Scott Thornbury @ InnovateELT 2018 - Just for Fun: No Pain No Gain

InnovateELT 2018, 11-12th May, Barcelona
For our 4th annual InnovateELT conference we want to focus on the role of fun in learning and teaching. What does it mean to make learning fun? Is this even a desirable intention and if so, can it be easily created by design? Is there in fact a need for challenge and struggle in language acquisition? If so, how does that impact motivation and engagement? At iELT18, we want to explore these questions in more detail, leaving you with a clearer sense of where, when and how fun might be incorporated into the experience of learning (and teaching) English.

Scott Thornbury
Scott’s writing credits include several award-winning books for teachers on language and methodology. His most recent book is Scott Thornbury’s 30 Language Teaching Methods, to be published this year by Cambridge. He is series editor for the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers.

Talk - Just for Fun: No Pain No Gain
Terrence Rattigan’s popular comedy French Without Tears (1936) was named after a well-known textbook of the time. The title plays on the widespread longing for a language teaching method that is painless, pleasurable, and fast. Fun, in short. But can language learning really be fun? Isn’t it about effort, concentration and the long haul? In these two talks (All work and no play and No pain, no gain) I’ll argue the case for and against foregrounding fun as a guiding principle in methodology and course design. Just for fun, you won’t know in which order I’ll be doing the talks.

This talk was recorded with the support of ITNedu.

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