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 * REFLECTION ON YUCE SCHOOLS ELT CONFERENCE **

Firstly, I want to say that this conference which we have gone is the most entertaining and informative conference in my life. So, this conference became helpfull for us. In this conference, there are 4 ELT contributers who are experts on their area. First of all, I want to give information about the first speaker who is Dr. Annamaria Pinter. She talked about differentation in language learning. She defines the differentation as different levels of competence interests, needs, personalities and learning styles. She also talked about group working. According to Annamaria, learners need to learn take responsibilities in order to be succesfull in education. In additon, autonomy cycle is another important concept for her. Autonomy means taking some responsibility for one’s learning. There is a cycle ; Choice commitment motivation reflection understanding self and task better desire to improve and do it again She also said that giving choices to young learners is very important for their success. Lastly, Annamaria talked about teachers2 importance. Teacher has crucial role because teacher facilitates the activities.

Second speaker is Deborah Blaz who presented the conference by playing a game. This was very entertainig. Deborah mainly mentioned about choosing activities based on things that students are interested in.

Third speaker is Meghan Beler. She mainly talked about understanding and working with multiple intelligences. These multiple intelligences are musical, intrapersonal, visual, verbal, etc. According to her, activities should focus on more than 1 intelligence at a time.

Last speaker is Patrick Shortt. He also talked about intelligences but he focused on emotional intelligences. Teachers should provide students an environment in which students can notice their capacity of recognizing their feelings. He also mentioned about different backround of students becuse there are many students whose intelligences are different from each other and who feel in different ways from others.

 As a result, this conference was very informative for us. It became very helpful.