Past and future conferences

Future IATEFL International Conferences

2026 | Brighton, UK | Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 April (Pre-Conference Events: Monday 20 April) Brighton Centre

2027 | Birmingham, UK |  Tuesday 6 to Friday 9 April (Pre-Conference Events Monday 5 April)  ICC Birmingham

2028 | Brighton, UK | Tuesday 4 to Friday 7 April (Pre-Conference Events Monday 3 April) Brighton Centre

Past IATEFL International Conferences

2025 Edinburgh

• 2025 IATEFL Conference Programme

• Watch the 2025 IATEFL Conference Plenaries

  • 50 years on: what has changed? with Catherine Walter

  • Lessons learned: using the science of learning to inform teaching with Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

  • Teachers and classroom research: ownership, relevance, and conceptualisations with Daniel Xerri

  • Big asks and uphill tasks: making a case for TBLT with Neil McMillan

  • Five burning questions to education from a young changemaker with Alicia Waters Galán and Harry Waters

• View the 2025 IATEFL Conference Poster Presentations

2024 Brighton

• 2024 IATEFL Conference Programme

• Watch 2024 IATEFL Conference Plenaries:

  • The AI factor have we figured it out? by Vicky Saumell

  • Because you’re all worth it! by Zarina Subhan

  • Teaching English and teaching other languages: what’s new? by Letizia Cinganotto

  • Disrupting the commonplace: embedding critical literacy within language education by Rose Aylett

• View the 2024 IATEFL Conference Poster Presentations

2023 Harrogate

• 2023 IATEFL Conference Programme

• Watch 2023 IATEFL Conference Plenaries:

  • English for the workplace - looking for new answers by Evan Frendo

  • Lean on me: stories of coaching, mentoring and teacher resilience by Divya Madhavan

  • Sharing words and worlds: ESOL teachers as allies, advocates, and activists by Lesley Painter-Farrell

  • Translanguaging and teaching English as a foreign language by Ofelia García

  • Race, popular culture and ESL in a post-George Floyd moment by Awad Ibrahim
     

2022 Belfast

• 2022 Conference Programme

• Watch 2022 IATEFL Conference Plenaries:

  • (Re)imaging and (re)inventing early English language learning and teaching by Nayr Ibrahim

  • Reading the world and the word by Gabriel Díaz Maggioli

  • EMI: A language teacher´s leap into the unknown? by Libor Stepanek

  • Education, English and the question of future in conflict areas by Asmaa and Hasna AbuMezied

  • Environmental Sustainability & ELT in 2022 – Which Way Now?

2021 Virtual

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• Watch 2021 IATEFL Conference Plenaries:

  • Engaging students with specific learning difficulties: Key principles of inclusive language teaching in a digital age by Judit Kormos

  • Integrating teaching, testing and technology: where angels fear to tread by Thom Kiddle

  • Embedding a culture of empathy in English language teaching by Kieran Donaghy

• Recordings of sessions that took place during the 2021 Conference have been sent to all delegates and can be accessed by IATEFL members via the 2021 Conference Selections publication, available to download at www.iatefl.org/resources.

2019 Liverpool

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2018 Brighton

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2017 Glasgow

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2016 Birmingham

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2015 Manchester

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2014 Harrogate

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2013 Liverpool

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2012 Glasgow

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• Online coverage in partnership with the British Council

2011 Brighton

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