21St BETA-IATEFL Annual International Conference

21st BETA-IATEFL Annual International Conference

University of Ruse, Ruse, Bulgaria

30th March – 1st April 2012

Innovative Teaching, Active Learning, Effective Assessment Practices in Language Education

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DAY 1 (30 March, Friday)

University of Ruse, 8 Studentska Street, Building 2, Room 2.101

12:15 – 13:15 Registration

13:15 – Welcome

13:30 – 17:30 Pre-Conference event: CLIL & ELT: What does CLIL mean to English teachers? (sponsored by the British Council Bulgaria)

DAY 2 (31 March, Saturday)

University of Ruse, 8 Studentska Street, Building 2

08.30 – 13.00 On-site registration
09:15 – 09.50 OPENING CEREMONY
10.00 – 11:00 Plenary session 1 (Adrian Underhill Pilgrims, UK)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break (sponsored by Educational Centre) and book exhibition opening
11:30 – 12:30 Plenary session 2 (Galya Mateva and Svetlana Dimitrova-Gyuzeleva OPTIMA )
12:30 – 13.45 Lunch break
13.45 –14.15 Concurrent sessions: slot 1 (30 min)
14:30 – 15.15 Concurrent sessions: slot 2 (45 min)
15:30 – 16:00 Concurrent sessions: slot 3 (30 min)
16:00- 16:30 Coffee break (sponsored by Oxford University Press)
16:30 – 17:30 Plenary session 3 (Tim Bowen Pilgrims, UK)

17:40 – 18:20 British Council Bulgaria Networking Event

18:30 – 19:30 BETA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

20:00 WELCOME RECEPTION at Hotel Cosmopolitan (sponsored by Pearson Longman)

DAY 3 (1 April, Sunday)
09.00 – 10:00 Plenary session 4 (Keith Kelly)

10:15 – 11:00 Concurrent sessions: slot 4 (45 min)
11.00 – 11.30 Commercial presentations (30 min)

11.30 – 12.00 – Coffee break (sponsored by Educational Centre)

12:00 – 12:45 Concurrent sessions: slot 5 (45 min)

12:45 – 13.45 Lunch break

13:45 – 14:30 Concurrent sessions: slot 6 (45 min)

14:45 – 15:30 CONFERENCE CLOSING & PRIZE DRAW

15:30 – GUIDED TOUR OF RUSE

15:30 – 16:30 BETA-IATEFL COMMITTEE MEETING

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY 1 (31 March, SATURDAY)

WHEN / WHERE / WHAT
09:15 – 09.50 / Room 2.101 / OPENING CEREMONY
10.00 – 11:00 / Room 2.101 / Plenary session 1: ADRIAN UNDERHILL Pilgrims, UK
A Black Belt at Learning from Experience?
11:00 – 11:30 / Coffee break (sponsored by Educational Centre) and BOOK EXHIBITION OPENING
11:30 – 12:30 / Room 2.101 / Plenary session 2: GALYA MATEVA and SVETLANA DIMITROVA-GYUZELEVA
The Bulgarian Association for Quality Language Services “OPTIMA”
Matevi Language Centre / New Bulgarian University
Multilingualism in the Classroom
12:30 – 13.45 / Lunch break
13.45 –14.15 Concurrent sessions: slot 1 (30 min)
Room 2.101 / KEN MOSKOWITZ Embassy of the United States, Sofia
Ten Simple Rules for Effective Foreign Language Teaching
Talk / General ELT
Room 2G.404 / JASMINA IVANOVSKA ELTAM / Centre for Foreign Languages, Skopje, Macedonia
The Never-Ending Story of Homework
Talk / Teaching at Primary / Secondary Level
Room 2G.309 / MARIA MOMCHILOVA University of Sofia
Cartoons, Comics and Manga: (Re)Inventing Teaching Tools
Talk / General ELT
Room 2G.405 / DESISLAVA PETKOVA Prosveta Publishing
Differentiated Instruction – a Path To Motivation and High Achievement
Talk / General ELT / Teaching Adults
Room 2B.408 / MEHMET ONAT CIHANOGLU 9 Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
The Effects of Self And Peer Assessment on Students’ Achievements in a Cooperative Learning Classroom Talk / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2B.405 / SVETLA TASHEVSKA New Bulgarian University, Sofia
A Course on Testing for Blended Learning Talk / Teacher Training / General ELT
Room 2.203 / TSVETA SHENKOVA University of Ruse
Teaching ESP to University Students – Contents vs Content Talk / Teaching at Tertiary Level
Room 2G.308 / JENNY DOOLEY Express Publishing
Being Specific Talk / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2B.107 / BORYANA T. RUZHEKOVA-ROGOZHEROVA VTU “Todor Kableshkov”, Sofia
Teaching English Passive Contrastively and in Comparison with Other Categories
Talk / Teaching at Secondary Level/ Teaching Adults / General ELT
Room 2B.215 / MARIYA NEYKOVA New Bulgarian University, Sofia
Implementing Task-based Approach in FLT Talk / Teaching Adults
14:30 – 15.15 Concurrent sessions: slot 2 (45 min)
Room 2.101 / DAVID SPENCER Macmillan
Why am I doing this? Practical Ideas for Teaching Teenagers
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2G.308 / TEMENUZHKA SEIZOVA University of Shumen and BILL TEMPLER Simon Dubnow Institute, University of Leipzig
Free Voluntary Reading/Listening (FVR/L): Why? and How?
Talk / Teaching at Primary/ Secondary /Tertiary level
Room 2G.309 / NIKOLINA TSVETKOVA Prosveta Publishing
Addressing the Digital Divide in ELT Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level /Teacher Training
Room 2G.404 / STEFKA KITANOVA FACT World and ELKA STAVREVA University of Sofia
Multiple Intelligences in the Primary Workshop / Teaching at Primary Level
Room 2.203 / ANDREEA IORGA British Council Bucharest
Recycling Vocabulary Workshop / General ELT
Room 2G.405 / RICHARD CHERRY British Council Bulgaria
Frenetic Phonetics
Talk / Teaching at Secondary /Tertiary level / General ELT
Room 2B.107 / DESISLAVA ZAREVA New Bulgarian University, Sofia and ELLIE BOYADZHIEVA South-West University, Blagoevgrad
Let’s WEB 2.0 ELT! Workshop / General ELT
Room 2B.408 / DAVID A. HILL Helbling Languages
A Lacuna in Your Classroom: Traditional Folk Songs
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary / Tertiary Level; Teaching Adults
Room 2B.215 / TODOR TODOROV and GALINA VELICHKOVA
The Bulgarian Association for Quality Language Services “OPTIMA”
British-Bulgarian Information and Language Centre, Sofia / New Bulgarian University Experience Multilingual Interactive Activities Workshop / General ELT
15:30 – 16:00 Concurrent sessions: slot 3 (30 min)
Room 2.101 / ZARINA MARKOVA South-West University, Blagoevgrad
Do I Like my Coursebook?
Talk / Teaching at Primary Level / Teacher Training / General ELT
Room 2G.404 / GONCA ALTMIŞDÖRT Kara Harp Okulu, Ankara, Turkey
Do Elementary-Level Students Know What Strategy to Adopt in Acquiring English? Or do we, as Teachers, Struggle in Vain? Talk / Teaching Adults / Teacher Training / General ELT
Room 2G.309 / GALIYA KABYTAYEVA and LYUDMILA ZHIZHIKINA Educational Department, Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan
Mentor’s Role in Teacher Learning Workshop / Teacher Training
Room 2G.405 / AMELIA MAREVA New Bulgarian University, Sofia
Teaching Lexicology: Lessons Learned and New Approaches
Talk / Teaching at Tertiary level
Room 2B. 408 / DANIELA STOILOVA Academy of Economics, Svishtov
How to Make Any Student a Good Language Learner
Talk / General ELT
Room 2.203 / TANYA BORISOVA Vazrazhdane Secondary Comprehensive School, Ruse
How to Survive Talk / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2G.308 / TSVETELINA HARAKCHIYSKA University of Ruse
Adapting your Coursebook with Technology Workshop / Teaching at Primary Level
Room 2B.107 / VALENTINA ANGELOVA RAYNOVA Varna Medical University
Teaching Medical English through Literary Texts
Talk / Teaching at Tertiary Level
Room 2B.215 / BASIM YAHYA JASIM AL-GBURI University of Mosul, Iraq
The Effect of Rule-based Teaching on Students' Performance , Retention and Transfer of Learning English Pronunciation at College Level Talk / Teaching at Tertiary Level
16:00- 16:30 / Coffee break (sponsored by Oxford University Press)
16:30 – 17:30 / Room 2.101 / Plenary session 3: TIM BOWEN Pilgrims, UK
The Mad, Bad, Crazy World of English
17:40 – 18:20 / Room 2.101 / BRITISH COUNCIL BULGARIA NETWORKING EVENT
18:30 – 19:30 / Room 2.101 / BETA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
20:00 / Hotel Cosmopolitan / WELCOME RECEPTION (sponsored by Pearson Longman)

DAY 2 (1 April, SUNDAY)

WHEN / WHERE / WHAT / TARGET AUDIENCE
09.00 – 10.00 / Room 2.101 / Plenary session 4: KEITH KELLY
10.15 – 11.00 Concurrent sessions: slot 4 (45 min)
Room 2.101 / ADRIAN UNDERHILL Pilgrims, UK
Make Pronunciation Physical, Visible, Audible! A Multi-Experience Approach
Workshop / General ELT
Room 2G.404 / DRAGICA ZDRAVESKA Primary school Cyril and Methodius, Prilep, Macedonia
Pepa Pig Cartoons and How to Use them in Class Workshop / Teaching at Primary Level
Room 2G.405 / ELENA TARASHEVA New Bulgarian University, Sofia
Corpora in Assessing Students’ Writing
Talk / Teaching at Secondary / Tertiary Level/ Teaching Adults / Teacher Training
Room 2G.309 / SYLVIA VELIKOVA St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo
Learn the Art of Listening: A Project Worth Taking Up
Workshop / General ELT
Teacher Training
Room 2B.408 / IVANKA MAVRODIEVA and NIKOLINA TSVETKOVA University of Sofia
Social Networking - What’s in for Tertiary Education Workshop / Teaching at Tertiary Level
Room 2.203 / DARÍO LUIS BANEGAS Centre of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK
Language-Driven CLIL in EFL Contexts: Autonomy, Motivation And Development Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2B.215 / MARINA MARINOVA Universität Hamburg, Germany
From Theory to Practice of Language Acquisition Workshop / General ELT
Room 2G.308 / DAVID SPENCER Macmillan
Testing Times: Preparing and Motivating Secondary Students to do Exams
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2B.107 / DANIEL KLUKOWSKI AVO-BELL Language and Examination Centre, Sofia
Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) – An Overview
Talk / Teacher Training
11.00 – 11.30 Promotional presentations
Room 2.101 / BRITISH COUNCIL BULGARIA Peter Ashton and Tzvetanka Panova
ESOL and IELTS Seminars for Teachers; English Language Courses in UK for Children and Teachers / Promotional
Room 2.203 / PONS Syana Harizanova
Helping Young Learners To Make Their First Steps in English / Promotional
Room 2G.308 / EXPRESS PUBLISHING Jenny Dooley
Fun with English / Promotional
Room 2G.309 / SOL Grenville Yeo and Antonia Ivanova
Learning about Language and Culture through First-Hand Observation and Questions / Promotional
Room 2G.404 / UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND HELLENIC AMERICAN UNIVERSITY EXAMS Evi Kathrepti
Internationally Recognized Certificates for Life / Promotional
11.30 – 12:00 / Coffee break (sponsored by Educational Centre)
12:00 – 12:45 Concurrent sessions: slot 5 (45 min)
Room 2.101 / SVETLANA DIMITROVA-GYUZELEVA New Bulgarian University, Sofia
The Post Lesson Discussion - Catering for Professional Growth
Workshop / Teacher Training
Room 2G.404 / BISTRA STOIMENOVA and NIKOLINA TSVETKOVA University of Sofia
Teachers as Digital Learners – the (Added) Value of Personal Learning Networks
Workshop / Teacher Training
Room 2G.405 / SIMONA GEORGIEVA-BALI and ANTONIA IVANOVA New Bulgarian University, Sofia
The Book Cook Nook
Workshop / General ELT
Room 2G.308 / SUZAN DIMA British Council Bucharest
Assessing and Developing Speaking Skills in the Classroom
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level / Teaching at Tertiary Level / Teaching Adults / General ELT
Room 2.203 / TSVETELENA TARALOVA 88 School in Sofia and MYUHTEBER MYUMYUN Secondary School “Yordan Yovkov” Tervel
Jeopardy Games in ELT Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2B.215 / GINA POLETTI-SANTOS Trinity College London
Authentic Communication in the Class And Exam Room
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2G.309 / DAVID A. HILL Helbling Languages
Whose Culture Is It Anyway?
Talk / Teaching at Secondary Level / Teaching at Tertiary Level /Teaching Adults
Room 2B.107 / MILENA SLAVOVA, ELENA DENEVA and MILENA KOTOUPOVA Anglo-American School of Sofia
Real or Surreal English Spelling?
Talk + Workshop / Teaching at Primary Level
Room 2B.408 / MARK LLOYD Richmond Publishing / Educational Centre Bulgaria
Primed for Action? The Practical Implications of Lexical Priming Theory
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level, Teaching Adults, General ELT
12:45 – 13.45 / Lunch break
13:45 – 14:30 Concurrent sessions: slot 6 (45 min)
Room 2.101 / ZHIVKA ILIEVA Dobrich College, Shumen University
Teddy’s Picnic - “Preparing” for Outings in the Primary Classroom Workshop / Teaching at Primary Level
Room 2G.404 / ESMA ASUMAN ERAY Isik Universitesi, Turkey
Reading: Making Tomorrow’s Texts Easier
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2G.405 / LYUDMILA ZHIZHIKINA and GALYA KABYTAYEVA Educational Department, Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan
‘The Six Thinking Hats’ to Improve the Students’ Language Skills
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2G.309 / JANA JILKOVA ATECR / FSV of Charles University Prague & ICV Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
PAT: Practice and Theory Go Together in Foreign Language Learning
Talk / Teacher Training
Room 2B.408 / SIMON PARKER SOL, UK
The Rules of English Conversation Workshop / General ELT
Room 2.203 / BILL TEMPLER Simon Dubnow Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany
Changing the World, Walking the Talk: Global Issues Hands-On
Workshop / Teaching at Secondary / Tertiary Level
Room 2G.308 / GINA POLETTI-SANTOS Trinity College London
The Path to Self-Correction Workshop / Teaching at Secondary Level
Room 2B.107 / NATALIYA YORDANOVA AVO-BELL Language and Examination Centre, Sofia
The Business_mail Project Workshop / Teaching Adults / General ELT
Room 2B.215 / MILA ANGELOVA AVO-BELL Language and Examination Centre, Sofia
Quality in Speaking Assessment Workshop / Teaching Adults / General ELT
14:45 – 15:30 / CONFERENCE CLOSING & PRIZE DRAW
15.30 / GUIDED TOUR OF RUSE
15:30 – 16:30 / BETA-IATEFL COMMITTEE MEETING