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20TH BETA-IATEFL ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY, Sofia, Bulgaria
29 APRIL – 01 MAY 2011
Creativity in Language Teaching – Reaching out to the New Generation of Learners
Day One (29 April, Friday)
NBU, 21 Montevideo Str, Building1, Room 409
12:30 -13:30 Registration
13:30 – 17:30 Pre-Conference event Teaching Young Learners – Creativity in progress!
Day One (30 April, Saturday) NBU, 21 Montevideo Str, Building1
08.30 – 13.00 On-site registration
09:00 – 09.45 Opening ceremony
10.00 – 11:00 Plenary session 1 …………………………………
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break (sponsored by PEARSON LONGMAN) and book exhibition opening
11:20 – 12:20 Concurrent sessions: slot 1 (60 min)
12:20 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 –14.15 Concurrent sessions: slot 2 (45 min)
14:30 – 15.00 Concurrent sessions: slot 4 (30 minutes)
15:15 – 15:45 Concurrent sessions: slot 4 (30 min)
15:45- 16:15 Coffee break (sponsored by AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA)
16:15 – 17:15 Plenary session 2…………………………………..
17:30 – 18:30 AGM
19:00 –20:00 Saturday Evening‟s Special Entertainment
20.00-20.30 Prize Draw
20:30 Welcoming reception (sponsored by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS)
Day Two (1 May, Sunday)
09.00 – 09:45 Concurrent sessions: slot 3 (45 min)
10.00 – 10.30 Commercial Presentations (30 min)
10.30 – 11:00 Coffee break (sponsored by PROSVETA)
11.00 – 11:30 Commercial Presentations: slot 5 (30 min)
11:45 – 12:30 Concurrent sessions: slot 6 (45 min)
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12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15 Concurrent sessions: slot 7 (45 min)
14:30 - 15:00 Concurrent sessions: slot 8 (30 min)
15:15 – 15:45 Conference closing
16:00 – 17:30 COMMITTEE MEETING
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (Provisional)
DAY 1 (30 APRIL, SATURDAY)
WHEN WHERE WHAT
09:00 –
09.45
Auditorium Opening ceremony
10.00 –
11.00
Auditorium Plenary session 1 CAROL READ (sponsored by British Council Bulgaria)
Creative teaching, creative learning
11.00 –
11.20
Coffee break (sponsored by PEARSON LONGMAN) and book exhibition opening
11.20-
12.20
Room 217 CHAZ PUGLIESE, Pilgrims, UK Creativity: an optional extra or an absolute must?
Room 214 BEN GOLDSTEIN, Educational Centre Technology: What difference has it made?
Room 205 DENNIS NEWSON, IATEFL YLTSIG Down with grammar
Room 207
DAVID A. HILL, Prosveta So you want to write? Right!
12.20 – Lunch break
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13.30
Concurrent sessions: slot 2 (45 min)
WHEN WHERE WHAT TARGET
AUDIENCE
13.3
0-1
4.1
5
Room 205 KRISTINA STAMBOLSKA and ALBENA MASLEV New Bulgarian
University
What is your story? workshop
Teaching Adults
Room 411 GEOFFREY HARDCASTLE COLLEGE OF NYIREGYHAZA
How do I start and how do I finish? workshop
Teaching
Primary/Secondary
Level
Room 217 JIM SCRIVENER, Bell International The situational presentation: Time to revive this “lost” technique? workshop
Room 214 NIKOLINA TSVETKOVA Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski – Department of
Information and In-service Training of Teachers
Do you speak… Intercultural? workshop
Teaching
Secondary level
Teacher Training
Room 405 JOANN WILKINSON British Council Bulgaria
Diversity and Difference for the new generation of Young Learners talk
General ELT
Room 407 SVETLANA DIMITROVA-GYUZELEVA and GALYA MATEVA New Bulgarian University
Developing Generic Multilingual Skills workshop
General ELT
Room 413 JENNY DOOLEY Express Publishing
The Art of Writing talk
General ELT
Room 205 KEITH KELLY and STEFKA KITANOVA FACT World
Global Water Testing (or Survival Chemistry) workshop
Teaching
Secondary level
Teacher Training
Concurrent sessions: slot 3 (30 min)
14.3
0 -
15.0
0
Room 205 SVETLA TRENDAFILOVA and VALENTINA RAYNOVA Varna Medical
University
Encouraging Students’ Creativity While Teaching English for Obstetrics
talk
Primary,
Secondary,
General ELT
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Room 217
PETER ASHTON British Council Bulgaria
Learn English Kids –fun, educational activities kids parents and teachers workshop
Teaching Primary
Level
Room 214 ELLIE BOYADZHIEVA South-West University, Blagoevgrad
Help Language Go Wilde! workshop
General ELT
Room 407 GOKHAN BALABAN USA State Department, Pristina, Kosovo
Cooperative Learning arrangements and practices that improve language and social
skills workshop
Teaching Adults
Secondary level
Room 405 VESNA TASEVSKA FON University, Skopje, Macedonia
Creative Thinking in the ESP Classroom talk
Tertiary level
Room 207 VANYA KATSARSKA National Military University, Bulgaria
Webquests and Foreign Language Acquisition talk
General ELT
Room 413 ANKE FEDROWITZ Germany
Intercultural Learning (ICL) in the classroom / Training programme“ A World of
Difference” workshop
Teacher training
Room 411 AMELIA MAREVA New Bulgarian University
The New Profile of a Translation Teacher talk
Tertiary level
Concurrent sessions slot 4 (30 min)
15.1
5-1
5.4
5
Room 205 IRINA PETROVSKA University "St Kliment Ohridski" - Bitola, Macedonia
Teaching Excellence in Cuisine Language talk
Teaching Tertiary
level/Adults
Room 217 SIMON HADLEY AVO-Bell Language and Examination Centre
"Technology in the classroom (beyond youtube)" talk
General ELT
Primary level
Room 207 BLERTA MUSTAFA University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Through discovery and communication towards a change talk
Teaching Tertiary
level
Room 214 RENETA STOIMENOVA Foreign Language School in Targovishte
Webquests in the Literature Classroom talk
Teaching
Secondary level
Room 405 ZHIVKA ILIEVA Dobrich College, Shumen University
A primery student’s talk about a free time activity talk
Primary level
Room 407 VIKTORIJA PETROVSKA Faculty of Technical Sciences, Bitola, Macedonia
Assessing potentialities of textbooks for developing cultural awareness talk
Teacher Training
Room 411 BOJANA NIKIC VUJIC The School of Pharmacy and Physiotherarpy, Teaching
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Belgrade, Serbia
Drama as a tool for teaching ESP in vocational schools talk
Secondary Level
Room 413 SOLZICA POPOVSKA Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski”, Skopje,
Macedonia
Higher order thinking in the ESP classroom talk
Tertiary level
15.45-
16.15
Coffee break (sponsored by AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA)
16.15-
17.15
Auditorium Plenary session 2: JIM SCRIVENER, Bell International
Daemons in the Pit: The New Science and Skills of Reading
17.30 –
18.30
Auditorium ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
19.00-
20.00
Auditorium SATURDAY EVENING’S SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT
performed by
Jim Scrivener, Geoff Hardcastle,
Chaz Pugliese, David A. Hill
20.00-
20.30
Auditorium CONFERENCE PRIZE DRAW
20.30 ARTES CLUB
New Bulgarian
University
WELCOMING RECEPTION (sponsored by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS)
DAY 2 (1 MAY, SUNDAY)
WHEN WHERE WHAT TARGET AUDIENCE
09.00 –
9.45
Room 217 GEOFFREY HARDCASTLE College of Nyíregyháza, Hungary
A good “slap” will help your students
Teaching
Primary/Secondary/Tertiary
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workshop levels
Room 214 SVETLANA DIMITROVA New Bulgarian University
Permaculture in ELT or applying an Action Learning approach to the teaching of
English workshop
General ELT
Room 207 SIMONA GEORGIEVA – BALI and ANTONIA IVANOVA New Bulgarian
University
Txting – frnd or fo
Bridging the gap between textspeak and formal English
workshop
Teaching Tertiary level
Room 405 BISTRA STOIMENOVA and NIKOLINA TSVETKOVA Sofia University St
Kliment Ohridski – Department of Information and In-service Training of Teachers
A Web of Educators, aPlaNet of Professional Expertise talk
Teacher Training
Room 407 NATALIA YORDANOVA AVO-Bell Language and Examination Centre
Blended Learning Approach
workshop
General ELT
Teacher Training
Room 411 BASIM YAYHA JASIM AL-GHBURI and MUAYAD TAHSEEN YOUSIF University of Mosul, Iraq
A Content- Based Versus Task-Based Approach to Teaching Legal English : An
Experimental Study workshop
Teaching Adults
Room 413 PAUL WHITNEY AVO-Bell Language and Examination Centre
TKT – a knowledge base for ELT workshop
Teacher Training
Room 205 DESISLAVA ZAREVA New Bulgarian University
Masters of Genre workshop
Tertiary level
General ELT
Commercial presentations (30 min)
10.00 –
10.30
Room 205 SOL (Sharing One Language), UK Grenville Yeo
The enormous benefits of a real language experience in England for both students
AND teachers
Promotional
Room 207 ENGLISH IN ACTION, UK Robert Chatwin
English in Action: conversation and confidence building in the classroom made fun!
Promotional
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Room 214 PILGRIMS, UK Chaz Pugliese
Strategies to Motivate our Learners
Promotional
Room 217 PROSVETA David A. Hill
So you want to write? Right! Promotional
Room 405 PONS Bulgaria Ltd. Vladimir Kolev
News from Cambridge University Press and PONS Bulgaria
Promotional
Room 407 PEARSON LONGMAN Elena Stareva
Technology Applications and Blended Learning Solutions for the 21st centry
Promotional
Room 411 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Milena Kostova
The future has already happened: Students‟ skills are assessed automatically on line
with New English File.
Promotional
Room 413 MACMILLAN EDUCATION BULGARIA Yordan Stoyanov
Global Opportunities for a Digital Classroom
Promotional
10.30 –
11.00
Coffee break (sponsored by PROSVETA)
Commercial presentations and concurrent sessions: slot 4 (30 min)
11.0
0–
11.3
0
Room 205 HELLENIC AMERICAN UNION Evi Kathrepti
University of Michigan and Hellenic American University Exams / Internationally
Recognized Certificates for Life
Promotional
Room 411 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA Nikolay Pilibosyan
Success Starts at the American University in Bulgaria
Promotional
Room 207 EXPRESS PUBLISHING Jenny Dooley
Homework is Cool with the Interactive eBook! Promotional
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Room 214 ANTONIA IVANOVA and THEODORA IVANCHEVA-ATANASOVA New
Bulgarian university
Flight to Remember
workshop
Teaching adults
Room 217 BILL TEMPLER Shumen University & Simon Dubnow Institute, University of
Leipzig, Germany
The Profession Needs a >Research Center for Simplified English< Now workshop
Teaching Adults/Secondary
level
General ELT
Room 405 BISTRA STOIMENOVA Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski –
Department of Information and In-service Training of Teachers
How to teach CLIL using Web 2.0 tools
talk
Primary School
Room 407 RALITSA ZHELEVA Hristo Smirnenski Secondary School, Dobrich
Creativity in Language Teaching ,concerning Multicultural society
workshop
Teaching Secondary
Level
Room 413 DANIEL PEREZ and SYLVIA VELIKOVA University of Veliko Turnovo
Listening and Cross-cultural Understanding in Conversation (with
a focus on American Culture)
talk
Tertiary level
Concurrent sessions: slot 5 (45 min)
11.4
5– 1
2.3
0
Room 205 ALEKSANDRA STOJANOVIĆ - STRAHINIĆ Leskovac High School, Serbia
Tolerate Differences – Attitudes and Aptitudes to Teaching and Learning English
workshop
Teacher Training
Room 207 MILA ANGELOVA and ALBENA VITANOVA AVO-Bell Language and Examination Centre
How to Expand Your Teaching Techniques
workshop
Teacher Training
Room 214 MILKA HADJIKOTEVA New Bulgarian University
Conceptual Fluency in Theory and Practice
workshop
Teaching Adults
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Room 217
Room 405 LISA HARSHBARGER U. S. Embassy Budapest
Getting through to the shy student and overcoming the fear workshop
Teaching Adults
Room 411 MARIANNA PERE and GEOFFREY HARDCASTLE College of
Nyíregyháza, Hungary
Music and Drama in the elementary classroom
workshop
Teaching Primary
Level
Room 407 ATSUKO TAHASE and KYOKO UOZUMI Kinki University, Japan
Motivating Teachers to Implement Extensive Reading in Class
talk
Teacher Training
Room 413 ELENA ATANASCHEVA “For Europe”, Schools Sofia
Creating Content in Online Teaching talk
Teaching Adults
12.30 –
13:30
LUNCH BREAK
Concurrent sessions: slot 6 (45 min)
13.3
0 –
14.1
5
Room 205 TEODORA IVANCHEVA-ATANASOVA and ANTONIA IVANOVA New
Bulgarian University
A Flight to Remember
workshop
Teaching Adults
Room 207 MONIKA ZACZEK British Council, Bucharest, Romania
Content and Language Integrated Learning in low-level primary classes
workshop
Teaching Primary Level
Room 217 MICHAEL FENNELL Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine
Creativity: Passion, experimentation and risk
workshop
Teacher Training
Room 214 LILYANA PARASHKEVOVA British Council, Bucharest, Romania
Practical strategies and activities for increasing students’ motivation and
achievement
workshop
Teaching
Primary/Secondary Level
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Room 405 VALENTINA KIKERKOVA Primary school St Kliment Ohridski, Skopje
Macedonia
Students are you listening?
workshop
Teaching Primary Level
Room 407 RAYA ZHIVKOVA-KRUPEVA St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Culture as Cognition in SLA talk
Teacher Training
Teaching Adults
Room 411 ELENA TARASHEVA New Bulgarian University
The corpus, the teacher’s best friend talk
General ELT
Room 413 ALBENA VITANOVA and MILA ANGELOVA
AVO-Bell Language and Examination Centre
How to Expand Your Teaching Techniques
workshop
Teacher Training
Concurrent sessions: slot 7 (30 min)
14.30-
15:00
Room 205 MARIJA KUSEVSKA Center for Foreign Languages, Skopje, Macedonia
I kind of thought of doing business … yeah talk
Teaching Adults
Room 207 OGERTA KORUTI STROKA University of Tirana, Albania
Do teachers teach prepositions? talk
Primary/Secondary/
Tertiary/Adults
Level
Room 214 ELENA KLISAROVSKA University American College Skopje, Macedonia
Marketing Techniques in the ESL Classroom
talk
Tertiary Level
Room 217 LILIA SAVOVA Indiana University of Pennsylvania, U.S.
Textbook Use as Part of the English Classroom Ecosystem
talk
Teacher training
General ELT
Room 413 ZARINA MARKOVA South West University
Adventures in the wonderland of children´s creativity
talk
General ELT
Primary level
Room 405 VIOLETA KARASTATEVA Technical University of Varna
Teaching Maritime English at a Technical University
talk
Tertiary Level
Room 407 DIANA YANKOVA New Bulgarian University Tertiary level
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Canadian English: an Under-Described Variety talk General ELT
Room 411 ELKA STAVREVA and STEFKA KITANOVA Sofia University
Funny Anatomy
workshop
Teacher Training
Teaching Secondary level
15.00 –
15.30
Auditorium CONFERENCE CLOSING
15:45-
16.30
BETA-IATEFL Committee meeting
PLENARY SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
CAROL READ has over 30 years‟ experience in English language teaching as a teacher, teacher trainer, academic manager and materials writer.
Carol has taught students of all ages and levels, from very young children to adults. Carol‟s main specialisation is in primary language teaching
and she has run numerous teacher education courses and worked as an educational consultant in this area in many different countries in Europe
(including Bulgaria), Latin America and Asia. Carol has published extensively in the field of teaching English to young learners, including
course books, supplementary materials, online storytelling and CLIL projects, as well as many articles on primary ELT methodology. Carol‟s
recent publications include Bugs, winner of a British Council Innovation Award, 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom, highly commended in
the ESU Duke of Edinburgh awards, and Footprints, a new higher level primary course (all published by Macmillan Education).
JIM SCRIVENER is Head of Teacher Development for Bell International. Previously he has been Head of Teacher Training for International
House, Hastings and Director of Education for IH Budapest.
His publications include Learning Teaching (Macmillan ELT) which won the ARELS Frank Bell Prize 1995, Oxford Basics: Teaching
Grammar, Teachers' Books and Portfolios for Straightforward, two business coursebooks for OUP and he has many articles on
onestopenglish.com. His most recent book, Teaching English Grammar (Macmillan ELT) won the HRH Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking
Union 2010 award as “Best Entry for Teachers”.
Jim has worked in many different countries over the years, including two years in Kenya, three in the USSR and seven in Hungary. He was
leader of the team that designed the Euro exams and has been actively involved with Cambridge ESOL exams including design of their online
teacher portfolio. He designed the Online Delta course from Bell.
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FEATURED SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
BEN GOLDSTEIN Ben has taught English for over twenty years in the UK, Spain and Hong Kong. He currently teaches on The New School‟s
online MATESOL program (New York). He is lead author of the adult course book series „New Framework‟ and „New American Framework‟
(Richmond) and the forthcoming series „The Big Picture‟ (Richmond). He is also the co-author of „English Unlimited Advanced‟ (Cambridge)
and has published the teachers‟ methodology handbook „Working with Images‟ (Cambridge). His main interests lie in intercultural issues, images
and video and English as an International Language. Twitter: Goldstein Ben, Website: www.bengoldstein.es
CHAZ PUGLIESE is a Teacher and Teacher Trainer working out of Paris, France. A regular presenter at international conferences, Chaz has
contributed over 70 articles to professional journals, and has worked with colleagues in over 25 countries. His first book on Creativity in ELT
was published in 2010. Another one (with Zoltan Dornyei) is in preparation and due out in 2012.
DAVID A. HILL is a freelance educational materials writer and teacher trainer working out of Budapest, Hungary. He typically works in 10
countries every year, and has been coming to Bulgaria since 2000, and working with primary and secondary teachers throughout the country. He
has given talks at every BETA Conference since 2003. David has been involved with IATEFL since 1988, holding a number of posts of
responsibility and is currently the Coordinator of the Literature, Media and Cultural Studies Special Interest Group. He is sponsored by Prosveta,
for whom he is writing English For You.
DENNIS NEWSON studied History at the University of Cambridge but decided that he preferred to teach English.
He started off in Ghana, West Africa, in 1961, and after picking up a further qualification in Leeds in TEFL he taught in Sierre Leone (West
Africa), London (briefly), Doha, Qatar, Trondheim, Norway and Osnabrueck Germany - where he still is. He taught in secondary schools and a
teacher training college in Africa, in a middle school for boys in Qatar, at the Technical University as Lecturer for Technical English in Norway
and as a lecturer for English at the University of Osnabrueck in Germany. Since alleged retirement in 2000 he has done teacher training sessions
twice in Kosovo and went to Sarajevo, Bosnia twice for the British Council as an embarassingly mis-named expert. TEFL conferences over the
years have taken him to various towns in England, Berlin, Russia (Tambov), Poland and Hungary. He once nearly came to work in Plovdiv. He is
a listaholic, running or being a member of over 100 lists according to Yahoo and since retirement spends more and more time in Second Life and
has three times been a tutor on one of the TESOL Electronic Village 5-week intensive workshops dealing with the use of SL to teach EFL. He is
moderator of the IATEFL SIG's Young Learners and Teenagers list, set up their Ning, and is on their committee. For the last three years he has
moderated IATEFL YLT SIG online forum during the annual conference, and it was on one of those forums that he got to know Iskra. He is
married to Anke Fedrowitz, and she is married to him.
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