Published on September 26, 2018
By kierandonaghy
Chrysa Papalazarou writes about her plenary session ‘Paint me a world: artful visuals in the language class’ at the Image Conference in Athens. Five years ago, out of professional curiosity, I started using artful visuals with my upper primary classes as an alternative way towards creating a more affective and effective learning experience. This […]
Published on September 12, 2018
By kierandonaghy
In this article Teresa Cristina Gomes de Carvalho talks about her session “Understanding what photographs tell us and about us” at the Image Conference in Athens. What can images tell us, and ultimately, what can images tell about us? How do we judge, appreciate, love or hate images? Why do some photographs bring us […]
Published on August 7, 2018
By kierandonaghy
Registration for the Image Conference in Athens on 6th and 7th October is now open. The Image Conference is the annual conference of the Visual Arts Circle, and this year it is being hosted and co-organised by New York College, Athens with the collaboration of the Global Issues SIG of IATEFL. Leading experts and practitioners in […]
Published on October 10, 2017
By kierandonaghy
Helena Mota Lopes is a teacher, trainer and researcher based in Portugal. Here she talks about her session “From reader to writer/illustrator: citizenship in the EFL classroom” at the Image Conference in Lisbon on Saturday 14th October. Getting young teenagers to read and participate in a book discussion with enthusiasm is quite often a […]
Published on November 28, 2014
By kierandonaghy
180 delegates from throughout Europe enjoyed the third edition of The Image Conference, the only language learning conference in the world exclusively on the use of images, in the beautiful city of Córdoba. Many delegates have commented on the impressive line-up and how well the conference was organised. The efficient organisation is down […]
Published on November 9, 2014
By kierandonaghy
Teacher, trainer and writer Ceri Jones answers The Image Conference questionnaire. Your favourite film/work of art/video game: I’m hopeless at answering any questions with “favourite” in them but the one that bubbles to the top is Daunbailo (Down by Law) by Jim Jarmusch. I love the use of black and white and the play on […]
