PCE Speakers LITERATURE, MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES SIG Jeremy Harmer IATEFL CONFERENCE, MANCHESTER, 2015 PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT (10th April 2015) Carol Read ‘Poetry offers an alternative language and discourse, often engaging learners’ emotions; encourages language awareness and enhanced language memorization contexts’. (Byram, M. and Hu, A., 2013) Alan Maley Come to IATEFL Manchester 2015 and join us for the LMCS PCE! Claudia Ferradas 101 WAYS OF TEACHING A POEM: BRINGING POETRY INTO LANGUAGE TEACHING The day will offer participants a series of 30-minute workshops on using poetry in English language teaching. The presenters will propose activities designed to be used in various teaching contexts and which can be adapted to a wide variety of language levels, from primary school learners to language and literature students in higher education. This is going to be a very dynamic, fun-packed day that we hope will motivate teachers to bring poetry into their teaching practice and also suggest to participants who already work with poems new ways of using them for language learning. Each workshop will focus on classroom activities allowing participants to go back to their teaching contexts with some ideas about how to further explore poetry in ELT. Alan Pulverness Chris Lima Amos Paran Conducting the workshops will be speakers with vast experience in the field of literature and language teaching, including some of the LMCS committee members and leading names in ELT. Hania Bociek To book for the Conference and the PCE, visit: http://www.iatefl.org/annual-conference/manchester-2015 Carel Burghout