Helping students to become great collaborators

In communicative classrooms, organising learners into pairs and groups for collaborative work is essential but not always easy to implement, and the outcomes may not necessarily be effective. This presentation will help you to understand what meaningful collaboration among learners is, and we will do this by looking at why collaboration is so important, and how we can develop it with learners. There will be opportunities to see how Cambridge Own It! encourages and develops learners’ collaboration in the language classroom.

Peter Lucantoni has had a long career in English language teaching, teacher training and management, in Europe and the Middle East, and he is now based in Cyprus. He is the author and co-author of a range of popular coursebooks for students, including Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language, and Introduction to English as a Second Language, both published by Cambridge University Press & Assessment. He is also the co-author of From Teacher to Trainer with Matthew T Ellman. Peter is Professional Learning and Development Manager for Cambridge University Press & Assessment, and regularly speaks at ELT conferences and trains teachers internationally in both the public and private sectors. His main interests are in teacher education and transitioning teachers into trainer roles.

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