{"id":7598,"date":"2019-07-24T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/44.242.7.17\/community\/?post_type=course&#038;p=7598"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:18:04","slug":"neuroelt-language-learning-and-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/course\/neuroelt-language-learning-and-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"NeuroELT: Language Learning and the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis Kelly, Marc Helgesen, and Joseph Shaules are English teachers who are involved in studying neuroscience, psychology and culture. In each session, they will explore what science has discovered about how we learn, and how how learning about neurolinguistics can make us more effective teachers.<\/p>\n<h3>Get your professional development certified with iTDi<\/h3>\n<p>In this course, you will read articles recommended by the instructor, watch four recorded sessions, and answer four discussion questions. (This is not a live course.) If you would like to receive a Certificate of Completion verifying 20 hours of professional development credit, email your answers to these questions in a separate word document to <span \n                data-original-string='TeE\/\/ifLuABFC8KUYaw3DA==4d4mZ6M+EvZeX+OdqlSOaF69k9aZuS\/3ARHZLVsDF0wEWE='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>su<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*****<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**<\/span>Di.pro<\/span> for evaluation. In the body of your document, please include your name as you wish it to appear on your certificate, your email address, and the name of course you have completed.<\/p>\n<style> #button8267{} #button8267:hover{}#button8267:hover{}<\/style><a target=\"_self\" id=\"button8267\" class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/enrol-course\/neuroelt-language-learning-and-the-brain-self-study-with-curtis-kelly-marc-helgesen-and-joseph-shaules\/\">Take this course<\/a>\n<h3>Scholarships<\/h3>\n<p>As always, iTDi believes that all teachers deserve the same opportunity to improve themselves. Therefore, a limited number of scholarships will be available for this course. Please apply through our scholarship application. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/vJtWuAPjZb93Uv7u7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"uk-button\" type=\"button\">APPLY<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About Marc Helgesen:<\/h3>\n<p>Marc Helgesen, Professor, Miyagi Gakuin Women&#8217;s University, Sendai, Japan has written over 150 articles, books and textbooks on English Language Teaching including the <em>English Firsthand<\/em> series for Pearson Education. He has been an invited speaker at conferences on 5 continents. He maintains two public websites: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eltandhappiness.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ELTandHappiness.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helgesenhandouts.weebly.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">HelgesenHandouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>About Curtis Kelly:<\/h3>\n<p>Curtis Kelly (EdD), Professor, Kandai University, Osaka, has spent most of his life developing learner-centered materials for \u201c3L\u201d students, students with low ability, low confidence, and low motivation. He has given over 350 presentations and written over 30 books, including <em>Active Skills for Communication<\/em> (Cengage), and <em>Writing from Within<\/em> (Cambridge). He is also the coordinator of the JALT Brain Special Interest Group<\/p>\n<h3>About Joseph Shaules:<\/h3>\n<p>Joseph Shaules (PhD) has been a tenured faculty at Rikkyo University and a special associate professor at Rikkyo&#8217;s Graduate School of Intercultural Communication. He directs the Japan Intercultural Institute (JII) and is Japan specialist for Intercultures, Germany. Books include <em>Identity<\/em> (OUP),<em>Deep Culture<\/em> (Multilingual Matters) and The <em>Intercultural Mind: Connecting Culture, Cognition and Global Living<\/em>. (Intercultural Press).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/self_study-90x120.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-mini wp-image-7312\" width=\"90\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/self_study-90x120.png 90w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/self_study.png 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><em>iTDi Advanced Skills Self Study courses allow you to access and enjoy the content of popular Advanced Skills live courses, at your own pace and at a time that is convenient for you.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscience is changing the world.  It is unraveling the mysteries of the very most basic elements of our profession \u2013 language, learning, and culture \u2013 and yet, because these findings are so new, they have not made much impact on our field yet. We wish, as language teachers ourselves, to change that.  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