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THURSDAY, 13 th March 2008
FRIDAY, 14th March 2008
SATURDAY, 15th March 2008
Sunday
PLENARYDavid A. Hill (Free-lance, Budapest , Hungary ) With no noticeable schools or even groupings of poets, and more people publishing than ever, contemporary British poetry really has something for everybody. This session will present an overview of what has been going on the in the last two years, with comment on writers, and readings of a selection of poems to give a taste of what is on offer. Adrian Underhill WORKSHOPSAna Koce In my presentation I would like to point out why and how I started writng poetry in class. I will also present the steps in which my students approach and complete a poem of their own, in particular creating the mood, deciding on a grid framework and adding adjectives to complete the poem. Students mostly like to read their poets to their peers. Bob Hastings We all learn better when we're interested in what we're studying. This talk will therefore present practical teaching ideas to engage our learners' minds, capture their interest and so improve their English. It will focus on how personalisation activities and a sense of humour allied to clear inductive grammar presentations can increase motivation and facilitate learning in the English language classroomJasna Cepuder Sedmak A large number of students have faced bullying either as witnesses or as victims, feeling helpless in both cases, without recognizing the core and the scale of this problem. This presentation will focus on how to get students interested in this matter and make them aware of this problem. A sample lesson plan together with corresponding worksheets will serve as a starting point for a final discussion. David A. Hill Creative writing is one of the most profoundly motivating activities you can engage in with language learners. In this experiential session we will do three writing activities to show just how simple it is to get great results. Chaz Pugliese For Learning to happen, the learner (and the teacher!) has to be ready. That is, physically and mentally alert. Learning is made easier if the learner is allowed an opportunity to mull things over (rehearse) and work at their pace. Repetition is extremely useful if it is meaningful. Finally, because language learning is cyclical, reusing language already seen is paramount. Come to this session if you want to experience a bagful of exercises that will help you put the four R's into practice.Chaz Pugliese Alicia Cundell Learning how to integrate technology into teaching has never been easier. A variety of easily accessible resources are available through the Internet and can even be delivered to your inbox. This presentation will show specific ways teachers can learn and stay abreast of current technology trends through web sites, web logs, list servs, pod casts and web quests. Andrea Fischer In this workshop I would like to share my favourite pairing and grouping activities. Instead of just saying: 'Now get into pairs!' I have collected different tools to encourage my students to pair up or get into groups. These short activities proved to be energizing, motivating and thus they facilitate collaborative learning in the classroom. Bojana Dragoš Following a short introduction into a debate as an academic subject there will be a workshop where every participant will take part in teams of two/three. The purpose of the workshop is to show in practice that every subject is debatable, and how much our students learn (vocabulary, grammar, fluency, argumentation) if they have to take a position on either affirmation or negation. Bob Hastings ll our students make errors when they use English, but not all errors are the same. This talk will look at the types of errors our students make and why they make them, and will explore different ways of correcting them. It will also suggest how to pre-empt errors and how to help our students improve their skills in English. Cindy Gunn Does reflective teaching lead to better, or even the best, teaching practice? This workshop will attempt to answer this question by first defining reflective teaching, discussing its pros and cons, sharing teachers' reflective teaching experiences and offering some activities designed to help teachers become reflective practitioners. Darja Mazi Leskovar three American prize-winning novels. It focuses on the analysis of the presentation of the mutual influence between fluctuation of culture and construction of identity. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the Pulitzer award winning book which was voted the best American novel of the 20th century, will be foregrounded. Ifigenia Mahili This talk will focus on the important issues that are raised in the attempt to adopt a critical approach to our own thinking as teachers and to incorporate it in our classrooms. It will discuss why it is essential to the teaching community, why teachers and students don't reason well, and practical issues involved with its assessment and incorporation in the classroom. Ivica Glasnčnik in Sanja Radošević The primary goals of our workshop are to present teachers of all levels with fun ready-made interactive activities, give them a chance to experience them in practice, provide ideas of how to modify them for specific classroom purposes (e.g. perfecting any of the four language skills, teaching grammar or vocabulary, etc) and recommend how to integrate them in actual lessons. Marija Škorjanc Film is a media present both at home and at school. By using it teachers and students can become more motivated to act interdisciplinary. Cooperation in the area of art education, EFL and citizen education is only an example to show how a communicative approach can activate students' creativity and their pre-knowledge and enables them to reach different goals of each subject. Michael Birchall This paper focuses on the development and implementation of an ESL support program using content area classes instead of English classes to improve student proficiency. It deals with problems of coordinating among departments and discusses the ongoing changes in the program to make it more relevant to the students. Polona Oblak Based on a case study of the past three years, some materials for testing young learners have been collected and analysed. A storytelling metho is used, transformed into a learner friendly test. The results of the testing done in a very young learners project 'Sport/ dance and English' will be presented. The research was done in cooperation with FF Maribor, RIC and PeF Ljubljana. Renata Krivec and Katarina Grmek What does a teacher need to do to keep in touch with the English language and methodology? Possibilities of life-long learning in today's hectic scholastic atmosphere will be presented together with some practical examples of topical expressions from the English language and cultural tips which will help participants to feel less alienated and to sound like native highbrows. Riste Nikolov Providing Teachers with the essential Leadership and Management skills and strategies in order to prepare them for the challenge of leading and managing their classroom in a most effective and efficient way for the purpose of reaching the maximum capacity of the group. Sabina Gramc Lokar Autism is a condition usually misunderstood by the general public. The aim of my presentation will be to provide essential information about autism, especially with regard to how it hinders language learning and language acquisition. Additionally, I will provide some examples of good practice (from my experience as well as the experience of my colleagues at the Ljubljana School for the Deaf). Tim Bowen - a review of "new" words and expressions. any teachers living and working outside English-speaking countries may feel that they are out of touch with developments in the language, especially as regards vocabulary. It is a genuine surprise to some people that British people don't say 'It's raining cats and dogs' , for example. But what do they say? In this plenary we will look at how new words are formed, and when and why new words enter the language. We will also look at the key role played by euphemisms. Tim Bowen Many words have interesting stories behind them and this may help to make them memorable for learners. In this workshop we will look at a number of different exercises that are designed to promote an interest in the origins of words and to develop insights into similarities between languages that, on the surface, may seem completely different. Urška Ravnjak Taking what good teachers do in the classroom as the basis of its approach, Straightforward is an integrated skills series with a transparent strucutre, making it an easy-to-use course for students and teachers alike. The books and enclosed CD-ROMs contain skills work, contextualised grammar activities, vocabulary development exercises and functional language lessons. There will be some materials for the teachers to take away. Alenka Budihna The narrative of the film, the plot, the genre, the context, the technical part - all these can be analysed with our students in the English class. The fact that there is more than one way of dealing with a movie will make the content of the lesson more complex and offer the teacher and the students more fun. Veronika Rot Gabrovec, Mojca Belak The world of ELT appears to strive to be a clean, safe place - still, taboos seem challenging to use. Have you ever touched on toilet language or cursing, have you read texts on gay issues or religion? Are there any potentially dangerous topics left? Come to the swapshop to share your experiences and views on taboo topics in class.
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