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RELC’s 37th International Seminar On Methodology and Materials Design in Language Teaching

This year's RELC Seminar (22-24 April 2002) attracted more than 550 participants from some 26 countries, from as far away as Nigeria and South Africa, among the non-SEAMEO member countries. The proceedings comprised eight invited papers, 87 parallel sessions and 30 workshops, making a total of more than 120 presentations. Today, the RELC Seminar is indeed international, compared to what it was when the first gathering of English language teaching (ELT) specialists was held in 1968 under the rubric of Regional Seminar on the Training of English Language Teachers. Understandably, in its very early days, the base for RELC was a humble set-up in a pre-war bungalow in the centre of the old Watten Estate, off Dunearn Road, Singapore.