Specialist in Drama in English Language Teaching

Mark Almond
Publications, Conferences, Consultancies, Reports/Reviews, Examining and Other Work Contact: mark.almond@canterbury.ac.uk

Publications

Teacher Identity Putting the Human Centre Stage: socio-psychological considerations in English Language Teaching (2013 forthcoming), Humanism in
Language Teaching, major article (online)

Is the Bard Barred from your Classroom? Dramatising Shakespeare in the Language Classroom (2011), English Teaching Professional, Issue 72
Nuevas Perspectivas en la Didactica de las Lenguaculturas, Drama Undiluted for the

Language Classroom (chapter), 2010

Affect and Performance Skills in the Language Classroom (2010) in Towards a

Student-Centred Pedagogy in English Language Teaching (chapter), Christian College Kattakada, India

Getting Students to Write Rap (2009), English Teaching Professional, Issue 60 Developing Classroom Presence Through Acting Skills (2007), IATEFL Teacher
Training and Education Special Interest Group

Acting Skills for Language Teachers (2007), IATEFL Voices, Issue 198 The Funny Side Of Phonology A Physical Approach to Teaching Pronunciation
(2007), English Teaching Professional, Issue 50

Let's Get Theatrical With Our Students (2006), The Teacher (Polish publication), Issue
10 (42)

Teachers Acting Up From Stage Presence to Classroom Presence (2006), English

Teaching Professional, Issue 45

Teaching English with Drama (2005), Modern English Publishing (book) ISBN
1-904549-12-8

Laboratorio ITALS , interview on the use of drama in ELT for a website for Italian teachers of English (2005) in Italian Web site

English Teaching Essentials: Drama (2004), English Teaching Professional, Issue 35 Curtain up on Drama - Putting on a play with EFL learners (2002), English Teaching
Professional, Issue 22

Bridging the Gap - Raising Cultural Awareness and Developing Communicative Skills through Drama on Immersion Programmes (2001), Hong Kong Institute of Education
(chapter) ISBN 962-949-079-X

Conferences
Plenary speaker at the International Conference for Humanism in Language Teaching, Ancona, Italy (2012), Engage and Activate: Drama with Young Learners Plenary speaker at the At the Heart of Learning Conference, Bolzano, Italy (2012),

Lessons from the Actor: Developing Teacher Presence in the English Language Classroom
Plenary speaker at the National Conference for English Language Teachers, Baskent University, Adana, Turkey (2011), Towards Interpersonal and Socio-psychological

Harmony in the Classroom

Talk and workshop at The South West TEFL Festival at the Globe English Centre, Devon (2011), Teaching as a Performing Art Plenary speaker at the International Conference for Humanism in Language Teaching, Ancona, Italy (2010), Just Who Do You Think You Are?

Teacher Identity in ELT plus workshops on Performance Skills to Create a Teacher Presence
Workshop and Talk at the Drama in Language Education day at SOAS, University of London (2009), Affect and Performance in the Language Classroom. Whole-day workshop at the Pilgrims Humanism in Language Teaching 35th Anniversary conference, (2009), Teaching is Acting! Really?

Keynote speaker at TESOL Spain (2009) in Seville, Teacher Identity and Performance

Teaching
TESOL Spain (2009) in Seville, workshop on Affect in Language Teaching: a performance

approach to TESOL
Associao Portuguesa de Professores de Ingls conference (2008), Movement in ELT a

physical approach to learning using Laban and Stanislavsky Methods.

Plenary speaker at Interact Centrope 2007 - Integrating Drama in ELT at the regional Resource Centre of Berzsenyi Dniel College in co-operation with the Pdagogische Hochsule Wien and the Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture in Szombathely, Hungary Talk and workshop at The South West TEFL Festival at the Globe English Centre, Devon (2007), Drama in ELT IATEFL Aberdeen (2007), Acting Skills for Teachers to Develop Classroom Presence Cutting Edges: Classrooms, People and Cultures at Christ Church University (2007),

Tackling the Bard in the English Language Classroom why we should and how we can
Keynote Speaker at the English Teaching Professional Live Conference, London (2007),

Going The Whole Hog: Putting on a Play with English Language Learners
Invited speaker at the English UK Teachers' Conference (Nov 2006), Performance Skills

for English Language Teachers

Cutting Edges: Classrooms, People and Cultures at Christ Church University (June 2006) - Drama in ELT: The Actor's Craft Undiluted for the Classroom Plenary speaker at the International Conference for Humanism in Language Teaching, Ancona , Italy (August 2006) - Drama and Dramatisation: Improvisation Skills for the

English Language Learner

Keynote speaker at the international English Teaching Professional conference (September 2006), Improvisation Techniques for Fluency and Confidence

Drama Training and Consultancy

Hep Bejune, Switzerland (2012). A two-day workshop for in-service Secondary English language teachers: A Drama Approach to English Language Teaching Canterbury Christ Church University, UK (2010-11).

Behaviour

and Rapport

Management workshop for pre-service UK Secondary school teachers

British Council teacher training webinar and DVD (2010). Drama in English Language

Teaching
English in Action, London, UK (2011). A one-day workshop on Drama in English

Language Teaching
Tour of several schools around Sicily, Italy (2010): Drama in English Language Teaching Scuola Germanica di Milano (200811). programme and drama workshops Pilgrims, Canterbury (2006 present). An annual one-week teacher training course on Drama in English Language Teaching Pilgrims, Canterbury (1999 present). Various drama and teaching methodology workshops for in-service primary and secondary teachers The Hong Kong Institute of Education, six-month secondment (2003): Invited Visiting Lecturer on various under- and post-graduate programmes for Primary and Secondary pre- and in-service teachers but essentially creating, writing and demonstrating new drama modules to be incorporated into pre- and post service courses. While in Hong Kong , I was invited by the government Education and Manpower Bureau to instruct and workshop with Primary and Secondary teachers from all over the country, demonstrating the application of drama in English language teaching Consultancy with HM Prison Service, Canterbury (for foreign nationals) providing professional development for language trainers in the use of drama in ELT (2008) Workshop for in-service primary and secondary teachers in Vienna, Austria (2007), A one-week in-service teacher training

Drama in ELT
Workshop for International House, London (2007), Be Creative: Acting Skills for Teachers Consultancies/CPD/INSET for teachers at various OISE schools around (Bournemouth, Canterbury, London, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Oxford), the UK

Performance

Skills in the Classroom

Three-day consultancy with teachers of Spanish (2007), The Cervantes Institute, Madrid,

The Use of Drama in the Teaching of Spanish

Training day for ESOL teachers organised by NATECLA (The National Association of Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults), London (January 2007),

The Use of Drama Techniques in Teaching English as an Additional Language

Consultant on an ESOL drama project at Tower Hamlets College, London (November 2006)

Norwich Institute of Language Education (NILE) in 1999 and 2000. Integrating Shakespeare into an English language syllabus

Other Work
Voice actor on audio material for published ELT courses CELTA assessor for the University of Cambridge ESOL Examiner for University of Cambridge ESOL 2001- 2004 (Certificate in English Language Skills) Item writer and examiner for University of Cambridge ESOL 1999 - 2001 (Certificate in Communicative Skills in English)