{"id":9717,"date":"2011-04-10T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/eaquals-international-conference-prague-april-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T13:48:05","slug":"eaquals-international-conference-prague-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/eaquals-international-conference-prague-april-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"EAQUALS International Conference, Prague, April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4140\" src=\"https:\/\/yals.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2011-04-prague-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yals.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2011-04-prague-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yals.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2011-04-prague.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The National Technological Library, venue for the 2011 EAQUALS Conference<\/p>\n<p><em>by Danijela Veljkovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n<p>EAQUALS 2011 International Conference was held in Prague on Friday 8th &#8211; Saturday 9th April. It was preceded by inspector training, a management training workshop for EAQUALS members, and the 20th Annual General Meeting of members. One hundred and forty participants from 23 countries attended the Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Invited speakers included Peter Medgyes, George Pickering, and Pete Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the conference was \u2018Enhancing Classroom Language Learning: the Challenges for Teachers, Trainers and Managers&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The EAQUALS 2011 Conference was attended by Danijela Veljkovic, who represented YALS.<\/p>\n<p>The main thematic questions included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What can teachers do to ensure that their teaching and their students&#8217; learning is both effective and rewarding, and that learners progress as fast as they can?<\/li>\n<li>What can school owners and managers do to provide the optimum infrastructure for language learning, and to generate the kind of student satisfaction that will lead to excellent word-of-mouth recommendations and growth in enrolments?<\/li>\n<li>How can the curriculum, teaching resources and assessment be organised to guide and support the effectiveness of teaching?<\/li>\n<li>What are the most useful and innovative resources available to learners to continue effective learning outside the classroom during and after their course?<\/li>\n<li>How can teachers, even the most experienced, best continue to develop professionally so as to enhance their own effectiveness?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the\u00a0<strong>Annual General meeting<\/strong>\u00a0two new associate members were accepted into EAQUALS: Centre International d\u2019Etudes Pedagogiques (CIEP), France and UK Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office \u2013 Language Policy and Standards Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Universita per Stranieri di Perugia \u2013 Centro per la Valutazione e le Certificazioni Linguistiche (Italy), Zayed University (Dubai) and Istituto Tecnico Industriale Buonarroti, Trento (Italy) were accepted as project partners.<\/p>\n<p>The following Board Members were elected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian North, Eurocentres Foundation \u2013 Vice Chair OF EAQUALS<\/li>\n<li>Ian Powney, International House London \u2013 Treasurer<\/li>\n<li>Axel Freudenfeld, Eurocentres Berlin \u2013 Board Member (governance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next EAQUALS meeting will be held in Trieste in November 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tx-excerpt\">The National Technological Library, venue for the 2011 EAQUALS Conference by Danijela Veljkovi\u0107 EAQUALS 2011 International Conference was held in Prague on Friday 8th &#8211;...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-professional-gatherings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}