15º CONGRESO LATINOAMERICANO DE LA ENSEÑANZA DE IDIOMAS

George Kokolas has been working as the Academic Director and Teacher Trainer for

Express Publishing for the last 21 years. He has delivered lectures, presentations, and demo lessons to over 1000 institutions/conferences in 89 countries. He is a certified LEVEL 5 TEFL teacher with deep knowledge and vast experience in training teachers. He is also a certified ADVANCED Neurolanguage CoachⓇ, practicing Neurolanguage CoachingⓇ professionally or as integration to regular classes. He currently studies Positive Psychology trying to merge ELT into it through different mindsets and activities He also holds a BA in English Literature and he is the co-host and producer of the internationally successful podcast “Teachers’ Coffee”. Since 2020 he is the Senior Editor/columnist for the Neurolanguage Collective Magazine.

María de la Lama, Director of Universidad del Pacífico Language Center (CIDUP), leads the CIDUP Research area, which was created in 2015. Ms. De la Lama holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of California, where she also obtained her undergraduate degree, as well as an MBA from Universidad del Pacífico.

Director of Pete Sharma Associates Ltd, a consultancy and training organisation: www.psa.eu.com He currently works as a pre-sessional lecturer in EAP (English for Academic purposes) at Warwick University, UK. Pete is a regular conference presenter at IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), BESIG (Business English Special Interest Group) and TESOL (Teachers of English as a Second or Other Language). He is the co-author of Blended Learning (2007) and 400 Ideas for Interactive Whiteboards (2011) in the well-known Macmillan ‘Books for Teachers’ series. His latest e-books are on ‘apps’ (2013) and writing for digital media (2014) and his most recent book as co-author is Best Practices for Blended Learning (Pavilion Publishing and media 2018). Pete has a Masters in Educational Technology and ELT from Manchester University. His dissertation was an evaluation of the Macmillan English Campus. Virtual Blended Learning: principles and practice ABSTRACT Many classroom teachers have recently been forced to transfer their teaching online, at least temporarily. This move has often involved a steep learning curve, with teachers facing an ever-increasing range of options for blending different modes, materials, platforms and technologies.