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Self-Assessment: Training Learners and Teachers on How to Reflect on Their Performance

Self-assessment is the ability to assess your abilities and skills accurately. It is the ability to use metacognitive skills to think about your thinking. Self-assessment results in critical but healthy reflection and evaluation of your abilities and skills which may result in making specific changes in how we learn. This workshop will engage teachers in the use of a variety of tools for self-assessment of their own teaching and train teachers on how to use appropriate tools to engage their learners in appropriate self-assessment.
 

Speaker:

Neil J. Anderson is a teacher educator in the MA-TESOL program in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. He received his MA in TESL from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked in Intensive English programs at Brigham Young University, The University of Texas at Austin, and Ohio University. He worked as the Program Associate form Measurement and Evaluation for the Overseas Refugee Training Program in Southeast Asia. Dr. Anderson was the president of international TESOL over the past year.
 
Realizado em:  13/07/2002
Local: UCBEU - São Paulo/SP
Carga Horária:  1 1/2 horas


Priorities and Perspectives of English Language Teaching

For over twenty-fife years, a communicative approach has been the objective of many ESOL classes throughout the world. The approach has been motivating to students and teachers alike. It has allowed students to take more responsibility for their learning, and it has forced them to do more critical thinking. However, transcripts of conversation classes using a communicative approach, particularly those in the EFL classroom, reveal that often neither fluency nor accuracy is attained. This presenter would like to explore language-based methods that can be incorporated in a communicative classroom that will foster greater accuracy and fluency without sacrificing real communication and motivation.

 

Speaker:

Irene E. Schoenberg has taught ESL for over twenty-five years at the International English Language Institute of Hunter College and the American language Program of Columbia University. She has also trained ESL and EFL teachers at the New School for Social Research. Ms. Schoenberg began writing materials in 1986 with the publication of Talk about Trivia, which has recently been published in a Japanese version. Her second publication, Talk about Values, came out in 1989 and is still a popular conversation text. In 1994, Irene wrote the basic level of the best selling Focus on Grammar series. In 1998, Pearson published the 5-level True Colors series which Irene co-authored with Jay Maurer under the direction of Joan Saslow. An Introduction to Focus on Grammar, which she again co-authored with Jay Maurer, has just been published. All of her writings are available through Pearson Education. Ms. Schoenberg has lectured at national and international conferences, universitites, and language programs throughout the world, including Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Taiwan, and Thailand. She holds a B.A. in French from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in TESOL from Columbia University.
 
Realizado em:  13/07/2002
Local: UCBEU - São Paulo/SP
Carga Horária:  1 1/2 horas

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Influencing with Respect: Issues of Behaviour and Discipline in the EFL Class.

 

Speaker:

Dr. Herbert Puchta holds a Ph.D. in ELT Pedagogy from the University of Graz, Austria, and is currently Professor of English at the Teacher Training University (Padagogische Akademie) in Graz, Austria. He has been a plenary speaker at various international conferences. He has conducted workshops and given seminars in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Sapin, Poland, Portugal, Paraguay, and Uruguay. He has also worked as a speaker for the British Council and has contributed to various British Council Specialist Seminars. Dr. Puchta is a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming. For almost two decades, he has done research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Herbert has co-authored numerous textbooks for the teaching of English as a foreign language, as well as articles and resource books. His latest course books, co-authored with Gunter Gerngross, are Playway to English and Join In, both published by Cambridge University Press.
 
Realizado em:  27/10/2001
Local: UCBEU - São Paulo/SP
Carga Horária:  2 1/2 horas

 

Teaching Vocabulary from Presentation to Production

 
Speaker: Debora Schisler (Director of Seven)
Realizado em:  10/06/1998
Local: SBS - São Paulo/SP
Carga Horária:  4 horas

 

 

 

Grammar, Essential, Important and Fun?

 

Speaker: Beatriz Meneguetti (Director of Cultura Inglesa - Maringá)
Realizado em: 10/06/1998
Local: SBS - São Paulo/SP
Carga Horária:  4 horas