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