Prompts for topic areas are as follows:
1. Teacher Development
a. What are the benefits of non-native teachers in teaching World English/ World Englishes?
b. How do language teachers enhance their professionalism in response to their own language standard?
c. How can teachers make the best use of electronic media, including English language corpora?
d. How can teachers bring in media into the classroom to encourage their students to become independent learners?
e. How do teachers equip themselves to deal with global concerns—human rights, environment, peace, etc.—in ELT?
2. Curriculum, syllabus and materials development
f. In what way do these concerns affect the curriculum and syllabus design?
g. How do these issues affect the development of instructional materials?
h. What are the implications of these issues on an international-based curriculum?
i. How does the international-based curriculum impact on teaching and learning?
3. Assessment
j. How do these issues influence assessment design?
k. What standards are used in assessing students’ language competence?
l. How do these issues impact on the implementation of alternative assessments?
4. Cultural Issues
m. How do teachers accommodate learners’ different cultural backgrounds?
n. How do teachers authenticate cultural practices in the classroom?
o. How do teachers bring out the cultures that underlie the varieties of the target
language?
5. Foreign language teaching policies
p. Which standards should be adopted in schools?
q. Which course book – locally or internationally published – should be used?
6. Approaches and methods
r. How do these issues influence the choices of approaches and methods that
promote language learning and language acquisition?
s. How do these issues impact on learners’ language acquisition?