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2011 Annual Conference

The 2011 Annual Conference was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia over the weekend 18 - 20 November.

The 2011 IATEFL BESIG Conference will be held at the Dubrovnik Palace Hotel in the UNESCO World Heritage listed city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. This enchanting city on the southern Adriatic coast is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.

2011 Annual Conference Information

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Location

The 2011 IATEFL BESIG Conference will be held at the Dubrovnik Palace Hotel in the UNESCO World Heritage listed city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. This enchanting city on the southern Adriatic coast is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.
Plenary Speaker: Jeremy Comfort

Jeremy Comfort's Keynote Presentation was What's culture got to do with it? Supporting our learners in a complex world

The recording of the talk can be viewed here:
Conference videos

Local Organiser, Nikolina Korecic, discusses her work for the IATEFL BESIG 2011 Annual Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia with interviewer Andi White

Intercultural Communication expert, Barry Tomalin, speaks with Andi White shortly after his talk at the Dubrovnik conference

Vicki Hollett talks to Andi about English as a Lingua Franca

IATEFL BESIG 2011 Annual Conference Panel Discussion led by Cambridge ESOL with speakers Michael Carty, Evan Frendo, Marjorie Rosenberg, Vicky Hollett and Niko Stanisic
Conference photos

Thanks to Mike Hogan, BESIG Online Team member and photographer extraordinaire for these wonderful photos.

A special thanks to photographer Vito Pastorino for helping with photos of the Friday reception.
Speaker presentations
Please use the links below to download any of the presentation materials you may be interested in. If no link is available, please contact us (email Carl Dowse) and we will contact the speaker to request their materials.

Session A
- Vicky Hollett: "Learning to speak 'merican."
- Tom Smith & Stephanie Ashford: StartUp Enterprise: Developing language skills through business simulations.
- Helen Bicknell: A Debatable Point: This house believes that Debates are an extremely useful tool to encourage and examine oral fluency.
- Marjorie Rosenberg: Writing skills and the world of work – Teaching writing for BEC Vantage: Tips and Handout
- Almut Koester: Doing decision-making: Using real meetings for Business English training.
- Barney Sandell: The forgotten skill: making business writing lessons effective, focused and fun. Complaint Email 1, Complaint Sequence, Complaints Email 2, Complaints Language Chunks, Misatktion Email, Problems Pictures Small, Prompt Words for Chained Melody, Register Riddle Photos, Tapescripts
- Fiona Dunlop: Continuing Professional Development for Busy Business Trainers.
- Tia Robinson & Lindsey Persons: Creating Practical Train-the-Trainer Sessions for your Business English Trainers.
- Loraine Kennedy: Now you are an excellent BE tutor!
- Maurice Cassidy: Flying Right: The BE Teacher's Personal Checklist.
- Liam Brown: Don't know much about history. Don't know much biology. Don't know much about a science book…
- Shiv Rajendran: Using the power of online community for Business English.
Session B
- Susan Purcell: Teaching business people via Skype.
- Polona Vicic: Virtual Learning Environment Moodle in Business English Language Teaching.
- Atieh Sadat Mirkhani: Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Self Regulated and Goal Oriented Learning and their Oral Proficiency.
- Helen Strong: Stand out from the crowd – brand yourself.
- Mercedes Viola: Delivering workshops to our clients – a way of enhancing their learning experience.
- Nikolina Korecic: Clash or synergy of cultures?
- Ben Lawton: Preparatory training for further professional learning? Delivery and Potential.
- Fauziah Kamaruddin: Corporate leaders and Executives Must Listen Well!
Session C
- Amy Krois-Lindner: Sets of Texts: A Broader Perspective for ESP Materials. Insights from the new edition of International Legal English.
- David Baker: English for Finance - No cause for panic.
- John Hughes: The Power of Business Video to inform and transform.
- Susan Caesar & Sharon Kim: Adapting Business English Textbooks… Content or Language.
- Steve Flinders: Influencing.
- Tonya Trappe: Career Skills for the Twenty-First Century.
- Paul Emmerson: 'Management Lessons' - a photocopiable resource book via PaulEmmerson.com.
Session D
- Ros Wright: Reflecting the World and Words of the MBA Student & Beyond.
- Louis Rogers: Not yet in business – meeting the needs of pre-work learners.
- Valentina Dodge: Tech NO overload: managing the flow of (online) information.
- Stella O'Shea: Business English and Lexicography.
- Alison Haill: Shall we Coach? Coaching or 1:1 Teaching, That Is The Question and Flyer
- Chia Suan Chong: Intelligibility or Impressions? Requests in ELF Scenarios.
- NATAŠA GAJŠT: Terms and Conditions of Sale – A Source for BE Terminology and Grammar Lessons.
- Olesia Lupu & Elena Ciortescu: Dealing with Reading Skills in the Graduate Business English Course.
Session E
- Mike Hogan: How can new Business English materials address the needs of today's learners?
- Ian Badger: Understanding English however it is spoken: authentic business listening.
- Bob Dignen: Communicating across culture.
- Rachel Clark: Doing Business with a Spoken Corpus: Grammar in Action.
- Richard Gault: Einstein was right, time isn't everything: renaming the tenses.
- David Bonamy: Go with the Flow! Just-in-time language input for communicative tasks.
- Marina Wikman: Meaning of Cultural Diversity in the Classroom.
- Andrew Mallett: Presentation skills training: the language problem.
Session F
- Deborah Capras & Helen Strong: Each to his or her own blend! What could be stopping you from integrating mobile learning into your teaching of business English? Technophobia - or sound pedagogical motives?
- Martin Lisboa: Case studies on real companies and industries - where theory meets practice.
- Michael Carrier: Handheld Learning - language training through mobile phones and handheld devices.
- Scott Levey & Eve Turner: Transferring learning to the workplace – What helps? What hinders?
- Sabrina Mallon-Gerland: Case study- Why the Germans are arrogant and the Americans are not committed.
- Adrian Pilbeam: The role of culture in business English training.
- David Cato: Managing Time. Take it Online!
- Iclal Sahin: Bringing Media Literacy into the Business English Classroom.
- Kees Garman: Go with the Flow! Just-in-time language input for communicative tasks. Handout 1 and Handout 2
Session G
- Martin Lisboa: “Introducing the New Flagship Business English Title from Cambridge University Press.”
- Scott Tokaryk: “Cornelsen Campus – ELT materials designed for students in higher education.”
- Kirsten Waechter: “Learning how to learn: making language trainings more effective.” Handout
- Lucy Williams & Maja Sirola: “Motivating topics for your business students.” Motivating topics for your business students
- Tereza Matić Ivušić & Silvija Batoš: “Written Workplace Genres: Culture Variations.”
- Marieke van der Meer: “'Help, I can't find the right words'! - Chunking revisited.”
- Helen Bicknell: “Will CLIL kill Business English?”
- Kevin Westbrook & Pete Sharma: “Learning technologies in language teaching - where are we? Where do we go from here?”
Session H
- Joanna Trzmielewska: “Choosing and using videos with business English students.”
- Nick Robinson: “Chasing rainbows? The search for an overarching methodology for ESP.”
- Claire Hart: “Bad Business English Teachers Copy, Good Business English Teachers Steal.”
- Evan Frendo: "We know the language and they know the content.” Erm …
- Evelina Miscin: “Dealing with Business Vocabulary Activities.” WS1, WS2, WS4, WS5, WS6, WS8, WS11, WS13
- Christine Wasko: “Innovative Business Correspondence: Successful Use of Creativity and Humor.”
- David Leeming & Delia Anne Jackson: “Putting Mr Hofstede to work.”
Session J
- Timothy Phillips: “The Power of Partnerships. Skylight explores Profit Sharing Models.”
- Barry Tomalin: “Teaching Business Communication in the '3rd Space'.”
- Roy Bicknell: “OBLIQUE STRATEGIES: a powerful tool for energising language and content in the classroom.” Notes for Oblique Strategies
- Alun Phillips & Iclal Sahin: “Creative Teaching Activities in Business Communication Contexts.”
- Michael Carty: “When Silence in not Golden: Helping students to communicate in the world of work.”
- Martin Bradbeer: “Coaching Professors: providing language support for lecturers at universities.”
- Nick Munby & Richard Hodgkiss: “If…or using the world as a setting for simulations.”
- Richard D. Lewis: "Cultural Factors in International Business."
Poster presentations
- Lisa Zimmermann, Ulrike Pölzl-Hobusch, Gerhild Janser-Munro: " Using the Constructionist Approach Teaching Business English."
- Paul Emmerson: www.PaulEmmerson.com