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Current Topics in ELT, Flamingos

Tue, 18 Jun 2013

Current Topics in English Language Teaching (ELT) was a three-hour lecture delivered by Dr Willy Renandya in Kadarman Room of the Central Building of Sanata Dharma University Yogykarta on Tuesday 18 June 2013, starting 10 am till 1 pm. The general lecture was organized by the Graduate Programme of English Language Studies (S2 KBI). Renandya is a PBI alumnus who is now an academic staff member of the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore. Interestingly, Renandya also introduced a learning strategy called FLAMINGOS, which refers to Fluency, Lexis, Amount and Intensity, Motivation, Input, Grammar, Output, and Set expressions.

Willy Renandya delivers his lecture entitled Current Topics in ELT in Kadarman Room, Central Building, Sanata Dharma University Mrican campus

Willy Renandya stresses on the main points of his lecture

FLAMINGOS strategy proposed by Willy Renandya

Audience, including USD PBI-ers, follow the lecture while taking (physical and mental) notes

Topics for research? Here are Renandya's suggestions

Here are some of Renandya's grammar research ideas

One of the general lecture participants is Fransiska Maharani, who is a USD PBI alumna

Is it easy to do research? Yes is Renandya's answer

Front desk and registration staff Lely (right, white dress) is assisted by Chacha, a USD PBI-er

Next, Renandya makes a joke and then talks about Set expressions

Set expressions include formulaic language, for instance, oh my God and last but not least

Participants follow the lecture attentively

Now... Renandya covers research ideas on vocabulary

Some ideas related to vocabulary research are listed above by Renandya

The general lecture speaker locates a slide

Renandya wraps up his lecture on ELT current topics interestingly

After delivering his three-hour lecture, Renandya chats with KBI chairperson Mukarto (left) and PBI lecturer Ouda (right)

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