Our sponsors
The following associations officially supported this EVO:
All-India Network of English Teachers (AINET);
English Language Professionals' Association (ELPA) - Ethiopia
IATEFL Research SIG;
IATEFL Teacher Development SIG;
Red de Investigadores Chilenos (RICELT);
Teaching English in Large Classes network (TELCnet)
Who are we? Meet the moderators
The first Classroom-based research for professional development EVO was held in January-February 2016 under the leadership of Kenan Dikilitas and Asli Saglam. This time the EVO was coordinated by Richard Smith.
Kenan Dikilitas
Kenan, from Turkey has been a teacher for 19 years and a trainer for the last six years. His teacher training experience primarily includes supporting teacher research for professional development.
Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam
Asli, from Turkey, has been an English teacher in EAP settings for 15 years. She is an educational technologies enthusiast. Her research interests include; teacher education, educational technology and testing and assessment. She shares her reflections about teaching in her blog at http://aslisaglam.edublogs.org/ and on Twitter (@aslilidice)
Richard Smith
Richard, from the UK, has been a teacher educator for more than twenty years, the last fifteen of them in the UK at the University of Warwick. He is the co-founder and coordinator of the Teaching English in Large Classes network (TELCnet) and outreach coordinator for the IATEFL Research SIG. He has given invitedworkshops and plenary talks about teacher-research in several countries. Website:http://warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmith
Twitter @RichardSmithELT
Paula Rebolledo
Paula, from Chile, has taught at school level and in INSETT programmes. Currently, she is the national academic coordinator of the English Opens Doors Programme at the Ministry of Education in Chile. She is the co-founder of RICELT, the first Chilean network of researchers in ELT. She has been mentoring teacher-research on the Chile Champion Teachers project funded by the British Council.
Amol Padwad
Amol, from India, currently works in a private college in India and is the National Convener of All India Network of English Teachers (AINET). He has also been a trainer, consultant and project manager for over 15 years and is currently leading an action research project for school teachers.
Jo Gakonga
Jo, from the UK, works on the MA in ELT at Warwick University as well as being a CELTA trainer and assessor and studying for a PhD in the field of teacher education. She also runs two websites www.elt-training.com andwww.teacherfeedback.org. She has three children and very little spare time!
Michelle Evans
Michelle, from the UK, has ESOL and EAP teaching experience in the UK and Vietnam and is currently a research assistant within the Teacher-research for Difficult Circumstances project at the University of Warwick.
Babita Sharma Chapagain
Babita completed MA in ELT from the University of Warwick in 2015. She works as a teacher trainer at Rato Bangala Foundation, Nepal. She has also been teaching at Kathmandu University where she assists M Ed (ELT) students in carrying out a classroom-based research.
Sadeqa Ghazal
Sadeqa, from India, is a senior research fellow pursuing PhD(ELT) from the school of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Her research interests include learner autonomy, teaching speaking, critical pedagogy and classroom-based action research in ELT. She has taught ESL at school level for more than five years in low-resource classrooms.
Twitter: @sadeqaghazal
Mark Wyatt
Mark, currently in the UAE, has worked in teacher education in contexts including Thailand, Nepal, Oman (with in-service teachers on a University of Leeds BA TESOL) and the UK (with Malaysian pre-service B.Ed TESL students at the University of Portsmouth). He moderates the discussion board of the IATEFL Research SIG and co-edits ELT Research.
The following associations officially supported this EVO:
All-India Network of English Teachers (AINET);
English Language Professionals' Association (ELPA) - Ethiopia
IATEFL Research SIG;
IATEFL Teacher Development SIG;
Red de Investigadores Chilenos (RICELT);
Teaching English in Large Classes network (TELCnet)
Who are we? Meet the moderators
The first Classroom-based research for professional development EVO was held in January-February 2016 under the leadership of Kenan Dikilitas and Asli Saglam. This time the EVO was coordinated by Richard Smith.
Kenan Dikilitas
Kenan, from Turkey has been a teacher for 19 years and a trainer for the last six years. His teacher training experience primarily includes supporting teacher research for professional development.
Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam
Asli, from Turkey, has been an English teacher in EAP settings for 15 years. She is an educational technologies enthusiast. Her research interests include; teacher education, educational technology and testing and assessment. She shares her reflections about teaching in her blog at http://aslisaglam.edublogs.org/ and on Twitter (@aslilidice)
Richard Smith
Richard, from the UK, has been a teacher educator for more than twenty years, the last fifteen of them in the UK at the University of Warwick. He is the co-founder and coordinator of the Teaching English in Large Classes network (TELCnet) and outreach coordinator for the IATEFL Research SIG. He has given invitedworkshops and plenary talks about teacher-research in several countries. Website:http://warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmith
Twitter @RichardSmithELT
Paula Rebolledo
Paula, from Chile, has taught at school level and in INSETT programmes. Currently, she is the national academic coordinator of the English Opens Doors Programme at the Ministry of Education in Chile. She is the co-founder of RICELT, the first Chilean network of researchers in ELT. She has been mentoring teacher-research on the Chile Champion Teachers project funded by the British Council.
Amol Padwad
Amol, from India, currently works in a private college in India and is the National Convener of All India Network of English Teachers (AINET). He has also been a trainer, consultant and project manager for over 15 years and is currently leading an action research project for school teachers.
Jo Gakonga
Jo, from the UK, works on the MA in ELT at Warwick University as well as being a CELTA trainer and assessor and studying for a PhD in the field of teacher education. She also runs two websites www.elt-training.com andwww.teacherfeedback.org. She has three children and very little spare time!
Michelle Evans
Michelle, from the UK, has ESOL and EAP teaching experience in the UK and Vietnam and is currently a research assistant within the Teacher-research for Difficult Circumstances project at the University of Warwick.
Babita Sharma Chapagain
Babita completed MA in ELT from the University of Warwick in 2015. She works as a teacher trainer at Rato Bangala Foundation, Nepal. She has also been teaching at Kathmandu University where she assists M Ed (ELT) students in carrying out a classroom-based research.
Sadeqa Ghazal
Sadeqa, from India, is a senior research fellow pursuing PhD(ELT) from the school of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Her research interests include learner autonomy, teaching speaking, critical pedagogy and classroom-based action research in ELT. She has taught ESL at school level for more than five years in low-resource classrooms.
Twitter: @sadeqaghazal
Mark Wyatt
Mark, currently in the UAE, has worked in teacher education in contexts including Thailand, Nepal, Oman (with in-service teachers on a University of Leeds BA TESOL) and the UK (with Malaysian pre-service B.Ed TESL students at the University of Portsmouth). He moderates the discussion board of the IATEFL Research SIG and co-edits ELT Research.