21st LAKMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023

21st LAKMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEDO WE GO FAST OR FAR?20-21 October 2023V. Putvinskio St. 23 / K. Donelaičio St. 52Kaunas, LITHUANIA The updated foreign language curriculum in Lithuania (2022) presents foreign language teachers with both opportunities for positive change and new challenges. This conference aims at bringing together local and international ELT professionals from all education…

IATEFL Harrogate 2023, April 17-21

Diana Galatiltienė, LAKMA Board member, LAKMA secretaryKristina Urbonienė, LAKMA president The 56th International IATEFL Conference took place in the beautiful spa town of Harrogate this year. Such conferences have always been a time to come together and celebrate our profession and its advances through the work of our colleagues, sponsors, and contributors. Over a few…

VALUES EDUCATION CAMP “WE CARE!” in Lithuania 2023

VALUES EDUCATION CAMP “WE CARE!” in Lithuania 2023 The U.S. Embassy Vilnius and the Lithuanian Association of English Language Teachers (LAKMA) are organizing a 5-day international VALUES EDUCATION CAMP “WE CARE!” in Lithuania for teenagers of various ethnic backgrounds from the U.S., Poland, Greece and Lithuania. The camp aims to: Time: July 27–31, 2023Place: Dvarčėnų…

A practical seminar “Meaningful Teaching and Learning of a Foreign Language: Integrating Fiction”. March 17, 2023. Lecturer: Saulius Skučas

On Friday, March 17, a group of teachers from Kaunas, Garliava, Akademija, Babtai, Vilnius, Mažeikiai and Trakai met at Kaunas Jonas Jablonskis Gymnasium for a practical seminar organized by LAKMA and led by a LAKMA board member, teacher expert of English, Saulius Skučas. The seminar “Meaningful Teaching and Learning of a Foreign Language: Integrating Fiction”…

A practical seminar for English language teachers “Meaningful Teaching and Learning of a Foreign Language: Integrating Fiction” March 17, 2023. Lecturer: Saulius Skučas

Saulius Skučas has a master’s degree in English culture and literature from the English Department of Vytautas Magnus University (2010). He is a teacher expert of English in the national programme (grades 9-12) as well as an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme English A: literature teacher (grades 11-12) at Kaunas Jonas Jablonskis Gymnasium. He is also…

Online Training for Teachers “Plurilingual learning environment at school: sharing the US practice” November 11 – December 9, 2022. Lecturer: Heather Gaddis

As society becomes more linguistically, racially, socially and culturally diverse, it is necessary for schools, particularly language teachers, to take steps to make their classrooms more inclusive so that their students feel included and involved in their own education. Plurilingual education makes use of strategies that facilitate the inclusion of all aspects of students´ identities….

LAKMA 30th ANNIVERSARY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND CONFERENCE

JUBILIEJINĖ LAKMA ASAMBLĖJA IR KONFERENCIJA Minėdami asociacijos 30-etį, maloniai kviečiame LAKMA narius, partnerius ir draugus į šventinę asamblėją-konferenciją prisiminti anglistų bendruomenės entuziastingo kūrimosi, nuolatinio augimo ir džiuginančių pasiekimų kelią, aptarti šiandienos kalbų mokymo(si) aktualijas ir pasidžiaugti kolegišku bendravimu. DATA / DATE: 2022 m. spalio 22 d. VIETA / VENUE: Vytauto Didžiojo gimnazija, Augustijonų g. 8,…

Online workshop “Essay Types in the New National Curriculum for Foreign Languages: Revisiting Organizational Patterns and Approaches to Teaching” November 14/15, 2022. Lecturer – Jurga Kasteckienė

The process of revision of the National Curriculum in Lithuania has brought a number of important changes for the teachers of English as a foreign language. The National Curriculum for Foreign (First and Second) Languages is introducing new content which echoes educational tendencies of foreign language teaching in other European countries and beyond. The main…