MICELT organizes the world’s most colourful conferences and seminars. MICELT started in 1995 and organized its first international conference at the Shangrilla’s Rasa Sayang Resort in Penang. The Deputy Minister of Education, Dato’ Fong Chan Onn opened the conference. 500 people attended the conference which featured international speakers like Rebecca Oxford, David Nunan, Alan Maley and Lorraine Smith. The Second MICELT was held in 1998 at the same venue and was attended by 550 people. The Minister of Education, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abd. Razak opened the conference. The year 2000 saw the MILLENNIUM MICELT breaking records. 740 people attended the conference held at the Rivera Bay in Melaka, which was opened by Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar. That year The President of TESOL, Neil Anderson attended together with two past presidents, David Nunan and Joy Reid. In 2002 MICELT moved to Seremban and the Seremban Hilton. Dianne Larsen-Freeman who started her career as a Peace Corp volunteer in Malaysia and is now a giant in ELT was one of the main speakers. In 2004, the conference was held at the Hotel Equatorial in Melaka and 740 people attended. The Minister of Education, Dato' Hishammuddin Tun Hussein delivered the key-note address and opened the conference. MICELT 2006 will be held May 8-10, 2006 at Hotel Equatorial Melaka.

MICELT organizes smaller National Level seminars with attendances of 350-400 as well. The Smart School Seminar (Schools and Classrooms for the Third Millennium, 1997) held at UPM and (The Literature Component Seminar and Workshop, 2001) held in Kuantan, Pahang are examples of such. MICELT also organised the 1st and 2nd ELT Materials Symposium in 2004(Putrajaya) and 2005(Damai Laut, Perak) respectively.

The 2nd Regional Conference on Literature and Creative Writing in The Classroom was held in 2004(Melaka) where 400 people attended. MICELT also organised another conference, The 1st International Conference on English Language Teaching (ELT) Materials in April 2005. More than 500 people participated. Key speakers included Brian Tomlinson, Alan Maley, Marc Helgesen, Bao Dat, Hitomi Masuhara, Jayakaran Mukundan, Chaz Pugliese, Jane Spiro and Tan Bee Tin.

MICELT also conducts teacher development workshops, and such workshops for school teachers have been organized in Kuala Selangor, Kuantan, Segamat and Batu Pahat.

The conferences and other teacher development initiatives would not have been a success if not for the strong support from ELS Language Centres, Pearson Education Malaysia and Thomson Learning.

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