Programme


TBLT 2011 Schedule
The full detailed program can be downloaded here

Thursday 17th	Registration available from	3pm to 6pm
	Friday 18th	Saturday 19th	Sunday 20th
8.00 onwards	Registration	Registration
9.00 - 10.30am	8.45 Opening Plenary 1 Rod Ellis "Teachers Evaluating Tasks"	Plenary 2 Scott Thornbury "Dogme ELT: TBL Unplugged?"	Plenary 3 Kim McDonough "Perceived Challenges with the use of Tasks in EFL Contexts"
10.30 -11.00		Morning tea
11.00 - 1.15 Morning Session	Papers session 1 Invited Colloquium 1 Martin Bygate "Tasks in Classrooms: Developing TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy"	Papers session 3 Invited Colloquium 3 Peter Robinson "Task Complexity and Task Sequencing"	Papers session 5
1.15 - 2.30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
2.30 - 3.00	Poster session 1	Poster session 2	Panel and closing 2 - 3.30
3.00 - 5.15 Afternoon session	Papers session 2 Invited Colloquium 2 Lourdes Ortega "Advances in TBLT Research"	Papers session 4 Invited Colloquium 4 Bill Littlewood "Tasks in Asian Contexts" Roundtable Discussuion TBLT and the L2 user
Evening program	Opening reception	Harbour Cruise

PANELS Tasks in practise

Two panel sessions provide teachers with the opportuniuty to see samples of a range of tasks. A forum for sharing experiences, difficulties, solutions and successes with using tasks.

Tasks in the lanquage classroom

In this session, examples of different types of tasks used in secondary language classrooms provide a starting point for open discussion of the use of tasks in second language and foreign language classrooms worldwide.

Tasks and the real world

This panel explores tasks to address the needs of adult language learners living in second language contexts, including newly arrived migrants and refugees as well as those in the workplace.