Doctor Omar Villarreal

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Universidad Católica de La Plata

 

Teaching English in the Real Classrooms: Back to basics to reach higher?

In just a couple of decades, technology seems to have evolved from a useful and attractive supplement to our language lessons into an indispensable component of the EFL/ESL classrooms we cannot possibly do without. To a large sector of our profession “teaching unplugged” is  unthinkable, as much as to another sector, ELT technology is not much more than an unfulfilled promise and a tale of collective delusion.

 

Doctor Omar Villarreal

Omar Villarreal is a Doctor in Modern Languages (summa cum laude) from Universidad del Salvador. He is a Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educación con especialización en Educación Formal (summa cum laude) and a Licenciado en Tecnología Educativa (summa cum laude) from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.

 

He is also a Profesor en Inglés e Inglés Técnico graduated at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico. He is currently writing his dissertation for his Maestría en la Enseñanza de la Lengua y la Literatura at Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

 

He is Director of Profesorado en Inglés at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional and Director of Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa FRVM-INSPT de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.

He is a University Lecturer in the area of Applied Linguistics at INSPT-UTN and Didactics of English for Special Purposes at UCALP. He is also Research Director at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad del Salvador and Principal Researcher at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.

 

Omar has taught English at all levels: Kindergarten through University for 35 years now. He was a Secondary School Head for more than 15 years. He was also Head of the School of English at Universidad Austral and Principal of Instituto Superior del Profesorado Modelo. He has lectured extensively in all Argentinian provinces as well as in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Perú. He was the President of the Organizing Committee of the Seventh and Ninth National Congress of Teachers and Students of English and chaired its Academic Committee in 2000, 2003,2005 and 2006.

Magíster Mariano Quinterno

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V. González”

 

Wake them up before it’s too late: Using thought-provoking tasks in secondary school

A task can be defined as a classroom activity in which students use the language for a communicative purpose to achieve an outcome (Willis & Willis, 2001; Nunan, 2004). This definition, which is at the centre of any Task-Based approach, disregards the importance of critical thinking within the learning process. The aim of this presentation is to uncover the limitations of using a “learn-by-doing” methodology and to highlight the benefits of implementing a “learn-by-thinking” pedagogy. During our session we will discuss different ways in which teachers can use thought-provoking tasks to help their students become critical thinkers and creative users of the target language.

 

Magíster Mariano Quinterno

Mariano Quinterno is a Profesor de Inglés,Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V. González”, and a Licenciado en Educación, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. He also holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics to the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language,Universidad de Jaén, Spain. He is a lecturer in Metodología de la Enseñanza and Estudios del Discurso at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. He teaches Seminario de Integración Didáctica para la Educación Superior and Lengua Inglesa III at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. He lectures in Literatura Norteamericana and Lengua Inglesa I at Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquin V. Gonzalez.” He has co-authored the book “Construyendo puentes hacia otras lenguas: reflexiones sobre la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en la escuela media” (La Crujía, 2009).

 

 

Doctor Fernando Armesto

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Universidad Empresarial Siglo XXI

 

“Selling” English to our students: exploiting the potential of Television

The power of Television in today’s society and its potential influence on all kinds of people is undeniable. Teenagers and adults are avid consumers of TV series, films, sitcoms, soap operas and commercials.  As teachers of English we cannot fail to take advantage of the potential of television o facilitate the learning of English  in a real-life and authentic and motivating context.

 

Doctor Fernando Armesto

Doctor en Lenguas Modernas from Universidad del Salvador.Profesor en Inglés e Inglés Técnico from Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Lecturer at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in the Chairs of "Didactics for Kindergarten and Primary Schools" and "Practicum".

Head of English Department- Primary and Secondary- at Colegio Belgrano Uno.  He is also the coordinator of the English Department at CENCAP- Universidad Empresarial Siglo XXI.

Former Lecturer in English Language at Universidad Austral and Universidad del Museo Social Argentino and Head of English at Instituto de Educación Integral .

He has specialized in E.S.P., working in the fields of Tourism, Hotel Catering and Management and Journalism. He is the co- author of the resource book "Tourism" published by Macmillan.

He has been engaged in several Drama Clubs and Societies and he has worked with Drama with children, adolescents and adults. Actor and Assistant Director in various plays with the Buenos Aires Players and the Suburban Players.

Profesor  Gustavo González

Oxford Teachers’  Academy

 

Touch your student´s hearts  and brains  with unbeatable activities.

Today, more than ever, with technology all around us, it is paramount for us teachers not to forget to appeal to our students’ hearts and intellect when it comes to designing engaging activities that will complement the course books. The use of “feel-thinking” activities will engage our students affectively and effectively, enabling them to express themselves meaningfully while enjoying their learning process.

Let’s have a look-see at many ideas and activities that will invite our students’ creative and critical thinking skills to come to light as well as their feelings and emotions to come to life.

 

Profesor Gustavo González

Gustavo González graduated as a teacher of English at I.S.F.D. N° 5 in Pergamino and holds a postgraduate degree from UBA. He’s currently attending a postgraduate diploma course on Education and New Technologies at Facultad Latinoamerica de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO).

He has been in the ELT field since 1993, working as a teacher, school coordinator, teacher trainer and presenter. He has been delivering seminars and workshops all over Argentina, neighboring countries and Asia.

He is one of the contributors to the book “Imagination, Cognition & Language Acquisition: A Unified Approach to Theory and Practice”, published by the New Jersey City University and has also written some articles for IATEFL and other institutions. He is a teacher trainer for the Oxford Teachers’ Academy. He is a former vice president of APIBA, the Buenos Aires English Teachers’ Association and former vice president of FAAPI, the Argentine Federation of English Teachers’ Associations.

 

 

Magíster José María Romero

Universidad Argentina de la Empresa

CEA Global Education

 

How to plan an effective business programme for adults.

Teaching adults entails providing them with adequate tools so that they can accurately and effectively perform in real-life situations.

Teaching Business English implies a totally different kind of instruction and approach towards the language. An effective Business English teacher should be able to convey knowledge not only of the English language, but also of business practices, cultural capsules, business writing, business presentations, and even the appropriate use of business-related technology.

The presenter will state the differences between a Business English Lesson and a Business English Program and fully explain how those differences will impact on the teaching-learning process.

Furthermore, the topics mentioned above and their effective implementation within the framework of a Business English Program will be discussed in deep.

Finally, the presenter will provide a list of the necessary resources to help students of Business English succeed. 

 

Magíster José María Romero

José María Romero, Traductor Literario y Técnico-Científico (Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández"), Licenciado en Relaciones Internacionales (Universidad del Salvador), Traductor Público en Inglés (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa), and Máster en Língüística Aplicada para la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera (Universidad de Jaén, Spain) obtained his Teaching Credentials from the State of California and acquired his teaching experience both in Argentina and the United States, where he taught In-Company courses, and worked as a translator for the Argentine Consulate in San Francisco and in Los Angeles and as an interpreter for law firms in Los Angeles and for accounting firms in New York City. He has been teaching EFL and ESP courses for multinational companies for the last 20 years. He has specialized in Business English and Legal English. He has also taught for Presidencia de la Nación. He is currently teaching Estudios Culturales I and II at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa - UTN, and Inglés I and II at UADE, and he is a guest lecturer at Universidad Austral. He is the Argentine consultant for Brazil-based Global Trande, through which he provides Business English training to Exxon Argentina. He is also the Head of the Spanish Department and the Academic Advisor at CEA Global Education, an American consultancy. He is an auditor at On Target, auditing Business English classes at multinational companies. He is a translator at YPF. He is a member of Pearson Argentina Counselling Committee. In 2009 he received the Instructor of the Year Award in San Salvador, El Salvador, and every semester during the last six years he has been receiving the Premio al Desempeño Docente UADE. Last February he was selected Featured Faculty Member at CEA worldwide.

 

Alastair Grant B.A.

International House, San Isidro.

 

Boring textbooks? There´s an easy way to bring them back to life!

We have all had that sinking feeling when we’re planning classes, turning the page of our coursebook, only to find a topic or text that we just know will send the students to sleep.

Not any more! Come and find out how to make sure your students are always engaged by any text they are presented with, by looking at its history, culture and background. We will examine dynamic and challenging ways to focus your students and get them thinking and working with their coursebooks as though they’d chosen the text themselves!

 

Alastair Grant B.A

Alastair Grant is an English teacher Director of Studies and the Teacher Development Manager at International House in San Isidro.  He holds an Honours Degree in English Literature & Philosophy from the University of Warwick in the UK, the Cambridge CELTA, has completed the International House Certificate of Advanced Methodology and all modules of the Cambridge Delta. 

As Teacher Development Manager in San Isidro, Alastair organises and delivers sessions in teacher training both in-house and at local schools, institutions, and conferences, including the I.H. Director of Studies conference in London. His special interests are developing students’ receptive skills as well as studying Process Writing and Discourse Analysis.

 

 

 

Magíster Darío Banegas 

University of Warwick , U.K.

 

Teaching unplugged: Is Dogme an innovation or a remake?

In the year 2000, Scott Thornbury ‘took a vow of EFL chastity’ and claimed that EFL teaching should imitate the Dogme 95 film-making collective. Thornbury believes that ‘teaching should be done using only the resources that teachers and students bring to the classroom and whatever happens to be in the classroom.’Dogme has spread as a movement characterised by avoiding technology and adopting a materials-light perspective. However, as Dogme has entered new circles of trainers and teachers, we are in the presence of the ever eclectic position where confusion reigns. In this presentation we will explore different activities and evaluate past talks about Dogme so as to see to what extent this is an innovative approach or a same ol’ situation.

 

Magíster Darío Banegas 

Darío Luis Banegas holds an MA in ELT (University of Warwick, UK) where he is currently a PhD student. He is the co-author of the new curricular guidelines for English in Chubut where he is also involved in in-service teacher development and leads research groups in the areas of novice teachers and action research. Darío teaches in secondary schools in Esquel and is an online tutor at IFDC LenguasVivas (Bariloche). He has presented at conferences such as FAAPI (Argentina), MATSDA (Belfast), IATEFL (Glasgow), BETA (Bulgaria), and APPI (Portugal). He has also published articles in ELT Journal, Educational Action Research, Folio, LACLIL, ET Forum, ELTED Journal, and Language and Education. His main interests are CLIL, materials development, and action research.

 

 

Licenciada  Mady Casco

Universidad Provincial de Ezeiza

Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Sofía Broquen de Sprangenberg”

 

EFL teachers and technology: Who is the boss?

In this presentation Mady Casco will analyse the impact of technology on EFL classes and how it has affected teachers´ practice. She will then discuss the dangers teachers run of becoming “technocentric” when trying to keep up with new trends and omitting the intricate relationships among content, technology and pedagogy. She will conclude her presentation by sharing part of a real topic-based project carried out with elementary learners in which Judy Harris´ TPCK framework (Technological, Pedagogical, Content, and Knowledge) has been adopted and adapted.

 

Licenciada Mady Casco

Mady Casco graduated as Profesora de Inglés from Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr J. V. González ”Dr. Joaquín V. González” where she specialized in Methodology II. She also graduated as Licenciada en Educación from Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. She has been a teacher developer for more than 19 years, having taught at Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr J. V. González” and Universidad de Belgrano. Currently, she is teaching Trayecto de Construcción de las Prácticas Docentes 1 y 2, Residencia de Nivel Medio and Seminario de Investigación Acción at Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas "S. B. de Spangenberg". She is the coordinator of the chair “Inglés 1” at Universidad Provincial de Ezeiza and a facilitator at Escuela de Capacitación Docente CePa, City of Buenos Aires.

 

 

Magíster  Efraín Davis

Universidad Nacional de La Matanza

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Nro 88.

 

Is the teacher of English a “transformative intellectual” or a technician?

This presentation will focus on a critical approach to the profession. Most teachers of English have accepted that English is the key to a successful future without questioning, and thus uphold its banner: “Learn English and be happy !”. But, what is the representation we have of ourselves as teachers of English? According to, Giroux´s (1988) teachers should see themselves as “transformative intellectuals” rather than technicians who apply a curriculum to specified groups of learners. What does he mean by that? Many English teacher education and  training programmes focus on learner variables such as motivation, learning style, self-esteem, age, and culture;  yet, the social and political context of English language education, which is at least equally important, has been systematically ignored. Have you ever thought of this? We invite you to reflect together on this topic.

 

Magíster Efraín Davis

Profesor de Inglés, Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr J. V. González”. Profesor Superior de Inglés,Universidad Nacional de Catamarca. Licenciado en Administración de la Educación Superior,

Universidad   Nacional de la Matanza. Licenciado en Gestión Educativa,Universidad CAECE.

Magíster en Inglés como Segunda Lengua /Lengua Extranjera, University College of North Wales- Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña. Candidato al Doctorado en Lenguas Modernas. Universidad del Salvador y al Doctorado en Educación, American International University,EEUU.

Investigador Categoría “1”, área Educación. CONEAU- Secretaría de Políticas Universitarias.

 Profesor Titular Ordinario Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Profesor Titular de Lengua Extranjera y su Enseñanza y Práctica de la Enseñanza. ISFD 88 La Matanza.  Director Coordinador del Centro de Lenguas Extranjeras de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Coordinador de Inglés Transversal, Departamento de Pedagogía, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza.

 

 

Magíster Juan Ferretti

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V. González”

Instituto Superior del Profesorado del CONSUDEC

 

Advanced Language: The use of translation and contrastive analysis

Translation and contrastive analysis have constituted a much debated area in the teaching of English as a foreign language. As a basic teaching tool, it may be sadly remindful of the grammar-translation method of old. However, within the domain of advanced language study, a conscientious use of contrastive analysis can be of remarkable help to teachers, learners and teachers-to-be, as a person’s first language represents an immeasurable linguistic wealth worth including in the advanced language teaching syllabus.

 

Magíster Juan Ferretti

Juan A. Ferretti holds an M.A. in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (University of Leicester, UK). He teaches Academic Writing, Postcolonial Literature and Critical Discourse Analysis at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa) and Twentieth-Century Culture  and Contemporary Literature in English at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Teacher Education College), Language IV and Academic Writing (Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González”), Language III and Language IV (CONSUDEC Teacher Education College). His main interests are Academic Writing, Literature and Critical Discourse Analysis.

Magíster Sebastián Bianchi

University of Cambridge, U.K.

 

Tickling Your Funny Bone:

Humour in a Foreign Language, the Ultimate Challenge

They say ‘when you laugh at a joke in a foreign language, then you’re really fluent’ and they’re quite right. But what is it that makes us and/or English-speakers find certain people, situations, stories, pictures and films really funny? In this talk, we will analyse different types of humour and their delivery, see examples and work out how to integrate them into our teaching of EFL. You will hopefully find some interesting facts that will help you understand what tickles the Brits’ and Americans’ funny bone. And if you don’t feel like learning, just come for the laughs!

 

Sebastián Bianchi M.A.

Sebastián Bianchi is Teaching By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. An émigré Argentinian graduate, he re-located to the UK in 1995 and graduated with Honours as Master of Arts in Literary Studies (De Montfort University, Leicester, England) specialising in Scots Literature. He conducts research and teaches Spanish at graduate and post-graduate level at the University of Cambridge. An avid writer, among his recent publications are the multimedia language programme Spanish At Your Fingertips (BBC Active), the book of games Friday Afternoon and the brand new Spanish B for the International Baccalaureate.

Magíster Oriel Villagarcía

Tools for Teachers

 

The meanings you may not know of words that everybody knows.

If you are in the ELT profession you are most likely a language lover and perhaps you take pleasure in what might seem to be the oddities of English. How can it be that the same word can represent meanings as diverse as prison, buttocks, dismiss  and even shut up or stop what you are doing? What is more, this word (not the meanings just pointed out) is usually taught at the beginners’ level. In my presentation I will be focusing on a number of words that you are familiar with, but which have these other meanings not usually known by many of us non-native speakers of English. If you are puzzled or intrigued, join me in a light hearted, spirited session where we delve into one of the mysteries of God’s most precious gift to man: language.

N.B. This session is concerned with homophones, homonyms and homographs but goes beyond it. In the meantime, however, can you work this out?

Would (……. a woman’s name) (……..bring legal action against ) the (……..a native American)? In every case the required word sounds the same.

 

Magíster Oriel E. Villagarcia

Profesor en Inglés, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics, University of Lancaster. Graduate studies, University of Texas. Fulbright and British Council Scholar. Master Practitioner in NLP, Certificate of Completion, NLP University, Santa Cruz, California. Certified Administrator, MBTI, Florida. Member of the Advisory Panel for the Macmillan English Dictionary, First Edition. He has taught at the Univesidad Catolica de Salta, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto and Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero. At present he runs advanced language and methods workshops from his own institution, Tools For Teachers.

Magíster Ana María Rozzi de Bergel

Universidad CAECE

 

ELT and computers: New lamps for old?

Computer technology and the Internet are here to stay and their impact on our lives cannot be ignored or underestimated. Sometimes, however, learning how to use modern technology does not mean acquiring better tools for learning or developing conceptual and critical thinking. In the ELT classroom, the introduction of computer-based resources has brought about changes which not always have to do with a true student-based pedagogy or the development of communicative skills. Sometimes, teachers do not have an answer to the question, “What can my students do with a computer that they wouldn’t be able to do without it?” The answer, however, should shed light on whether we are using computer technology to our students’ advantage or just because “it is there”. This talk will explore to what extent the use of computer-based activities and electronic resources has actually introduced innovations to ELT approaches and methods or, in some cases, teachers have been dazzled by technology and led to believe that anything they do with a computer is new. The discussion will be ruled by the idea that teaching is about learning and learning is about people.

 

Magíster Ana María Rozzi de Bergel

Profesora de Inglés,Instituto del Profesorado Olga Cosettini, Rosario. Licenciada en Gestión ducativa, Magister en Gestión de Proyectos Educativos ,Universidad CAECE. Currently writing her thesis for the Doctorado en Sociología (Universidad Católica Argentina). She heads the Área de Educación a Distancia at Universidad CAECE, where she also Coordinates the Licenciatura en Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés and teaches Materials Design I and II, plus tutoring dissertations. She has lectured on ELT-related topics and has authored textbooks, distance-learning courses and papers. Her areas of research include error analysis, learning hypotheses and at the moment, university lecturers’ skills as designers of materials for distance education.

 

Magíster Roxana Basso

Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Dr. Juan Ramón Fernández”

 Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr.Joaquín V. González”

Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Sofía Broquen de Spangerberg”

Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

 

The pronunciation of English as heard and seen on films

How many times have our students told us that they don’t understand English people when they talk to them? To bridge the gap of communication they need training in the reception and perception of speech. In this talk, samples of films will be presented to illustrate how the visual and auditory channels can enhance the teaching of phonology in the classroom. To this end, paralinguistic features and body language will be analysed to discuss what is said and implied.

 

Magíster Roxana Basso

Roxana Basso holds an MA in ELT and Applied Linguistics from King’s College (London). She is a lecturer in English Diction I and in Phonetics II at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Phonetics II at Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Dr. Juan Ramón Fernández”, Phonetics II and Lab I at Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr.Joaquín V. González”, Phonetics I and II at Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Sofía Broquen de Spangerberg”. She is currently teaching two postgraduate courses: “Pedagogía de la Fonética” and “La Entonación del Inglés” at Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She has given lectures in Santiago de Chile, Asunción del Paraguay, Córdoba, Mendoza and Buenos Aires. She was a joint co-ordinator of the Phonology SIG (APIBA) for three years, is a member of the Phono Group (Santiago de Chile), and of IPA (UK).

Licenciada  Marta García Lorea  

Relax & Learn

 

Brighten up your classes with kids! Let the sunshine in!

"I touch the future. I teach." - Christa McAuliffe.

Young learners are digital citizens that expect us to come up to their expectations and cater for their interests and needs. We, teachers have in our hands the future of our country. We can brighten up our students' lives, encourage them to develop their potential talents and abilities, holding their hands in this lifelong learning path. Our role is quite demanding.

Professional development plus our strong vocation and the passion with which we embrace our career daily are the keys to bettering our teaching practice. During the workshop we will share varied activities to have off the cuff, with very little or no materials, exploiting our resources and introducing innovations that will surely liven up our classes. The successful formula for achieving high educational standards is: Enjoy your classes as if you were your student!/ or "Teach your students as you would like to be taught!"

 

Licenciada Marta Graciela García Lorea 

Postgrado en Educación a Distancia UNED (Spain), Licenciada en la enseñanza de Inglés, Universidad CAECE. Profesora de Inglés cum laudae, Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado “Dr. JoaquínV. González”, Maestra Normal, Escuela Normal en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía B. de Spangenberg". Currently ELT consultant; Relax&Learn director; ESP immersion courses and professional development seminars. Director of Medical English Courses, Instituto Postuniversitario Hospital Italiano. Presenter at national and international congresses.

One Day in the Life, iEARN project co-facilitator. Former Foreign Language Supervisor, Head of Schools of Languages, Primary and high school teacher, Ministerio de Educación de la CABA.

Co-author, Sunshine, Kindergarten series, Garnet. Teacher’s Guides for Blossom, Mc Graw Hill kindergarten series.

 

Traductora Silvana  Gimenez Amadeo

Florida Day School

 

Teaching our students to think to improve their language competence

Language and thinking are two sides of the same coin. Clear use of language reflects clear thinking processes. In a world were thinking skills are becoming ever more relevant, this talk will explore why and how to include them in our lessons.

 Come and share concrete, simple tasks and innovative ideas to help your learners develop their critical thinking within your Language lessons. Help your students learn skills for life so that they can reach higher!

 

Traductora Silvana  Gimenez Amadeo

Silvana Giménez Amadeo holds a translation degree, Traductor Literario y Técnico Científico en Inglés from I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”.  She has also attained the Certificate in Advanced Methodology, issued by International House Teacher Training Institute and the DELTA 1 Cambridge Teaching Award.

Silvana currently teaches IGCSE Language at Colegio Mallinckrodt Martínez and First Language English at Florida Day School, where she is an Educational Tutor for Middle School.  She also teaches Applied Thinking at Florida Day School and is an International Cambridge Examiner for the IELTS exam.

Silvana has recently completed a course on Critical and Creative Thinking with Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

 

 

Profesora  Fabiana Parano 

Instituto  de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan. R. Fernández”

 

A Storytelling Show : Stories, Twirls & Swirls (an entertainment)

Stories, Twirls & Swirls is an interactive storytelling show. It includes stories and songs as well as a floor acrobat, embodying the main character in a story.

It highly relies on body language and other non-verbal referents to bridge linguistic comprehension gaps.

The presenter will discuss a few tools to tell a story in EFL. She will also demonstrate and explore the use of puppets and other objects during the telling of a tale. Do they contribute or compete with story line?

 

Profesora Fabiana Parano

Fabiana Parano is a Profesora en Inglés,Instituto Superior del Profesorado NEA 2000, and a Storyteller (Escuela de Narración Oral Ana María Bovo).

She teaches Storytelling in the Classroom at Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández” and at CePA (Escuela de Capacitación Docente, Gob. de la Ciudad). She is also a teacher of Pensamiento Narrador 1 at Escuela de Narración Oral Ana María Bovo.

She is the author of Stories In Motion, A Teacher’s Resource Booklet for the Beginning Storyteller and of Stories to Build Emotional Literacy

 

 

 

 

Profesora  Irene Bianchi

Universidad Nacional de La Plata

IPEI- Instituto Piloto de Enseñanza de Inglés

 

Developing Oral Fluency: Improvisation Games and Stand up routines

An improvisation and stand-up show. Twelve improvisation games based on ideas provided by the audience interspersed with stand-up comedy.

 

Profesora Irene Bianchi

English Translator and English Language and Literature Professor, graduated from the National University of La Plata, Argentina .Participant in the Experiment in International Living’s Foreign Language Assistant Program, at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama .

Scholarship granted by the Fulbright Commission for a two-year Master’s Degree in English at the State University of New York, Binghamton .

Assistant Professor of American Literature at the National University of La Plata, Argentina, for 10 years. Founder and Principal of I.P.E.I. (Instituto Piloto de Enseñanza de Inglés), a private ESL school.

 

Profesor Alejandro de Angelis

Instituto Patagónico del Profesorado de Inglés

 

Mission Impossible? Motivating learners to read fiction

The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a handful of activities which can foster motivation and spark a real interest in the reading process. Bearing in mind that literature offers learners an ideal context to engage in meaningful language learning, participants will be able to experience themselves how to start the reading process of a work of fiction.

Those who choose to attend this workshop will be exposed to a wide range of activities to put into practice in their own lessons with the text I propose or with any other text they might want to select so as to engage students in a meaningful learning experience where literature provides the perfect context to learn and enjoy English.

 

Profesor Alejandro de Angelis

Alejandro De Angelis is a graduate from IPPI (Instituto Patagónico del Profesorado de Inglés), where he got his degree as profesor de inglés en nivel medio y superior in 1996. He has worked at IPPI as a teacher trainer since then and has delivered seminars on literature for children and adolescents at both national and international events on many occasions. At present he resides in Buenos Aires and works as a virtual tutor at IPPI. He is currently studying for the degree of  Licenciado en Lengua Inglesa  at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.

Licenciada Virginia López Grisolía

Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V. González”

Interaction Language School

 

How to make teachers more effective and… make students like them.

What is a good teacher? What is good teaching? ... and most importantly, who says so and on what basis?  No doubt you will all have your own answers to these questions based on reading, research, the training you have received, and your own experience, and perhaps your answers have changed over time. Mine have. In this interactive talk, I'd like to introduce you to another way of looking at these questions, one which has become known in the UK, USA and Australia as EBT (Evidence Based Teaching). It has significantly influenced my thinking about good teachers and good teaching, maybe it will do so for you too.

We will be exploring together the following issues:

1. What is a good teacher?

2. What measurably influences students’ learning and by how much?

1. What are “effect sizes” and what significance do they have?

2. What are the major influences on students’ learning and what have proved to be the disasters?

3. What are the implications for our teaching & learning?

4. What’s the difference between expert & experienced teachers

 

Licenciada Virginia López Grisolía

Profesora en Inglés graduated at Instituto Superior del  Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín .V. González” . Licenciada en Lengua Inglesa from Universidad de Belgrano. Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreter. At present doing Maestría en Análisis del Discurso at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. She has taught English at Interaction Language Studio and acted as coordinator, teacher trainer and consultant for schools and private institutions for more than 25 years. Owner and Director of Studies at Interaction Language Studio, a company devoted to the teaching of Business English since 1988. She has  taught English Grammar I & II, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis at Instituto Superior del  Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín .V. González for over 24 years and  English Grammar I at Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en  Lenguas Vivas  “Dr. Juan Ramón Fernández” for 4 years . Virginia has been a Cambridge ESOL presenter for 4 years (ICFE, ILEC & BEC) and a CAMBRIDGE ESOL- BULATS oral examiner for 3 years. She has also been Executive Committee member at APIBA (Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires) from 1988-1992 and 2005 to 2011

Round Table:  “More Technology= Better Schools?”

Panelists:

 

Ing. Magíster Juan Maria Segura

Swiss Management Center University

Profesor universitario de Estrategia y Liderazgo, consultor especialista en educación, miembro del Consejo Consultivo de Cengage Learning para el Cono Sur. Fue Director de Desarrollo Institucional de la Universidad de San Andrés (2010-2012), Director General del Plan Integral de Educación Digital del Ministerio de Educación de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (2010), Director Académico de UADE Business School y Director del MBA de la misma institución (2005-2009).

 

Candidato a Doctor en Educación, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. Master of Arts in Public Policy, University of Chicago, USA. Magíster en Economía y Ciencias Políticas, Escuela Superior de Economía y Administración de Empresas, Argentina. Magíster en Administración de Empresas, Universidad Austral, Argentina. Ingeniero Agrónomo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Profesor visitante del Swiss Management Center University (Suiza) y Barna Business School (República Dominicana). Dictó clases de posgrado en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, ESEADE y UADE Business School. Dicta conferencias regularmente, en Argentina y en el extranjero, y publica regularmente en diarios, revistas y medios especializados.

 

Germán Echeverría

Autores de Argentina

Editor, consultor y estudiante avanzado de filosofía (Universidad de Buenos Aires - UBA) especializado en el uso de las nuevas tecnologías aplicadas al sector editorial (edición, producción, comercialización y difusión tanto de libros en papel como electrónicos).

 

Amplia experiencia en ediciones de pequeña y mediana tirada, impresión por demanda, producción y comercialización de e-books a nivel nacional e internacional así como en el uso de internet para editoriales o proyectos culturales.

Socio fundador de Editorial Autores de Argentina (www.autoresdeargentina.com) con cuyo sello lleva publicados más de 70 títulos.

Participó como expositor en diversas conferencias, seminarios o mesas redondas en: Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Universidad de Palermo (UP), Universidad Nacional de Villa María (UNVM), Conferencia Editorial (organizada por el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires), Fondazione Milano (Italia), Feria del Libro de La Rioja, Centro Cultural Borges, Festival Internacional de Literatura de Córdoba (organizado por la European Union National Institutes for Culture), Foro Cross Cultural Business Networking, Social Media Week Buenos Aires y Rosario Valley, entre otros. Cursó seminarios de capacitación sobre InDesgin y realización de ebooks.

Dictó curso de realización de webs en Wordpress. Interesado en Internet, en particular, en las aplicaciones de la web 2.0 al mercado editorial y los posibles cambios que las nuevas condiciones acarrearán para este sector. Especialidades: Edition, POD, print on demand, philosophy, argentine literature, publishing market, web 2.0

 

 

Licenciado Juan Pablo Villani

Brandtrack.

Escuela de Líderes

 

Licenciado en Administración de Empresas, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Licenciatura en Filosofía (sin terminar), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Co-founder of Brandtrack, Coordinator of Leadership School, serving approximately 200 students annually in Buenos Aires, the Leadership School trains and encourages young people to take positive risks, set meaningful goals and make healthy decisions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Profesor Alejandro De Oto Gilotaux

Colegio “Los Robles”

 

Profesor de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación, Instituto del Profesorado del CONSUDEC.

Rector del Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación Los Robles.

Director de Primaria del Colegio Los Robles desde 2003.

Es autor de los libros: “Educar, tarea de todos” (2004) y “La evaluación de la calidad educativa: Una propuesta para mejorar la confiabilidad de los resultados” (pendiente de edición)(Con Fernando Borré, Coordinación Constanza Ortiz)

 

 

 

 

Licenciado Gabriel Brener

Universidad de Buenos Aires

 

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales

Licenciado en  Ciencias de la Educación (UBA), Especialista en Gestión  y Conducción de Sistema Educativo (FLACSO) y Profesor de Enseñanza Primaria (Normal Nº 4). Docente Cátedra Educación II carrera de Cs. Educación UBA. Capacitador de la dirección de educación secundaria de la dirección general de escuelas de la provincia de Bs. As. Profesor Diploma y Especialización postgrado “Curriculum y Practicas Escolares” FLACSO.

Ex director Secundaria Colegio San Marcos ( San Isidro).Se ha desempeñado como docente, directivo y asesor de escuelas medias en el ámbito de la Ciudad y Provincia de Buenos Aires. Co-autor  “Violencias en plural. Sociología de las violencias en la escuela” Ed. Miño y Dávila Bs As. 2006 . y “ Violencia escolar bajo sospecha “ 2009. Investigador en Proyecto concursado PIP 2011 – 2013.  “La sensibilidad por la violencia y los sentidos de la existencia social de los jóvenes. Un estudio de las percepciones de estudiantes de educación secundaria  de zonas urbanas periféricas”. Directora: Carina Kaplan. Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2011 – 2013

 

 

Licenciada Viviana Myslicki

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

 

Teaching vocabulary at an advanced level: the case for the use of technology.

Teaching vocabulary at an advanced level has always posed a challenge to teachers as advanced students already have a considerable store of vocabulary at their disposal and feel they can communicate fairly well. In this talk we will look at ways in which teachers can help to enrich and expand their students’ vocabulary knowledge through the integration of new technology (interactive whiteboards and web 2.0 tools) with traditional classroom teaching. Several activities will be presented which will cater to different learning styles and which will provide students with an opportunity to identify, organise and record not only individual words but also larger chunks of language.

 

Licenciada Viviana Myslicki

Viviana Myslicki graduated as a Profesora de Inglés from Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V. González”, and as a Licenciada en Educación from Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. She has specialised in English Language and Phonology, has lectured in Language II at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional for more than 29 years and is currently the Jefa de Área de Lengua Inglesa in the same institution.

She has also lectured in Phonetics at Instituto Superior de Formación Docente No. 24, Bernal, Universidad de Belgrano, and currently at INSPT-UTN.

She is co-Liaison Officer of APIBA (Buenos Aires Association of English Teachers) Special Interest Groups and an active member of the Language & Phonology and e-Teaching and Learning SIGs. She is also Co-Director of Studies of T.E.L. Center

Profesora Gabriela  Piccirilli

On Target

 

What can technology do for the Business English Teachers and their Learners?

Technology offers the Business English Trainer and Learner a world of opportunities: Google Docs, Moodle, Dokeos, blogs, You Tube, social networks, online media, you name it!  These high-tech resources are transforming training and learning. They can add a lot of value to the Trainer’s professional development and to classroom practice. The key success factor here is to develop the pedagogic criteria to decide why and how a certain resource should be tapped into. This workshop will give participants an overview of available resources and will help them underpin then to the key principles of good training and learning in the corporate context.

 

Profesora Gabriela  Piccirilli

Profesora en Inglés, Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V.González". She has taught Business English at multinational firms for 25 years. She is the Academic Director of On Target Training & Assessment, a leading organization in Business English Training. She is the director of the Teacher Development Program ©BET Business English for Teachers and the founder and director of On Target Newsletter, an online publication for students of Business English.

 

 

Doctor Antonio Recca

Universidad Nacional de Lanús

 

“ All that glitters is not a synonym  “ 

Even when the sun or people shine they never glitter !!

One of the most striking features of the English Language is the way it has evolved through the last centuries and especially after the Norman invasion in the IX & X centuries.

The Anglo Saxons had long lived in the British Isles and shaped up their own culture and language. The newcomers, Normans, did not only increase vocabulary but introduced many new words to compete with but usually not complete the meaning of existing ones: stool / chair – murder / assassinate – nice / pleasant and so forth.

Real synonymous words are very rare in English. We are constantly confronted with a difficult choice whenever we are asked  about  “ what ´s the English for…..?? “  The question finally turns into other questions to ask about the background of the word being required. For instance, was she killed or   was   she  murdered  ?   right  or  correct ?  Road thoroughfare /  street / avenue / way. Share or partake ( a meal ) respond / answer / reply etc…..

Verbs and nouns look a bit easier to interpret but adjectives may become a true problem for all those involved in the rank of teaching or translation. A special treatment should be dedicated to phrasal verbs.

 

Let us SHARE but not partake some views on this matter / issue / subject or topic ……..?

 

Doctor Antonio Recca

Antonio J. Recca graduated as Profesor en Inglés y Traductor Científico at Instituto Superior del Profesorado "New Castle". He holds an M.A. in English Language from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Doctor in English Literature from Ashwood University,USA. He is a Lecturer in at Traductorado Público in Universidad Nacional de Lanús. He was also a Lecturer in English Literature at Saint Mary´s School in the UK.

He holds a Maestría en Administración de Empresas con especialización en Relaciones Laborales from Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora where he is a lecturer in Strategic Planning and Finance.

Profesora Jeniffer  Verschoor

ESSARP- English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate.

ARCALL Argentine Computer Assisted Language Learning.

 

Teaching young learners with technology

The aim of this presentation is show teachers how to use technology to enhance daily classroom activities aimed at developing the necessary reading and writing skills that pave the way to actual Reading and writing. Participants will understand what early literacy is and what it comprises as well as to create blended learning classes. With a focus on pedagogy, we will explore the use of several web 2.0 tools to enhance teaching.

 

Profesora Jennifer Verschoor

Jennifer Verschoor is a freelance teacher trainer and an educational consultant in teaching young learners and Business English with web based technologies. She is an Essarp course facilitator, specialized in Technology integration in the classroom. She is a proud Webhead and President of ARCALL Argentine Computer Assisted Language Learning. She obtained the BESIG facilitator scholarship to attend IATEFL in Glasgow.

Emma Cresswell B.A.

International House, San Isidro.

 

Podcasts: a modern take on listening and speaking.

Are your listening activities sounding a bit lacklustre? Do your speaking activities leave people speechless? Add another element to your repertoire with podcasts.

The ever-growing world of digital media players has led to a rise in popularity of podcasts in recent years. Find out more about these versatile recordings as well as a number of activities aimed at incorporating them into your listening and speaking classes.

 

Emma Cresswell B.A.

Emma holds an Honours degree in European Studies Combined Languages (French and Spanish) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. She completed her TEFL training in Ban Phe, Thailand before staying in Thailand to gain valuable experience teaching teenagers. Emma obtained the Cambridge DELTA in 2010.

Emma gives teacher training sessions both in-house and at schools and institutes around Argentina. She has also presented at the International House DoS Conference in London, England. Her special interests lie in the use of technology in the classroom and blended learning. As Online Services Manager at International House San Isidro Emma is in charge of keeping the institute’s social media networks and blogs updated and maintains the in-company and in-house moodles.

 

Profesor  Nicolás Dantaz

Instituto de Profesores “Artigas”, Montevideo

Consejo de Educación Secundaria, Uruguay.

 

The “Whys” and” Hows” of implementing technology in the ELT classroom.

We talk about technology, we use technology but what framework best suits its implementation? The concepts of ICTs and digital immigrant or native are in fashion these days but what are we accurately trying to say? What theoretical foundations support the implementation of the so well known Web 2.0 tools in our classrooms and which ones are the best to start teaching with? Through this presentation we shall cast some light on these questions and more. Through a blending of theory and practice, we’ll understand the “new” roles of the teacher, students and technology to make of our classrooms an attractive place for learning.

 

Profresor Nicolás Dantaz

Nicolás Dantaz holds a BA in “English Language Teaching” by Instituto de Profesores Artigas, Uruguay, and is working on his “MA in TESOL” by the Universidad de Jaén. Nicolás has taught English as a first and foreign language in Uruguay and ESL in the USA where he also served as a Spanish teacher. He has he worked for the The British Schools of Montevideo, Instituto Cultural Anglo Uruguayo, Alianza Uruguay Estados Unidos and International House Montevideo. Currently, he’s a representative and educational consultant for Macmillan in Uruguay a teacher educator at Instituto de Profesores Artigas in the field of Didactics.

 

 

 

Amy Lewin Arensen B.A.

International House, San Isidro.

 

Fun and Games in the EFL classroom

Any teacher knows it’s essential to have a “bank” of activities and games for your students to get stuck into language learning, be they adolescents or adults.

Requiring minimal preparation, any language seen in class can be turned into an engaging and enjoyable learning experience with these activities and games which will ensure you always have something up your sleeve for your lesson.

 

Amy Lewin Arensen B.A.

Amy holds an honours B.A. degree from Solent University in the UK.

She completed her Cambridge CELTA Course in London in 2008 and started her ELT career working in summer schools and language institutes in the UK before going on to teach in Saigon, Vietnam. Amy moved to Argentina in 2010 and is currently completing the Certificate of Advanced Methodology with International House.

Licenciada Carla Montoya

Asociaciòn Ex-Alumnos del Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”

Universidad Nacional de San Martín

 

On Becoming Media Literate: A Must for 21st CenturyEFL Teachers!

This session will explore the importance of Media Literacy for teachers and the significance of using media as text in the English classroom. Defined as the ability to interpret and create personal meaning from a wide range of verbal and visual symbols we incorporate in everyday life through the Internet, television, films and newspapers, among others, Media Literacy has become an essential skill to be developed. With the wealth of multimedia sources just a click away, teachers can now involve students in more memorable and meaningful learning experiences. Together we will engage in some hands-on activities that the Media Literate teachers can use in their lessons.

 

Licenciada Carla Montoya

Carla Montoya is a graduate teacher from Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en  Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández” and Licenciada en Lengua Inglesa from Universidad Nacional de San Martin. She´s been teaching at Asociaciòn Ex-Alumnos del Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández” for thirteen years in different levels. At present, she`s working at La Asociación delivering conversation courses and a Media course for graduate and undergraduate teachers. She also works at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, where she teaches “Film Studies” at the Licenciatura. In addition, she co-coordinates English Courses at UNSAM, where she also participates in evaluation as an exam designer and examiner