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Thursday
, March 9
11:15 GMT+04
Group Therapy: Collaborative Solutions for ESL Teachers
Salon 7
Language Learning Through Metaphors
Junior Suite 2
Teachers’ Perceptions Towards their Professional Development
Executive Suite 4
12:00 GMT+04
Engage Minds With Socrative
Executive Suite 1
Features of Connected Speech
Executive Suite 4
Holistic Rubric: Assessing Academic Writing Tasks
Sahab 1
Integrating Mobile Technology in the Classroom
Salon 8
New methods, new materials: vocabulary, IELTS, grammar
Salon 3
Practical Transitions from Theories to Integrated Activities
Executive Suite 2
THINK! Developing Language Skills Through Thinking Routines
Junior Suite 3
Thinking: Fake It Till You Make It
Executive Suite 3
Traditional Vocabulary Records in a Digital Age
Hospitality Suite
Vocabulary: Making it or Breaking it
Salon 7
Who’s Afraid of Bring Your Own Device?
Junior Suite 1
12:45 GMT+04
Differentiating Learning Goals and Lesson Activities
Sahab 2
How to Teach with Rigor
Executive Suite 1
Interactive Activities Key to Promote Students Speaking
Junior Suite 1
Making meaning of our work as educators
Junior Suite 2
Stories of Sand and Change
Samaya Ballroom C
Student Engagement in English: Walking and Talking
Executive Suite 2
Teaching Literature\Teaching Ecology, A CLIL-based Workshop
Junior Suite 3
Ten Effective Steps to Teach Reading
Executive Suite 4
13:30 GMT+04
5 practical steps to ensure test validity
Junior Suite 3
Coaching for Effective Teaching and Learning
Samaya Ballroom B
Giving Back: Corporate Social Responsibility through EFL
Salon 6
Impacting the Audience
Salon 8
Integrating IL through PBL for EAP course
Executive Suite 2
Mobile Learning Activities and Accelerated Vocabulary Development
Executive Suite 1
Organizational Metaphors: Insights for educational change
Executive Suite 3
Scaffolding Reading, Transactional Metacognitive Comprehension Strategies
Salon 5
Success in Reading via Different Modes
Junior Suite 1
Teaching Blind Learners: Challenges, Solutions and Benefits
Salon 2
The impact of games on learning vocabulary
Junior Suite 2
14:15 GMT+04
Are you ready? The Future Is Now!
Samaya Ballroom B
Extre-meme-ly Engaging: Memes for Classroom Interaction
Executive Suite 2
Honestly and Openly about Classroom Management
Hospitality Suite
Motivating Young Learners: ICT Magic
Junior Suite 3
SMART Objectives for Smart Teachers
Salon 2
Some Practical Ideas for ESP Writing
Executive Suite 3
Teach Your Students how to Drive Their Brains
Salon 6
The Effective IELTS Reading Strategies
Junior Suite 2
Using Cooperative Learning to Engage Readers
Executive Suite 1
16:15 GMT+04
Advanced Observation with a Twist!
Executive Suite 4
Beyond Words: Visual Stimuli for Speaking
Salon 3
Data: the view from the water cooler...
Salon 5
Improving Literacy with ESL Learners using ReadingA-Z
Salon 7
PowToon is The Answer
Junior Suite 1
Promoting Reading Skills with Mobile Technology
Executive Suite 2
Schoology: Teacher’s Best friend
Junior Suite 3
Selecting, completing and using an ESOL course.
Salon 6
Friday
, March 10
09:00 GMT+04
A New Approach to IELTS Reading
Executive Suite 3
Education Journalism for an Innovative ELT Career
Salon 5
Engaged 21st Century learning with social media
Salon 4
Grammar Strategies for Academic Reading Comprehension
Sahab 2
Principles of effective assessment in teaching English
Executive Suite 2
10:15 GMT+04
Engaging Students in Novels through Dramatic Arts
Sahab 2
Helping EFL Students Fare Better in Exams
Hospitality Suite
New media Literacy Why Should be Implemented?
Executive Suite 4
The Power of Stories
Salon 8
12:00 GMT+04
Continuous Professional Development (CPD): Growing as Teachers
Executive Suite 3
Exploring The Hidden Treasures of CLIL
Executive Suite 4
Language acquisition insights in the IELTS classroom
Hospitality Suite
On your desk, get set, create!
Junior Suite 1
Smart Devices in English Classrooms
Junior Suite 2
Teacher's Feedback: Automated Versus Handwritten
Executive Suite 1
The Right Way to Teach Grammar
Sahab 2
14:00 GMT+04
Academic Reading Skills: Going Beyond Basic Comprehension
Salon 2
Language Needs in the Content Classroom
Sahab 2
Teacher-Generated Materials: Oil and Gas ESP Context
Samaya Ballroom C
14:30 GMT+04
Learning about language and learning through language
Salon 3
15:00 GMT+04
Advancing Entrepreneurship Competences in ELT Context
Sahab 1
Designing Teacher-Centered Training Sessions
Salon 2
Fun Vocabulary / forming questions games
Executive Suite 4
Gamification in EFL Classroom: Engaging Learners
Executive Suite 3
Strategies and Activities for Teaching English Online
Junior Suite 3
Teaching Civic Engagement through Literature
Sahab 2
The Cambridge English Corpus in ELT publishing
Samaya Ballroom C
Transition from Teacher’s Authority to Learner’s Autonomy
Executive Suite 1
Using Simple Math to Write English sentences
Executive Suite 2
15:30 GMT+04
Wow your students with an interactive quiz!
Salon 7
16:15 GMT+04
Enhancing effective teaching of IELTS Academic Reading
Salon 2
Motivating the Reluctant Learner
Executive Suite 1
Streaming through encoders to produce innovative materials
Salon 7
The Web as a Research Tool
Salon 8
Tips for using WhatsApp with English-foundation students
Executive Suite 4
Using images to boost speaking in classroom
Executive Suite 3
Saturday
, March 11
09:00 GMT+04
Learning Tools that Enhance Language Production
Salon 2
10:15 GMT+04
Content-and-English Integrated Learning (CEIL): Impact and Implementation
Executive Suite 1
Ensuring Fair and Accurate Assessment Using Rubrics
Hospitality Suite
Integrating Vocabulary and Grammar into Productive Skills
Sahab 1
M-Reader and Extensive Reading Program
Salon 3
Teacher- Leaders: The various faces of leadership
Executive Suite 3
11:00 GMT+04
Connecting Teachers and Students through Edmodo
Sahab 2
Linking Digital Storyelling to 21st Century Skills
Sahab 1
Playing Sports in the Classroom
Salon 3
Scaffolding in Teaching Writing Skills
Salon 2
11:30 GMT+04
Motivating Large EFL Classes: Challenges and Solutions
Junior Suite 3
Strategies for tackling IELTS writing task 1
Hospitality Suite
12:00 GMT+04
Decoding medical terminology for lesson planning.
Junior Suite 2
Dictation or Dictatorship
Junior Suite 3
Engage ELL with Words Clouds
Executive Suite 3
Error Correction Techniques
Executive Suite 1
Helping Students Improve Their Academic Writing Skills
Executive Suite 2
Is handwriting no more a critical skill?
Salon 2
Praise: what, when, how, and why?
Salon 4
SEIs: Perceptions of College Writing Instructors
Samaya Ballroom C
Student-ing 101: Learner Training for GCC ELCs
Salon 3
Using Authentic Materials / {Reading & Speaking}
Executive Suite 4
How I merged Technology with Active Learning
Salon 7
13:00 GMT+04
Blogging to Enhance ESL teaching/learning
Executive Suite 4
CANCELLED: Moodle or Canvas: Which is for you?
Executive Suite 2
Incorporating Differentiation in Writing Class with Padlet
Executive Suite 3
Inshallah: Advancing Cross-Cultural Understanding in ELT
Salon 7
Productive Learning Activities for the AWL
Salon 8
Speaking for Homework with VoiceThread
Salon 6
Systematic publishing approaches for EFL educators
Hospitality Suite
The Benefits of Doing Extensive Reading Online
Samaya Ballroom C
Using Gesture: Helping to Make Prepositions Easier
Salon 4
14:00 GMT+04
Effective Techniques for Effective Reading
Salon 2
Games and fun activities in vocabulary learning
Sahab 2
Grammar Teaching with Board Games
Salon 3
Is Teaching Vocabulary in Context Enough?
Junior Suite 1
Joys of writing, invoking learner’s interest
Executive Suite 2
Making Smart Choices in the Classroom
Salon 8
MENA Writing Centers: What, why and how
Samaya Ballroom C
Quick and Simple Informal Assessment for All
Executive Suite 4
Teaching Reading, Vocabulary and Grammar with Technology
Salon 7
15:00 GMT+04
Effective Teaching of Reading Comprehension
Hospitality Suite
I Tried Flipped Class, So Should You!
Salon 6
Integrating digital technology within and beyond classrooms
Executive Suite 4
Paraphrasing: A Manageable Challenge
Executive Suite 1
Student Engagement in the ESL Classroom
Salon 5
TED Talks Optimizing through Digital Content Curation
Samaya Ballroom C
Ten Minutes to a Happier You.
Salon 2
Total Participation Techniques for the Classroom.
Salon 8
Understanding Culture’s Impact on Emerging Languages
Executive Suite 2
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