I didn't make it to this year's convention in Seville because I had other commitments, but I have heard a lot about it and as a reader for the TESOL Newsletter and with friends on the Board, I try and keep up with what's happening in TESOL Spain.
I receive the e-newsletter once a month by email. You can read this month's edition online here (and also look through the previous 10 editions). The Question and Answer with Dr David Crystal (whose plenary I had the pleasure to attend in Bilbao) is well worth reading.
I've just been looking at the TESOL Spain website too and have begun downloading the handouts from the sessions in Seville.
The fact that you can access speakers' handouts even though you weren't at the Convention or were there but couldn't go to everything at once is great. A great initiative!
I've downloaded several sets of handouts to look through in more detail. Many of them contain your take-away-and-use-today ideas - for example Andrea Littlewood's ideas for personalisation in the YL classroom or Fiona Mauchline's Putting the Creative Back in Writing.
And of course, our very own Cambridge English Seminar Presenter, Katie Curbelo (or Katie Maunder as she appears on the programme) was in Seville. Her session was called Speak, Write, Learn: Fun Activities for the Adolescent Classroom. I'm sure the session was as practical and as useful as always.
I'll be looking at the other articles in the newsletter and downloading more handouts in the coming days when I have time to come back to the site. If you do the same, pass on recommendations to the rest of us via this blog!
And I hope to see some of you in Granada on Saturday!
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