March 13, 2010
PLENARY-1: COLIN GRANGER by MACMILLAN EDUCATION
ABSTRACT: TALK
THE JOY OF WORDS
This highly-practical session explores creative ways of presenting and recycling vocabulary in the English classroom.With simple ideas and techniques we can make the whole process of learning new words enjoyable and rewarding, and a particular focus of this talk will be on strategies tht helpour students remember new words long after the lesson is over.
BIO-DATA:
COLIN GRANGER is an author, a theatre director and the founder of the ,UK arts organisation Komedia.He is currently based in Brighton in the UK but has worked as a teacher, a teacher trainer and theatre directorin a number of countries around the world including Switzerland, Spain ,Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Japan. Among his EFL publications are contact English, Play games with English, The Heinemann English Gramer, New Generation, Visions, Generation 2000 and Power English. He has extensive experiencein teaching adolescent students and much of his writing has been fort his age-group. His latest course for macmillan in 2009 is Hot Spot-a four-level course for upper primary and lower secondary students.
PLENARY-2: IZABELLA HEARN by PEARSON EDUCATION
ABSTRACT: TEACHERS’ ROLES AND TEACHıNG STYLES
In this session we are going to explore how the teacher can influence the dynamics of the classroom and bring out the best in each student. All learners learn differently but they all need to believe in their ability to succeed, they need to feel confident to ask questions, they need to know that the teacher is there to support them and that they belong to a harmonious group where there is mutual support and rapport. In order to reach all our students successfully, we need to become multisensory, to assess our own way of experiencing the world, so that we can use our strengths effectively and work on our weaker areas. Finally we shall address the need for teachers to create a balance between the role of guide/facilitator and that of an “authority” within the classroom.
BIO-DATA:
IZABELLA HEARN has over 30 years’ experience in ELT - the past 20 years involved in teacher training throughout the world. An NLP practitioner she has developed creative techniques in the classroom based on her research in this area. Publications include Fun English, (Pearson Longman 2002) and English Adventure (Pearson Longman 2004). Her academic responsibilities include teaching Strategies for Communication in the Classroom and The development of intercultural competence.
PLENARY-3: KEN WILSON by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
ABSTRACT: TURNING PASSIVE STUDENTS INTO ACTIVE LEARNERS
This talk is about how to turn passive lessons, where students mainly read and listen to the
teacher, into active ones. I will show how to get the class more actively involved in every part of the lesson, from presentation of new language to doing exercises, and especially how to animate reading activities. We will even see ways to get students using the map of the book.
BIO-DATA:
KEN WILSON is an author and trainer. He has written about 30 ELT titles, including a dozen series of course books. His most recent course material includes Smart Choice, an American English course for OUP. He also writes supplementary material, including sketches and songs, and in 2008 OUP published Drama and Improvisation, a collection of 75 drama activities for teachers. His first ELT publication was a collection of songs called Mister Monday, which was released when he was 23. Since then, he has written and recorded more than 150 ELT songs, published as albums or as integral parts of course material. There are sixteen of Ken's original songs in the Smart Choice course.
He has also written more than 100 ELT radio and television programs, including 50 radio scripts for the Follow Me series, thirty Look Ahead TV scripts and a series of plays called Drama First.
Until 2002, Ken was artistic director of the English Teaching Theatre, a company which toured the world performing stage-shows for learners of English. The ETT made more than 250 tours to 55 countries, including Turkey.
PLENARY-4: BENA GÜL PEKER by EXPRESS PUBLISHING
ABSTRACT: TEACHING LANGUAGE IN A CONSTRUCTIVIST WAY
The study of learning and teaching is going through a major revolution with the learner assigned an active role and the teacher that of facilitator in this change. The teacher as facilitator takes on the responsibility of guiding learners through a journey of exploration and helping the learners to “build new knowledge from within”. This constructivist view of teaching and learning is extremely exciting and brain-compatible. And yet, it may be somewhat disappointing for both teachers and learners if teachers do not possess the know-how. This presentation will first discuss the art of teaching English in a constructivist manner to all grades; in particular young learners of Grades 6-8. It will then demonstrate ways of how this can be turned into practice by means of elicitation, the right kind of questioning and task design.
BIO-DATA:
BENA GÜL PEKER works at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. Among her professional interests are
educational change, teacher empowerment, language teaching methodology, NLP and drama.
Bena Gül Peker is a certified trainer of NLP. She has presented nationally and internationally.
She was a plenary speaker at the at the 40th IATEFL Convention, Harrogate 2006, U.K.She has
been involved as editor and writer in the writing of the new curriculum and course book series,
“Spot-On”, for primary ELT grades 4-8 since 2005.