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2020 Elections to the Executive Committee

NOMINATIONS to serve on the SCELT Executive Committee ARE OPEN! Read the EC job descriptions.  DEADLINE: 30 November 2019 Elections to the Executive Committee (EC) of the Slovak Chamber of English Language Teachers are held every 3 years. The EC … Continue reading

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Candidates for the Executive Committee 2020

VOTING for the SCELT Executive Committee is OPEN! Cast your ballot NOW! Read the EC job descriptions.  Find out more about these elections. The following members of the Chamber (listed alphabetically) have been nominated to stand for election to the … Continue reading

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Spring Fling 2019

Tentative Programme – Saturday, 16 March 2019 Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/AodsVUjSW7R160jw1 Dorothy Zemach: I’m an author, editor, teacher, and teacher trainer in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). I taught English, French, and Japanese for over 20 years in Asia, Africa, and the … Continue reading

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IATEFL Hungary 2018

by Juraj Streďanský The annual IATEFL Hungary conference in Budapest, held 5-7 October 2018, was a weekend to remember. To see that bunch of motivated, enthusiastic, kind and helpful professionals at work was an experience in itself, let alone the content … Continue reading

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A Poem: The Red Life Belt

At our last conference, SKA2017: UKF Nitra, we held a poetry contest: Each participant may submit one original poem […] directly related to either the theme of the conference or something specific learned at the conference. The theme of last September’s conference was … Continue reading

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Useful tips on how to build rapport when you’re not John Keating from Dead Poets Society

Originally posted on Cecilia Nobre ELT Blog:
“ Consciously, we teach what we know; unconsciously, we teach who we are.” Hamacheck (1999, p.209) I recently watched a video on social media that blew my mind and got me thinking of…

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SKA 2017 UKF Nitra

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Zuzana Straková: Plenary and YLs Workshop — SKA 2016: Mind the Gap

Every time we put on a conference, we get the question: “Will Zuzana Straková be there?” If we answer “No”, the response is often “Oh. Then maybe I won’t come.” But this year we can say, “YES!” So come! We … Continue reading

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