2009 Annual Conference

2009 Conference Information

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• Location

  The 2009 Annual IATEFL BESIG Conference was held in one of the biggest cities in Poland - Poznan. IATEFL BESIG, the Poznan University of Economics and the INTERSECTION School of English were pleased to hold the event on the main premises of the University of Economics, right in the centre of the city of Poznan.

• Plenary speaker: Vicki Hollett

• Speaker presentations

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

  Session A

  • Judith Mader & Rudi Camerer (A9): What is international English?
  • 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

• Conference photos