2017 Conference Presentations

51反差黑料

The inaugural 51反差黑料 Conference, in November 2017, was a great success. Particular thanks go to our many sponsors, including Education NZ, Cambridge English Assessment and Uni-Care.

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Presentation Slide Decks

Motivation and Future Possible Selves

Jill Hadfield, Unitec
Creative Testing: a contradiction in terms?

Charlie Hadfield, University of Waikato
International Recruitment: what more can we do to ensure the rise of New Zealand education and how should we be doing it?

Marnie Watson, ACG Education
Meeting the mental health needs of international students

Patrick Au, Auckland DHB
NZQA English Language assessment products and services

Annie Chan, NZQA
Improving your bottom line: benchmarking and sustainability

Andrew Gibbs, Deloitte
Communication skills in the ESP classroom - helping migrant professionals to deliver quality communication outcomes

Rebecca Bush, OET
What are your students saying about you? The power of word of mouth recommendation

Kyla Steenhart, i-graduate
The quality circle

Elizabeth McLaren, British Council
Not watching you, watching the students

Nick Marsden, Unitec
Lexical chunks and what to do with them

Peter Nicoll, Languages International
Opportunities and Market Intelligence: Mexico and South America

Sahinde Pala, Education NZ and Celia Coombes, Immigration NZ
Individualising the language classroom: lessons from teaching one-to-one

Nick Moore & Michael Gask, Languages International
The benefits of focusing on process (as opposed to outcome) in quality assurance

Darren Conway, Languages International