May 30 is the TESL Nova Scotia spring conference, one of my favourites. I’m presenting on the topic of language policy-making as key teacher competence, an adaptation of the talk I delivered at IATEFL in April.

Here’s the abstract:

Classroom teachers are important language policy brokers. However, language policymaking is a competency rarely found in the curriculum of language teacher training and development programs and EMI lecturer training programs, which often target content knowledge and pedagogical and communication skills. This talk explores specific examples of the development of language policymaking skills as part of various teacher training and development programs and as EMI training programs. This talk has implications for those involved in teacher training and development, or EMI lecturer training, and educational language policymaking.

Here are the slides: