IATEFL 2024 Danny Norrington-Davies (IH London) Emergent language and task repetition with lower levels Most of us will be familiar with Danny’s work through his conference presentations and his articles and books: Teaching Grammar: from Rules to Reasons. Pavilion Publishing 2016 and Working with emergent language (with Richard Chinn) Pavilion Publishing 2022 , so it was a pleasure to see him ‘live’ again. With characteristic generosity, Danny has shared the slides for this talk on his blog (also on the QR code in the picture above) and I have his permission to reproduce some of them here. If you’re feeling equally generous, you can contribute to his Gofundme page in support of Abd, a student in Gaza and his family This presentation is based on work done with a lower intermediate (B1) level group that Danny described as ‘not easy’, so we can all imagine what that means. Danny focused on his use of ‘Focused Tasks’ with this group, defined by Ellis, Li and Zhu (2019:38) thus: “Fo
