I am a victim of peer pressure. I was bullied, cajoled and prodded into heading up north over the weekend to Language World, the Association for Language Learning's annual conference, held this year in freezing cold, snowy Nottingham. And those of you who know me will know that it took the wonderful Suzi Bewell, PGCSE leader at the UNiversity of York and a very lovely woman, very little effort indeed to convince me to make the journey and to go and listen to some of the most inspiring people trying to teach languages across the country. But more than that, it's a chance to catch up with old friends, swap stories, ease concerns and hear whispers of exciting new concepts. Even more than that, it's a time to get your own brain back on track, to reinvigorate your thoughts and energies and give you renewed impetus. And so I'm very glad indeed that I went. These next few posts will hopefully allow me (selfishly) to clarify what I heard, both to anyone reading this (oh you brave souls!) and to myself to help on my ongoing learning journey.
To Suzi and the equally wonderful Sarah Vaughn of Sussex ALL and Languages South East can I hereby say a very big thank you for all of your kindness in helping me to get up to Nottingham- you're both stars!
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