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Session 1 |
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Saturday 11:00 – 11:40 |
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A1 |
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Rita Baker Headache and Aspirin |
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Presentation type: |
Workshop, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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Summary |
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The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate how essential language can be generated through task-based learning. We will consider what sort of tasks we can set up, how much preparation is needed, how we can profitably exploit the language that arises out of them, and how we can identify what input our learners really need. |
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Biodata |
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Rita Baker is the Training Development Director at Lydbury English Centre, which she and her husband, Duncan, founded in 1985. The centre specialises in residential immersion training - mainly task-based - in English for business and professional people. They have four adult children and have recently plunged headlong into grandparenthood. |
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B1 |
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Dr Muhammad Abdul Wahid Usmani Evaluation of Business English and Business Communication Courses - A Case Study from Pakistan |
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Presentation type: |
General Presentation, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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Summary |
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Business English and Business
Communication are the two areas in which most Pakistani English
teachers need proper orientation. The teachers involved in these
courses have little or no training in these areas. The current study,
conducted in Pakistani Business Schools, used a step-by-step
methodology to: |
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Biodata |
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Dr. Muhammad Abdul Wahid Usmani holds a PhD in Standardized Testing. He currently works for Dow University, Pakistan, where he is involved in teacher training and quality assurance. He is also engaged in designing and conducting ESP programmes for different institutions within Dow University. Dr. Usmani has more than ten years of experience in teaching Business English and Business Communication at different universities and public sector colleges in Pakistan. He is also working as a paper setter and moderator of Business English courses for a professional institute in Pakistan. |
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C1 |
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Khalida Aliyeva Teaching Listening |
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Presentation type: |
Workshop, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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Summary |
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Of the four language skills, none is less important than the others. Listening is a very important skill which takes time to improve. The method I will present has been successful at improving students' listening skills. Firstly, I present pictures related to the song 'What a Wonderful World' and ask the students questions about them and about the role of music in their lives and how it affects them. Using paper and coloured pencils, I ask them to draw pictures expressing how they feel while they listening to the song. The drawings are then put up on the wall and the students are invited to look at all the drawings and to choose the one that they like the most. The person who draws the most popular picture is then rewarded with a present. I have found this to be a good motivating approach for students to develop their listening skills. |
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Biodata |
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Khalida Aliyeva is 26 years old and has been manager of the AzETA Ganja Branch since 2003, organizing many different programs, conferences, and training sessions. An English teacher and teacher trainer for the British Council as well as the TEFL Institute, she has been teaching English and participating in conferences conducted by AzETA, British Council, for about six years. |
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D1 |
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Pat Pledger Recruitment, human resources and the demographic changes |
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Presentation type: |
Workshop, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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Summary |
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Demographic changes are influencing the recruitment process in today’s challenging business world. The methods and sources of recruitment and selection are changing. Companies need to focus on talent management, not only to retain key personnel, but to fulfil the expectations of switched-on employees and to cope with globalisation. Pat Pledger continues the people management theme from previous events with a workshop focussing on some of the latest trends in recruitment and selection for those who train human resources people, executive search consultants, line managers or in-company participants. |
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Biodata |
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Pat Pledger spent 20 years in human resources management in London, before relocating to Germany and setting up as a Business English trainer and consultant 17 years ago. Running her own business from Hamburg, Pat works closely with many companies in northern Germany but her main speciality is in human resources training in English. Having watched HR become more international over the last decade, and in an effort to fill a gap in the market for her students, her first book ‘English for Human Resources’ was published in 2005 in Germany, and in an international format in the UK in 2007. |
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E1 |
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Brendan Wightman Exploiting dynamic content in the Professional English classroom |
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Presentation type: |
Commercial, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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On behalf of:
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Cambridge University Press |
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Summary |
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This presentation will explore the varying types of materials that are now available to professional English teachers through the Internet. These include blogs, podcasts, Infoquests and hot-off-the-press lesson plans that probe the latest issues with the immediacy that only the Internet can facilitate. Referencing the free resources on Professional English Online, we will consider the advantages and disadvantages of the Web's dynamic pedagogical content and how it compares to, differs from, and 'ultimately' can be integrated with traditional teaching materials. |
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Biodata |
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Brendan Wightman taught General and Business English in Poland and Italy for seven years before moving into technology-enhanced learning. He is an expert on blended learning and instructional technologies and his experience with e-Learning includes course design and software development for ELT, project managing interactive whiteboard CD-ROMs and teacher training. He now works for Cambridge ELT as Commissioning Editor for e-Learning. |
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F1 |
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Dr Dosya Dubravska Leaders aren't born: they are made through hard work! |
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Presentation type: |
Workshop, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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Summary |
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Leaders aren't born; they are
made through hard work. The workshop 'Leadership skills' focuses on the
following areas: |
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Biodata |
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Work Experience - Assistant Professor of English Department, Lviv Commercial Academy, Ukraine, Candidate Degree in Psychology. Deliver classes in Business English, Theory and Practice of Translation for students of such faculties as International Economic Relations, Marketing, Management, Banking, Law, Commodity Science. Has introduced innovative methods in teaching English through workshops, developed programmes, assisted in organizing scientific Conferences. Has attended training courses - dedicated to European recommendations by Foreign Languages Agency, - Nick Brieger: English Language Methodology Seminar and Teaching Business English. BESIG Scholarship Winner 2007. |
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G1 |
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Matt Firth Short activities for International Legal English Certificate (ILEC) classes |
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Presentation type: |
Workshop, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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On behalf of:
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Cambridge ESOL |
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Summary |
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During this practical workshop participants will try out a series of tried-and-tested warmers, energisers, fillers and other short activities for legal English courses. While these activities were designed with the needs of ILEC students in mind, they are also suitable for non-ILEC classes. The activities modelled require minimum preparation and provide excellent opportunities for skills development. |
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Matt teaches English for Legal Purposes at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland and the Hochschule Vaduz, Liechtenstein. He is the ILEC Regional Manager for Austria and Germany, and runs regular workshops on teaching Legal English. Matt is Production Manager with TransLegal, for whom he developed the PLEAD Legal English blended learning course (TransLegal / Boston University / Cambridge University Press). Matt is co-author (together with Amy Krois-Lindner) of 'Introduction to International Legal English' (CUP, 2008) and writes a regular legal English column for Business Spotlight. |
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H1 |
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Jeremy Comfort and Bill Mascull Best Practice for Business English |
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Presentation type: |
Commercial, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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On behalf of:
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Heinle |
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Summary |
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Best Practice uses a modular approach to developing language, communication and intercultural skills at intermediate and upper intermediate levels. The authors will focus mainly on the communication and intercultural dimensions and show how these are integrated into a Business English syllabus. We will demonstrate the intercultural materials in particular focusing on both building general intercultural competence and also understanding of specific cultures. |
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Biodata |
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Jeremy Comfort is a director of York Associates, a firm specialising in language, communication and intercultural training for corporate clients. During the last few years he has been developing an approach and materials aimed at international managers. Bill Mascull is a freelance writer with a range of Business and Lexical publications to his name. |
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J1 |
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Tonya Trappe Will Power in the Business English Classroom |
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Presentation type: |
Workshop, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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On behalf of:
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Pearson Longman |
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Summary |
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The highly acclaimed British business Guru, Richard Olivier, son of Laurence Olivier, recently created a new form of 'arts based learning' that uses Shakespeare's plots to focus on leadership skills when training future business leaders. In the US, Carole and Kenneth Adleman train US business people and politicians to be more effective communicators by studying Shakespeare. This exciting new trend in business is an opportunity for Business English teachers to introduce high culture into their classrooms. This talk will demonstrate how teachers can introduce both the language and plots of the most famous Shakespearean plays into their classrooms without being experts on Shakespeare themselves. |
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Biodata |
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Tonya Trappe has had a varied and exciting career in ELT, as a teacher, author and teacher. Her publications include 'Insights into Business' and the award winning 'Intelligent Business' series. She is currently running a school in Paris and developing an 'English through drama' programme for teenagers. |
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K1 |
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Dr Jackie Pocklington Designing University Courses based on the Job Application Process |
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Presentation type: |
General Presentation, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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Summary |
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An entire two-hour semester course provides an extended role-play framework in which students provide their own input while enacting the roles of personnel officers and applicants in the job-application process. To start off, groups of students become personnel officers of various well-known companies of their choice to create a job ad that the other course participants can apply for as graduates of their academic program. Participants apply for two distinctly different positions forcing themselves to customize their applications; the companies process the applications. For each course participant the process culminates in a 20-minute simulated job interview with each company and finally with the instructor. Each stage is prepared in advance with focus on optimizing strategies, the form and formulations. This presentation focuses on the course aims and the challenges that have to be faced in order to effectively reach these aims. |
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Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, B.A. Mathematics, Professor of Business and Technical English Technische Fachhochschule Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Coauthor 'Bewerben auf Englisch (Applying in English)', 2004, 2007, Local Coordinator - 20th Annual BESIG Conference, November 2007, in Berlin. |
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L1 |
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Professor Abderrahman Azennoud Business English - a matter of medium or a matter of knowledge? |
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Presentation type: |
General Presentation, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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Summary |
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Many linguists consider Business English as a branch of 'English for Specific Purposes'; however, few of them have analysed the content of Business English syllabuses. This paper aims to shed light on the extra areas of knowledge that can be the contents of Business English syllabuses. Actually, in addition to 'English for Global Purposes', which is also a content-orientated medium, many other subjects such as marketing, mathematics, statistics, management, leadership, communication and culture are the core of Business English. It is hoped that this paper, which comes from personal experience, will demonstrate which types of knowledge are necessary and how these types could be exploited to improve the teaching and the learning of Business English. |
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I have a Master and a Ph.D., both in Applied Linguistics. I have been teaching English for 28 years; first at High School, then at university. I have taught both English for Global Purposes and English for Specific Purposes. In addition to this, I have supervised and still supervise many Master and Ph.D dissertations in Applied Linguistics, on cultural issues and in Linguistics in general. I speak English, French and Arabic. I have participated at many events, locally and abroad. I have published many articles on applied linguistics issues. My interests are linguistics, knowledge management and cultural studies. |
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M1 |
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Evan Frendo Call me Ickfee |
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Presentation type: |
Commercial, 40 minutes |
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Audience type: |
Mixed |
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On behalf of:
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Summertown |
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Summary |
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The Cambridge ESOL International Certificate in Financial English (ICFE) was introduced recently to offer an internationally recognised qualification in this growing area of ESP. During this talk we will be discussing the nature of financial English and examine the demands that ICFE places on our students. We will also be looking at how we can best prepare our students for the exam using materials from a new Summertown book called 'Success with ICFE'. |
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Evan Frendo is a freelance Business English trainer, teacher trainer and author based in Berlin. A frequent speaker at conferences, he also travels regularly in Europe and Asia to run courses. He has published various books over the years, including 'English for Accounting' (Cornelsen 2003, OUP 2007) with Sean Mahoney, 'How to teach Business English' (Longman 2005), and the 'Double Dealing' Series of coursebooks (Summertown 2004-2006) with James Schofield. This talk is based on his work as author of the new 'Success with ICFE' coursebook (Summertown, 2009). |