ELTeCS is the English Language Teaching Contacts Sheme. It promotes networking between ELT professionals across the world, helping people to share information, skills and materials, collaborate on projects and get in touch with ELT language schools, publishers and examinations boards. ELTeCS
• has seven regional electronic discussion lists
• funds regional events for ELTeCS members
• produces a bi-annual publication ELTeCS Info
• shares information on teachers' associations, events and ELT publications worldwide.
We have over 4,000 members worldwide, in seven regions: Europe and Central Asia, East Asia, China, South Asia, India, Latin America, and Africa and the Middle East.
Membership is free and open to all ELT professionals worldwide. If you would like to join, visit the ELTeCS website at:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/english/eltecs/index.htm
or contact the British Council.

ELTeCS workshop in The Philippines
At the end of February, Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Huong from Hue and Ms. Cao Thi Thuy from Vinh attended the ELTeCS regional workshop, 'Profiling the ELT Teacher Trainer', in Manila as representatives of VTTN. Teacher trainers from the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, the UK and Hungary met to discuss trainer training and to develop the skills teacher educators need in their everyday work.

This is what Ms. Minh Huong had to say about the event:
"The workshop has helped me to see the relationships between the different layers involved in language teaching: the learner, the teacher, the teacher trainer and the trainer trainer. Seeing this helps me when working with teachers as a teacher trainer…The workshop brought together trainers from different countries in the region and this was a good chance for us to share and learn from expertise of others…The workshop was of great value to us…"

Resource books and computers for provinces
There is a set of VTTN resource books in each province. These cover many aspects of teaching, from theory and methodology to practical classroom activity books covering all four skills. The British Council under the VTTN programme has also donated computers to the following provinces: Khanh Hoa, Binh Dinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Nam Dinh and Thai Nguyen.
These should be available for VTTN trainers and members to use. Please contact your local co-ordinator for further information.
VTTN goes international
Interest in VTTN has reached beyond Vietnam, as a recent article in the EL Gazette, one of the world's leading ELT publications shows. It says, '[VTTN]…has grown into a fully fledged part of upper secondary English teaching in Vietnam' 'the eagerness to teach and learn English bodes well for the future of the English language teaching profession in Vienam.'

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