CHELTA

Welcome to CHELTA!

Goals:

To unite on a voluntary basis school, college and university teachers of the English language and culture of Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk region for:

  • Elevating the prestige of the English language teacher profession;
  • Creating a favourable environment for both professional development and communication;
  • Achieving an effective methodological and linguistic link between school, college and university teachers;
  • Strengthening EFL teaching and learning in the Urals region;
  • Supporting networking with colleagues all over the world;
  • Giving access to the latest EFL, ESL resources;

Objectives:

  1. To organize various forms of professional communication and professional development:
    • An annual spring conference;
    • September and February joint sessions;
    • Professional development and re-training courses, computer and law study courses;
    • Scientific research projects, seminars, workshops, trainings, special interest groups, summer and winter schools, internet forums.
  2. To defend the professional interest of English language teachers:
    • Render psychological and juridical support;
    • Provide teachers with information by running an Internet site and Internet Forum;
    • Create a bank of pedagogical ideas, authorized programmes and information on exhibitions, learning, teaching and other related jobs in our country and abroad.
  3. To ensure effective coordination of all agents of the social educational process: teachers, students, teachers and the community:
    • Organize scientific-practical conferences, seminars, Festivals, Olympiads for students;
    • Work on community service projects and educational exchange projects with educational institutions of the USA and Great Britain;
    • Run pedagogical seminars, summer and winter language camps;
    • Solve problem situations by drawing community attention and rendering methodological help.

Special Interest Groups:

  1. ESP; Cross-Cultural Communication; Extracurricular Activities; Interactive Learning - Svetlana Sannikova
  2. Creative Writing; Phonetics and Public Speaking; Applied Linguistics
  3. Computer Assisted Learning; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Self-Management - Natalya Komissarova

Membership (individual and group):

  • CHELTA holds Autumn and Winter sessions, in September and February respectively and conference every second year.
  • Membership due is 300 rubles per year.
  • CHELTA offers to get Newsletters with reports on conferences, seminars and other NATE events.
  • CHELTA participates in seminars and workshops on the latest TEFT methodology developments run by learning local, national, international scholars and practitioners, ELO (Moscow), consulate (E-Kat).
 
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