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Živilė LAZAUSKIENĖ, ASSIST Country Coordinator, Lithuania Živilė Monika Lazauskienė is a Country Coordinator for ASSIST (American Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers) in Lithuania and an alumna of the program as well. After her year abroad as an exchange student in the U.S., Živilė went on to the University of Sheffield in the UK,…

Tomas RAKOVAS, Lithuanian Children and Youth Centre Tomas Rakovas is a psychologist and trainer of social and emotional learning programmes. Currently, Tomas is coordinating an international research project “Learning to Be” which aims to make social and emotional learning more visible and recognized in schools around Europe. PLENARY TALK Learning to Be [assertive, responsible, helpful…]…

Eglė PETRONIENĖ, Vytautas Magnus University Education Adademy, Lithuania Dr. Eglė Petronienė has been in teacher education for more than 25 years. Currently, she is teaching at Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy and enjoys working with student-teachers of English. Having been in charge of the Lithuanian Association of English Language Teachers for more than ten years,…

Mona SIKSEK, National Geographic Learning Mona Siksek is a teacher, teacher trainer, and examiner with over 30 years’ working in the ELT industry in one form or another. Having gained a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts, she went on to gain a master’s degree in TEFL from St. Michael’s College in Vermont, USA.  Born in…

Agnieszka HYBEL-SZYMANSKA, Pearson English teacher by profession (graduated from English Philology Department at Jagiellonian University in Krakow), has been working for Pearson as a consultant and regional manager in Poland and Eastern European countries ( Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia), advising teachers and institutions on their English teaching programmes, implementing new technologies, training teachers and delivering…

Grzegorz SPIEWAK, Macmillan Education A graduate of University of Essex, UK (MA in Linguistics), and  University of Warsaw (Ph.D in English & Linguistics). Teacher of English, consultant, project manager, teacher trainer, acclaimed conference speaker, author. Former academic lecturer and deputy director for English Teaching & CLIL at the Department of English of Warsaw University. Currently…

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….