Associate Professor Jonathan Newton interacting with the participants of the workshop.
On the 14th of July 2017, Faculty of Language and Communication’s Adjunct Professor, Associate Professor Jonathan Newton of Victoria University of Wellington conducted two speaking workshops here at Swinburne Sarawak. The workshops entitled ‘The teacher speaks: Making classroom talk count for learning’ and ‘Five highly effective classroom speaking activities and why they work’ taught teachers how to effectively use teacher talk and encourage effective student speaking activities.
About 130 participants from over forty schools and institutions attended the workshops.