What if a few simple game elements could make your lessons more engaging? In this interactive session, participants will experience gamification from the learner’s perspective through short challenges, teamwork, points, rewards, and feedback. We will explore practical ways to bring these elements into the classroom without turning every lesson into a game. By the end, participants will have tried a few strategies and designed a simple gamified activity they can adapt to their own students.

Available seats: 0

Grammar teaching often requires explanation, controlled practice, and attention to accuracy. However, these elements can sometimes become the experience of learning grammar rather than a means toward meaningful language use. Drawing on the Master of Grammar Club, this workshop explores how teachers can redesign grammar activities to create opportunities for communication, participation, choice, and purposeful language use. Participants will analyse practices and transform them through an activity-design process while considering how grammatical accuracy can support, rather than replace, meaningful communication.

Available seats: 0

Motivation is more than games, rewards, or entertaining activities. It can be intentionally supported through the way we design learning experiences. This session explores research-informed principles of motivation and translates them into practical strategies adapted to the realities of English language teaching. Participants will explore a practical framework to identify opportunities for motivation throughout a lesson, apply it to authentic classroom scenarios, and reflect on how small instructional decisions can foster engagement, confidence, autonomy, and meaningful participation.

Available seats: 0

Student participation drops when learners fear making mistakes or feel disconnected from their classmates. This session presents classroom-tested strategies for integrating Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) into daily ELT routines without compromising communication goals. Through real classroom examples and guided peer discussion, teachers will explore how SEL improves student collaboration and confidence. Participants will leave with practical frameworks to build an inclusive environment where quiet learners thrive.

Available seats: 0

Have you ever asked a question to the whole group, only to see a tumbleweed rolling by? When delivering lessons, getting students to talk can be one of the challenges we face most often. In this workshop, you will explore how creating spaces where everyone has the opportunity to speak, share ideas, and contribute can transform students’ participation. Through purposeful pair and group work, assigning roles, and designing meaningful collaborative tasks.

Available seats: 0

Diversity in the classroom extends far beyond culture, language, or visible differences. This presentation focuses on disabilities, learning differences, and accessibility, exploring how educators can move beyond simply recognizing differences to creating truly inclusive learning environments. Through a human-centered approach, we will examine the barriers that learners with disabilities may encounter and consider practical ways to foster accessibility, emotional safety, and belonging—creating classrooms where every learner feels seen, valued, supported, and empowered to learn in their own way.

Available seats: 0

English education becomes transformative when it recognizes the human behind every learner. In diverse classrooms, teaching must move beyond standardized outcomes to embrace students’ identities, experiences, emotions, and ways of understanding. Human-centered practices strengthen critical thinking, invite meaningful brainstorming, and create learning environments grounded in belonging and respect. Exploring approaches to learning English allows educators to respond to individual needs from multiple perspectives, fostering confidence, participation, and agency; elevating teaching practices while preparing learners to communicate, question, and contribute critically.

Available seats: 0

Achieving true impact in education is an evolving challenge, yet discovering that single, guiding spark is what inspires students to give their best. We naturally reconnect with lessons that bring joy and leave behind profound, meaningful insights. When mentors cultivate safe, supportive environments, they foster delightful outcomes that leave a permanent mark proving that enduring learning is always rooted in good memories.

Available seats: 0

Prompting has become a core competency for modern ELT professionals since educators depend heavily on it for communicating with A.I. This workshop offers attendees a perspective to design prompts that create meaningful, learner-centered, and effective lessons for regular classes, and extracurricular activities. By using the A.I model Copilot from Microsoft, and any other A.I. model available, participant will learn and use the framework RCTF that will reduce hours of lesson planing to just a few minutes.

Available seats: 0

What if our emotions could write better than we can? This session explores creative writing as a tool for emotional expression and meaningful language learning. Through activities, teachers will see how writing helps learners express emotions, develop their voice, and communicate beyond grammar and vocabulary. AI can support creativity while keeping learners’ voices at the center. Participants will leave with ideas for fostering creativity, emotional expression, and authentic communication in their EFL classrooms.

Available seats: 0

Have you ever checked your blocks and noticed you have pages 10-11 from Connectivity 1 dedicated to the reading "Is pronunciation important?" — Probably yes, and you may have wondered what the most effective way to approach this topic with your students is. Tongue twisters might be the answer. Through this workshop, teachers will explore a three-step guide on how to use them to teach pronunciation features such as intonation, stress, rhythm, and sounds that they can apply in their classes.

Available seats: 0

Before becoming an English teacher, I worked in animal behaviour and welfare, where observation, positive reinforcement, and environmental design were essential to learning. This session explores how these principles can be adapted to the English classroom to increase motivation, participation, and confidence. Through practical classroom examples, participants will explore how understanding learner behaviour, creating supportive environments, and reinforcing participation can foster more engaged, learner-centred classrooms. Teachers will leave with practical strategies they can apply immediately.

Available seats: 0

The integration of AI in learning environments has been seen as a threat to educators. But, in ESL scenarios, it has mainly been used to generate complementary activities. Nevertheless, AI’s effectiveness depends on the clarity of the instruction. This workshop gives teachers the opportunity to work on the crafting of prompts that will help them generate more engaging material, responding to class’ needs. By the end of the session, mentors will effectively incorporate AI in real ASW settings.

Available seats: 0

Students know the words and rules, yet struggle to use, retain, or practice them consistently. This session explores how movement, emotion, and memory work together to close that gap. Through embodied techniques — gestures linked to meaning, spatial anchors, and emotionally-charged storytelling — language becomes felt and lived, not memorized. Participants leave with mechanisms and dynamics that engage learners of any age, proving movement-based learning isn't just for children, plus a framework for turning knowledge into language students actually use and remember.

Available seats: 0

This interactive workshop presents practical strategies for creating English language classrooms where equitable student access and manageable teaching demands work together. Through structured case simulations, participants explore three common challenges: physical access and stamina, varied levels of instructional readiness, and navigating print and digital courseware. By examining their impact on learner participation and educator workload, participants develop adaptable tools that promote shared agency, inclusion, and belonging while supporting sustainable teaching practices and empowering every learner.

Available seats: 0

Education is an intrinsically human process in which knowledge transmission is inseparable from teachers’ and students’ emotional and personal experiences. In EFL contexts, learners often face socio-emotional barriers, including social anxiety, fear of public speaking, and stress-related performance blocks. Educators also navigate emotional challenges such as occupational stress, exhaustion, and the impact of repetitive instruction without specific socio-emotional training. This project explores how personal backgrounds and emotional realities interact in the EFL classroom, either fostering engagement or creating barriers to learning.

Available seats: 0

“What’s your favorite food?” “Pizza.” “Okay. Next question.” Sound familiar? This workshop explores how teachers can turn short speaking exchanges into richer conversations by adding a Social-Emotional Communication Layer to existing activities. Drawing on Social-Emotional Learning and L2 Interactional Competence, participants will experience a speaking task before and after adaptation, identify what changes, and explore how to enrich interaction without changing the original communicative objective.

Available seats: 0

Student agency requires more than providing learners with multiple options. It involves creating meaningful opportunities for students to make decisions, contribute, and take ownership of their learning. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore how choice boards and purposeful student roles can support these opportunities in ELT contexts. Teachers will experience a model choice board, analyze different roles, and collaboratively design a classroom activity. The workshop will provide practical strategies for promoting agency, belonging, and engagement through intentional learning design.

Available seats: 0

Phrasal verbs are more than vocabulary—they reflect the history, culture, and identity of English. This workshop explores their origins, cultural significance, and role in human centered communication. Participants will look at why learners struggle with phrasal verbs, examine effective, context-based teaching strategies, and practice activities that promote long-term retention over memorization. Attendees will leave with practical classroom techniques and a deeper understanding of one of English's most distinctive and culturally significant features. 

Available seats: 0

Transform your teaching and learn to transmit English knowledge through video game mechanics that drive deep concentration and problem-solving skills. This innovative learning design applies Ilya Kurylev’s approaches to business gamification, storytelling, and mechanics, alongside Ivan Nefedyev’s expertise in HR and scaffolded journeys. By turning tasks into narrative missions with fading support, this student-centered pedagogical methodology ensures complex objectives become achievable. Boost classroom engagement and professional growth, inspiring both students and coworkers alike!

Available seats: 0

What if a few simple game elements could make your lessons more engaging? In this interactive session, participants will experience gamification from the learner’s perspective through short challenges, teamwork, points, rewards, and feedback. We will explore practical ways to bring these elements into the classroom without turning every lesson into a game. By the end, participants will have tried a few strategies and designed a simple gamified activity they can adapt to their own students.

Available seats: 0

Grammar teaching often requires explanation, controlled practice, and attention to accuracy. However, these elements can sometimes become the experience of learning grammar rather than a means toward meaningful language use. Drawing on the Master of Grammar Club, this workshop explores how teachers can redesign grammar activities to create opportunities for communication, participation, choice, and purposeful language use. Participants will analyse practices and transform them through an activity-design process while considering how grammatical accuracy can support, rather than replace, meaningful communication.

Available seats: 0

Motivation is more than games, rewards, or entertaining activities. It can be intentionally supported through the way we design learning experiences. This session explores research-informed principles of motivation and translates them into practical strategies adapted to the realities of English language teaching. Participants will explore a practical framework to identify opportunities for motivation throughout a lesson, apply it to authentic classroom scenarios, and reflect on how small instructional decisions can foster engagement, confidence, autonomy, and meaningful participation.

Available seats: 0

Student participation drops when learners fear making mistakes or feel disconnected from their classmates. This session presents classroom-tested strategies for integrating Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) into daily ELT routines without compromising communication goals. Through real classroom examples and guided peer discussion, teachers will explore how SEL improves student collaboration and confidence. Participants will leave with practical frameworks to build an inclusive environment where quiet learners thrive.

Available seats: 0

Have you ever asked a question to the whole group, only to see a tumbleweed rolling by? When delivering lessons, getting students to talk can be one of the challenges we face most often. In this workshop, you will explore how creating spaces where everyone has the opportunity to speak, share ideas, and contribute can transform students’ participation. Through purposeful pair and group work, assigning roles, and designing meaningful collaborative tasks.

Available seats: 0

Have you ever checked your blocks and noticed you have pages 10-11 from Connectivity 1 dedicated to the reading "Is pronunciation important?" — Probably yes, and you may have wondered what the most effective way to approach this topic with your students is. Tongue twisters might be the answer. Through this workshop, teachers will explore a three-step guide on how to use them to teach pronunciation features such as intonation, stress, rhythm, and sounds that they can apply in their classes.

Available seats: 0

Student agency requires more than providing learners with multiple options. It involves creating meaningful opportunities for students to make decisions, contribute, and take ownership of their learning. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore how choice boards and purposeful student roles can support these opportunities in ELT contexts. Teachers will experience a model choice board, analyze different roles, and collaboratively design a classroom activity. The workshop will provide practical strategies for promoting agency, belonging, and engagement through intentional learning design.

Available seats: 0

Boardgames can be used dinamically to enhance the learning process and boost students' confidence. Not only autonomous work is seen during speaking activities in a club, but also, collaborative work. Therefore, students are less likely to be frustrated by speaking anxiety, since they feel encouraged and supported. As a result, participants will play a couple of games divided by stations, where they will find the instructions and relevant information according to them, so they can see what it is like.

Available seats: 0

Social-emotional learning is based on self-awareness, social awareness and relationship skills. Thus, gaining accurate insight into one's identity is essential. The MBTI is a popular psychometric test used for such a purpose due to its prevalence in recruiting processes. This makes it an excellent resource for EFL learners, as it allows for an introspective exercise with applications in the workplace. By administering and analyzing this test, this experience sharing will provide resources to include the MBTI in the We-Talk classroom.

Available seats: 0

Older adults are often overlooked in English language teaching, despite their need for meaningful, accessible, and confidence-building learning experiences. This session presents a human-centered approach to designing English materials for older adult A1 learners, grounded in andragogy, accessibility, and communicative learning. Participants will explore how visual materials, real-life contexts, repetition, storytelling, and hands-on activities can support listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The session highlights practical design principles that can make English learning more inclusive, engaging, and relevant for older adults.

Available seats: 0

This round-table session explores how teachers can address learners’ social-emotional needs through practical classroom strategies. Participants will be assigned a learner profile representing a specific social-emotional challenge, such as anxiety, low confidence, lack of motivation, or fear of making mistakes. Working collaboratively, teachers will design a five-minute micro-learning class tailored to their learner’s needs. The activity encourages reflection, creativity, and empathy while promoting inclusive, supportive, and emotionally responsive approaches to English language education.

Available seats: 0

English instruction is inherently bound to culture, identity, and social realities. By comparing assessment practices in a rural public school and a private language institute in Colombia, this study investigates translanguaging in students’ experiences. Findings reveal that allowing learners to reflect and discuss ideas in Spanish before responding in English significantly boosts their confidence. Ultimately, these results invite us to reconsider the English classroom as a space where students can question, express identity, and challenge dominant ways of understanding language.

Available seats: 0

What if learning could feel less like completing a task and more like solving a mission? This interactive session explores how gamification can increase engagement by combining four learning modalities within an escape-room experience. Participants will work collaboratively through challenges requiring communication, observation, listening, movement, and written reasoning. The session demonstrates how intentionally varied activities can promote active participation and offers educators a practical model they can adapt to create more engaging and inclusive classrooms.

Available seats: 0

In the digital age, internet content (memes) has emerged as a reflection of the daily reality, a way in which students relate what they live with how they learn. Teachers face a constant change on trends and vocabulary easily found in classes. This presentation works as a way to reflect, share, analyse and implement this material towards useful purposes.

Available seats: 0

What if the textbook is not the lesson, but the starting point? This interactive workshop explores how Thinking Routines and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) can reorient established Academic English lessons without compromising their linguistic objectives. Participants will examine key theoretical principles, experience model classroom practices, and collaboratively transform textbook-based lessons through intentional thinking and SEL-oriented design. The session culminates in microteaching, as participants present or enact their redesigned lessons and critically reflect on their pedagogical decisions.

Available seats: 0

It would be difficult to imagine what Sun Tzu, credited as the author of a renowned treatise on warfare, would do when facing a group of tired, unmotivated, or frustrated ESL students. Yet experienced and committed teachers frequently encounter such situations. This round table invites participants to share insightful accounts of challenging classroom experiences while exploring how selected principles from Sun Tzu can inform our pedagogical decisions, strengthen bonds among teachers, and help us respond more strategically to classroom difficulties.

Available seats: 0

While practice platforms like My English Lab are excellent for building foundational skills, most language acquisition happens when students discover their own authentic resources. This session applies Self-Determination Theory to help educators bridge the gap between assigned platform practice and independent resource discovery. Through dynamic brainstorming and collaborative "hacking" activities, participants will learn how to turn platform modules into launchpads, walking away with a toolkit designed to help students confidently navigate podcasts, videos, and articles in the wild.

Available seats: 0

Teachers’ well-being is essential to sustainable and effective language education, yet everyday demands can affect emotional balance and meaningful connections in the classroom. Drawing on experiences from online and face-to-face English teaching, this experience-sharing session invites teachers to recognize everyday situations that may affect their well-being, through guided reflections and practical strategies that can support greater awareness and assertive responses, considering how teachers and educational institutions can work together to foster healthier, more sustainable teaching environments.

Available seats: 0

Discover how GPT ASW SmartConvoClub transforms Conversation Club planning through AI. This interactive workshop introduces a practical framework for designing engaging, learner-centered sessions aligned with the ASW methodology. Participants will experience the tool firsthand, create a complete Conversation Club session, and explore how AI can streamline planning, foster creativity, and support meaningful language learning—all from their smartphones.

Available seats: 0

Teaching is deeply rewarding, but it can also be emotionally demanding. This interactive workshop equips educators with practical, evidence-based techniques to recognize early signs of burnout and develop sustainable classroom habits that protect their well-being without compromising teaching quality. Participants will explore strategies for emotional regulation, boundary-setting, classroom energy management, and micro-recovery practices that fit naturally into everyday lessons. Grounded in research on teacher well-being and resilience, the session offers tools educators can immediately apply in their classroom routines.

Available seats: 0

English education becomes transformative when it recognizes the human behind every learner. In diverse classrooms, teaching must move beyond standardized outcomes to embrace students’ identities, experiences, emotions, and ways of understanding. Human-centered practices strengthen critical thinking, invite meaningful brainstorming, and create learning environments grounded in belonging and respect. Exploring approaches to learning English allows educators to respond to individual needs from multiple perspectives, fostering confidence, participation, and agency; elevating teaching practices while preparing learners to communicate, question, and contribute critically.

Available seats: 0

Achieving true impact in education is an evolving challenge, yet discovering that single, guiding spark is what inspires students to give their best. We naturally reconnect with lessons that bring joy and leave behind profound, meaningful insights. When mentors cultivate safe, supportive environments, they foster delightful outcomes that leave a permanent mark proving that enduring learning is always rooted in good memories.

Available seats: 0

Prompting has become a core competency for modern ELT professionals since educators depend heavily on it for communicating with A.I. This workshop offers attendees a perspective to design prompts that create meaningful, learner-centered, and effective lessons for regular classes, and extracurricular activities. By using the A.I model Copilot from Microsoft, and any other A.I. model available, participant will learn and use the framework RCTF that will reduce hours of lesson planing to just a few minutes.

Available seats: 0

Before becoming an English teacher, I worked in animal behaviour and welfare, where observation, positive reinforcement, and environmental design were essential to learning. This session explores how these principles can be adapted to the English classroom to increase motivation, participation, and confidence. Through practical classroom examples, participants will explore how understanding learner behaviour, creating supportive environments, and reinforcing participation can foster more engaged, learner-centred classrooms. Teachers will leave with practical strategies they can apply immediately.

Available seats: 0

The integration of AI in learning environments has been seen as a threat to educators. But, in ESL scenarios, it has mainly been used to generate complementary activities. Nevertheless, AI’s effectiveness depends on the clarity of the instruction. This workshop gives teachers the opportunity to work on the crafting of prompts that will help them generate more engaging material, responding to class’ needs. By the end of the session, mentors will effectively incorporate AI in real ASW settings.

Available seats: 0

“What’s your favorite food?” “Pizza.” “Okay. Next question.” Sound familiar? This workshop explores how teachers can turn short speaking exchanges into richer conversations by adding a Social-Emotional Communication Layer to existing activities. Drawing on Social-Emotional Learning and L2 Interactional Competence, participants will experience a speaking task before and after adaptation, identify what changes, and explore how to enrich interaction without changing the original communicative objective.

Available seats: 0

Phrasal verbs are more than vocabulary—they reflect the history, culture, and identity of English. This workshop explores their origins, cultural significance, and role in human centered communication. Participants will look at why learners struggle with phrasal verbs, examine effective, context-based teaching strategies, and practice activities that promote long-term retention over memorization. Attendees will leave with practical classroom techniques and a deeper understanding of one of English's most distinctive and culturally significant features. 

Available seats: 0

Transform your teaching and learn to transmit English knowledge through video game mechanics that drive deep concentration and problem-solving skills. This innovative learning design applies Ilya Kurylev’s approaches to business gamification, storytelling, and mechanics, alongside Ivan Nefedyev’s expertise in HR and scaffolded journeys. By turning tasks into narrative missions with fading support, this student-centered pedagogical methodology ensures complex objectives become achievable. Boost classroom engagement and professional growth, inspiring both students and coworkers alike!

Available seats: 0

Boardgames can be used dinamically to enhance the learning process and boost students' confidence. Not only autonomous work is seen during speaking activities in a club, but also, collaborative work. Therefore, students are less likely to be frustrated by speaking anxiety, since they feel encouraged and supported. As a result, participants will play a couple of games divided by stations, where they will find the instructions and relevant information according to them, so they can see what it is like.

Available seats: 0

Older adults are often overlooked in English language teaching, despite their need for meaningful, accessible, and confidence-building learning experiences. This session presents a human-centered approach to designing English materials for older adult A1 learners, grounded in andragogy, accessibility, and communicative learning. Participants will explore how visual materials, real-life contexts, repetition, storytelling, and hands-on activities can support listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The session highlights practical design principles that can make English learning more inclusive, engaging, and relevant for older adults.

Available seats: 0

This round-table session explores how teachers can address learners’ social-emotional needs through practical classroom strategies. Participants will be assigned a learner profile representing a specific social-emotional challenge, such as anxiety, low confidence, lack of motivation, or fear of making mistakes. Working collaboratively, teachers will design a five-minute micro-learning class tailored to their learner’s needs. The activity encourages reflection, creativity, and empathy while promoting inclusive, supportive, and emotionally responsive approaches to English language education.

Available seats: 0

English instruction is inherently bound to culture, identity, and social realities. By comparing assessment practices in a rural public school and a private language institute in Colombia, this study investigates translanguaging in students’ experiences. Findings reveal that allowing learners to reflect and discuss ideas in Spanish before responding in English significantly boosts their confidence. Ultimately, these results invite us to reconsider the English classroom as a space where students can question, express identity, and challenge dominant ways of understanding language.

Available seats: 0

What if learning could feel less like completing a task and more like solving a mission? This interactive session explores how gamification can increase engagement by combining four learning modalities within an escape-room experience. Participants will work collaboratively through challenges requiring communication, observation, listening, movement, and written reasoning. The session demonstrates how intentionally varied activities can promote active participation and offers educators a practical model they can adapt to create more engaging and inclusive classrooms.

Available seats: 0

In the digital age, internet content (memes) has emerged as a reflection of the daily reality, a way in which students relate what they live with how they learn. Teachers face a constant change on trends and vocabulary easily found in classes. This presentation works as a way to reflect, share, analyse and implement this material towards useful purposes.

Available seats: 0

What if the textbook is not the lesson, but the starting point? This interactive workshop explores how Thinking Routines and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) can reorient established Academic English lessons without compromising their linguistic objectives. Participants will examine key theoretical principles, experience model classroom practices, and collaboratively transform textbook-based lessons through intentional thinking and SEL-oriented design. The session culminates in microteaching, as participants present or enact their redesigned lessons and critically reflect on their pedagogical decisions.

Available seats: 0

It would be difficult to imagine what Sun Tzu, credited as the author of a renowned treatise on warfare, would do when facing a group of tired, unmotivated, or frustrated ESL students. Yet experienced and committed teachers frequently encounter such situations. This round table invites participants to share insightful accounts of challenging classroom experiences while exploring how selected principles from Sun Tzu can inform our pedagogical decisions, strengthen bonds among teachers, and help us respond more strategically to classroom difficulties.

Available seats: 0

While practice platforms like My English Lab are excellent for building foundational skills, most language acquisition happens when students discover their own authentic resources. This session applies Self-Determination Theory to help educators bridge the gap between assigned platform practice and independent resource discovery. Through dynamic brainstorming and collaborative "hacking" activities, participants will learn how to turn platform modules into launchpads, walking away with a toolkit designed to help students confidently navigate podcasts, videos, and articles in the wild.

Available seats: 1

Teachers’ well-being is essential to sustainable and effective language education, yet everyday demands can affect emotional balance and meaningful connections in the classroom. Drawing on experiences from online and face-to-face English teaching, this experience-sharing session invites teachers to recognize everyday situations that may affect their well-being, through guided reflections and practical strategies that can support greater awareness and assertive responses, considering how teachers and educational institutions can work together to foster healthier, more sustainable teaching environments.

Available seats: 2

Discover how GPT ASW SmartConvoClub transforms Conversation Club planning through AI. This interactive workshop introduces a practical framework for designing engaging, learner-centered sessions aligned with the ASW methodology. Participants will experience the tool firsthand, create a complete Conversation Club session, and explore how AI can streamline planning, foster creativity, and support meaningful language learning—all from their smartphones.

Available seats: 0

Teaching is deeply rewarding, but it can also be emotionally demanding. This interactive workshop equips educators with practical, evidence-based techniques to recognize early signs of burnout and develop sustainable classroom habits that protect their well-being without compromising teaching quality. Participants will explore strategies for emotional regulation, boundary-setting, classroom energy management, and micro-recovery practices that fit naturally into everyday lessons. Grounded in research on teacher well-being and resilience, the session offers tools educators can immediately apply in their classroom routines.

Available seats: 0

Grounded firmly in constructivist learning and the TPACK framework, this workshop empowers you to turn theory into practice. Using AI assistance, you will create functional classroom apps with HTML to actively integrate gamification and maker education. We will explore through ideas to leave with custom classroom apps ready for your next lesson, plus the skills to independently design tools that will work on any computer or device with a browser, looking forward to building a more engaging and impactful lesson. 

Available seats: 0

This round-table discussion will explore different student archetypes according to theory and compare them with real classroom cases. Through discussion of real cases, teachers will examine whether theorical approaches are applicable or merely bureaucratic. Furthermore, teachers will share experiences, learn from one another, and enrich their teaching strategies.

Available seats: 0

Many A1-B2 students hit a wall in listening and speaking — and stop coming, afraid of Reference and speaking exams they feel unprepared for. Through live polls, conversation-based cases, and a myth-vs-reality check, this session builds a shared understanding of what's really behind that fear. It then presents a concrete strategy to bring students closer to assessment, followed by a collective-building activity where participants design and vote on how to apply it in their classrooms.

Available seats: 0

The new abstract goes: Teaching at ASW may become repetitive and monotonous. In this workshop we will learn how to avoid burntout by exploring creative tools. We will discover what lateral thinking is and how we can use it to find solutions to daily problems in classes. Besides, we will discuss how to take care of our mental health using the "creativity" tool when we are not working.

Available seats: 0

This workshop supports teachers with three different strategies - running dictation, vanishing verbs, and memory grid challenge - in order to develop/build lasting vocabulary retention through gamification. Participants will live the activities firsthand in order to learn more about delayed feedback to aim students to correct themselves, design and adapt games to different classroom needs and make them use vocabulary into real communication. Teachers will leave with classroom tested strategies, combining vocabulary practice, feedback and meaningful language use.

Available seats: 0

How do we respond when a student's behavior challenges us? Drawing on experiences from our English classrooms, this experience-sharing session invites teachers to step into students' shoes through short role-plays. Participants will explore classroom situations, pause at key moments, and discuss how they would respond before discovering what may be behind each behavior. Teachers will rethink their first reactions, explore communication for understanding students, and leave with practical ideas for challenging classroom situations.

Available seats: 0

Drawing on linguistic imperialism, native-speakerism (Holliday), and World Englishes (Kachru), this talk examines how "standard" English became institutionalized in ELT. Applying translanguaging theory (García & Wei), it argues for deliberately blending Englishes, Colombian expressions included, to build learner creativity, confidence, and ownership.

Available seats: 0

Space-constrained ELT classrooms cannot always build social-emotional safety through talk alone. Sociomotricity—motor action that takes meaning through interaction with others—offers a practical framework for Social Emotional Learning (SEL). This session shows how physical presence, somatic regulation, and gestures shape small-group interaction, lowering foreign language anxiety and supporting equitable turn-taking. The result is a simple model that turns restricted spaces into emotionally supportive settings for confident oral production.

Available seats: 3

Sharing Experiencing with using Music as a teaching and conversation tool in classrooms. By pairing songs with purposeful speaking tasks, reflection, and collaborative discussion. Engage teachers with exercises and conversation initiator to help students develop language proficiency while also exploring themes such as resilience, identity, equity, and well-being. Facilitating Vocabulary, Listening, and communicative exercises to teach and encourage students to use English for expressing, understanding others, and engaging thoughtfully with the world around them.

Available seats: 0

This presentation explores how moments of uncertainty and lack of knowledge can become powerful educational opportunities. Rather than viewing gaps as weaknesses, teachers will see how to transform them into spaces for inquiry, critical thinking, and collaborative learning. Supporting it on contemporary educational research, the session highlights through practical strategies that foster growth mindsets, reflective practice, student engagement, and engaging curiosity with proper prompting in situation.

Available seats: 3

Scientific evidence shows that the brain works as an orchestra and that promoting all areas of the cerebral cortex when learning will favor acquiring skills and abilities. That is why this workshop seeks to invite America School Way's mentors to use activities that activate brain connections throughout the cerebral cortex during their class sessions, within a case study.

Available seats: 1

In times of uncertainty, crisis, and emotional stress, students may enter the classroom carrying experiences that affect their attention, participation, relationships, and ability to learn. The Classroom Reset explores how Social Emotional Learning (SEL) can help teachers create the conditions students need to reconnect with learning. Through the SCALE framework — Safety, Connection, Agency, Language, and Empowerment — participants will explore practical ways to integrate SEL into everyday language teaching, transforming the classroom into a space where students can reconnect and learn.

Available seats: 0

What do we need language for? This workshop explores how teachers can create a communicative need before presenting the language needed to meet it. By placing students in purposeful, real-life scenarios with a clear goal but limited linguistic resources, teachers can create a reason to communicate before formal instruction. Drawing on Harmer’s Engage–Study–Activate (ESA) framework and other perspectives on language teaching and learning, the workshop examines how this approach can foster engagement, Student Talking Time, and meaningful language use from the first minutes of a lesson.

Available seats: 8

Vocabulary learning can be enhanced through interactive, game-based activities that promote retrieval, repetition, categorization, and meaningful communication. This workshop demonstrates how STOP and similar games can be adapted for different levels and contexts, engaging both students and teachers while providing practical, low-preparation strategies for active, collaborative, and enjoyable vocabulary development.

Available seats: 5

English is the most widespread language worldwide. However, it’s almost always immediately associated only with either American or British varieties. There are more countries from which the language originates, as well as other countries whose cultures have greatly impacted the lexicon. The intercultural influences to this global language will be explored through personal reflections, with the aim of increasing awareness, appreciation and respect for all Englishes. This should also develop a sense of belonging among English speakers from all cultures.

Available seats: 1

English is a bridge for human connection emotions. I’ve been in +80 countries and experience with international cooperation job, I’ll share how authentic estorytelling transforms the language classroom into a space of emotional resonance. Rather than treating English as an academic subject, we expplore how lived global experiences spark curiosity, foster genuine student engagement, and elevate daily teaching practices. Educators will discover how sharing real-world encounters creates meaningful emmotional bonds, making language learning an inspiring, both teachers and students.

Available seats: 2

Inspired by God of War II, this workshop explores how ignorance can lead us to forfeit our power, much like Kratos surrendering his strength to the Blade of Olympus. In this analogy, the Blade represents the fast, high-impact integration of artificial intelligence and how its application has sparked heavy ethical and performance debates in education. So, in this workshop, attendants will explore some spaces to use AI tools and learn to develop their own by figuring out appropriate ways to use this technology in their classes.

Available seats: 0

Learning English involves more than mastering grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. In real-world contexts, learners encounter diverse accents, communication styles, cultural expectations, and perspectives that textbooks may not fully address. This experience-sharing session explores how EFL teachers can develop intercultural awareness alongside language proficiency through authentic experiences, practical activities, and reflection. Participants will consider ways to help learners listen, adapt, and connect across cultural differences while maintaining their identities. Ultimately, the session presents English learning as a pathway to communication, confidence, connection, and belonging.

Available seats: 3

Heavy workloads often limit teachers’ ability to adapt materials effectively. This interactive workshop tries to demonstrate how to maximize AI tools as pedagogical allies to design differentiated, context-responsive ELT resources in minutes. Guided by post-method pedagogy, participants will critically evaluate AI output to correct errors and avoid curriculum discrepancy. Through a live hands-on exercise, attendees will transform rigid texts into multi-level activities, gaining practical workflows that enhance teaching autonomy, save planning time, and boost professional agency.

Available seats: 0

As AI increasingly performs tasks once reserved for teachers and learners, English language educators face a question: what should remain uniquely human in teaching? This round table invites participants to examine AI’s role in planning, feedback, assessment, and learning activities through classroom dilemmas. Using guided questions and experience sharing, we will connect participants’ practices with digital pedagogical innovation and human-centered education. Participants will leave with perspectives and criteria for deciding when AI should support, transform, or remain outside classroom practice.

Available seats: 4

Heavy workloads often limit teachers’ ability to adapt materials effectively. This interactive workshop tries to demonstrate how to maximize AI tools as pedagogical allies to design differentiated, context-responsive ELT resources in minutes. Guided by post-method pedagogy, participants will critically evaluate AI output to correct errors and avoid curriculum discrepancy. Through a live hands-on exercise, attendees will transform rigid texts into multi-level activities, gaining practical workflows that enhance teaching autonomy, save planning time, and boost professional agency.

Available seats: 2

As AI increasingly performs tasks once reserved for teachers and learners, English language educators face a question: what should remain uniquely human in teaching? This round table invites participants to examine AI’s role in planning, feedback, assessment, and learning activities through classroom dilemmas. Using guided questions and experience sharing, we will connect participants’ practices with digital pedagogical innovation and human-centered education. Participants will leave with perspectives and criteria for deciding when AI should support, transform, or remain outside classroom practice.

Available seats: 3

The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve explains why learners rapidly lose newly acquired information without constant review. It demonstrates how information learnt declines over time and how strategic review can counteract this process. By applying spaced repetition, active recall, and timely revision, learners can retain vocabulary and grammar more effectively. The outcome is stronger long-term retention, greater learning efficiency, and increased confidence in using English independently transforming short-term exposure into durable language proficiency.

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Most of us when we teach our classes, we face a lot of challenges like technological and emotional challenges, so the idea is how we are going to face those challenges. In this presentation we are going to see some challenges that we face every class, from the technological and emotional issues with our students and sometimes from the teachers. Also, we are going to see which tools we can use for fix these challenges and improve our job performance

Available seats: 2

Learning English involves more than mastering grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. In real-world contexts, learners encounter diverse accents, communication styles, cultural expectations, and perspectives that textbooks may not fully address. This experience-sharing session explores how EFL teachers can develop intercultural awareness alongside language proficiency through authentic experiences, practical activities, and reflection. Participants will consider ways to help learners listen, adapt, and connect across cultural differences while maintaining their identities. Ultimately, the session presents English learning as a pathway to communication, confidence, connection, and belonging.

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The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve explains why learners rapidly lose newly acquired information without constant review. It demonstrates how information learnt declines over time and how strategic review can counteract this process. By applying spaced repetition, active recall, and timely revision, learners can retain vocabulary and grammar more effectively. The outcome is stronger long-term retention, greater learning efficiency, and increased confidence in using English independently transforming short-term exposure into durable language proficiency.

Available seats: 1

Most of us when we teach our classes, we face a lot of challenges like technological and emotional challenges, so the idea is how we are going to face those challenges. In this presentation we are going to see some challenges that we face every class, from the technological and emotional issues with our students and sometimes from the teachers. Also, we are going to see which tools we can use for fix these challenges and improve our job performance

Available seats: 5