July 26, 2025
8:02 pm
Kisumu
The African Lake Zone English Language Consortium (ALZELC) is a teachers’ professional development union of Teachers’ Associations from countries with a close proximity to the East African lakes including Lakes Victoria, George, Albert, Edward and others. Having been conceived in 2017 at a Hornby School conference convened by the United States Regional English Language Office and British Council in Kigali Rwanda, ALZELC’s growing membership, so far, includes the Tanzanian English Language Teachers’ Association (TELTA), Zanzibar Professionals of English Language Teaching Organization (ZAPELATO), the Congolese Language Support Society (CLASS), the Association of Teachers of English in Rwanda (ATER), Uganda National English Language Teachers’ Association (UNELTA), and the English Language Professionals Association of Kenya(ELPAK). The Consortium aims at strengthening the effectiveness with which English language is taught and learned, and how the language impacts on the learners’ and teachers’ individual and collective aspirations. The Consortium is committed to sharing knowledge, skills and values through, among others, an annual conference hosted rotationally by member Teacher Associations.
About AlZELC
Following the first ALZELC conference which was hosted by TELTA in Mwanza, Tanzania, in July 2018, the second one by UNELTA at Makerere University in Kampala on Saturday, August 2019, the third one will be hosted by ELPAK at Kisumu city in Kenya, on 2nd to 3rd May 2023.
Who will participate?
Presenters & Speakers
The conference speakers and presenters will be drawn from amongst the ALZELC member Teachers’ Associations, English Language Fellows and Specialists, and others from across the globe.
Participants:
Participants will include teachers from across ALZELC member countries (Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Tanzania mainland & Zanzibar), including English Access Microscholarship Program teachers. Primary school teachers are specifically encouraged to participate in the conference since they lay the foundation of language learning in later stages of education. We encourage proposals and participation from across Africa and all the other continents. The ALZELC 2023 will provide an opportunity for intercultural interaction and collaboration.
Conference theme and objectives based
on the theme: “Enhancing ELT in the African Countries through Continued Professional Development and Contemporary Classroom Practices,” the conference will focus on fostering educational opportunities for all people with a diversity of abilities arising from their cultural, biological, socioeconomic, and other backgrounds. By the end of the conference,
Teacher Associations will have shared ideas/experiences of using technology to support CPD provision and contemporary classroom practices
Participating Teacher Associations will have shared challenges they face when trying to become CPD providers for teachers in their contexts and come up with possible solutions through brainstorming and sharing experiences
Participants will have acquired the capacity to effectively deliver presentations at workshops and international professional development conferences
