This seminar will explore fertile areas and techniques for teaching vocabulary. These areas will
include art and design, cult objects, fashion, icons and figures from popular culture. This will
be especially useful for teachers of teenagers/young adults and young professionals.
Techniques covered will include memory exercises, word circles and learner training ideas.
OBJECTIVES
To provide teachers with some new ideas for vocabulary development and materials that they will be able
to adapt to their own use in class. The seminar will also serve as an opportunity to brush up on
pronunciation and current idiomatic use in British and American English.
Bio Data
James Banner is Director of External Courses at Hilderstone College, UK. He directed the RSA Diploma
in Teaching Foreign Languages to Adults, which Hilderstone piloted with the University of Edinburgh,
and a Certificate Programme in TFLA for Hilderstone College in conjunction with Kent Adult Education
and the University of Kent. He has wide experience of teaching and training at all levels both in Britain
and abroad and has published articles on language teaching and cultural issues. Also, he has regularly
presented seminars on behalf of the British Council in Italy, Germany, Brazil, Spain and Japan.
Lunch: 12:00-13:30 Join us in walking to, and dining at, a restaurant close to the campus.
The afternoon presentation will start at 14:00. See the separate notice for details.
