Panelists: Robert Merrell & learners, Rabia and Lul Manchester Adult Education Service (MAES) Date: Thursday 19 June 2025 Time: 15:30 - 16:30 (UK time) Online via Zoom

NATESOL’s 41st Annual Conference - Learners and Learning Submission deadline: 27th March 2025

How can we sustain psychological engagement in online English language learning? In this talk, Dr. Sal Consoli will share key insights from a research study conducted at a university language centre, exploring how digital tools, task design, and emotional appeal impact learner engagement.

for TESOL/ESOL/EAP/EAL/EFL practitioners, students, language schools and colleges

How can we promote language learning motivation and investment through writing? In this talk, Dr Banegas will share the main takeways from an action research-based project carried out with teenage learners in Argentina.

• Meet TESOL employers, practitioners, students and job seekers in person. • Take part in a workshop discussion that evaluates the suitability of a metacognitive approach to teaching Listening skills to your students. • Limited spaces, please scan the QR code to register. • Free entry • Face-to-face

In this session we will look briefly at the social model of disability and the diagnosis process in England. We will then focus on the challenges Autistic students may face and the ways we can all help make things more inclusive and accessible.

I will discuss the role of corpus linguistics in language education, outline the opportunities it affords language teaching and learning, and signal the challenges we face when using corpora for English language teaching. I will also discuss some useful tools that you can use to work with corpora.

For many international students of English, perceptions of the language and its speakers are still intrinsically tied to outdated and unrealistic notions of prestige native speaker models. This, however, is at odds with modern English which is a global, diverse, and dynamic language.