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MATSDA WORKSHOP June 2004

:: Innovative approaches to materials for English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

Click on the thumbnail below to view photos of this year's Ingleton Weekend Workshop.

Presenter Dongjim

Hwa Jung presents

Sunday lunch

Neville's lunch

Workshop facilitators Brian and Hitomi

Working lunch

Ingleton falls

Anyone for Pooh sticks?

Smelling wild garlic

Michael Rodden contemplating life

Hwa Jung and Dongjim

The EAP crowd

Held on Friday, June 4th - Sunday, June 6th , 2004
The Marton Arms Hotel, Thornton-in-Lonsdale, Ingleton, Yorkshire Dales, UK

A weekend developing innovative materials for EAP, walking by the spectacular Ingleton Falls, dining from an extensive menu, and sampling the fourteen real ales and over two hundred malt whiskies at this famous old coaching inn on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.

:: Overview

The programme included demonstrations of materials in use by the facilitators as well as sessions in which the participants produced EAP materials for their own institutions or for publication. It is also intended that participants will be helped to write journal articles relating to the materials they produced.

:: Facilitators

Brian Tomlinson
President of MATSDA, Reader in Language Learning and Teaching at Leeds Metropolitan University. Editor of Materials Development in Language Teaching, CUP and Developing Materials for Language Teaching, Continuum; co-author of Use Your English, Asahi Press, of Developing Language Course Materials, RELC and of Discover English, Heinemann.

Hitomi Masuhara
Secretary of MATSDA, Coordinator of Lesser-Taught Languages in Leeds Metropolitan University. Contributor to Materials Development in Language Teaching, CUP and Developing Materials for Language Teaching, Continuum; co-author of Use Your English, Asahi Press and of Developing Language Course Materials, RELC.

:: Workshop Fee

The individual fees for this MATSDA event were £80 for MATSDA members; £105 for non-members. Special priced accommodation at the Marton Arms hotel was extra.

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