NCTE 2009 - Costa Rica           Learning: Enlightening Our Inner Self

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To contribute to the improvement of English Teaching and Learning in Costa Rica and the Central American basin by providing ELT professionals with unique opportunities for their career development.


 

 

 

LEARNING: ENLIGHTENING OUR INNER SELF
January 21 -23, 2009


ABOUT US

The National Conference for Teachers of English, NCTE, is an activity that began around 1966. Originally the focus of the NCTE was to provide training to the teachers employed by the Ministry of Public Education. Since the beginning, this activity had the support of the US Embassy, and Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano provided its headquarters to host the event. With the increasing number of teaching professionals and the country's need to provide a more specific and effective training to English teachers, it was urgent to reorganize the event and an organizing committee was created. 
 
This committee would include representatives from the three sponsors, Ministry of Public Education, the US Embassy and Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano.  The new committee would ensure quality in the presentations and workshops as well as the participation of teachers from schools, universities, language institutes and community colleges of the country.
 
Today the NCTE has become a solid and independent organization. Around 500 participants join the event every year seeking for the new ideas and trends in the field of teaching, and the opportunity to interact with other local and international fellow teachers.  Publishing houses have also found the event as a great opportunity to display their latest materials and texts.
 
Throughout the years, experts in the field of ELT (English Language Teaching) have visited our event, among them there is David Nunan, Donald Freeman, Neil Anderson, Fred Davidson, Adrian Palmer, Bryan Lynch, Andy Curtis, Diane Larsen-Freeman.  Marianne Celce-Murcia, Ronald Schwarz, and Rebecca Oxford, among others, have also joined the team through video or satellite conferences.
 
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