Talks by Dr. Tamás Kiss, 2015

Dr. Tamás Kiss (National Institute of Education, Singapore) gave two talks at DELP in October, 2015. The first was held for DELP staff, and was entitled: The complexity of language teacher education: issues in course design. Tamás described the education system in Singapore and explained the system of teacher training in this context. It was interesting to see how innovations are implemented to strengthen the programmes, and chaos theory and ways of finding connections between key elements have played a role in this. Here is the picture of one of the slides:

The second talk was Culture, language and communication in the Intercultural Communication lecture series in the MA in English programme.  Here we heard about how culture influences our behaviours and our expectations of others, and what impact cultural references have on our interpretation of language.