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NATESOL AGM Manchester Metropolitan University Sat 19 May 2018

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NATESOL AGM Manchester Metropolitan University Sat 19 May 2018

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  1. NATESOL AGMManchester Metropolitan UniversitySat 19 May 2018

  2. Agenda • Apologies • Minutes of AGM of 7 May 2016 (available on request) • Matters arising • Chair’s Report for 2016-18 • Treasurer and Membership Secretary’s Report • Election/confirmation of officers and committee members • Next committee meeting and session • Thanks • AOB

  3. 3 Matters arising • None that won’t arise in subsequent agenda items

  4. 4 Chair’s Report a. Sessions since last AGM b. Conference June 2016 c. Links with other organisations d. Issues

  5. 4a. Sessions 2016-17 • June 2016: Jean Conteh (University of Leeds) ‘The multilingual turn’ • October: Jeremy Harmer ‘Back between the covers’ • December: Brian Tomlinson ‘Creative use of the coursebook’ • March 2017 Tim Phillips (British Council) ‘A goat in the classroom’ • April: Gabriel Diaz Maggioli (Catholic University of Uruguay) ‘Thinking like a designer’ • July: Huw Bell (MMU) ‘EAL and formal grammar’

  6. 4a. Sessions 2017-18 • October 2017: Sarah Telfer (University of Bolton) ‘Storytelling and anecdote’ • December: Cormac Conway (Manchester City Council) ‘The use of film’ • January 2018: Joanna Davidson-Hajto (City College, Salford) ‘The chemistry of grammar’ • April: Alex Robertson/Huw Vasey (University of Manchester) ‘Multilingual Manchester’

  7. 4b. Conference May 2016 • Theme: Humanising Technology • Plenary speakers: Sophia Mavridi (IATEFL LT-SIG) and Gary Motteram (University of Manchester) • 12 good quality parallel sessions + Question Time BUT… • …numbers again an issue (Item 4d)

  8. 4c. Links with other organisations • TP attended Associates’ Day at IATEFL 2018 in Brighton • Had fruitful discussions about collaboration with NATECLA, NALDIC, SATEFL and ELT Ireland reps • £500 Teacher Development Scholarship • Continuing fruitful links with IATEFL SIGs – this year IPSEN-SIG

  9. 4d. Issues • Conference – themes, speakers, timing, venue, cost? Does it have a future? • Facebook, Twitter (600+ on e-list) • Topics, speakers, venues (including outside Manchester) for sessions. We need suggestions /recommendations (within our budget) • Overall costs

  10. 5. Treasurer and Membership Secretary’s Report

  11. 6. Officers/committee members • Mike Beaumont (chair) • Keith Gould (website, and e-list) • Jane Cabot (minutes secretary, hospitality) • Jonathan Nicolson (membership and finance) • Mirela Steele (EAL) • Tony Picot (Twitter, Facebook) • Sian Etherington (publishers) • + volunteers from outside M/cr – role/s?

  12. 7. Next committee meeting and session • 6.00 pm, Wed 6 June, The Greenfinch, 108 Palatine Road, West Didsbury, Manchester M20 3ZA. • 6 for 6.30 pm, Wed 13 June, WasylCajkler (University of Leicester) - next in EAL series, MMU Birley Fields (tbc)

  13. 8. Thanks • To all current and previous NATESOL Committee Members • To MMU Faculty of Education, MMU Department of Languages, Linguistics and TESOL, and Salford University • To publishers for sponsorship and for supporting our Conference • To all of you for supporting our events

  14. 9. AOB

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