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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)


15:45- 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)


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12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break


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


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

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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


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


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


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.

http://www.bengoldstein.es/

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