Friday 17.30-18.30
Opening Plenary
Ferradas, Claudia NILE/British Council
Reading across Cultures: Exploring the ‘Contact Zone’
One of the central concerns of foreign language learning is how to communicate our changing identities in languages used to express worldviews different from our own. This presentation explores texts written in English in which intercultural encounters are highlighted and proposes activities and resources for the classroom which aim at developing the linguistic repertoire necessary to express our own meanings in English.
Claudia Ferradas is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She has run training sessions and participated in conferences in South America, the Caribbean, the USA, Europe and South East Asia. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham.
Friday 19.00-20.30
Keynote
Littlewood, Andrea Hyland Language Centre, Madrid
Using Music, Mime and Movement in the Primary Classroom
As teachers we aim to keep our children engaged and motivated with a variety of tasks that cater for their learning styles. In this session we'll be looking at ways in which music, mime and movement can help us achieve our aims and maximise participation whether we're dealing with skills work, language presentations, pronunciation activities or classroom management.
Andrea Littlewood has been teaching since 1985 and is Head of the Young Learners Department at Hyland Language Centre Madrid. She takes an active part in the school’s teacher development programme and has given talks to teachers in the state and private sector. Andrea has co-authored the first cycle of the Primary course Twister.
Presentations/workshops
Bilsborough, Steve OUP
The Story of English
In this workshop we will look at the origins of the language we teach, its ups and downs, its amazing expansion (against all odds) and its current position in the modern world. Through history, geography, sociology, linguistics, religion, literature and science, we will follow the fascinating adventure of English through the ages.
Steve Bilsborough divides his time between materials writing, teacher training, being a musician and gardening! He is currently working at the British Council, Bilbao. Steve has written course books and materials for most of the top ELT publishers. He writes the OUP monthly Ready-to-go materials for ESO, Bachillerato and EEOOII and is co-author of OUP’s new Primary course for Spain, Ace!
Bobb Wolff, Leslie Universidad de La Laguna
Helping Students Improve Their Spoken Interaction
Spoken interaction is still the weakest skill for many students. How can we help students improve this skill when we have large classes to deal with? In this session we will work with different tools (not only learner strategies) we can use with our students to achieve greater speaking fluency and accuracy, while becoming more autonomous learners.
Leslie Bobb Wolff works with her first year university students to help them improve their spoken interaction at the University of La Laguna more easily and more autonomously. Her research interests include the development of learner autonomy in classrooms, including the use of learner strategies.
Castro, María Antonia & Benítez, Silvia Escuela de Idiomas Ebenen
Revision and Recycling towards Response
In this practical session we intend to provide teachers with useful activities to revise and recycle language. We will try to make teachers aware of the importance of considering not only technology or ready-to-use activities, but also the classroom itself as a source of revision for our daily teaching. All towards the students response!
Mª Antonia Castro is the Director of the Escuelas de Idiomas Ebenen in Torrejón de Ardoz and has over 20 years experience in EFL as well as DaF (German) teaching. She is doing some research on how to change attitudes towards the learning of foreign languages in Spain. She is co-writing materials for promoting communication in EFL and DaF teaching.
Silvia Benítez has been an English and German language teacher at Escuela de Idiomas Ebenen for eleven years. She is currently co-assistant in the direction of the school, and is especially interested in learning processes and psychology applied to language teaching. She is, together with Mª Antonia Castro, writing materials for promoting communication in EFL and DaF teaching.
Coelho, Elizabeth University of Toronto
Teaching in the Quadrants: A Framework for Content-based Language Instruction
This workshop is for elementary and secondary school teachers who are teaching content-based or immersion classes in English. Elizabeth will present a framework for planning instruction based on Jim Cummins' four-quadrant model. Workshop participants will see or experience examples of guided reading, key visuals, writing frameworks, word charts, and co-operative learning.
Elizabeth Coelho is a former coordinator for English as a Second Language (ESL) in Toronto, and has also taught teacher education courses at the University of Toronto. Her most recent book, Adding English: a guide to teaching in multilingual classrooms, has become the standard resource for the training of ESL teachers in Canada. For more information: www.multilinguaclassrooms.org
Engquist, Brian Pearson Education
Blended Learning: A Time and Place for Everything!
In this session we will focus on Blended Learning and how using new technologies can actually humanize your classes, improve teacher-student relationships, and enable a more active and autonomous style of learning for the 21st Century.
Brian Engquist, a long-time resident of Madrid, has spent the last 20 years actively involved in the world of TEFL. He currently enjoys his role as a teacher trainer at Pearson where he gains particular satisfaction from being able to meet and exchange ideas with teachers from a variety of backgrounds and contexts all around Spain.
Heron, Maria NILE
The Vocab Box: Its Possible Application in CLIL Contexts
This workshop aims to focus on the challenge facing EL teachers: how to ensure taught vocabulary is kept ‘alive’ and moves from understanding to productive use. We will discuss how a simple vocabulary box with different fun activities can help to achieve this objective and how such strategies provide support to content teachers whose vocabulary load is even more challenging.
Maria Heron is a practising teacher and teacher trainer with 30 years experience. Her work has been mainly in the UK, but she has also worked in Germany, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Canada, Argentina, Chile, and Panama. She is CELTA Centre Manager at NILE and a DELTA tutor and materials writer. Her areas of interest are IELTS and the acquisition of vocabulary.
McKenna, Joe EOI, Córdoba
Getting into Phrasal Verbs
They're a salient feature of the English language, but for many teachers and learners, phrasal verbs remain a recurring source of difficulty. Participants in this workshop will work through six classroom activities for grounding learners in the recognition and use of phrasal verbs from elementary level on. Handout provided.
Joe McKenna has worked in EFL since 1979 and is based at EOI Córdoba. In 2005-06 he served as vice coordinator in the preparation of the new Basic Level curriculum for Andalucía. His main concern is setting meaning before form and spoken language before written in the classroom. He wrote the Workbooks for the OUP Result general English series.
Redwood, Shawn Colegio Nuestra Señora de Loreto, Madrid
Making Meaning and Critical Thinking of Texts Through Literacy
Literacy is a much needed tool to help students acquire English and to use language appropriate for different situations. In this session, we will be looking at the four resources accessed by literate people, reading short texts and completing literacy activities in small groups. This workshop is of special interest to teachers in high schools, as well as university professors.
Shawn Redwood has been teaching EFL for 8 years. He is an English Instructor at Rey Juan Carlos University, a Teacher Trainer and an English Language Assistant at Nuestro Señora de Loreto School in Madrid. He also worked at CEIP Federico García Lorca, Colegio Espíritu Santo and Colegio San Saturio. Shawn’s principal areas of interest are bilingual and international education.
Rich, Josie & Sintes, Joanne University of Dayton Publishing
Using Technology in the Arts and Crafts Class
Art and ICT can be used in a complementary way – traditional techniques sparked off by the help of ‘new’ technology. This session offers Primary bilingual teachers practical ideas on how to incorporate the IWB, free Internet resources and other useful websites into the arts and crafts class that aid understanding of new concepts and improvement of language skills.
Josie Rich Delgado is an experienced EFL teacher and teacher trainer. She worked for International House for 18 years and then joined the ELT publishing sector as a teacher trainer. She has given training sessions in schools and at conferences around the country, with a particular focus on CLIL. She currently works as an ELT Consultant for University of Dayton Publishing.
Joanne Sintes is an experienced language teacher, having taught English in Spain for the last 20 years at all school levels and In-company (Iberia, Telefonica, Hachette Filipacci, Banco Popular, etc..). Also an experienced trainer, she has recently qualified as an NLP Practioner and Life and Executive Coach. She now works as an ELT Consultant for University of Dayton Publishing.
Santana Heal, James The British Institute, Seville
Once Upon a Time... Story-telling in TEFL
The aim of this workshop is to demonstrate a range of short, snappy ideas based on story-telling. These activities will show that students at all levels can develop the main skills as well as grammar and vocabulary through stories. Audience participation required.
James Santana Heal is currently working at the British Institute, Seville, having previously taught in the UK, Poland and Indonesia. He has experience with all levels and ages. His interests include encouraging student autonomy and maximising student production. He has a degree in Modern and Contemporary History, a Trinity Certificate and a DELTA and has experience in teacher training and management.
Williams, Stephanie Vicens Vives
Using Web-based Resources in the CLIL Classroom
Providing appropriate support in content and language is essential for successful results in teaching CLIL. This session will explore how the wealth of resources available on the Web can be used to help offer this support and cater for different learning styles. We will analyse how to source, select and adapt appropriate Web-based material for use in the CLIL classroom.
Stephanie Williams graduated in Modern Languages at Portsmouth University in the United Kingdom. She has over 15 years' experience in English teaching, both in the UK and in Spain. She is also a teacher trainer and is currently working in the languages department of Vicens Vives.
Saturday 09.00-10.30
Keynote
Stannard, Russell University of Warwick
Speaking Activities Using Technology
At the University of Warwick we have been experimenting with a number of tools that can be used to encourage students to do more speaking both inside and outside of the class. This presentation will look at some of these tools and demonstrate different ways that they can be used to get the students to make audio recordings which they can then send to their teachers.
Russell Stannard is a principal teaching fellow at the University of Warwick. He runs www.teachertrainingvideos.com, a website that helps teachers incorporate technology into their teaching. Russell won the Times Higher award for 'Outstanding Initiative in ICT' and the British Council Innovation award. He writes a regular column in the ET professional
Presentations/workshops
Bennett, Michael & Moreno Ruiz, Guillermo Colegios Zola, Madrid
Facing CLIL in a Bilingual Primary Curriculum
We will present materials and methodology for CLIL teaching in a trilingual environment at the primary level. We will display how 'no book' based projects allow us to achieve our objectives in a more efficient and freer manner. There will be time for exchanging ideas and experiences amongst participants so as to foment an enriching learning experience for everybody.
Michael Bennett has been working as a Primary Education teacher for four years in Madrid, Spain. He has worked on developing different materials and ideas for teaching CLIL in the classroom. He also has a circus workshop at his school for children of all ages, where teaching circus arts and magic is done through English.
Guillermo Moreno Ruiz graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid German philology programme, then taught Spanish for five years at different schools in Hamburg, Germany. He has been working for the past four years at Colegio Zola Las Rozas in Madrid where he currently teaches German at secondary level and Science through German at primary level.
Bilsborough, Katherine OUP
Lend Me Your Ears!
In this workshop we’ll try out some classroom activities to help learners develop their listening skills and teachers to exploit the audio resources that come with most course books. We will also look at a few practical ideas to help teachers improve their pronunciation so that their pupils are exposed to good models of English in the classroom.
Katherine Bilsborough has been working as a teacher, trainer and materials writer for over 20 years. She has written course books for top ELT publishers and develops materials for the British Council and BBC websites LearnEnglish and TeachingEnglish. Katherine writes the OUP monthly Ready-to-go materials for ESO, Bachillerato and EEOOII and is co-author of OUP’s new Primary course for Spain, Ace!
Fernández, Raquel EU Cardenal Cisneros/UDP, Alcalá de Henares
Towards a Literacy-friendly CLIL Classroom?
This workshop is intended for teachers involved in CLIL projects at Infant and 1st cycle Primary levels who are interested in making their classroom more literacy-friendly. We will explore useful guidelines and effective practical resources to make our pupils more literacy-aware and to integrate literacy tasks into our everyday practice.
Raquel Fernández Fernández is a university lecturer working at the Escuela Universitaria Cardenal Cisneros (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid), where she also coordinates its Bilingual Project. She has been researching bilingual education and CLIL since 2004 and has directed and taught a good number of CLIL teacher training courses. Her latest project is as a course writer for University of Dayton Publishing.
Foreman, Ann British Council, Bilbao & Underwood, Joshua Institute of Education, London
Using Social Media and Mobiles for Language Learning