If we love teaching English to adults and executives it is probably because we have become kind of addicted to the pleasure and sense of achievement it gives us when our students or clients can actually communicate, do their job in English, change jobs and meet their life goals. To accomplish this, we are aware many times we have had to move away from traditional premises about first language acquisition and teaching children. We know adults are unique, with their own strengths, challenges, urgencies, motivations, mindsets and skillsets.

In this 2-hour webinar, we will get a glimpse of key contributions of and criticisms to andragogy to then delve into lesson design, starting from a focused needs analysis to then move onto the use of authentic materials and activities to fit the increasingly pervasive 70-20-10 framework many companies are adopting, which proposes that only 10% of workplace learning does or should come from formal training – oops…that’s what we are used to! – 20% does or should come through learning directly from others and 70% from the employee's learning through workplace experiences. Let’s work collaboratively to try and sort out this puzzle together.

AFFILIATION: Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernandez”, Universidad de Belgrano and APIBA (Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires) - member of the Ed-Tech, and Business English Special Interest Groups.

Cecilia Sassone is a graduate teacher of English (IESLV “Juan Ramón Fernández”), holds a Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa (Universidad de Belgrano) and three diplomas in e-learning/Moodle and ICT (UTN/Net-Learning). She has worked at all levels of education, lectured at national congresses and taught adults and executives for 30 years. Her 22-year-research has rendered the Spiderweb Method® for teenage and adult language learning for which she was honored with the “Innovation and Achievement Award 2015” by the SHARE Education Committee.