Welcome! Teacher Research and/for the Global South
30 April 2022 - Online

Ahead of the IATEFL 55th International Conference & Exhibition - Belfast 2022, the IATEFL Research SIG will hold a conference focused on ‘Teacher Research and/for the Global South’. This conference will be held online with the purpose to make it as inclusive and accessible as possible, particularly for the Global South participation.

The event will feature a plenary session; poster presentations by teachers and teacher mentors involved in teacher research in and for the Global South, and a panel discussion of specialists from countries in the Global South who will problematise and debate the concept of ‘Global South’.

​Please direct questions to the Conference Coordinator Asli Saglam at [email protected]  
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Registration

Registration is open! Click here for all details. 
Fees: IATEFL member 5GBP - Non member 10GBP

Meet our speakers!

Plenary speaker

Rama Mathew is an ELT consultant and retired as Professor of Education from the University of Delhi where she was also Dean of the Faculty of Education. She taught at the EFL University (Hyderabad) for several years. She was Head of the Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of English in Action project in Bangladesh. She has been involved in several teacher development and assessment projects, and published articles and books in the area. She was a lead mentor for ARMS (Action Research mentoring Scheme) and for ELTRMS (ELT Research Mentoring Scheme), both British Council funded schemes. She has just completed work on a project in Sierra Leone where she supported teachers to carry out classroom based research. Her research interests include language assessment, teaching English to young learners, CPD of teachers, multilingual education and making English accessible to learners online.

Panellists

Mariana Serra is an Argentinian teacher of English and a licentiate in English. She was one of the winners of Aptis for Teachers Action Research Awards (British Council) in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Mariana has participated as a moderator during Classroom-based Research Electronic Village Online (EVO) sessions since 2018 becoming a lead-moderator in 2020,2021 and 2022. For over ten years, she has worked in universities, tertiary level institutions and secondary schools teaching English as a foreign language, including as Head of Department coordinating and monitoring school teaching.

She has attended Mentoring teacher-research EVO 2020 led by Richard Smith and Seden E. Tuyan and has been one of the mentors invited to participate in the Mentoring Teacher- research 2021 Support group.

She was part of Dr. Richard Smith's team in 2020-2021. They developed the Enhancement mentoring for Teacher Research approach.

She co-founded the APIBA Teacher Research SIG in her country. Her interests are applied linguistics, teacher-research mentoring and materials development. Email: [email protected]

Prem Phyak is an applied linguist and a teacher educator, with research interests in language policy, multilingualism, language ideology, critical pedagogy, teacher identity/agency and social justice in language education. He has pursued M.Ed. in English Language Education from Tribhuvan University (Nepal), MA TESOL from the UCL Institute of Education (UK) and PhD in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA). Prem has extensive experiences of working with teachers, policy makers, students, and parents on a wide range of topics such as course development, teacher training, and multilingual education, particularly in under-resourced contexts. Currently, Prem teaches at the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Eric Ekembe holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon and holds a tenure position as lecturer in the above discipline at the Higher Teacher Training College, Yaoundé. He has presented papers at international conferences and was the plenary speaker for the ReSIG & GISIG 2019 joint PCE event in Africa TESOL conference in Abuja. He runs the CAMELTA Research Group. He has been Seasonal TEFL trainer for the American Peace Corps in Cameroon and has equally been TESOL International conference proposal reviewer for three years respectively. Eric’s research interest is postcolonial discourse in ELT. He has published research articles in internationally peered-reviewed journals and is co-editor of Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century Global Dispensation: Research in Language, Literature, & Education in Africa.

Updated Programme
 
Saturday 30th April

Poster presentations