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CamTESOL Workshop on English Language Teaching 4 September 2004
Hotel Inter-Continental, Phnom Penh


Preface to the Workshop Program

Welcome to the first CamTESOL workshop on English Language Teaching.  This workshop is the result of a collaborative effort of individuals from a wide range of educational institutions in Cambodia (see acknowledgements at back of program).  It is designed to be the forerunner to an annual CamTESOL conference series, the first of which is scheduled for 12 March 2005.  This workshop and the conference series will be conducted in English.

The aims of the CamTESOL conference series are to:

  • provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and dissemination of information on good practices within English Language Teaching

  • strengthen and broaden the network of English Language teachers and all those involved in the English Language Teaching (ELT) sector in Cambodia

  • increase the links between the ELT community in Cambodia and the international ELT community

  • showcase research in the field of ELT

The theme for the 2004 workshop is “Practical Issues in Teaching”.  This focus was a reflection of the desire of all workshop committee members to keep the sessions practical and relevant for classroom teachers.  The four streams chosen for the workshop also focus on teacher issues and a majority of the presentations provide participants with tangible activities or information to apply in their own classrooms.

Early in the conference series we would like to publish an initial collection of CamTESOL papers.  These papers would be selected from the 2004 workshop and the 2005 and 2006 conferences.  We encourage you and your colleagues – both local and international – to submit an abstract for the 2005 conference.  The deadline for abstract submission is 10 January 2005.  More information will soon be available on the conference website: www.camtesol.org

This workshop is being spearheaded by IDP Education Australia, but with the active participation of a broad range of institutions involved in ELT in Cambodia.  It is anticipated that the conference series will come to reflect the active participation of all ELT institutions that are professionally orientated.  We hope that in the 2004-2006 period we will be able to establish a meaningful and sustainable conference series that will contribute effectively to the growth of English language education in Cambodia. 

 

We hope that you enjoy the workshop.

 

Paul Mahony

Conference Coordinator