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• Today I am going to talk about the conference, Squaring the Circle, which took place in March in İzmir University of Economics.

SQUARING THE CIRCLE

First International ELT Conferenceİzmir University of Economics

March 25-27 2011

• “The Baltic Light Index: Trying to Predict What Teacher Education has to do with Student Learning” (by Donald Freeman)

• “Promoting Change through Building Confidence” (by Ayşen Değer)

• “Forget me! Says the Word – The Paradox of Vocabulary Building” (by M. Prominska-Hight)

• “What Happens When a University Promotes ICT in the Age of Digital Natives?” (by Jerry Spring)

• “Problematizing the Relationship Between Curriculum and Classroom Practice” (by Kathleen Graves)

• “Confidence Rocks” (by Sakine Çabuk and Müge A. Gencer) (Workshop)

• “The Miracle of Reading” (by Alan Scott) (Workshop)

• “Bridging the Gap between the Foundation Year and Freshman” (by Adam J. Simpson)

• “From Teacher to Facilitator” (by Adrian Underhill)

• “Video Feedback within the Writing Process: A New & Innovative Pedagogical Paradigm” (by David Mearns) (Workshop)

• “Thinking, Creating, Acting, Moving and Talking: Role Play” (by Görkem Satak) (Workshop)

• “Words of Wisdom: Feedback on Written Work” (by Deniz Ateşok) (Workshop)

• “Going Mobile in Vocabulary Learning: Advantages and Challanges” (by Elif Demirel, Muhammet Kul, Saye Zibande, Onur Dilek)

• “Problems with the Dominant View of Academic Essay Writing and What to do about it” (by Jerry Spring)

• “Grammar Instruction – From Beliefs to Practice: Student Teachers in Great Britain and Serbia” (by Ana Vlaisavljevic)

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