MUSCAT: The Centre for Foundation Studies, Middle East College (MEC), is organising the MEC English Language Teaching (ELT) Symposium today, February 23 from 8 am to 5 pm at the MEC Student Hub Auditorium, KOM. The theme of the symposium is ‘TESOL in Oman: Innovations, Challenges and Future Perspectives’. The symposium aims to provide a platform for language teachers at secondary and tertiary levels to share their ideas on current teaching practices, innovative methods of teaching, the challenges and future directions in language teaching and learning in Oman. It will be attended by more than 150 people from different schools, colleges and universities and will have about 40 sessions including 4 plenaries.
Dr Saleh al Busaidi, Associate Professor of English, Foreign Language at the College of Education, SQU, will deliver the keynote address. Dr Tony Waterman, CELTA/DELTA trainer, IELTS examiner and trainer at RAFO, Dr Yogesh K Sinha A, Professor, Department of ELT, Faculty of Language Studies, Sohar University and Co-Chair, Higher Education Interest Section, TESOL, USA (2015-2017) and Dr Tareq al Damen, HoD of the Centre for Foundation Studies at MEC will also attend the symposium.
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