A year of ACELT highlights: Looking back at 2024

The Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching (ACELT), the outreach center of the Department of English, School of Humanities, organized several initiatives in 2024 with the aim to support English language teachers and upgrade English language and literature education in multilingual settings. 

PRC-Accredited Workshops

In 2024, ACELT offered workshops accredited by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). These include short training programs to help teachers promote critical pedagogy  in the language classroom such as “Teaching Journalism with a Critical Eye: Strategies for Promoting Analytical Thinking,” “Promoting Critical Language Awareness in Teaching Writing,” and “Close Reading: Unraveling the Text.”

There were also learning sessions to help teachers transition to the MATATAG Curriculum like “Understanding the Context of ELT in the MATATAG Curriculum” and “Using Pedagogical Translanguaging: Responding to the Challenge of the MATATAG Curriculum.”

Practical courses for English teachers

ACELT continued offering its signature programs including Teachers Club Workshops on “Doing Action in Multilingual ELT Classrooms” and “Using the Heroine’s Journey in Our Students’ Own Learning Journey.” The online certificate course on Teaching English in Multilingual Settings (TEEMS) was also offered and another special TEEMS project was held for the Assemblyman Segundo Moscoso Memorial School, for Antique University, and one offered as an online certificate course.

Teachers Club workshop and online certificate course

Collaborations with Partners

In addition, ACELT collaborated with partner institutions:

• Culiat High School for the “Basa-Bisa-Diwa: Overcoming Reading Anxiety and Developing Reading Comprehension” program
• Department of Education–Albay for the “From English to Englishes” webinar
• Department of Education for a master class on “Reconceptualizing Teacher Ideology”
• Panpacific University (Urdaneta City, Pangasinan) for “Using Pedagogical Translanguaging: Responding to the Challenge of the MATATAG Curriculum”

Programs for partner institutions (ACELT goes to PanpacificU & ACELT-DepEd master class)

Expert Teacher Trainers

The success of these programs is attributed to the expertise of ACELT’s trainers who brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to the sessions. This distinguished roster includes Dr Cecilia Suarez (ACELT Executive Director), Dr Marianne Rachel Perfecto, Dr Maria Luz Elena Canilao, Dr Isabel Pefianco Martin, Ms Michelle Paterno, Dr Priscilla Tan-Cruz, Ms Irene Benitez, Ms Maria Concepcion Beltran-Montenegro, Ms Annette Soriano, Ms Ines Bautista-Yap, Mr Michael Estipona, Ms Jacquelline Franquelli, and Mr Dan Henry Gonzales. The contribution of resource persons like Dr Ruanni Tupas, Dr Kingsley Bolton, and Ms Ayette Feriols was also invaluable.