Organized by China Daily in partnership with TESOL International Association and Shanghai International Studies University, the TESOL International Association China Assembly is a high-level international English language teaching event in China. It aims to promote scholarship and cross-cultural understanding among English educators in China, and to enhance dialogue between China's ELT professionals with their peers worldwide. 
 
The Assembly will focus on one main theme and fifteen sub-themes across a variety of keynote speeches, panels, workshops and demonstrations etc. Through face-to-face interaction with leading experts and opportunities for peer-to-peer networking and knowledge sharing, the assembly will provide participants with practical, research-based ideas, strategies, and tools to facilitate on-going improvement in their ELT work.

Sub-themes

• English Education & Whole-person Development
• Education Policy
• Key Competencies Education
• Reading Education
• Task-based Language Teaching
• Student-centered Learning
• Content and Language Integrated Learning
• Service Learning
• Curriculum & Material Design
• Information-based Foreign Language Teaching
• School-based Curriculum
• Testing and Assessment
• Teacher Development
• Public Speaking and Oral English Teaching​
• English Language Teaching to Young Learners