Register to see this year's rising talent in ELT at New Voices 2026!

Nearly 200 educators shared their ideas with us this year, making the selection process more exciting and challenging than ever. We are proud to present the 13 speakers who will be taking the stage at New Voices 2026.

Their sessions cover a remarkable range of topics, from translanguaging and metacognition to inclusive classrooms, educational technology, artificial intelligence and student well-being. Together, they represent the innovative thinking, practical expertise and passion for teaching that make such a special event.

Meet the Voices Behind This Year's Programme

 

The event will take place live 3 times on Wednesday 23th September
at 10am, 3pm, and 9:30pm UK Time.

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Learn More About Each Talk

  • Translanguaging Beyond the Theory: 5 classroom moves for bridging your students' languages

    Every English classroom is multilingual. This talk turns research on bilingual families into five culturally sensitive teacher moves built on language comparison, from multilingual stories to group work, that build the metalinguistic awareness students need for English.

    10:00 am & 9:30 pm (UK time)

    Taylor Benyahia

  • Connection in the classroom: Three certified coaching skills to do just that!

    This talk defines certified coaching and demonstrates three core coaching skills teachers can immediately use in the classroom. Attendees will discover how to integrate these powerful techniques to boost rapport, foster agency and ultimately, improve their learners’ learning experience.

    10:00 am & 3:00 pm (UK time)

    Pablo Molina Byers

  • Metacognition in Action: Practical strategies for developing metacognitive awareness in the L2 classroom

    This webinar explores how teachers can encourage learners to develop metacognitive awareness by incorporating reflective practices into everyday lessons. It also exemplifies how drama improvisation activities can be used to help students develop successful learning strategies.

    10:00 am (UK time)

    Francesca Bovone

  • Beyond Shakespeare: 15 ideas to use literature creatively in the classroom

    How can we use literature creatively in the English language classroom? In this talk, you will learn about 15 engaging activities to stimulate and maintain learners' interest in literary works, including poems, plays, novels and short stories.

    10:00 am (UK time)

    Chiara Bruzzano

  • When the Card Disappears: The MOVE scaffold for meaningful speaking

    Speaking cards transformed my teenage classes from short, supported answers into meaningful conversations. This session shares MOVE, a classroom-tested scaffold that gradually removes support through personal relevance, retrieval, variation and spaced return, helping learners interact more naturally, confidently and independently.

    10:00 am (UK time)

    Justyna Stankiewicz

  • The Immediate Relevance Principle 

    Adult learners engage deeply when lessons connect to immediate real-world needs. This practical session explores the Immediate Relevance Principle, showing how teachers can transform motivation, participation, and retention through simple lesson-design strategies applicable to any adult ELT classroom worldwide.

    3:00 pm (UK time)

    Viviana Paz

  • Nurturing Children's Intrinsic Questioning: Understanding curiosity and responding appropriately

    Children in early years and lower primary use questions to explore and make sense of their world. This research-informed session examines how teachers can create classroom environments that encourage questioning, strengthen inquiry skills, and support children’s cognitive and language development.

    3:00 pm (UK time)

    Ushani Cabral

  • How do we teach tolerance and empathy to our ESL students?

    This presentation explores practical ways of fostering empathy and tolerance in the classroom through global citizenship education and education for sustainable development. It presents engaging classroom activities on environmental and global citizenship that develop both language proficiency and intercultural awareness.

    3:00 pm (UK time)

    Nicoleta Maria Erchedi

  • Bridging the Digital Divide using Low-cost EdTech Devices

    This talk demonstrates how to exploit fully powered Android phones, Bluetooth speakers, and USB flash drives to expand access to online resources. Attendees will learn easy steps to record learner speech, design engaging listening activities, and transfer resources via USB for offline use, gaining practical, classroom‑tested strategies to implement affordable, sustainable digital learning in resource‑limited contexts globally.

    3:00 pm (UK time)

    Elsie Enanga Mange Jato

  • The Curiosity Engine

    For thousands of years, stories have been humanity's most powerful learning technology. Yet modern education treats them as decoration rather than structure. This talk explores how narrative worlds can transform facts into experiences, allowing learners to discover ideas through curiosity, consequence and adventure. When knowledge becomes part of the story, understanding stops feeling like work.

    3:00pm (UK time)

    Brent Proctor

  • Beyond "In the picture I can see...": Upgrading exam speaking tasks

    Practicing speaking and getting secondary school students to actually talk can be a thankless task. We have all been there. This session offers a dynamic upgrade to traditional exam preparation speaking tasks. I will demonstrate tried-and-tested methods on how to inject unpredictable plot twists into picture descriptions, role-plays, and simulations.

    9:30pm (UK time)

    Dominika Mikušiaková

  • Unlocking Inclusive ELT Classrooms

    Explore how to create inclusive English lessons where every student works toward the same learning goal through different paths. Using an escape room format, discover practical ELT strategies that increase participation, collaboration, and learner confidence by embracing learner diversity and providing multiple pathways to success.

    9:30pm (UK time)

    Paola Palomino

  • Teacher First, Student Smart: Using artificial intelligence in the classroom

    AI can generate content, but teachers turn it into pedagogy. This session introduces FRAME for teacher-led material design and CRAFT for smarter student AI use, offering practical ways to design, adapt, evaluate, and use AI responsibly in ELT.

    9:30 pm (UK time)

    Gökçe Nur Türkmen

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