Marc Helgesen is professor at Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Sendai, Japan and adjunct professor at Teachers College Columbia University MA TESOL Program – Tokyo. He is author of over 100 books, textbooks and articles on English Language Teaching including Pearson- Longman Asia’s bestselling English Firsthand series and Practical English Language Teaching – Listening (with Steve Brown), David Nunan, editor from McGraw-Hill. Marc is particularly interested in materials design, connecting positive psychology to English language teaching, Multi-sensory learning, Task planning and extensive reading. He is on the Board of Directors of the Extensive Reading Foundation (www.erfoundation.org) which organizes the Language Learner Literature Awards for the best graded readers each year. Marc is a popular speaker and has been an invited speaker at conferences on five continents.
Marc maintains two websites for teachers: http://ELTandHappiness.terapad.com and http://HelgesenHandouts.terapad.com.
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- Abstract for Plenary Session: ELT and the “Science of Happines”
- Abstract for Concurrent Session: Language Learning and the Senses