Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires
A.P.I.B.A.
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November 1998
Issue 3 In this issue FAAPI Bahía Blanca – APIBA Seminar – Shakespeare Conference Call for Papers for 1999 – Postgraduate Courses – A Winning CV End-of-Year Toast – How can I pay my dues? – Membership Form
FAAPI Bahía Blanca The Second FAAPI Congress organised by the Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Bahía Blanca was held September 24-26 last. The academic event, which opened under the motto “The Challenges of Globalization for TEFL,” proved highly successful thanks to the dedication of its organisers who went out of their way to make everybody feel at home. 700 EFL teachers had the opportunity to listen to guest speakers such as Jane Revell, Alan Pulverness, Oriel Villagarcía, Philip Prowse, Richard Rossner, Mike Potter, Rosalyn Hurst, Ana Ma. Armendáriz, Silvia Luppi, Silvia Rettaroli, Marty Eayrs, Bill Bowler, Nick Saville, Amanda Cant, Efrain Davies, María Rosa Mariani and Diana Hicks, who addressed the three main topic areas, NLP, ESP and Applied Linguistics in plenary and semi-plenary sessions.
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Colleagues also had the opportunity of choosing from among 50 smaller discussion groups offered in the form of workshops/presentations and coordinated by both Argentine and foreign experts in ELT. An intensive and fruitful experience, the conference allowed participants from all over the country a much needed time to reflect, exchange points of view and renew professional acquaintances. Two unavoidable circumstances slightly marred the FAAPI event this year. Firstly, the need to restrict the number of attendees due to the scarcity of accommodation in the city of Bahía Blanca and environs. Secondly, the fierce storm which broke out Friday and Saturday and which proved a disaster for people who had to arrive in or leave Bahía Blanca on those days. Yet, in spite of these inconveniences, it can still be claimed that “FAAPI 98 fue una fiesta.”
APIBA Seminar On October 3rd the APIBA Annual Seminar was held at IES en Lenguas Vivas ‘J.R. Fernandez’. As had been announced in Newsletter 2, the subject was Language: different perspectives. The lecturers in the morning were Alfredo Jaeger, who talked about The Language of Newspapers and Fernando Lasala who discussed issues concerning Testing.
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Both lectures were very enriching as well as enlightening. In the afternoon Miriam Hughes gave an interesting talk about Working with the Video in the Language Class. It was a very profitable seminar and we thank the lecturers and participants for this. It was also very well attended which contributed to the rather depleted APIBA funds.
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New APIBA Committe Following the elections that took place at the AGM after the Annual Seminar on October 3, 1998, the new APIBA Committee is now consists of the following members:
President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Deputy Treasurer Ordinary Members
Beatriz Tosso Mirta D’Alessio Rita Faré de Garrido Stella M. S. de Ugarte Susana Masoero Ma. Teresa Stringa Cristina Banfi