IH CPD JUNE - Nicolás Dantaz

It’s been more than half a century since interaction became a buzzword in linguistics and almost a similar lapse time in the field of ELT.
However, how much have we understood about Communicative Language Teaching as an approach to foreign language instruction?
What makes a lesson to be communicative? What teacher’s actions lead to teaching communicative lessons, and which ones deter them from it?
In this theoretical-practical presentation, we will cast light on understanding what teaching communicatively really entails.
I shall provide you with some top tips to consider and reflect upon to make your courses more communicative and student-centred.

SPEAKER
Nicolás DANTAZ

( Uruguay )

Biodata

Nicolás is a teacher of English as a foreign language who graduated from the Instituto de Professors Artigas and holds an MA in Applied Linguistics. He has done post-grad courses in teaching pre-teens and teens and courses on teaching language teachers. He’s currently a PhD candidate in Education with a line of research in teacher training focusing on the role of communication in language teacher education. He’s published in different journals and presented worldwide on several aspects regarding EFL. He currently works as a Methods and Didactics professor at Consejo de Formación en Educación. He’s also a Didactics professor at Universidad ORT’s post-graduate diploma for English language teachers. Lastly, after being a country manager for Uruguay and bilingual product manager, Nicolás is currently Product Manager at Santillana Global Languages.