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DOGUS UNIVERSITY ISTANBUL: We have just returned form a conference at Dogus University Istanbul. Dave gave a presentation on Conversational English: Teaching Spontaneity. A copy of the powerpoint document and a commentary are available on our Home Page.

Jane gave a plenary presentation. We will publish details of this later.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: We went to the Davis campus of the University of California in September to run a workshop on task-based methodology for a group of language teachers involved in teaching thirteen different languages. There were several teachers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese, but some minority languages such as Farsi and Yoruba had only one representative. It was a great learning experience for us. The feedback was very reassuring. Participants were confident that they could apply the principles of TBL to all of their languages. They also affirmed the value of a lexically based consciousness raising approach to the learning of grammar and lexis.