ARTESOL CONVENTION 2004 – Program

 

Friday, July 16, 2004

Registration		08:30		FRIDAY MORNING
Plenary Room 1		09:00 – 10:15		Grace Low Letting Your Precepts Guide Your Teaching	OPENING pLENARY sESSION
Coffee break		10:15 – 10:30
Concurrent Sessions		10:30 – 11:45		FRIDAY MORNING
Type of Presentation	Presenters			Title	Biographical Statement
Workshop Room 1 10:30 11:45	Leon Zuna leozuna@hotmail.com ABS International			MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS TO READ!!! Motivating students to read is one of our hardest but most important tasks, Leon will first discuss the concept of identification and how this process might help and then share some techniques on how to apply this in classrooms.	Leon Zuna  is the Academic Coordinator of ABS international. He is  an Applied Social Psychologist and an English teacher. Mr. Zuna has worked training teachers, coordinating institutions and helping English teachers in Argentina, Africa and India.
Workshop Room 3 10:30 11:45	Elba Villanueva de Debat elbadebat@yahoo.com Universidad Nac de Cordoba			Teaching to diverse learning styles: using the 4-MAT model Research has shown that learners approach learning in different ways. If there is a mismatch between their styles and the methodology employed, performance may be inadequate. This workshop will provide an overview on learning styles and the 4-MAT System and hands-on practice in adapting  material and in applying  the System to plan lessons.	Elba Villanueva de Debat is nearing the end of a M.A. in Applied Linguistics, UNC, and is a tenured lecturer in Didàctica General at the Facultad de Lenguas, UNC.
Workshop Room 4 10:30 11:45	Alicia Artusi aliciartusi@infovia.com.ar Colegio Del Centenario- Colegio Del Sol			Cooperative Learning in Large Classes Research has shown that cooperative work enhances learning. Collaboration, support, respect, challenge and an anxiety-free atmosphere can make learning more effective and fun. You will experience cooperative work by working in groups to perform a multi-sensory activity graded in three levels of language difficulty. After the experience we will work together on the characteristics of cooperative learning, the grouping criteria and the roles within a cooperative group.	Alicia Artusi is Head of the English Department at two private schools in Argentina where she implemented a plan to work with large mixed-level classes. She is a materials writer for a global publisher. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and Professional Development with the University of East Anglia, UK.
Concurrent Sessions		10.30 – 11.30		FRIDAY  MORNING
Workshop Room 2 10:30 11:30	Pearson Longman (Karina Medaglia) karina.medaglia@pearsoned.com  Patricia Sala Lucia Dumont de Giusto	The Dictionary: Friend or Foe? We can’t deny the invaluable aid of dictionaries in our professional development, but how difficult it is to transmit this message to students. The presenters will provide practical ideas to help students develop long lasting strategies and explore the importance of teaching vocabulary systematically.			Patricia Sala, English teacher from INSP J.V. González, specializes in Sociolinguistics and English and American Literature. She is current head of Hans Christian Andersen School. Lucía Dumont de Giusto, English teacher from INSP J. R. Fernández, specializes in School Organization and Direction. She is currently tertiary level coordinator at St Catherine’s School.
Concurrent Sessions		11:30 – 12:30		FRIDAY  MORNING
Demo Room 2 10130 12:30	Monica Reggini mreggini@yahoo.com mreggini@icana.org.ar      ICANA Buenos Aires	T. S. Eliot’s “Cats” on the Computer Screen This demonstration is based on the musical “Cats” by Andrew Lloyd Webber which is based in turn on, “Old Possum Book of Practical Cats” by T. S. Eliot. This demonstration will show participants how to use computers to interrelate different content areas, such as poetry, music, language and history. And the present will contribute with ideas and suggestions as how to lead our students to develop their own computer project works in content based curricula.			Mónica Coni de Reggini is a an English teacher. She specializes in technology in ESL/EFL settings. She has participated in Seminars on education and technology at the Media Lab of the Massachussets Institute of Technology, MA, USA (September 1988, October 1990/91/93/94/95/ July 1997). At present, she coordinates de Language Lab at ICANA.
Concurrent Sessions		11:45 – 12:45		FRIDAY  MORNING
Type	Presenterrs	Title			Biographical Statement
Demo Room 1 11:45 12:45	María Susana González sgonzalez@wamani.apc.org UBA	Factors influencing reading comprehension of academic texts at University level Second or foreign language reading is a complex object of study which is influenced by different types of variables. In our search of a satisfactory integrated model of these traits, we continue investigating new issues and developing more comprehensive models. Lately, we have faced an additional problem: the reading of texts on the Internet or on databases. The purpose of this paper is to pose and reflect theoretically on several problems University students or researchers face when they have to read efferently on line texts in a foreign language.			María Susana González is a teacher trainer graduated from the INES Joaquín V. González and a B. A. in Letters (U.B.A.). She was an assistant of Methodology and Teaching Practice in the INES Joaquín V. González and a teacher of Twentieth Century English Literature at the Teacher Training Institute B 415 in Banfield. She coordinated intermediate levels at the Laboratory of Foreign Languages at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (U.B.A.) She is writing her thesis for a Master Program in Discourse Analysis. She is in charge of the  Chair of Reading Comprehension in English at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (U.B.A.) where she has been teaching since 1988. She has participated as a researcher and co-director in three UBACYT projects since 1995. She is directing a new project on reading comprehension in a foreign language. She has made presentations in congresses in different universities in Argentina  and in the  Northern University in Colombia.
Demo Room 4 11:45 12:45	Longhini, Ana alonghini@hum.unrc.edu.ar                Barbeito, Celina Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto	Strategy instruction for EFL learning in the self-access mode The presenter will describe a strategy-based EFL  course specially designed  for university teachers and researchers. The course consists of 40 one-hour weekly sessions on learning strategy instruction for autonomous learning (teacher-guided class) in tandem with three-hour weekly self-access sessions of EFL learning (independent work), with emphasis on the development of the listening ability.			Ana Longhini, M.A., a researcher in language learning strategies and affective factors, teaches seminars on these topics at the Universidad de Córdoba and Universidad de Río Cuarto M.A. Programs . María Celina Barbeito, a researcher on affective factors, language learning styles and strategies is a teacher and teacher assistant  in undergraduate and graduate courses at the Language Department, UNRC
Demo Room 3 11:45 12:45	Susana Tuero sbtuero@mdp.edu.ar Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata	Peer feedback in a college writing class Revision is a fundamental element in the process of writing. All writing can benefit from feedback at the revision stage. The focus of this presentation will be on peer feedback. The presenter will demonstrate how a review questionnaire was used to carry out peer feedback activities with university students majoring in English.			Susana Tuero holds a Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. She is a Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata.
Lunch break		12.45 –14.00
Concurrent Sessions		14.00-15:15		FRIDAY  AFTERNOON
Workshop Room 1 14:00 15:15	Fanny Beatriz Ortega, Fannyortega@hotmail.com Universidad del Acocagua. Colegio Los Olivos	Reading strategically: teaching and evaluation. In the view that many students show minimum reading skills both in L1 and L2, the presenter will provide teachers with strategies needed to overcome such deficiency. The suggested approach is applicable to students of all levels and teachers will receive tools to generate their own reading comprehension exercises.			Fanny Beatriz Ortega, teaches Language and SFL at Universidad del Aconcagua  and coordinates  the English Department at Los Olivos Bilingual School, Mendoza. University professor of  English Literature and Language. Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics.
Workshop Room 2 14:00 15:15	Lauría de Gentile , Patricia patlauria@arnet.com.ar                Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba	Variety in ESP mono-skill courses:  applying a learning-centred approach ESP reading courses are aimed at teaching learners to read texts in their subject specialism effectively. The time constraint and the focus on  one skill may lead to classes where time-on-task is a must and variety  scarce. Participants will experience a hands-on approach to techniques for providing variety.			Patricia Lauría, Didactics professor and ESP reading courses academic coordinator at UNC, has given seminars on ELT and  published articles  in European and Argentinian Journals.
Workshop Room 3 14:00 15:15	Silvana Riccio de Bottino silvana@vaf.com.ar Melina Barbero de Amado- Cora Hermida- Juan Ignacio Palacio Facultad de Ciencias Sociales . UNCPBA	Actions speak louder than word: human rights in teacher training     An awareness of human rights allows us to develop fully and protects us from being abused by others. Language can be a medium to teach the worth of each human being. The presenters aim at showing an effective way of transmitting the meaning of human rights in pre-service language teaching			Silvana Riccio de Bottino teacher of English ,teacher and translator of Italian (UNC). Master in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Leicester University).Associate Professor at UNCPBA Melina Barbero de Amado is a graduate teacher. She is Lab Assistant at UNCPBA and teaches EFL in a private bilingual school and different institutes.  Cora Hermida  translator and teacher of English (IES Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández). She is Assistant at UNCPBA and teaches at Profesorado de Inglés  (ISFD 156).  Juan Ignacio Palacio is a graduate teacher in charge of EFL extra-curricular courses and Assistant  at UNCPBA. He also teaches EFL in a private institute.
Workshop Room 4 14:00 15:15	Omar Villarreal omarvillarreal@speedy.com.ar Universidad Tecnológica Nacional	EDUCATING ROBUSTIANA AN UNAUTHORIZED STORY OF ELT IN ARGENTINA  Is the Teaching of English in our country over the last 30 years a story of failure, faded glory and broken dreams?  Have we teachers learnt anything from the lessons of the past? Are the illusions and promises of the present just another mirage? Can anyone predict what the future might have in store for us... and our students?			Omar Villarreal es Profesor de Inglés e Inglés Técnico – Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado. Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educación (UCALP) Licenciado en Tecnología Educativa (FRA-UTN). Post-graduate studies in Educational Research at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Maestría CEA). University Chair  in the Area of Applied Linguistics at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.  Former Head of the School of English of Universidad Austral. He has lectured extensively in all Argentinian provinces as well as in Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Perú. He is the author and co-author of more than 20 textbooks, among them: “Polimodal English”and “Top Teens” published by Macmillan.
Workshop Room 5 14:00 15:15	Marta Graciela García Lorea martagl@arnetcomar	“It takes two to EFL learning" Paraphrasing the saying " It takes two to tango", we will analyze and discuss the components of our teaching practice that enhance or hinder our teaching performance  "Learned Optimism" theory Explanatory styles Practical and applicable activities will be done to  enhance and enjoy our daily work and optimize our students´ learning			Marta Garcia Lorea is a graduate from UNED (Spain) Distance Learning, CAECE University, INSP JV Gonzalez(with honors) ,Escuela Normal en Lenguas Vivas "JFK", Liceo N° 1 Currently ELT consultant and Project Liason Manager, ESP immersion courses and professional development seminars Co author, Teacher’s Guides for kinder ELT course Former Supervisor and Head Language Dept, Buenos Aires Municipal Schools Former ELT Consultant, Simon & Schuster and Pearson publishers  Thirty years teaching experience - all levels
Concurrent Sessions		15:15-16:15	FRIDAY  AFTERNOON
Poster Session 15:15 16:15	Presenters Barbeito María Celina mbarbeito@hum.unrc.edu.ar Cieri Lidia Mabel Cardinali Renata Fabiana UNRC	Get your sounds right from the Start The poster illustrates the approach used in a workshop designed for first year students at the Teacher Training College, UNRC with the aim of providing further practice in English sounds and basic intonation patters. The exhibit reflects the characteristics of the workshop and includes sample tasks with guidelines for their implementation.			María Celina Barbeito: MA in English Language and Linguistics, U. of Arizona. Assistant Teacher at the UNRC in Phonetics, Practicum, Psycholinguistics. Research Interests: Affective factors and SLA. Lidia Mabel Cieri: Associate professor. Masters’ candidate.  Researcher:  Project director in 1992 and 2003. Syllabus Coordinator since 1999. Former Fulbrighter. Has lectured and published in Argentina, the U.S., Cuba, Chile and Brazil. Renata F. Cardinali: Assistant teacher in Phonetics and Linguistics. Masters candidate in Applied Linguistics. Research interests: Corpus Linguistics and TESOL.
Poster Session 15:15 16:15	Selva Beltramone selva@ing.unlpam.edu.ar  Raquel Ramos Facultad de Ingeniería. UNLPam	Assessing use of Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in an ESP university course The poster will illustrate an experience carried out at the Facultad de Ingenieria, UNLPam during a semester with the purpose of checking the extent to which students actually use reading strategies teachers use in class. Different charts will show the variety of instruments employed.			Selva Beltramone , teaches ESP at the university, being her main interest the teaching of reading in a foreign language, about which she has made presentations and published articles. She holds a Master Degree in University Teaching and is currently a associate professor at the Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa. Raquel Ramos holds a Master Degree in University Teaching and is a teacher of ESP at the Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, devoting herself to the development of oral communicative skills in university students.
Demo Room 2 15:15 16:15	Stella Maris Palavecino palavecinostella@ciudad.com.ar         English House Language School	Only One Pedagogical Theory is not Enough for Constructivism ‘The  presenter  will  demonstrate a  technique  for  reading  that shows  students  how  to  create  the  forms  of writing  they learn  about  in  a  Reading  workshop.  In  addition to  this, she  will  make  the  audience  infer  which  pedagogical  theory converges  when  it  comes  to planning  .Why  is  it important  to  know  what  we are  doing?’.			Stella Maris Palavecino, Licentiate and university professor, is a Director of  Studies at English House, Former teacher at Nuestra Señora de las Nieves and  auxiliary Teacher at UADE.
Demo Room 3 15:15 16:15	Eduardo  Fasano -  Gabriel  Lanzaro edumbl@adinet.com.u URUTESOL	LOVE  IS  ALL  AROUND  by   M.B.L.  ( Music  Based  Learning ) We  create complete contextualized units in which  MUSIC is only one part in the learning  process where we also introduce all the necessary elements to achieve an overall effect that leads to the comprehension of it.  LOVE  is  essential  to  human  life.  We  took  advantage  of  the  different  aspects  music  and  songs  bring  us  about  this  topic  to  work  with  them.			Eduardo  Fasano -  Gabriel  Lanzaro Teachers  at  Secondary  School.  Former   EFL and  ESP teachers at  YMCA and  ICT(Escuela de Turismo y Hotelería).  National   and  international  presenters  for TESOL and other  institutions/organazations  since  1993. Both specialized in teaching the language through  music and  video clips using their own method, MBL ( Music Based Learning) Currently  running  the  MBL  Institute  where  they  also  train  teachers  on  this  methodology.
Commercial Presentation Room 4 15:15 16:15	Heinle & Heinle	Come on a quick tour round the Thomson-Heinle catalogue! You never knew there could be such variety of appealing materials waiting for you right at your fingertips! Open the doors of your classroom to authentic, genuine, real-life materials to develop and maximize all four skills and cultural awareness and help your students experience the wonder of a whole new world!			Prof. Patricia Salvador Patricia Salvador is a graduate from Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas “Juan R. Fernández”. She specialized in Didactics at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional where she has been a full member of the ELT Pedagogy Group since 2001. She was the chief editor of "English Teaching in Action" -a magazine for teachers of English -  and of  " Top English" - a movie-based series, and co-editor of "E-Teaching on Line". At present she runs New England School of English and is an ELT consultant for Thomson Heinle Argentina.
Coffee break FRIDAY  AFTERNOON		16.15 - 16.30
Room 1		16:30 -17:00		TESOL MATTERS	pLENARY sESSION
Room 1		17:00 – 18:30		Grace Low “Basing writing rubrics on actual student writing”	pLENARY sESSION

 

Saturday, July 17, 2004

Registration		08:00
Concurrent Sessions		8:30 –09:45	saturday Morning
Type	Presenter	Title			Biographical Statement
Workshop Room 2 08:30  09:45	Betty E. Wolff bettybew@netscape.net or betty@giga.com.ar BEWNETWORK	ENGLISH AS A BUSINESS AND THE BUSINESS OF ENGLISH Let’s take a collection of traditional stories and fables, draw the morals and extend them to the Business of English and try to see how we can apply their teachings to provide a better service to our students, allowing us to meet our overall goals, integrating good teaching with sound business practices.			Betty Wolff, teacher, translator and interpreter, is the executive director of BEWNETWORK, an international work and study abroad consultant, helping people cross cultural bridges is her outmost goal.
Workshop Room 1 08:30  09:45	Gloria Ángela Ginevra gginevra@yahoo.com Universidad del Aconcagua	Writing non-narrative texts in the primary ESL classroom Of all the macro-skills,  writing seems to be the most difficult to teach in the EFL/ESL context. While most primary school students seem to be fairly at ease with narratives and personal recounts,  they  strive when requested to write texts that are non-narrative. In order to help children overcome these difficulties, it  is necessary to review the concept of literacy. The presenter will show how  the “three- stage-model wheel” designed by J Martin, within the genre-based approach to literacy  can help children construct non-narrative texts.  The three stages are:  deconstruction of the text,  joint construction and independent construction of the text.			Gloria Ginevra has been teaching for 19 years. She holds a Teacher of English and English Literature Degree from the UN Cuyo. She works at the Universidad del Aconcagua
Workshop Room 3 08:30  09:45	Debora Ncamulis Klebs alfakids@ciudad.com.ar	A Taste of Task-based Learning This workshop will consist of a brief presentation of what task-based learning involves and how it is carried out, the participants will be asked to carry out a task themselves and they will be shown the advantages of working this way at school.			Debora Nacamuli Klebs- Graduated teacher from Saint Brigid’s Teacher Training College- Specialist  in Methodology - Methods I lecturer at Instituto Nacional del Profesorado Joaquin V Gonzalez since 2000- Assistant teacher Methods II at Instituto Nacional del Profesorado Joaquin V Gonzalez since 1996- Secondary school teacher at Saint Brigid’s School
Workshop Room 4 08:30  09:45	Carlos Javier Galizzi cgalizzi@fibertel.com.ar Independent Teacher.	The Lexical approach and its innovative outlook on teaching The Lexical Approach deals with innovative perspectives both on teaching and Language itself. The seminar will bring those new perspectives to light and have teachers experience its innovation. The seminar will engage teachers into insightful reflexion on their own practices together with useful and applicable activities based on the approach.			Carlos Galizzi, specialized in Methodology at Joaquin V. Gonzalez, has been a teacher trainer for both the “Teachers training program at Belgrano University and CEPA, Education Secretariat GBCA. Degrees:English Teacher INSP Joaquin V. Gonzalez Postgraduate diploma “Management and Leadership of the Education System and its Institutions” FLACSO Argentina founded by UNESCO
Workshop Room 5 08:30  09:45	Soledad Pampillo soledadpampillo@ciudad.com.ar Cecilia Antuña Laboratorio de Idiomas Fac.Filosofía y Letras UBA	What’s behind  EFL reading comprehension  testing with authentic texts? Presenters will walk participants through the decision-making process underlying the  construction of a valid and reliable reading comprehension test based on authentic text. Participants will compare two stages in the development of an in-house reading comprehension test by discussing test methods,  test item design,  text suitability and exploitability among others.			Soledad Pampillo (Laboratorio de Idiomas, FFyL, UBA) – MA in TESOL (California State University LA), BA in Psychology (UBA), co-author of  “Inglés a Distancia: Lectocomprensión”, test-developer (Laboratorio de Idiomas) and lecturer (BA in English, UB). Cecilia Antuña (Laboratorio de Idiomas, FFyL, UBA) - MA,  teacher EFL, coordinator of Belgrano Branch, co-developer of CILE (Certificación de Inglés como Lengua Extranjera)  for Laboratorio de Idiomas.
Coffee break		09.45 – 10.00
Plenary Room 1		10:00 –11:00		Lía D. Kamhi-Stein lkamhis@calstatela.edu California State University, Los Angeles Enhancing language, Internet, content, and critical thinking skills through WebQuests The presenter will describe the features of WebQuests, lesson plans involving inquiry-based activities that allow EFL learners to interact with information available on the Internet, demonstrate 10 simple steps to designing WebQuests, show WebQuests available on the Internet, and discuss how such WebQuests can be adapted to the EFL classroom.	pLENARY sESSION Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, an associate professor in the MATESOL program at California State University, Los Angeles, is past president of California TESOL and current Director-at-Large of TESOL, and has published in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, etc.
Plenary Room 1		11:00 – 12:30		Grace Low Leadership Development for ESOL Professionals -Part 1	pLENARY sESSION
Lunch break		12.30 – 13.45
Workshop Room 5   Have a snack with AQA and enjoy the following seminar!		12.45 – 13.45		AQA Presents: British & American Pronunciation Contrasted As Discussed By Prof. Norberto Ruiz Diaz	Prof. Norberto Ruiz Diaz Graduado del Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado "J. V. González"  lleva ya treinta años de profesor universitario en las materias Fonética y Lengua Inglesas en Profesorados, Traductorados e Interpretariados. Ha ejercido la docencia, llegando a la categoría de Profesor Titular en UMSA, UADE, USAL, UBA, Univ. Nac. De Mar del Plata, Joaquín V. González y Lenguas Vivas . Llegó a la categoría de profesor asociado en la Universidad Católica Argentina. Accedió a varias de estas cátedras mediante concurso de antecedentes y Oposición. El profesor residió en Inglaterra y realizó estudios de post grado en la Universidad de Búfalo, EE.UU., incluyendo investigación. Además ha actuado de jurado para proveer de profesores titulares y adjuntos en universidades nacionales. Fabian Wallace: Certified NLP Master Practitioner.Experienced  teacher of English and examiner for different institutions and currently Head of  Liceo Cultural Brit?nico, Moreno.   An Educational Marketing specialist, he has also undertaken consultancy work. He is also the represntative for the JET/SET exams of the Assessment and                 Qualification Alliance (A.Q.A.), UK  for Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
Coro Aguas Argentinas Room 1		13.45 – 14.15
Plenary Room 1		14:15 – 15:30		Grace Low Leadership Development for ESOL Professionals -Part 2	pLENARY sESSION