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The session I want to talk about in Yüce Okulları ELT conference is the session which was presented by Dr. Annamaria Pinter. In her presentation, she talked about differentiated learning and its links with autonomy and learning strategies. She talked about her understanding of the differentiated learning. She linked that understanding to learning strategies and learner autonomy. She mainly focused on the practical activities that can be implemented in EFL or other language classrooms. She gave us the chance to experience some of the activities and tasks and reflect on the benefits of those activities in terms of promoting differentiated learning. She talked about the education for individuals. She informed us how this differentiated works in the language classrooms and the importance of the preparation of the activities which targets all of the differences students have in the classrooms. She also gave brief information about the history of the differentiated education and the system requirements of today’s foreign language education. She has shown some learning and teaching strategies by practicing those strategies with us. She has given the definition of the autonomy as taking responsibility for one’s learning the language. She also added the “Autonomy Cycle” to her presentation by giving the definition and examples. She pointed the importance of the grouping activities in the foreign language education classes as they raise learning motivation and provide more awareness about learning. She said that thanks to the group activities the independence and inter-dependence of the students raise and they help each other during learning process.
 * REFLECTION ON YÜCE OKULLARI ELT CONFERENCE by Fatih Gün **

When I examine the opinions of my friends, they all talked about Annamaria Pinter. This shows us that she achieved and presented her speech perfectly. I agree with your ideas about Annamaria. Her differentiated learning speech has great affect on students' success. So, we need to apply thisto our students. Also, her autonomy cycle is very important like you said. In addition, she also mentioned about importance of group activities in foreign language education. If we can achieve applying these techniques in our future life, we can be successful as a teacher.
 * by Zafer Gedikli **