A message from Melba Libia Cárdenas from FIPLV’s member association in Colombia. ASOCOPI

Call for Proposals: Teachers Research! Chile 2016

The First Annual Latin American Conference for Teacher-research* in ELT

* Teacher-research: ‘research initiated and carried out by teachers into issues of importance to them in their own work’

Santiago, Chile, Saturday 19 March 2016

Co-organized by the British Council Chile and RICELT (Red de Investigadores Chilen@s en ELT)

Featuring:

– British Council Aptis Action Research Award Scheme Winners

– British Council Chile / Ministry of Education Chile Champion Teachers

– Presentations of research by teachers across Latin America forother teachers

Teacher-researchers in schools and other educational institutions across Latin America are warmly invited to this inaugural event. If you have been doing teacher-research and would like to share what you’ve done by means of a short presentation and a poster, please complete this form by 31 January 2016.

British Council Aptis for Teachers and IATEFL Research SIG are supporting this conference with a limited number of scholarships to help cover travel costs within Latin America. If you want to apply for a scholarship, there is space in the form (link above) for you to provide a brief description of how you and your institution/context would benefit from participating in this event.

Further guidance will be given following acceptance regarding format for your poster and short associated presentation.

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Yours faithfully,

Melba Libia Cárdenas B.
PROFILE Journal Editor
Foreign Languages Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá
Tel. (571) 3165000 Ext. 16780