The Tunisian Association of Teachers of English (TATE) held its 6th International Conference & Exhibition under the theme:
“HUMANIZING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING”
📅 11–13 May 2018
📍 Golden Tulip Hotel, Hammamet, Tunisia
🏛️ Organizer: Tunisian Association of Teachers of English (TATE)
The conference focused on making English-language education more human-centred, drawing on humanistic psychology, learner-centredness, affect, engagement and critical pedagogy. The call emphasized helping learners become cognitively, emotionally and psychologically prepared to learn English and empowering teachers and learners as agents of change.
Key ideas of the conference
The 2018 theme addressed:
- Humanistic approaches to ELT
- Learner-centred teaching
- Affective factors in language learning
- Learner engagement
- Critical pedagogy
- Teacher–learner relationships
- Interpersonal and intercultural competence
- Personal growth and human values
- Learner empowerment
- Meaningful dialogue in the classroom
- Moving away from the traditional “banking” model of education associated with Paulo Freire
- Creating a more pleasurable, empowering and transformative learning experience
The official proceedings were subsequently published as Proceedings of TATE 6th International Conference on Humanizing ELT, edited by Chokri Smaoui, Salwa Mrabet-Abid, Anouar Bennani and others. The National Library of Tunisia records the volume as 176 pages, published in Sfax in 2019.
