “Teacher Talk - Teacher Listen: Mediation and Affording Emergent Language in Language Classrooms”, will be presented by Tugce Cankaya Simpson, PhD.
Holding BA in English Language and Literature (Ankara University), Master’s in ELT (METU) and PhD in English Literature (METU), Tugce has been in the sector as a teacher, manager and teacher trainer since 2006. She has taught a diverse group of learners (secondary, HE and FE, both in Turkiye and the UK) ranging from practical basic literacy needs to theoretical courses such as Discourse Analysis, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Literary Theories, Etymology and Language, and Language and Culture. She worked as Asst. Prof. at Ufuk University (Ankara, Turkiye), where she was the Department Head after working as a language teacher for 11 years. She has taught pre-sessional Academic English modules at University of Manchester, Keele University and the University of Southampton, as well as working as a Visiting Lecturer TEFL/TESOL course at Birmingham City University. Holding Cambridge DELTA and Train the Trainer, Tugce is also a Bell Foundation licensed practitioner providing staff training for over 200 schools in the West Midlands region of England. Alongside her main role as an ESOL teacher at Stoke-on-Trent College, she has other roles as a freelancer such as an assessment specialist, marker, and assessment reviewer in Ofqual-regulated awarding bodies in the UK.
Abstract
Teacher Talk - Teacher Listen: Mediation and Affording Emergent Language in Language Classrooms
With the rise of AI, the new language classrooms are changing: The modernist dichotomy between ‘the teacher’ and ‘the learner’ has disappeared, and a more decentric approach to language learning sources and resources has been introduced. Mediation as a linguistic term, which has also been introduced to CEFR; is a term that is still being overlooked by the target language-centric curriculum models and syllabuses. Therefore, creating room for emergent language within the given curriculum has become a necessity more than ever. This webinar focuses on creating opportunities for mediation tasks in language classrooms where the binary between feedback and feed-in disappears, where the teacher becomes the learner, where ‘the teacher talk’ creates a harmony with ‘the teacher listen’, and finally where the pre-determined language can co-exist with the emergent linguistic needs. This session; therefore, aims to equip teachers with various methods to implement effective strategies to better enable them to accommodate such affordances in a more flexible manner in their classrooms and become more adaptive and responsive to the learners’ needs.
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