Conference 2009: Materials

Below are links to materials used by individual presenters in their sessions.

Session A

• Judith Mader & Rudi Camerer (A9): What is international English? (.pdf file)
• Steve Flinders (A6): Transnational trade union communication – improving its effectiveness (.pdf file)
• Huan Japes (A3): Spoken English for Work – Assessing Spoken Communication for Work (.pdf file)
• Andrew & Sandra Milne-Skinner (A7): Can we help you? Promoting good practice in customer care (.pdf file)
• Anisoara Pop (A4): Text and Voice Tools to Maximize the Students' Writing and Talking Time (.pdf file)
• James Schofield (A5): Help students get BEC on their CV (.pdf file)

Session B1

• Chia Suan Chong (B1 2): International Communica-tion: An alternative model to ELF (.pdf file) + Handout (.pdf file)
• Andrea Koblizkova & Pavel Brebera (B1 11): How to deal with business English to the benefit of pre- service and in-service users (.pdf file) + Profiles (.pdf file)
• Nicholas Munby & Richard Hodgkiss (B1 12): Pandemonium in the classroom (.pdf file)
• Heike Philp (B1 5): Virtual immersion and the challenge of teaching in Second Life (.pdf file)
• Maria Rees (B1 1): Getting along with phrasal verbs (.pdf file)

Session B2

• Jitka Hlouskova & Paul Hooper (B2 11): Business and academia – Friends or foes? (.pdf file)
• Arthur McKeown (B2 12): To tweet or not to tweet – that is the question (external website, opens in new window)
• Mike Hogan and Andi White (B2 8): Make your own low cost interactive whiteboard (.pdf file)
• Marina Wikman (B2): Education in English – are the subject teachers’ English skills good enough? (.pdf file)

Session C

• Zoia Kornieva & Y uliya Degtyariova (C4): A conceptual framework for immersion teacher training (.pdf file)
• Oleg T arnopolsky, Svitlana Kozhushko & V alentyna Zhevaga (C3): Stages in BE immersion teaching to university students of economics (.pdf file)
• Roger Randall (C6): How can I bring my testing strategy up to date – Online formative testing (.pdf file)
• Marjorie Rosenberg (C7): Lively activities for Business English classes (.pdf file)
• James Schofield (C2): Why your business English students need graded readers (.pdf file)

Session D

• Muditha Cooray (D4): A transition from traditional classroom environments to online delivery methods: Experience in Sri Lanka (.pdf file)
• Bob Dignen (D 11): 50 Ways to improve your intercultural skills (.pdf file)
• Evan Frendo (D5): Designing a course for ICFE (.pdf file)
• Gabriella Hirthe (D6): Solving the course content problem: Is it business, technical and/or legal English they want? (.pdf file) + Picture (.jpg file)
• Anne Hodgson (D7): Motivating and monitoring 1:1 students using agile planning methods (.pdf file)
• Pat Pledger (D9): English for human resources (.pdf file)
• Shiv Rajendran (D12): Business English Virtual Worlds (.pdf file)
• Mercedes Viola (D3): Using authentic materials and new technologies to enrich your training sessions (.pdf file)

Session E

• John Allison (E1): Management tools and models for advanced fluency practice (.pdf file)
• Stephanie Ashford and Dr Tom Smith (E6): Bending the cookie cutter: Language clinics for business English (.pdf file)
• Ian Badger (E12): We are not the problem, they are!! (external website, opens in new window)
• Genevieve Besser (E2): Generating custom-made exercises with Hot Potatoes (.pdf file)
• Rudi Camerer (E4): Intercultural competence in English (.pdf file)
• Peter Kapec (E3): Y ou’re fired: Using The Apprentice to create a new student- centred approach to teaching office communication (.pdf file)
• Stewart Tunnicliff (E7): Group dynamics and peer to peer (.ppt file)

Session F

• Veronica Dal-Bianco and Marie Deissl-O’Meara (F2): Personalising Podcasting (.pdf file)
• Andreea Pulpea (F4): Turning student feedback into learning (.pdf file)
• Ali Siragedien (F9): Introducing Specific English for Business Purposes: a semantic web enhanced course by Powtarzanie.pl (.pdf handout, .pdf presentation)
• Julie Wallis (F1): Moodles, WIKIS, blogs ... but what of the didactics? (.pdf file)

Session G

• Mark Rendell and Huan Japes (G9): The Cert IBET: One year on (.pdf file)

Session H

• Zahra Lalani (H3): Cultural Awareness in the business English classroom (.pdf file)
• Judith Mader (H2): Teaching and assessing presentation skills using the Common European Framework of Reference (.pdf file)
• Barry Tomalin (H4): Training teachers to work across cultures (.pdf file)
• Harvey Utech (H12): Is there a future for ESL texts? (.pdf file)

 

 

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