1. NATESOL AGM Manchester Metropolitan University Sat 19 May 2018

2. Agenda Apologies Minutes of AGM of 7 May 2016 (available on request)
Matters arising
Chair’s Report for
Treasurer and Membership Secretary’s Report
Election/confirmation of officers and committee members
Next committee meeting and session
Thanks
AOB

3. 3 Matters arising
None that won’t arise in subsequent agenda items

4. 4 Chair’s Report a. Sessions since last AGM b. Conference June 2016
c. Links with other organisations
d. Issues

5. 4a. Sessions
June 2016: Jean Conteh (University of Leeds) ‘The multilingual turn’
October: Jeremy Harmer ‘Back between the covers’
December: Brian Tomlinson ‘Creative use of the coursebook’
March 2017 Tim Phillips (British Council) ‘A goat in the classroom’
April: Gabriel Diaz Maggioli (Catholic University of Uruguay) ‘Thinking like a designer’
July: Huw Bell (MMU) ‘EAL and formal grammar’

6. 4a. Sessions
October 2017: Sarah Telfer (University of Bolton) ‘Storytelling and anecdote’
December: Cormac Conway (Manchester City Council) ‘The use of film’
January 2018: Joanna Davidson-Hajto (City College, Salford) ‘The chemistry of grammar’
April: Alex Robertson/Huw Vasey (University of Manchester) ‘Multilingual Manchester’

7. 4b. Conference May 2016 Theme: Humanising Technology
Plenary speakers: Sophia Mavridi (IATEFL LT-SIG) and Gary Motteram (University of Manchester)
12 good quality parallel sessions + Question Time BUT…
…numbers again an issue (Item 4d)

8. 4c. Links with other organisations
TP attended Associates’ Day at IATEFL 2018 in Brighton
Had fruitful discussions about collaboration with NATECLA, NALDIC, SATEFL and ELT Ireland reps
£500 Teacher Development Scholarship
Continuing fruitful links with IATEFL SIGs – this year IPSEN-SIG

9. 4d. Issues
Conference – themes, speakers, timing, venue, cost? Does it have a future?
Facebook, Twitter (600+ on e-list)
Topics, speakers, venues (including outside Manchester) for sessions. We need suggestions /recommendations (within our budget)
Overall costs

10. 5. Treasurer and Membership Secretary’s Report

11. 6. Officers/committee members
Mike Beaumont (chair)
Keith Gould (website, and e-list)
Jane Cabot (minutes secretary, hospitality)
Jonathan Nicolson (membership and finance)
Mirela Steele (EAL)
Tony Picot (Twitter, Facebook)
Sian Etherington (publishers)
+ volunteers from outside M/cr – role/s?

12. 7. Next committee meeting and session
6.00 pm, Wed 6 June, The Greenfinch, 108 Palatine Road, West Didsbury, Manchester M20 3ZA.
6 for 6.30 pm, Wed 13 June, Wasyl Cajkler (University of Leicester) - next in EAL series, MMU Birley Fields (tbc)

13. 8. Thanks To all current and previous NATESOL Committee Members
To MMU Faculty of Education, MMU Department of Languages, Linguistics and TESOL, and Salford University
To publishers for sponsorship and for supporting our Conference
To all of you for supporting our events

14. 9. AOB