TDSIG: TD LIVE

TDLIVE is TDSIG’s project where we promote a meetup for our community and an expert in our field for a one-hour conversation, where participants can ask questions, comment, and share their views with the guest.

Read on! A case for the reading of literature as continuing professional development

Yes, we have courses to do, professional journals and books to read… why add literary texts to all that reading? In this conversation, we’ll explore the potential of literary texts to develop intercultural awareness and mediation strategies and so add to our repertoire of professional development skills.

Speaker:

Claudia Ferradas

Claudia Mónica Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she graduated as a teacher of English and specialised in Anglophone literatures. She then continued her studies in the United Kingdom and holds an MA in Education and Professional Development (TEFL) from the University of East Anglia and PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham. She has worked as a teacher trainer, presenter and academic lecturer in over twenty countries and trains teachers regularly in the UK as an Affiliate Trainer for NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education). She co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature (Corpus Christi College) on five occasions and has written teaching materials on the production of Anglophone writers. She often works as a consultant for OUP Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia (where she has been an OTA trainer), Trinity College London and the British Council. Claudia has published poetry collections in Spanish and in English.

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