This workshop introduces Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI), a research-informed approach that places listening and reading at the heart of language learning—not as comprehension checks, but as powerful tools for modelling grammar, vocabulary and meaning. Participants will see how carefully designed input can demonstrate how language works long before rules are explained, allowing learners to recognise, process and internalise patterns naturally. (more details below)
Date Monday 25 May
Venue Catholic Leadership Centre, 576 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne
Time 8.30am - 3.45pm
Bookings close Monday 18 May (if not booked out sooner)
Morning tea and lunch included
Early Bird Rates (end Friday 27 March)
Early Bird AFTV Member - Government schools | $110.00
Early Bird AFTV Member - Independent/Catholic schools | $160.00
Early Bird Non AFTV Member - Government schools | $150.00
Early Bird Non AFTV Member - Independent/Catholic schools | $200.00
Regular Rates
AFTV Member - Government schools | $160.00
AFTV Member - Independent/Catholic schools | $210.00
Non AFTV Member - Government schools | $200.00
Non AFTV Member - Independent/Catholic schools | $250.00
This workshop introduces Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI), a research-informed approach that places listening and reading at the heart of language learning—not as comprehension checks, but as powerful tools for modelling grammar, vocabulary and meaning. Participants will see how carefully designed input can demonstrate how language works long before rules are explained, allowing learners to recognise, process and internalise patterns naturally.
The session will showcase practical, interactive EPI techniques framed within the MARSEARS cycle, illustrating how modelling, awareness-raising, recognition, stabilisation and structured output work together to support both accuracy and fluency. Through live demonstrations, participants will experience how sentence builders, input flood, task-essential processing and tightly scaffolded output create the conditions for durable learning, while still meeting the grammatical demands of exam frameworks such as IGCSE.
Teachers will leave with a clear understanding of how and when explicit grammar fits, how to recycle language effectively over time, and how to design lessons where listening and reading genuinely drive progress—rather than merely testing it. This is a highly practical session, grounded in classroom reality, and immediately applicable across languages and contexts.
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8.30am - 9.00am |
Registration |
| 9.00am - 10.30am |
Introduction - Why EPI? Developing intrinsic motivation and Principles of Instructed Language Acquisition |
| 10.30am - 10.45am |
Mini break |
| 10.45am - 12.15pm |
Modelling through listening & reading (1.5 hours) - demonstration of Listening-As-Modelling activities |
| 12.15pm - 1.00pm | Lunch |
| 1.00pm - 2.30pm |
Output tasks - Structured production games: demonstration of interactive games |
| 2.30pm - 2.45pm | Mini break |
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2.45pm - 3.45pm Demonstration of fluency activities |
Dr Gianfranco Conti is an international keynote speaker, professional development provider, blogger, and widely respected author in the field of language pedagogy. With around 30 years of experience as a language teacher, he has become known for his research‑informed approach to instructional design and his influential contributions to language‑learning methodology. Dr Conti has authored numerous books, articles, and teaching materials that are used globally by language educators, and he is the founder of several innovative language‑learning initiatives aimed at improving classroom practice and learner outcomes. His work continues to shape modern approaches to effective, engaging, and evidence‑based language teaching.
(Gianfranco Conti, Phd (Applied Linguistics), MA (TE...)
Accommodation is available at the Catholic Leadership Centre for $170 per room per night, with a 10% surcharge applied to Saturday or Sunday stays. Participants can make accommodation enquiries directly by emailing: clc@macs.vic.edu.au and mention attendance at the AFTV PL on Monday 25 May.
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This activity is made possible with the support of DET
BOOKED OUT
As part of the Alliance Français French Film Festival 2026, we are pleased to invite AFTV members to a screening of l'Étranger,
the superb new drama from multi award-winning writer/director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women, Under
the Sand).
L'Étranger is
a gripping adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novella about a detached young expatriate on trial for murder in 1930s French-colonised
Algeria.
It gives us great pleasure to invite Upper Primary and Lower Secondary French teachers to an 'EPI workshop with Gianfranco Conti'.
Date Monday 25 May
Venue Catholic Leadership Centre, East Melbourne
Time 9.00am - 3.45pm