Training programme for teachers

The Sri Lanka English Language Teachers' Association will hold its Annual General Meeting and a one-day training programme for teachers on December 11 from 8.30 am at the Royal College Old Boys' Union Auditorium.

The day's programme will include parallel workshops for primary, O-Level and A-Level teachers of English. Some workshops will deal with learning vocabulary, writing skills, summary writing, assessing speech and listening skills, story telling, story making and using poetry in the classroom. Prof Manique Goonesekera will deliver the plenary address, while the trainers include Dr Hemamala Ratwatte, Mahishi Ranaweera, Darshana Samaraweera, Dilini Walisundara, Dinali Fernando and others.

The latest SLELTA Quarterly will also be launched at the AGM. The latest SLELTA publication, English in Sri Lanka, edited by Prof Siromi Fernando, Prof Gunesekera and Prof Arjuna Parakrama will also be on sale on the day. The proceedings of the fifth SLELTA conference in 2008, The Learning Teacher, edited by Prof Gunesekera and Kaushalya Perera, will also be on sale.