CONFERENCE PRESENTERS

Nicholas Ber, ELT Consultant for CUP, Italy

TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FROM MEANING TO USE

One of the major tasks for language learners is to extend their vocabulary. This practical seminar will demonstrate how we can help our students become generally more aware of vocabulary, how to organize their approach to learning new RwordsS.

Crystal Ashley-deVerglas, POTE, Pecz, Hungary

REDUCING TEACHER TALK

Workshop, 90 min. All

Margaret Segal, Mirjana Bonacic & Zjena Culic, Split

THE TRANSLATION PROCESS

Margaret Segal, Boris Vidovic & Jasenka Zuvela-Splivalo, Split

COMPUTERS & THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER

The discussion will explore ways in which English language teachers can use computers to prepare materials, manage classes and facilitate students acquisition of English. We will discuss computer literacy and words processing as well as E-mail, networking, the TES/FL gopher and Bulletin Board Services.

Erika Bardorfer, Srednja sola tiska in papirja

NONCLASSICAL APPROACH TO LEARNING VOCABULARY

The workshop deals with learning and improving the vocabulary of crime and law by means of a game on different colored cards. The game is prepared in two versions: a smaller one for the second year students and on a large scale, for the the Matura students.

Antica Lovric, the III. Gymnasium, Split

CLASSNET

Kata Ittzes

MUSIC IN ENGLISH - A MODEL FOR CONTENT BASED TEACHING

The model which can be used in other content areas, will be presented. Some exercise types modified to musical content will be introduced and ideas for task-based learning will be discussed. The second part will be conducted to workshop fashion and you will be expected to participate.

Renee Franic, Skola za strane jezike, Varsavska 14, Zagreb

WE CAN WORK IT OUT

Song and film titles, slogans and humorous bumper stickers are another way of bringing a glimpse of authentic language into the classroom. Moreover, students remember them better than RboringS textbook example. We will be discussing how they can be applied when teaching various aspects of the language.

Nina Babic, Skola za strane jezike, Varsavska 14, Zagreb

MAGAZINE & NEWSPAPER CUT-OUTS (Toward Greater Communicative Competence)

Workshop, 45 min. Secondary

Learning a language is a constant struggle toward greater communicative competence. This workshop explores a strategy of activating class participation by presenting learners with various related and juxtaposed magazines and newspaper cut-outs encouraging then to form opinions, articulate and defend them, explore alternatives and express emotions rather than merely retell something they have read.

Visnja Anic, Skola za strane jezike, Varsavska 14, Zagreb

UNIVERSALLY APPLICABLE FLT ACTIVITIES (Do they solve ALL our problems?)

I belong to those teachers who rarely spend more than 50% of their teaching time using the coursebook. As a young teacher I used to be on the constant look-out for always new activities but gradually ended up with a dozen of those that can be applied for teaching/revising grammar and vocabulary at all levels at any time. None of them require preparation. They are either challenging, imaginative or personalized (which solves most of our problems).

Sanja Srbljinovic-Cucek, Waldorfska skola RSv. JurjaS, Zagreb

ELT IN WALDORF SCHOOLS

When I first read of WALDORF education I was desperately looking for ready made answers to make my teaching more efficient. What I have found there is myself. What I want to share with you are experiences that may trigger off your imagination and fresh approaches, as they have mine.

Danka Singer, Daska Domljan, Skola za strane jezike, Varsavska 14, Zagreb

CAN LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD TEACH ENGLISH?

This workshop will look at different ways of presenting and exploiting stories in ELT. Stories are motivating, they expose learners to the language in a familiar context, they help students to produce language with a limited amount of vocabulary and structures, they integrate all four skill and they are fun.

Sonia Bicanic, Zagreb

THE APPLE ATE THE BOY

Demonstration, 45 min. Secondary, Adult

Serious and recurring syntactic, stylistic and cultural difficulties arise in translating from Croatian ( a highly inflected language) into English (a non-inflected and very word-order free and speech based on). I will consider some of the most common mistakes and how schools might contribute to help in training better translators for the next century.

Juliana Mutti, Liasion for Croatia, USIA EFL Fellows Program, Zagreb

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Plenary, 60 min. All

Central to the discussion will the function of HUPE as an officially recognized professional association which can strengthen its national identity through greater regional involvement. The net effect suggests HUPEUs potential to evolve into an association capable of leading its professionals into the 21st century and offer teachers in other academic disciplines a working model of how to build a professional association.

Diana Hanis, Skola za strane jezike, Varsavska 14, Zagreb

DEVELOPING A WRITING SKILL

Workshop, 60 min. OHP. Secondary, Adult

This workshop aims at making students aware of the writing conventions, which distinctly differ from those used in the spoken language. The workshop comprises activities trying to show how to logically structure a text using linking devices between paragraphs as well as within a paragraph. The target audience should preferably be teachers teaching intermediate/advanced students.

Olinka Breka, Skola za strane jezike, Varsavska 14, Zagreb

MUSIC AS A VEHICLE

Music and songs should be an integral part of the learning process. Why? Because they are motivating, enjoyable and can be used in many different ways, fulfilling many different goals (e.g. background music, to relax or energize your class, to practice integrated skill). This workshop deals with some activities, useful and valuable both to teachers and students.

Verica Zoric, Skolska knjiga, d.d. Masarykova 28, Zagreb

CARING & SHARING IN THE CYBERSPACE

Paper & Dem. 45 min. PC with Internet connection + OHP All

The paper deals with the following:

1. Whats and whys in TESL-L, electronic discussion forum and focuses on issues related to TESL/TEFL. 2. International English or English internationally. 3. Internet.

Goran Sirovatka, Skolska knjiga, d.d. Masarykova 28, Zagreb

WHY WE ALREADY PUBLISH ON THE NET?

Paper & Dem. 45 min. PC with Internet connection + OHP All

When you are connected with 30 million English language speaking people and start sharing thoughts and experiences with them, the only thing you can do is to participate. (We shall demonstrate the English-Croatian Information Science Dictionary published by Skolska knjiga). We shall talk about the Nettiquete, rules how to behave on the Net , and about alternative ways of correcting you studentsU work.

Karl Benziger, a Fulbright exchange teacher and guitarist

INTEGRATING MUSIC INTO THE AMERICAN STUDIES CURRICULUM

This workshop will demonstrate how music can be integrated into multidisciplinary American Studies Curriculum. Examples will range from American South Antebellum period to the Great Depression.

William Carrol, the USIA Regional English Teaching Language Officer for Eastern Europe

CRITICAL READING, CRITICAL THINKING

Workshop, 60 min. Secondary, Adult

This workshop will guide teachers in the production of exercises designed to dev elop the studentsU critical thinking.

Richard David

PRESENTATION OF TITLES FROM HEINEMANN ELT CATALOG

Presentation, 45 min.

Lisam Morgan

TEACHING PARTS OF THE BODY THROUGH SONGS AND MOVEMENT

Demonstration, 60 min. CR+OHP All

Melita Vidmar Cvitanovic, Hotel and Cartering School, Zadar

EFLT/L & MANNERS ACQUISITION - HAND IN HAND

Paper, OHP Secondary

To be polite, or not to be polite - that is the question now! How to reinforce good manners among our learners, particularly in secondary schools? I suggest specially designed tasks and activities which might foster positive thinking toward people and develop learnersU social skills. Nobody like mere RULES!

Amal Kumar Chatterjee, Rick Rosenberg & Anthea Tillyer

E-MAIL TEACHING & THE INTERNET

Demonstration, paper, OHP Adult This presentation will introduce the world of cyberspace and demonstrate how teachers can access powerful tools and resources. It will also show how to tap into archives, and RsurfS the Internet. Cross-cultural and international distance teaching projects will be discussed e.g. electronic pen-pals, distance teaching projects simulations.

Amal Kumar Chatterjee & Rick Rosenberg, EFL Unit University of Glasgow, USIS EFL Fellow

CULTURE & THE STUDENT OF ENGLISH

Workshop, paper, OHP Adult

This workshop will consider the cultural nature of English and the development of cultural awareness and communication skills to enjoy cross cultural diversity. It will examine the concepts of culture, native speaker, world Englishes, and present texts and techniques that develop cultural sensitivity and understanding in EFL course work.

Maristela Vilicic-Vuskovic, the I. Gymnasium, Split

SOME ASPECTS OF BRITISH CULTURAL STUDIES

Paper, 45 min. Secondary, Adult

Barbara Hyde, British council ELTSUP Outreach Coordinator

FRUITFUL EXCHANGE OR UNWELCOME IMPOSITION

Paper, Flipchart/BB Teacher Trainers

This paper is concerned with the reception of new language teaching methodologies in Eastern Europe: these have been purveyed now for some years. How far have they been taken on board, how far rejected, and to what extent have they been transmuted, adapted to existing conditions, or absorbed into prevailing traditional attitudes?

Mark Davis, University of Agricultural Science, Godollo

ESP AT UNIVERSITY: HOW SPECIALIZED CAN IT BE?

Talk, OHP,CR ESP

This talk will draw on my experience as of a team of teachers at Godollo University, Hungary, writing a course in English for Agriculture. The talk will consider decisions taken in compiling ESP course and illustrate types of activities chosen to develop specific skill.

Ana Bakasun, Centre for Foreign Languages, Split

COCA COLA IS IT

Demonstration, 45 min. Secondary, Adult

Adverts from newspapers and magazines can be a powerful stimulus generating a variety of classroom activities - from grammar drill to open discussion. What language do advertisers speak? What images do they use? Are there words that sell and words that donUt? The activities can be easily in tegrated into the language program and suitable for different levels of language proficiency.

Miljenka Demel, Lancon, Zagreb

CHANGES IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION NEEDS IN CROATIA FROM 1990 TO 1993 & THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER OF ENGLISH

Paper, 45 min.

The paper presents research result on the changes in business communication in English in Croatia and the readiness of Croatian business persons to cope with economic change in Croatia in the period from 990 to 1993. It also presents a comparative analysis of written business communication in English of Croatian companies and their foreign counterparts.

Melita Jurkovic, the IV. Gymnasium, Zagreb

JOURNAL WRITING

Paper, 45 min. OHP Secondary

The paper discusses the role of journal in the ELT classroom. Participants will be introduced to the theoretical aspects of journal writing and the practice of journal keeping in everyday teaching and learning. Extracts from studentsUs journals will be presented.

Zeljka Radelic, Faculty of Economics, Split

USING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS FOR BUSINESS ENGLISH PROPOSAL

Demonstration, 45 min. OHP Adult

In a topic-based syllabus almost any piece of authentic material can be fitted to suit the anticipated professional needs of our students. This demonstration will present a few practical ideas on how to use authentic materials including examples of tasks involving different skills.

Liliana Coposescu & Adelina Maissner, Middle School, Sibiu

COOPERATIVE TEACHING

Workshop, 45 min. Adult

The aim of the workshop is to acknowledge that teachers need each otherUs strengths to improve their teaching skills and the studentsU ways of learning the language. The activities consist of group work, scenario, questionnaire and they focus on concerns about team-teaching. They raise issues of pre-teaching and while teaching cooperation.

Alida Matkovic, Ministry of Culture, Zagreb

DEVELOPING EUROPEAN AWARENESS

Paper, 45 min. OHP Primary, Secondary

My intention is to share with participants different activities that would result in developing European awareness.

Ken Wilson, English Teaching Theatre

GET UP AND SAY SOMETHING

Workshop, 90 min. OHP,CR Secondary, Adult

A series of activities to give you and your students a change of focus from RregularS classwork. They involving movement, speaking and laughter, are ideal for rekindling their enthusiasm , and yours, too! Some are games, some role-plays, some you canUt classify, but they all make people get up and say something. And they are easy to prepare - a must for busy teachers.

MUSIC POWER

Workshop, 90. min. Secondary, Adult

This workshop will show you how you can use (a) instrumental music for brain-storming and story telling (b) authentic songs for language enrichment, cultural background and information and (c) specially written songs for structure practice and enjoyment. Activities include worksheets, jigsaw reading, quizzes, and maybe some singing and dancing.

Alistar Maclean, College for Training Language Teachers, Krasno

GETTING STUDENTS TO SPEAK

Workshop, 60 min. BB Secondary, Adult

This workshop will suggest ways of getting students to speak, and also at some of the problems involved: how to keep things Runder control how to integrate with grammar, and how to take student expectations into account.

Adriana Beletic-Raunic, Tehnicka skola, Pula

THE PRESENT PERFECT NEEDNUT BE A BUGABOO

Workshop, 60 min. OHP,CR Secondary

Through a number of non conventional activities (jazz chant, rebuses, pictures and games) I will give a practical presentation of how to make Present perfect lessons funnier and more involving. These activities have all been used in the classroom several times, and what is more important, they have worked.

Monica Giuchici, Theoretical High School, Resita Romania

COHESION & COHERENCE, OR HOW TO MAKE OURSELVES MEANINGFUL TO THE WORLD

Workshop, 60 min. Secondary

Participants will first identify and discuss problems of cohesion and coherence in specimens of studentsU writing. They will then be exposed to various ways of practicing cohesion (marking cohesive links, use of superordinates, pronoun substitution, sentence building) and coherence (sequencing jumbled dialogues and paragraphs, one sided dialogues, inserting discourse markers.

Ksenija Vidmar Nincevic, Primary School, Zadar

TRY WITH YOUR OWN HOMETOWN

Workshop, 60 min. OHP Primary

Whenever you decide to revise/extend/practice student's knowledge within groups/pairs, why donUt you explore benefits that your hometown offer? Familiar authentic situations where students are put, could make them learn easier, with more self-confidence. A set of different paper from activities is a good tool to accomplish the main idea.

Regina Dascal, Bilingual School,Timisoara

MAN-MADE LANGUAGE

Secondary, Adult

Looking into the ways in which language creates, justifies or maintains sexual discriminiation, enhancing awareness as to the mater with teachers and students alike might help the attempts of redressing l... in language (making it reflect a more balanced and accurate view of the world, since we know that language reinforces social harm.

Doroteja Valentic, Vocational School, Varazdin

TEACHING MATERIAL FROM PUPILS' SCHOOLBAG

Cassette player

Are you looking for a stimulating and provocative teaching materials? Why not try and let pupils prepare their own one? I have tried it and it worked. One workshop is a short time but I could try and share my teaching ideas with you.

James Alford Sutherland -Smith, Faculty of Arts, English Department, Presov Slovakia

LOCAL FAIRY TALES AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIAL

OHP, Tape recorder Suitable for all

This workshop will explore how local fairy tales ( in this case Slovak) can provide a rich source of stimulating material for class motivation, language skills and role-play in language teaching for a great range of levels and ages.

David Newby, a teacher trainer based in Graz

IT WORKS IN PRACTICE, BUT WILL WORK IN THEORY?

OHP Suitable for all

While undergoing their university training and later at conferences and seminars, teachers are bombarded with theories, both of language and of language learning. In my talk I shall share my experiences as a consumer - and a developer of various theories, in particular with regard to the teaching of grammar.

RULES FOR SCHOOLS

OHP, BB Secondary, Adult

I shall take a critical look at the formulation and application of grammar rules in the EFL classroom. Parts of my talk will be fairly theoretical parts: parts will be practical. Examples will b given from the new Croatian version of my book GRAMMAR FOR COMMUNICATION.

OHP,BB Secondary, Adult

Izabela Raguz, Pedagogical Faculty, Mostar

SHOULD WE TEACH SLANG & INCORRECT LANGUAGE?

When students use slang in their writing, instructors often advise then not to. But slang can be appropriate and useful and probably even necessary. The speaker examines RincorrectS language as a social phenomenon that facilitates group identification. She focuses on American slang, taboo language, euphemism and jargon.

Carmela Gall, Inspectoratul scolar, Brasov Romania

WRITING A SCHOOL MAGAZINE - A POSSIBLE OBJECTIVE OF THE SYLLABUS

The topic of the workshop has started from the idea that our students can learn by doing and we think of how to make then write a school magazine in a organized way, following the topic functions and structures included in the syllabus. Description of the schools, interviews, debates, school regulations - all can be present in the magazine as part of the students project work.

Asia Tokic, the III. Gymnasium, Split

IMPROVING WRITING THROUGH FAIRY TALES

We very often have students whose spoken English is worth admiring, but when they try to write something, it is usually disastrous. The January issue of the magazine FORUM (Vol.33. No. 1) gives us a great idea how to improve writing and at the same time have fun: Fairy tale editing. It is certainly enthused my third year classes over creating new fairy/funny tales.

Nick Owen, Freelance Teacher Trainer

DOES YOUR GROUP WORK?

A class that enjoys working together is a joy to teach: they trust each other, support each other, and are prepared to take risks in learning a language. Does it just happen by accident? or can we use classroom management skills to assist the process? This workshop offers practical ideas to promote a positive group dynamic and a spirit of co-operation that could make your professional life much easier.

Sheelagh Deller, Pilgrims GETTING VOCABULARY INTO THE HEAD AND OUT OF THE MOUTH

Many teachers complain that their students tend to always use the same words. They know other words but they donUt use them. In this workshop we will identify ways of helping students store, remember and activate new words.

TEACHING MIXED ABILITY GROUPS

BB Suitable for all

In this workshop we will explore what we mean by mixed ability, focus on how to make one activity accessible for different levels, and how to devise differentiated tasks.

Otilia Stefania Pacurari, Pedagogical Highschool, Arad Romania

FROM CONTROLLED TO COMMUNICATIVE PAIRWORK

The workshop will demonstrate three stages in the progression from meaningful to communicative practice in closed pairwork: cued question and answer, cue cards with an information gap and role plays. Having experienced these activities, participants will reflect on the learning paradigms involved. groups will produce their own role cards and role play those of others.

Dubravka Blazic, Centar za strane jezike, Zagreb

WHATUS IN A SONG

Cassette recorder, OHP

Music and songs stimulate and motivate; they brighten your day, that is why they are generally appreciated. try out some new activities that cater for for linguistic, visual, logical, interpersonal and kinesthetic intelligences.

Ann Stuart, Freelance Teacher Trainer

HUMOR T CULTURE - ITUS NO JOKING MATTER

Workshop, 90. min. Video, OHP, CR Secondary, Adult

Humor, a fundamental component of culture is unfortunately one of the most difficult to transfer. The workshop will look at ways of presenting is values through the EFL classroom.

Gwen Jones, British Council, Zagreb

FROM WORDPLAY TO POEM

Workshop 60 min. OHP All

In contrast with the classroomUs usual preoccupation with the rules and conventions of the language, wordplay activities provide learners with an opportunity to stretch it, test its limits, break the rules and generate poetry. In this workshop the product is as satisfying as the process.

Sanja Grbic, OUP representative, Croatia

THE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND GOSSIP ABOUT ENGLISH

Plenary, 60 min. BB All

o This talk will dwell briefly on some of the current topics of linguistic research and move in the direction of the popular preoccupations with English usage, tendencies in pronunciation (Estuary English), euphemisms of different types (political correctness) and reactions toward them, to end up with the question which of those points of entertaining gossip may end up as serious problems for English linguistic scholars of the near future.

DISPUTES WITHIN ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS: BRITISH CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE FOREIGN STUDENT OF ENGLISH

Talk, 45 min. All

Visnja Grgicevic & Visnja Makek, Skola za strane jezike, Varsavska 14, Zagreb

WELCOME - A Beginners Course for Teenage & Adult Learners

Presentation, 45 min.

Paul des Forges, Assistant Director of Strudies, International House, Budapest

DICTATION

Workshop, 60 min.

A collection of practical and enjoyable ideas for using dictation in the classroom to involve students, improve their listening, writing and speaking skills, improving their pronunciation and getting students to talk.

Tanyi Iren, Godollo

TEACHING ESP THROUGH VIDEO

Talk, 60 min. Video

The main emphasis is on agriculture but the methodology can be used in any other ESP contents.

Alaviana Acaim, Colegiul Banatean, Romania

DEVELOPING READING & WRITING SKILLS

Paper, 45 min. All

The workshop will aim at presenting strategies for developing reading and writing skills in the new textbooks for upper-secondary school.

Rada Balan, Liceul Emil Racovita, Romania

DEVELOPING READING & WRITING SKILLS

Paper, 45 min. All

The workshop will aim at presenting strategies for developing reading and writing skills in the new textbooks for upper-secondary school.

Simona Horincar, Liceul

Vasilie Lucaiu, Romania TEFL & THE BBC WORLD SERVICE

Workshop, 60 min. Cassette recorder, OHP Secondary

Many EFL teachers and their students in Central and Eastern Europe are unable to visit English speaking counties to experience the culture and the language directly. This workshop will explore how the BBC World Service can be used to get information and listening practice.

Myrl Jones, Fulbright Scholar, Zagreb

Re-reading American Culture

In the past few years of the largest shifts in American education might be called a "re-reading of American culture:. This re-reading is basically a conscious effort to look at the American past and current culural patterns in terms of groups formerly merginalized or only interpreted from the dominant white, European, male point of view. The new reading is reflected in a number of ways and has given rise to new texts - and heated debates. The new texts can be illustrated by reference to A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, the fourth edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. The passion of the Correctness debate that rages on college campuses, as illustrated by the revising of the core curriculum at Stanford University; in the media, as illustrated by the talk show host Rush Limbaugh; in religion, as illustrated by the sermons of Jerry Falwell; and in politics as illustrated by the recent comments by Newt Gingrich, new Speaker of the House of Representatives. This talk will be an attempt to outline some of the features of this re-reading of American culture and its significance.