Chasing Encounters

For the very first time we have two guests, Michael Karas and Patrick Huang who are quite knowledgeable with the CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) programs. Michael, falling in love with languages while travelling to France and Patrick being quite musical, today, they describe their engagement in a duo-ethnographic approach to do research. First, they describe the bolts and nuts of what it means to teach and learn to get the CELTA certificate. Then, they both critically discussed their experiences teaching English in Canada and abroad as they use their conversations as data for their research. Finally, they encourage our audience towards a more reflective approach to teaching and to do research as a fertile ground to explore introspection and criticality in teacher education programs. * Bio Patrick has been an ESL teacher and teacher trainer for 15 years, working on CELTA (Certificate for English Language Teaching to Adults) - a pre-service qualification from Cambridge English - as w