Programme for 21 April 2010

9:30 – 10:00

Registration

10:00 – 10:30

Michael Grenfell, Trinity College, Dublin - Language Learner Strategies: Working at the Interface between Research, Policy and Practice in a UK Context

10:30 – 11:00

Ernesto Macaro, University of Oxford - Strategies: the unit of analysis and the relationship between strategy use and successful learning

11:00 – 11:45

Coffee/tea and:

Workgroup session 1: Strategies research, policy and successful language learning – led by teachers

11:45 – 12:15

Vee Harris, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London - Implementing strategy instruction with beginner learners

12:15 – 12:45

Robert Woore & Lynn Erler, University of Oxford - Developing learner autonomy through strategies

12:45 – 1:30

Workgroup session 2a: Helping students to learn how to learn and tracking their on-going strategies development – led by UKPOLLS members and teachers on specific strategies and strategy training

1:30 – 2:15

Lunch

2:15 – 2:45

Suzanne Graham, University of Reading - Learner strategies: the link with motivation

2:45 – 3:15

Do Coyle, University of Aberdeen - Components of the strategic classroom

3:15 – 4:00

Workgroup session 2b: Process and products of the strategic classroom – led by teachers and UKPOLLS members

4:00 – 4:15

Coffee/tea and:

4:15 – 5:15

Plenary and feedback: Panel discussion and conclusion: ways forward at different levels: policy, curriculum, materials creation, school-departmental-classroom based.