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Attending Yakut TESOL conferences can provide a good opportunity for professional development for English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. This paper aims to explore the opinions how teachers evaluate contribution given by lecturers at international conference in Yakutia, what seminars or workshops they liked or disliked while attending and how they would like to cooperate with Yakut TESOL in the near future. The survey of teachers was conducted in three consecutive years in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The questionnaire answers disclosed what topics covered at the conferences are of great interest for teachers, what materials they would apply in their classrooms and what expectations EFL teachers have from Yakut TESOL conferences. It is revealed that teachers attending the conference come from different levels of education and have different needs being under different institutional requirements. Meeting the needs of all teachers attending a TESOL conference is a big challenge for conference organizers. In conclusion, the article offers some ideas to attract more EFL teachers to the conference and to intensify their cooperation with Yakut TESOL and other TESOL organizations worldwide.
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Sidorova, L., Alexeeva, N., Emelianova, Z., Olesova, L. (2020). The Role of the Yakut TESOL Conferences for the Professional Development of EFL Teachers in Yakutia. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_7
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