Suprisingly, perhaps, in the glare of the technology, I found myself thinking not so much about possible super-duper futuristic things to do with on-line multi-media, but about the basic, essential issues: why people learn languages and how they learn them. A conference that prompts such reflections was clearly first class.' Dennis Newson, Germany.

Update: The next ELToc will be taking place November 2003.
More information available nearer the date!

On November 10 & 11, 2001, NetLearn Solutions hosted an online-only conference for teachers of English as a Foreign/Second Language entitled

ELT: Evolution of Learning & Teaching

Full recordings (archives) of the conference are now available on this website and on CD-ROM.

Presenters and conference participants took part in the conference from their own geographical locations. Presentations were webcast live, meaning participants were able to hear the speaker, view materials previously submitted by the presenter on this website, engage in text-chat with the presenter and other conference delegates and more. All live presentations were recorded and have now been made available in the Conference Area of the website along with the corresponding materials.

The ELToc featured:

• Keynote speeches by Professor David Nunan, textbook and coursebook author and Professor of Applied Linguistics, and Dave Sperling, founder of Dave's ESL Cafe
• Over 40 presentations
• Two panel-discussions

If you are interested in viewing the archives of the conference further details are available here.

We look forward to meeting you at the conference!