Conference brochure 2008

15TH International IATEFL Slovenia Annual Conference in cooperation with the IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group 13th – 16th March 2008 Terme Topolšica

SO EASY AND YET ... SO DIFFICULT: Developing Professionally and Personally

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to give special thanks to the following: MEMBERS OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE CONFERENCE AS KENDA d.o.o BRITISH COUNCIL

SANDRA VIDA

COSTELLA

MOJCA BELAK JASNA CEPUDER SEDMAK

CUP DISCOVER ENGLISH IN IRELAND LTD

RENATA KRIVEC COLIN MACKENZIE (Teacher Development SIG)

DZS Edgewater College Express Publishing MINT Internationa House Ljubljana NILE OXFORD CENTER

ROKUS Klett TWIN You will find most of them at the ELT Resources Exhibition. Enjoy.

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CONTENTS WELCOME FROM SANDRA VIDA, IATEFL Slovenia president

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Colin Mackenzie IATEFL Teacher Development SIG Coordinator

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GENERAL INFORMATION

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

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A MOMENT TO RELAX

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Welcome from Sandra Vida IATEFL Slovenia President Allow me to welcome you all at the 15th International IATEFL Slovenia conference – this year in cooperation with Teacher Development SIG. The fact that so many of you were here last year tells me that what we started was good and the fact that there are new names among the participants, means that the good news has spread – and this is how it should be.

For me, the conference is always the opportunity to recharge batteries, get confirmation that what I do is right, and accumulate enough new ideas and materials to last me until summer holidays. It makes me feel I belong to a community of educators with their hearts in the right place – to people who are devoted to what they do, and want to learn to do it better and more »userfriendly«.

I know that the programme is so full of great workshops and plenaries that it will be hard to find time to embrace everything Topolšica has to offer, but don't miss out on swimming, a chat with an old friend, fun and laughter, songs and music, exercise and relaxation. This is the time to forget everyday worries and spend time among positive people who share the same passions. Take a deep breath of everything you deserve so well after all the giving throughout the year.

There was a lot of work preparing the conference, but it was all worth while if you go home on Sunday with the wish to come again. We prepared it hoping it would not be just another conference but a must-go event that covers your needs the best way it possibly can.

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Colin MacKenzie IATEFL Teacher Development SIG Coordinator I was very exited when Mojca Belak approached me a little under a year ago with the idea of the Teacher Development SIG cooperating with IATEFL Slovenia on their annual conference for a number of reasons. Not least because my first ever teaching job was in Slovenia and I spent two years in the company of professional, dedicated teachers from whom I learnt so much about being a teacher. Slovenia has had such a profound effect on my development as a teacher that I will be extremely glad if I can in some way give something back through helping to make the 2008 IATEFL Slovenia Conference a success.

I was also enthusiastic as, ever since it was created, I have been impressed by the dynamism IATEFL Slovenia seems from afar, so the idea of putting on an event together and being able to experience that dynamism first hand was very appealing, I haven’t been disappointed.

And the signs are good; we feel this will be a conference with a difference.

Naturally there are wonderful plenary speakers and lots of other interesting presentations, but more than that, we feel that the conference has the potential to be a total development experience, with input from all the participants being the key. To achieve this aim we have organised a number of innovations. We have set up a discussion group to discuss the conference both before and after, perhaps you have already contributed; the open space will give participants the chance to focus on whatever area of their teaching they want to question, and to see how many other people want to focus on that area; and the home-groups give a space for reflection throughout the conference that we hope will amplify what you get from the conference. Any feedback on these innovations would be very welcome.

On top of the conference content, there is also the wonderful setting and the stimulating social programme. I’m sure you’ve been looking forward to it as much as I have, and whether you are here for one day or the whole event I think you will certainly profit from the event.

If this event has sparked your interest in the Teacher Development Special Interest Group then I’d be very happy to hear from you at tdsig@iatefl.org.

Further information on the SIG can be found at www.tdsig.free.fr.

Finally, can I say an enormous thank you to Sandra Vida and the organising team at IATEFL Slovenia. They have done a fantastic job in putting together what promises to be a memorable event which I’m sure we’re all going to enjoy.

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Programme Changes & Cancellations Changes made after the printing of this Conference Programme will be displayed on the IATEFL notice board.

Please check the notice board frequently for changes to the conference programme and any cancellations.

Registration Opening Times Thursday 13 March 16.00 – 18.00 Friday 14 March 8.00 – 9.00 Saturday 15 March 8.00 – 9.00 Upon registration you have received the conference package and name badge.

Please wear the badge at all times.

Your name badge entitles you to access all sessions, the ELT Resources Exhibiton and the social programme on the day/s you registered for.

Raffle

Coffee Breaks Coffee and tea included in the registration fee will be served during the thirty-minute morning and afternoon breaks.

The coffee/tea stands will be located in the exhibition area.

Lunch Break There will be a one-hour break at lunchtime on Friday and Saturday. Lunch will be available in the hotel restaurant or in the hotel bar, where you can get some light refreshments.

Entertainment On Thursday evening we can let ourselves be inspired by Chaz Pugliese`s workshop The Four R`s of Language Teaching followed by a musical evening with refreshments sponsored by the Pilgrims.

On Friday evening, at 9pm, there will be a Cocktail Party and Karaoke Night , sponsored by Express Publishing, held in the plenary hall.

On Saturday evening, there will be a Farewell Party with music, starting at 9pm.

A Moment to Relax

Our sponsors were really generous with prizes this year, the main prizes are free teacher trainig courses at Pilgrims , NILE, MINT International House and Edgewater College.

To take part in Raffle, you need to buy a ticket at the registration desk. They cost 1€ each and you can buy as many as you want.

ELT Resources Exhibition This year exhibitors are: Center Oxford, DZS, Rokus, CUP, Express Publishing, Edgewater College, NILE – Norwich Institute for Language Education and Discover English in

On Friday and Saturday morning the early birds among you can stretch their limbs in the hotel swimming pool doing morning gymnastics. On Saturday at dinner time you can indulge yourself by trying out Chocolate Bath for your Hands. Please sign up for it at the registration desk.

All guests of the hotel are also welcome to go swimming in the hotel pool (included in the price of the room). You can also choose among other relaxation possibilities that are on offer by the hotel. Ask for conference discounts.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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THURSDAY, 13TH March 2008 TIME 16.00-18.00 18.00-18.30

AUDIENCE

ROOM

REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS OPENING CEREMONY

plenary hall

Official opening of the conference 18.30-22.00

THE FOUR R`S OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

plenary hall

Workshop with Chaz Pugliese MUSICAL EVENING with Chaz, Tim, Adrian and David Refreshments sponsored by PILGRIMS 15th International IATEFL Slovenia Annual Conference

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FRIDAY, 14TH MARCH 2008 TIME

AUDIENCE

7.00- 7.30

MORNING GYMNASTICS IN THE SWIMMING POOL

9. 00-10.15

OPENING WORKSHOP

ROOM

plenary hall

Adrian Underhill: The Story of Your Teaching and Learning 10.15-10.45

COFFEE BREAK

10.45-11.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

12.00-12.45

David A. Hill: Creative Writing Workshop

all

plenary hall 1

Bojana Dragoš: Debate in an English Lesson

all

plenary hall 2

Tim Herdon: Digital Classroom – Future Starts Today

all

workshop room 2

Ivica Glasenčnik , Sanja Radošević: GO THE EXTRA MILE or Just Follow Our Lead

primary / secondary

workshop room 3

Katarina Grmek, Renata Krivec: Smithereens of Learning and Career Development

TD

plenary hall 1

Jasna Džambić, Ana Tavčar: Learn English – Learn (with) Music!

All

plenary hall 2

secondary

workshop room 2

commercial

workshop room 3

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Lynne White: Developing Reading with Reluctant Readers Bob Hastings: Engaging Minds – Interesting Ideas for Interesting Learners 13.00-14.00

LUNCH

14.15-15.15

PLENARY Tim Bowen: Staying in Touch with the Language

15.30-17.45

WORKSHOP Open Space with Adrian Underhill

18.00-19.00

plenary hall

plenary hall

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Bob Hastings: “To Err is Human; to Forgive Improve Divine” 19.00-20.00

DINNER

20.00-21.00

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

21.00-24.00

plenary hall

plenary hall 2

Raffle

plenary hall

KARAOKE AND COCKTAIL PARTY

plenary hall

Sponsored by EXPRESS PUBLISHING

SATURDAY, 15 th March 2008 TIME

AUDIENCE

8.00 – 8.30

MORNING GYMNASTICS IN THE SWIMMING POOL

9.00 – 10.15

PLENARY Dr. Sarah Villiers: Changes in British Culture: an A,B,C…

10.15-10.45 10.45 – 11.45

ROOM

plenary hall

COFFEE BREAK PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Adrian Underhill: Using Action Inquiry to Develop Your Teaching in Ways That are Important to You

all

plenary hall 1

primary / secondary

plenary hall 2

Petra Ganc, Mihaela Račič, Polona Švajger: From quality to Excellence – The Model for Increasing Literacy Level

secondary

workshop room 2

Alenka Budihna: The Rain Man – Film Analysis

all

workshop room 3

Cindy Gunn: Reflective Teaching: Do You See What I See?

TD

plenary hall 1

Chaz Pugliese: Teacher: Enjoy Yourself or You’ll Bore Us!

all

plenary hall 2

secondary / adult

workshop room 2

commercial

workshop room 3

Darja Mazi Leskovar: Identity in Literature 12.00 – 12.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Urška Ravnjak: Straightforward – Teaching Made Simple DZS: Interactive boards

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13.00 - 14.00

LUNCH

14.15 – 14.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Ifigenia Mahili: Critical Thinking in Teacher Development: Important Issues

TD

plenary hall 1

Irena Rozman: Oxford Student's Dictionary - The 3 S`s

commercial

plenary hall 2

all

workshop room 2

Jasna Cepuder Sedmak: Bullying??? We are Just Kidding!!!

15.00 – 15.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Steve Lever : Practical Implications Of Corpus Linguistics

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Veronika Rot Gabrovec, Mojca Belak: Taboos are Changing and We Are Changing with Them

all

plenary hall 2

primary / secondary

workshop room 2

YL/TD

plenary hall 1

primary

plenary hall 2

primary / secondary

workshop room 2

all

plenary hall 1

secondary / adult tertiary

plenary hall 2

TD

workshop room 2

plenary hall 1

Sabina Gramc Lokar: Teaching English to Autistic Children 15.45 – 16.15

COFFEE BREAK

16.15 – 16.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Polona Oblak: Very Young Learners: To Test or Not to Test?

Barbara Lesničar: Project Work Ana Koce: We Have Written Poetry In Class

17.00 – 17.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Meta Grosman: Literature For The Year 2008 EU Year Of Intercultural Dialogue And UN Year Of Languages Andrea Fischer: Facilitating Learning Alicia Cundell: Keeping Up with Educational Technology Trends from Your Desktop

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18.00 – 19.00

PLENARY David A Hill : The State of Contemporary British Poetry

19.00 – 21.00

plenary hall

DINNER Chocolate Bath for Your Hands Sponsored by AS KENDA d.o.o.

21.00-

Optional

FAREWELL PARTY

plenary hall

SUNDAY, 16

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March 2008

TIME 9.00 – 10.00

AUDIENCE

ROOM

PLENARY plenary hall Tim Bowen: Words and Where They Come from 9.00 – 11.00

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AGM All members of IATEFL Slovenia are invited to participate in the AGM. The proposal for the agenda 1. Report on what has been going on in IATEFL Slovenia 2. Planned activities for the Future (competitions, etc.)

3. Any other matter

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THURSDAY, 13TH March 2008 18.00-18.30

OPENING CEREMONY

18.30-22.00 TEACHING

THE FOUR R`S OF LANGUAGE

THE FOUR R’S OF LANGUAGE TEACHING 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.

FRIDAY, 14TH MARCH 2008 7.00-7.30 MORNING GYMNASTICS IN THE

SWIMMING POOL 9. 00-10.15

OPENING WORKSHOP

THE STORY OF YOUR TEACHING AND LEARNING Adrian Underhill In recent years story and story telling has been increasingly used as a vehicle for professional learning. It has been said (Howard Gardner) that stories help us to '...think and feel who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.' In this (highly) participatory talk we will explore the use of personal story to illuminate our own professional learning journeys: the surface pressures, the deeper themes and values, the hopes and fears, the uncharted territories, survival, the future .........

10.45-11.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP 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.

Plenary hall 2: DEBATE IN AN ENGLISH 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.

Workshop room 2: A NEW MEDIUM FOR TEACHING ENGLISH Tim Herdon This talk has a dual focus: to explore interesting and stimulating ways of getting students involved in their English language learning, and to introduce the iPack. This is easy-to-use, new digital technology which has the potential to revolutionize the way you teach English, and which only requires the availability of a computer. The presentation will draw on materials form all levels of New English File, and participants will have the opportunity to try out a number of activities to see how the language learning theories behind New English File work in practice.

Workshop room 3: GO THE EXTRA MILE OR JUST FOLLOW OUR LEAD Ivica Glasenčnik 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.

12.00-12.45

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Plenary hall 1: SMITHEREENS OF LEARNING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT 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.

Plenary hall 2: LEARN ENGLISH – LEARN (WITH) MUSIC! Ana Tavčar, Jasna Džambić Are you running out of ideas how to fire your pupils with enthusiasm? Ever thought about music? This workshop will be a lively presententation of how to introduce and use music when teaching English. This innovative approach to English lessons will be illustrated on three different levels: learning music, learning with music and simply using music as a background.

Workshop room 2: DEVELOPING READING WITH RELUCTANT READERS Lynne White The workshop looks at ways of exploring texts to improve Reading skills as set out in the CEF, using Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate books ( B1 – B2). We will explore exploiting texts to help students make sense of, and respond to texts using their own schematic and language knowledge. We'll also look at the ways to help students adapt their reading style according to a range of purposes and activate top-down and bottom-up processes to interpret meaning and develop active and interactive reading strategies.

Workshop room 3 ENGAGING MINDS – INTERESTING IDEAS FOR INTERESTING LEARNERS 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 classroom.

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14.15-15.15

PLENARY

WHAT’S NEW? STAYING IN TOUCH WITH THE LANGUAGE – A REVIEW OF “NEW” WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS. Tim Bowen Many 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.

15.30-17.45 OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY (OST) Adrian Underhill Open Space Technology (OST) enables groups of any size to address complex, important issues and achieve meaningful results quickly.

"Technology" in this case means 'tool' - a process; a method. The aim of OST is to offer an alternative to the pre-fabricated set-talk approach to a conference programme, by offering a subtle but clear-cut structure that invites dialogues, ideas exchanges, buzz groups, brain storms to take place fairly spontaneously, according to where the energy is at the time. Attendees are asked to generate the meeting agenda as well as participate by leading small group break-out sessions during the meeting time.

18.00-19.00

PLENARY

TO ERR IS HUMAN; TO FORGIVE IMPROVE DIVINE Bob Hastings All 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.

20.00-21.00

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21.00-24.00

KARAOKE AND COCKTAIL PARTY

Sponsored by EXPRESS PUBLISHING

SATURDAY, 15 th March 2008 7.00-7.30 MORNING GYMNASTICS IN THE

SWIMMING POOL 9.00-10.15

PLENARY

CHANGES IN BRITISH CULTURE: AN A,B,C… Sarah Villiers What are the British like in the 21st century? What has happened to ‘Cool Britania’ of the ‘90s? What is different and what is the same? What has changed and what should change? How do we view ourselves and others?

How do you see us? And how has this impacted on language at all?

I will select a dozen or so new phrases (I still think imperial not metric!) and identify themes which I believe are key to the insecurities prevalent in this new era. I wonder if you will agree…

10.45 – 11.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Plenary hall 1: USING ACTION INQUIRY Adrian Underhill: This workshop is going to present Action Inquiry and show how it can help you express yourself and find solutions you can apply in your teaching.

Plenary hall 2: FROM QUALITY TO EXCELLENCE ― THE MODEL FOR INCREASING LITERACY LEVEL Petra Ganc Vaš, Mihaela Račič, Polona Švajger How to use ITC tools to encourage pupils to read more? You are welcome to participate in our lecture/workshop and we will tell you more about our

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project which combines different strategies such as long life learning competency approach and the use of European model of perfection.

Workshop room 2: THE RAIN MAN – FILM ANALYSIS 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.

Workshop room 3: IDENTITY IN LITERATURE Darja Mazi Leskovar This contribution considers intercultural and intracultural dialogue in 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.

12.00 – 12.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Plenary hall 1: REFLECTIVE TEACHING: DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? 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.

Plenary hall 2: TEACHER: ENJOY YOURSELF OR YOU’LL BORE US! Chaz Pugliese What keeps teachers going? What helps teachers stay motivated? In this practical session based on work in progress, I will argue that an interest in creativity is the main motor. We will look at the main strategies we can use to maximize our creative power and exploit in the classroom, and we will see 15th International IATEFL Slovenia Annual Conference

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how these can be used to design tasks to make learning more effective and fun.

Workshop room 2: STRAIGHTFORWARD – TEACHING MADE SIMPLE 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.

Workshop room 3: Presentation of INTERACTIVE BOARDS by DZS

14.15 – 14.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Plenary hall 1: CRITICAL THINKING IN TEACHER DEVELOPMENT: IMPORTANT ISSUES 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.

Plenary hall 2: OXFORD STUDENT'S DICTIONARY - THE 3 S`S Irena Rozman In this practical and hands-on workshop we will see how the 3 Ss – Sound, Speed and Search tools can help your students develop and build up their active vocabulary. We will explore the great variety of the topic vocabulary closely linked to the ESP teaching and learning.

Workshop room 2: BULLYING??? WE ARE JUST KIDDING!!!

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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.

15.00 – 15.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Plenary hall 1: PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS Steve Lever Advances in computer technology have made the creation of corpora and their exploitation much easier. We all know basically what a corpus is, but what does it mean for teaching in the standard EFL classroom?

This talk will look at what it means to use corpus based material and how the information included in a corpus can help our teaching keep moving in a useful direction. Ideas on the teaching of ‘everyday English’ will be discussed and various theories on teaching language from a more lexical/phrasal approach will be offered for consideration. Thoughts will also be offered on how corpus linguistics can affect text book preparation in terms of what is left in, what goes out and what can be done later.

It is hoped that the presentation will provide food for thought and suggestions as to how these ideas can be incorporated into everyday teaching.

Plenary hall 2: TABOOS ARE CHANGING AND WE ARE CHANGING WITH THEM 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.

Workshop room 2: TEACHING ENGLISH TO AUTISTIC CHILDREN Sabina Gramc Lokar

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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).

Workshop room 3: DISCOVER ENGLISH IN IRELAND In addition to English language programmes and cultural visits to Ireland, we now offer an exciting, learner based, internationally recognized examination for students and professionals - TIE: Test of Interactive English. Designed in Ireland by a team of language specialists, TIE conforms to the European Framework of Language Proficiency and is suitable for inclusion in the European Language Portfolio and Europass. TIE can be taken at your school or home town.

16.15 – 16.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Plenary hall 1: ERY YOUNG LEARNERS: TO TEST OR NOT TO TEST? 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.

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Plenary hall 2: PROJECT WORK Barbara Lesničar Project work encourages learners to work independently of the teacher and to be responsible for their own working. With this in mind we should encourage them to make self and group evaluation. If project work is learning to integrate and apply language skills and learning how to learn independently, we should include this into our assessment.

Workshop room 2: WE HAVE WRITTEN POETRY IN CLASS Ana 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 poems to their peers.

17.00 – 17.45

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Plenary hall 1: LITERATURE FOR THE YEAR 2008 - EU YEAR OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE AND UN YEAR OF LANGUAGES. Meta Grosman This workshop will tackle interculturality through literature and literary translation. It will also include new Slovenian documents - Resolution on National and European Language Policy, new syllabi and how they reflect international guidelines.

Plenary hall 2: FACILITATING LEARNING 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.

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Workshop room 2: KEEPING UP WITH EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRENDS FROM YOUR DESKTOP 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.

18.00-19.00

PLENARY

THE STATE OF CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY David 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.

21.00- 24.00

FAREWELL PARTY

SUNDAY, 16 th March 2008 14.15-15.15

CLOSING PLENARY

WORDS AND WHERE THEY COME FROM 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.

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A Moment to Relax CHOCOLATE BATH FOR YOUR HANDS (SATURDAY, 19.00-21.00)

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Paraffin bath therapy is one of the most effective methods of applying heat to relieve pain and stiffness. A warm paraffin bath relaxes muscles, relieves stiffness and muscle spasms, and stimulates circulation. The warm paraffin also moisturizes for healthier looking, softer skin. This is also a wonderful heat therapy that provides symptomatic relief of pain and is optimal for patients suffering from arthritis, bursitis, muscle spasms, pain, stiffness, and chronic joint inflammation. It may be prescribed for post-fracture or post dislocation treatment; for sprains and strains; for restriction of motion due to scar tissue; and also for some other conditions.

MORNING GYMNASTICS IN THE SWIMMING POOL (FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 7.00-7.30) Exercises in the water differ considerably from apparently similar exercises in the air because of the differences in the physical properties of the two environments. Water exercises increase muscle power and endurance as well as help mobilize joints and muscles. The primary goal of treatment may be to relax spastic muscles or to bring about overall relaxation in generally tense persons. The floating position is ideal for general relaxation. Warm water (37 o C) not only enhances relaxation but also may relieve tension by diminishing aches and pains.

Water is especially beneficial in the treatment of muscle weakness because of its properties (buoyancy, pressure transmission, heat capacity, and resistance), which allow earlier movements of limbs, muscle relaxation, reduction in spasms and pain, and increased range of painless motion. Water assumes considerable importance in different rehabilitation programmes. In the chronically ill or disabled persons, water exercises can be a useful means of preventing further physical deterioration in conjunction with other physical methods.

Hydro-gymnastics is valuable for the increase and maintenance of mobility of joints and soft tissues as well as for the strengthening of muscles. In fact, these goals are often complementary. The temperature of the water will help to diminish pain, which may be causing enough muscle spasm to limit joint motion.

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