AGTV Professional Development Workshop
Event: Workshop with Gianfranco Conti
Conti has presented twice for the MLTAV, and has presented in other Australian states and territories.
This is the first time presenting to teachers of German in Victoria.
Date: Saturday 25th February 2023
Time: 9.30 am to 3.30 pm
Registration with tea/coffee from 8.50 am
Continuous tea/coffee, morning tea, lunch and snacks included.
Where: Graduate House - 220 Leicester St, Carlton
Cost:
Individual Members: $100 Concession/Retired/Life Members: $80
Non-Individual Members: $180
LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE
Registration Extended: Thursday 23rd February
About this Workshop:
Gianfranco Conti will facilitate a dynamic and practical workshop which will provide primary and secondary teachers of Languages with the opportunity to:
- learn about the Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI) Model in which teaching is strategically designed to support successful language learning and enhance learner intrinsic motivation
- unpack the MARSEARS framework which provides a structure for sequencing learning in manageable and meaningful chunks.
- engage in practical strategies which build learner confidence to use language spontaneously
- demonstrate a range of tried and tested interactive ludic activities.
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About the Workshop Presenter:
Gianfranco Conti, PhD (Applied linguistics), MA (TEFL), PGCE (Mod Langs)
Visiting fellow at Faculty of Modern Languages and Culture, University of Reading
Founder and owner of the popular language learning website The Language Gym, Gianfranco is an applied linguistics MA and PhD graduate with many years of classroom experience. He has taught Modern Languages for nearly 30 years both at primary, secondary and university levels.
He has researched the impact of metacognitive strategies training and error correction on L2 essay writing under the supervision of Oxford University Ernesto Macaro both during his PhD and a large-scale project in English comprehensive schools documented in Professor Macaro (2001)’s book. In his current role as Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, he has lexicogrammar acquisition, listening instruction, metacognition, error correction and learner autonomy as his main research interests.
Formerly head of languages at various schools in England and abroad where he has developed and implemented his instructional approach (Extensive Processing Instruction), he is currently a researcher at the University of Reading in his capacity of Visiting Fellow and a highly renowned and sought-after conference speaker and CPD provider very active in the UK, South-East Asia, Middle East and Australia. He delivers keynotes in major international events all year around, conducts an average of 150 workshops for language teachers a year and visits roughly as many schools in the same period of time either to provide professional development or to help schools improve their curriculum design and delivery.
He is well-known internationally for his teaching resources that have won him the TES Best contributor award and have been downloaded over 4,500,000 times by over 100,000 teachers around the world.
His blog on MFL pedagogy, The Language Gym (https://gianfrancoconti.com/), has won him several international awards. The professional development group he founded, ‘Global Innovative Language Teachers’ is one of the largest and fastest-growing communities of its genre.
Gianfranco has co-authored with Steve Smith the best-selling handbooks for MFL professionals, ‘The Language Teacher Toolkit’ and ‘Breaking the sound barrier: teaching learners how to listen’. He has also recently published a Spanish workbook for beginner to pre-intermediate learners of Spanish, "Spanish Sentence Builders - a Lexicogrammar Approach", written with his former colleague Dylan Viñales.
