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Adam MASTANDERA, US Embassy Adam Mastandrea is the 2019-2020 US State Department English Language Fellow in Vilnius, Lithuania.  He holds degrees in Philosophy, Applied Linguistics, and Educational Psychology.  Adam has taught English as a second language in Poland, Japan, Montana, and Hawai’i, and most recently served as assistant professor and director of field experience and…

Nik PEACHEY, British Council Nik Peachey is Director of PeacheyPublications Ltd. He is an award winning ELT materials writer and he has written and published a range of digital materials that support English language teachers with the integration of digital technologies in the classroom. He also has a keen interest in developing creativity and other…

19th LAKMA International Conference 18–19 October 2019VALUES EDUCATION IN ELT FRIDAY October 18 08:00–09:00 REGISTRATION | ground floor foyer09:00–09:25 OPENING | Room A7 | Moderator Eglė PetronienėArtūras Vasiliauskas, British Council Lithuania, Country Director PLENARY TALKS | Room A7 | Moderator Eglė Petronienė09:30–10:25 Nik PEACHEY Developing our students as more than language learners10:30–11:25 Grzegorz SPIEWAK 21st…

Faisal AL SAIDI, University of Bath, UK PRESENTATION: CALLing for learning strategies This presentation is based on a doctorate study that investigated the ways in which learners construct meaning in a collaborative computer assisted language learning (C-CALL) environment. The focus of this presentation is on the strategies that the learners employed while carrying out C-CALLs….

BIODATA. Jen MacArthur is the Regional English Language Officer (RELO) based at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia and covering the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic (Czechia), Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Jen previously served as the RELO in Islamabad and Mexico City….

BIODATA. I moved to Poland in 2006 from San Diego, California, and have made Wroclaw my home. For the first part of my teaching career I worked in language schools, teaching mainly younger learners and teenagers, and eventually branched out into other areas of EFL instruction, including exam English, business English, and teacher training. In 2012…

BIODATA. Russell Stannard is the founder of www.teachertrainingvideos.com. He was awarded the British Council ELTons award for ‘Technology’ and the Times Higher award for ‘Outstanding Technology Innovation’. Russell is a NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) associate trainer and tutor on the MA in TESOL as well as running the ‘Flipping your Classes’ course. He writes regular…

BIODATA. Grzegorz Śpiewak, Ph.D., graduate of University of Essex (MA) and  University of Warsaw (Ph.D). Teacher of English, consultant, project manager, teacher trainer, conference speaker, author. Former lecturer and deputy director for English Teaching & CLIL at Warsaw University. Currently affiliated with Macmillan Education (Head ELT Consultant for Central & Eastern Europe), as well as with The…