Newsletter From the President This Newsletter, the second of the year 2000, finds us at what is probably the peak of our activities for the year or, more accurately, the first of many peaks! On May 13th, Laura Renart gave a presentation on “Dealing with Discourse” at T. S. Eliot in Banfield, with good attendance. On June 13th Daniela Delgado will be talking about “Neurolinguistic Programming in ELT” at AACI in Lomas. As you are probably all aware, we are organising the APIBA International Examinations Seminar for June 24th about which you can find more information in this Newsletter. Simultaneously with this preparation work, the APIBA SIGs (Special Interest Groups) are now in full swing and many of them are already holding their second meetings. Their success has been a decisive factor in boosting membership of APIBA through new members and existing members reactivating their membership. SIGs have also encouraged the participation of Teacher Trainees who are learning more about the work done by APIBA. As well as all these activities, we are conducting a campaign with the educational authorities for the recognition and increased status of teacher degrees. If this doesn’t sound like a lot, we are also preparing the Annual Seminar for 2000, helping FAAPI distribute Ingles@info, working to produce publications, compiling information for the announced scholarship and subsidies, building an APIBA Web site, starting to organise the FAAPI 2001 Congress, as well as replying to numerous queries and requests. From all of the above, you might think that the APIBA Committee is made up of around 50 people. This is not the case. The Committee is made up of 9 very hardworking people with very active professional lives quite independently of APIBA. If you’re wondering where all this is going, the point I’m trying to make is that we need YOUR HELP. As I emphasised in the last Newsletter, the Association is what its members make of it, and it is only the members who can help it grow. There are many members who are already helping us, far too many to name individually, they include: APIBA SIG Co-ordinators, APIBA Local Delegates, and individual members who help us with their expertise in legal, academic and administrative areas. We are very grateful to all these people. But we need MORE. So if you know any members, or potential members, willing to help us strengthen APIBA, even the smallest contribution in time or work helps, PLEASE put them in touch with us.
New APIBA Members
The following teachers have joined the proud hosts of APIBA recently. Congratulations, welcome on board, and we hope to see you at all our activities: Paula López Cano, María de los Angeles Rodrigues, Silvia L Acevedo, Elizabeth Díaz Rojo, Gloria C de Raffo, Andrea Rompatto, Mercedes Rossetti, Mónica C Pastorino, Gabriela Domínguez, Ana Kuckiewicz, Inés Correa Arce, Mónica G López, Gilda Pinciroli de Daroda, Daniel Carballedo, Beatriz Longobardi, Paola Danesi, Marta Irigoyen, Angela Cosentino, Miriam Hughes, Laura Judith Schenbarg Guarnera, Lucia Maria Ahcin, Mariana Vanesa Kroll, Maria Hebe Mariño, Marcela Russo, Marcela Vidal, Juana Marconi, Marisa Vilaseco, Mercedes Rego Perlas, Sergio Rodríguez, María Gabriela Pane, Águeda Imposti, María Angela Di Gaetano.
Certificates of attendance anyone? If you have attended previous APIBA seminars/workshops and have not collected your certificates of attendance yet, you can do so at APIBA’s office. They will also be available at the International Examinations seminar. Certificates which have not been collected by July will be disposed of, due to lack of storage space in our office.
Issue 7, June 2000
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From the President APIBA’s new members Forthcoming seminars FAAPI 2000: information, call for papers and APIBA scholarships APIBA SIGs update AACI/BAC news Discounts for APIBA members FAAPI 2001 Certificates of attendance New FAAPI Committee New Office hours
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INES en Lenguas Vivas, SBS Palermo, CIBA, L2 School of English and Interaction Language Studio for kindly lending their premises for the organisation of SIG events. Colegio Champagnat for lending their premises for the forthcoming International Examinations event AACI Lomas de Zamora for offering their premises for Daniela Delgado’s talk T S Eliot for offering their premises for Laura Renart’s talk on May 13th
A Reminder People who have applied for membership in the last few months are reminded that they will not become full members until two passport-sized photographs and a copy of their degree have been received by the APIBA committee.
New and Improved APIBA’s office days have been greatly extended!! Our office at KEL is now open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 to 15, and Fridays 11 to 13.