Методические семинары и конференции

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EFL EVENTS CALENDAR

If you want to have your events included into the calendar, please contact Elena Lubnina lubninaen@state.gov , fax (495) 728-52-62, tel. (495) 728-50-78, ext 4562

 

Date Event

Organizers/Location Deadline Contact information

March 11-14, 2008

David Fay’ s Visit to Yekaterinburg Yekateringburg Consulate Yulia Grigoriyeva

grigoryevaYY@state.gov

 

March

13-14, 2008 “Business Language” Seminar within the framework of Annual International Conference AAL St.Petersburg,

Philological Faculty, St.Petersburg State University

 

St.Petersburg January 25, 2008 Ludmila Devel

asdrr@mail.ru

 

March

27-28, 2008 4th International Biannual Conference “Applied Linguistics in Research and Education” Saint-Petersburg aplingvherz08@rambler.ru

 

April 2-5,

2008 42nd TESOL Convention

Worlds of TESOL: Building Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Creativity New York, New York, USA http://www.tesol.org/2008convention

 

April 16-30, 2008 EL Specialist Michael Krauss to St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Elista, Rostov, Novocherkassk Point of contact

fomenkonv@state.gov

 

April

18-19,

2008 III International Conference

“Important Issues of Linguistics and Linguistic Didactics of Foreign Languages in Business and Professional Communication.”

Russian University of Friendship Between Peoples (RUDN),

 

Moscow Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia117198, Miklukho-Maklaya st., 6, room 98 (Economic faculty, Foreign languages department) Tel: (7-495) 434-53-56

Fax: (495) 434-43-15; (495) 434-53-56 E-mail: flangs@mail.ru

 

April 19-20 SPELTA Conference “American Studies and ELT Methodology: Diversity and Creativity in the Classroom

Tatiana Ivanova, SPELTA President

tatiana-szelinger@yandex.ru

 

April

24-26,

2008 5th International Conference “Teaching and Learning English for Career Development”

Krasnoyarsk Regional Education Agency

Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical College № 1

Krasnoyarsk Regional In-Service Teacher Training Institute

Siberian Federal University

Siberian State Aerospace University

Krasnoyarsk English Language Teachers’ Association (Kelta)

Ms Elena Chuvasheva

Tel: (3912) 22-35-47

or kraselt@mail.ru

http://www.kraselt.cross-edu.ru

 

April 25-26,

2008 Regional Conference “Topical Issues in Language and Culture Interaction” Amursk State University,

 

Blagoveschensk March 1, 2008 confaphip2008@rambler.ru

 

May 13-17,

2008 8th All-Russia Conference “Language and Mind: Psychological and Linguistic Aspects” Russian Academy of Sciences,

Ulyanovsk State University Puzyrev Alexander

Tel: 8(8422)30-83-65; 8-909-357-7-573; 8-906-1561-906

E-mail:

Puzyrev-A-V53@mail.ru

 

Puzyrev-A-V@yandex.ru

 

 

15-17 May, 2008 All-Russia Scientific Practical Conference “World Cultures and Languages: Young Researchers’

Reflexions

Electro- technical Institute of Tomsk Polytechnic University, TELTA,

 

Tomsk Nikolaj Kachalov mtfl@mail.ru

Lidia Agafonova

lidia103@mail.ru

 

May 15 Innovative Technologies in Language Teaching: from Low-Tech to High-Tech Pacific State University, Khabarovsk February 1 Svetlana.Melchagova@mail.khstu.ru, irina@mail.khstu.ru

http://dfl.khstu.ru

 

May 21-24, 2008 "Language and Culture" Tomsk State University,

TELTA O.Obdalova@mail.ru

 

May 27-30,

2008 VIIth Annual International Conference

“Languages in a Modern World” NAAL Russia

Arzamas State Pedagogical Institute named after A.Gaidar

 

 

Arzamas, Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast Iliya Karan’

www.nopril.ru

modernworldlanguages@pochta.ru

 

607220, Arzamas Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast, 36 K.Marks St.

May 29 – June 1, 2008 International Conference "The Role of Cross-Cultural Communication in Foreign Languages Teaching"

Foreign Languages Center of Buryat State University and BELTA

 

 

Ulan-Ude Larisa Kovalyova

klp@bsu.ru

 

June 4-5, 2008 IT in Foreign Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication Teaching MSU

FL department

 

 

Moscow Alla Nazarenko

(495) 939-51-15,

(495) 734-02-88;

Fax:(495) 932-88-67

anazarenko@ffl.msu.ru

 

June 7-8,

2008 "On-line Language Education Opportunities". Diplomatic Academy

 

 

 

Moscow Ostozhenka, 53/2

Irina Koptelova

Tel: (495) 2470964

csikos@yandex.ru

 

June 21-28, 2008

EL Specialist Diane Larsen-Freeman to Irkutsk and FEELTA

June

26 - 28, 2008

NATE @FEELTA 2008

“Building connections with languages and cultures”

The National Association of Teachers of English and

the Far Eastern English Language Teachers’ Association

The Far Eastern National University

Vladivostok January 31, 2008 feeltacon@dvgu.ru

or website at http://feelta.wl.dvgu.ru/

 

July 12- July 25, 2008 Summer Institute “Create, Design and Think in English as a Foreign Language” Yakut/TESOL,

 

 

 

Yakutsk Larissa Olesova at lolesova@yahoo.com (general information)

Natalya Alexeeva at alnatnick@mail.ru (registration)

August 20-22, 2008

Umbrella Conference (TBD) TBD Elena Lubnina

lubninaen@state.gov

 

September 16-26, 2008

EL Specialist

Stoynoff TBD

September 22-24, 2008 Samara ASMT conference TBD

October 21, 2008 All-Russia Research Conference “Innovations in On-Going Linguistic Education” Federal Agency on Education, Tambov State University named after G.R.Derzhavin, FL Institute

 

Tambov May 15, 2008 Oleg Polyakov

Тel: (4752) 720300 Fax: (4752) 714470, Email: ifl@tsu.tmb.ru

 

November 20-23, 2008 All-Russia Conference

“Student, Textbook,Teacher” MSU

FL department

 

 

Moscow Ludmila Gorodetskaya

(495) 932-99-13

FAX: (495) 932-88-67

[Lesya]

Дорогие коллеги! К сожалению и второй файл не присоединяется из-за большого размера. Поэтому просто скопровала и вставила самые важные данные из информационного письма.

Greetings from David Fay, English Language Officer for the Russian Federation.

Dear English Language Teaching Colleagues,

Happy International Women’s Day!

English language teaching is not a field consisting entirely of women. My estimate is that worldwide well over half of all English language teachers are female. In my travels around Russia the number seems closer to 90%. And while male teachers are doing some extraordinary things in the field, women are very obviously the driving force behind millions of Russians learning English. They are the source of exciting new ideas in the field and the reason these ideas are realized in the classroom.

I fully agree with Fellini’s comment about language, that ”…a different language is a different vision of life.” I would therefore like to thank you, the female English language teachers who work tirelessly to deliver engaging lessons to your hundreds of students, six if not seven days a week, for giving the future generation of this awesome country ‘a different vision of life.’ This is probably the most precious gift one can give in education.

Please accept my sincerest congratulations on this special day.

Warm regards,

David Fay fayDG@state.gov

3. English teacher humor:

Caralyn Bushey, caralynbushey@hotmail.com, former EFL fellow in Moscow, now the President of Washington Area Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (WATESOL), though you would love this piece.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/idiom...aves_nation_all

4. Oh Great English Teachers!!!

Robin Solomon, an American diplomat, has contributed this article from the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion...&ei=5087%0A

 

 

7. The rise of English as language of instruction

Compiled by Bram Caplan, Regional EducationUSA Advising Coordinator for Russia and Eurasia.

New ACA publication: Wдchter, Bernd & Maiworm, Friedhelm, English-Taught Programmes in European Higher Education. The Picture in 2007. ACA Papers on

International Cooperation in Education. Bonn: Lemmens, 2008. ISBN

978-3-932306-89-1.

 

 

Elena N.Lubnina

ELO Specialist

PA. American Embassy in Moscow

Tel 495) 728-50-78, ext 4562

e-mail: lubninaen@state.gov

http://www.usembassy.ru/english

[Yaroslav]

21-22 марта в Рязани будет проходит методическая научно-практическая конференция, может быть, данная информация заинтересует Вас.

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[Yaroslav]

21-22 марта в Рязани будет проходит методическая научно-практическая конференция, может быть, данная информация заинтересует Вас.

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<<Umbrella Newsletter # 33.doc>>

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Added stress that the end of school year usually brings is nearly over.

Summer time!!!

When I was looking for ideas for our Summer Camps, I bumped into the site http://www.legacyproject.org/guides/beginend.html and was fascinated by the idea:

 

“Start and end the school year with a DREAM”.

 

Many of our dreams have come true this academic year – teachers are getting united and this years’ NATE/FEELTA Conference in Vladivostok (June 26-28) will be a true proof of that; many teachers of Russia were lucky to attend presentations of our Fellows and English Language Specialists (Johanna Kowitz, Michael Krauss, J.D. Brown, btw, famous Diane Larsen-Freeman is coming to Russia in the end of June); 25 Moscow EFL teachers were the first to complete a special professional development half-a-year course conducted by ELO David Fay; about 250 kids in 6 cities have participated in ACCESS Microscholarship Programs and are now happily studying English in Summer English Language Camps, etc.

 

What else to dream about? This is a question to you and to those opinion leaders, representatives of Associations who would take part in Umbrella Conference “Building Networks for Change” in Ryazan on September 16-19. We are looking forward to your ideas!

 

Our English Language Office was set up in autumn of 1993 and we are going to start celebrating its 15th Anniversary in Ryazan and continue to do it throughout the year - we invite you to share your success stories with lots of video clips, PPP, slide shows and ideas for celebration.

 

Yours,

Elena

P.S. We will highlight NATE/FEELTA Conference in the next Umbrella Newsletter. There will be an Umbrella Round Table there and we would like to invite all participants who get Umbrella Newsletters to take part in it and brain-storm with us new projects that will help Umbrella Virtual Association grow.

 

1. August is the Best Time for Michael Krauss’ Course!

Michael Krauss from Lewis & Clark College (http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss)

is announcing his next course “Integrating the Internet into the Classroom” on August 4-22. (the form is available at the bottom)

 

If you are too busy enjoying the sun in August you have another option in the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009 - ELO will be recruiting participants for 5 an e-teacher courses that train English language professionals in the latest U.S. methods of English language teaching via distance education Assessment for EFL Teaching Critical Thinking . English for Business English for Law Teaching English to Young Learners

 

Please submit your application forms and questions to Natalia Fomenko at fomenkonv@state.gov

 

2. Story-telling in Summer EL Camps

American Specialist Myrtis Mixon will visit five English Access Microscholarship camps in Russia and work with teachers and students there running a “Teaching tolerance through student-generated stories” module on June 25-July 14, 2008. If you are interested in learning from Myrtis, please ask for details:

 

Kazan June 26-28 (POC Gouzel Nizhmetdinova demidov@hitv.ru) Elista June 29-July 3 (POC Bosya Kornusova bossia@elista.ru) , Novocherkassk July 4-5 (Larisa Filimonenko fil_lar@mail.ru) , Ufa July 8-11 (Vyacheslav Shvaiko vd51@yandex.ru) and Samara July 13-14 (Yuliya Markushina ioofs@mail.ru) The goal of the program is to improve students’ English language proficiency, enhance the understanding of the U.S., and discuss the concept of tolerance for other cultures. The Specialist will also work on the collection of students’ stories compiled as a result of this program.

 

3. Exploring your Colleagues’ pbwikis is the Best Pastime in Summer

Your colleagues have created a number of pbwikis. Enjoy exploring them, think how you can create your own or use these during the next academic year.

 

http://shapingthewayinmoscow.pbwiki.com/ was created by the participants of David Fays’ “Shaping the Way We Teach” course and it contains all course related readings as well as activities developed by the course participants. You can also use this as a model for your own course.

 

http://uselections.pbwiki.com/ was created by a group of EFL teachers who are interested in elections terminology

 

4. Call for Information for the Next Year EFL Events Calendar

Some of you have already sent information about forthcoming major conferences, among them LATEUM Conference on October 1-3, 2008 at MSU, All-Russia Research Conference “Innovations in On-Going Linguistic Education” on October 21, 2008 at Tambov State University and All-Russia Conference “Student, Textbook, Teacher” on

 

November 19-20, 2008 at MSU. We will be happy to add information about your events to the EFL Events Calendar and circulate it throughout the country.

 

5. The Atlantic article "Is Google Making Us Stupid"

Our computer guru Stefan Mizha finds this article very interesting and thought provoking. If the cons of the Internet prevail after you have read this article, points 6-10 of this Newsletter are not for you. J

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

 

6. British Council Call for Papers: “Bringing Technology into the EL classroom”

English Language Teaching Professionals interested in participating in Hornby Summer School are asked to complete an application form and return to it to Olga Barnashova olga.barnashova@britishcouncil.ru in the British Council Russia by 27th of June, 2008.

 

To download the application form and for further information on this Hornby schools go to:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/russia-engli...mmer-school.htm

 

7. Dynamic English

This edition of eJournal USA, "Dynamic English," discusses forces that shape and change everyday English. From cultural and international influences, such as words that come directly, or in a changed form from another language, to popular media, including movies, music and sports, to changes arising from technological developments, the authors present examples of ways English changes daily. Other articles describe the process of language change, and tips for deciphering slang.

http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0807/ijse/ijse0807.pdf

 

8. Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/

What if you wanted to locate Robert Burton's masterful 17th century opus, The Anatomy of Melancholy? But wait: You can't remember his name or the name of the book. That's where you should know to click on over to this delightful and helpful reference guide created by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress. The intent of this guide is to "help readers identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase". The guide is divided into three separate sections: "Finding Novels", "Finding Short Stories", and "Finding Poems". Each section offers a host of resources that include general search engines, online book databases, library catalogs, listservs, message boards, and physical print resources available in many public libraries. This guide is rounded out by a selection of related resources, including a primer on how to find poems in the Library of Congress. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2008.

 

9. Smithsonian: Science and Technology

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Science_...ogy/default.htm

Browsing through the Encyclopedia Smithsonian can be a bit like spending

time with a friend: You'll rediscover some familiar stories, and you'll

probably learn something new at the same time. This particular part of the

Encyclopedia Smithsonian covers science and technology and visitors can

learn about Arctic wildlife, major "firsts" in aviation history, and bird

biology. The materials are drawn from different parts of the Institution,

including the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation and

the National Air & Space Museum. Visitors can also scan the left-hand side

of the page for alphabetically organized resources from aeronautics to

zoology. Overall, the site is a great way to access a few of the

tremendous resources offered by the Institution, and it may just inspire a

deeper search through some of their additional online offerings.

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2008.

http://scout.wisc.edu/

 

10. One Song a Day

Sometimes the best way to motivate teenagers to learn English is to listen to their favorite songs and help them translate them. If you want to try it, here is a site for you.

http://perevod.pesenki.ru/

 

Application for Integrating the Internet into the Classroom

 

Instructor: Michael Krauss, College of Lewis and Clark, Portland, Oregon

Dates: August 4-22, 2008

 

Return to Natalia Fomenko at fomenkonv@state.gov by Monday, July 15, 2008

 

Your Name:

Your School/Organization:

Mailing address (home or school):

Email address(es):

Your job title:

1. Do you have a computer with a good Internet connection at home? If not, where will you do the coursework?

2. Please describe your experience in using computers and the Internet. Include the number of years you have been using them, the applications you regularly use, and how you use the Internet. Also mention your degree of expertise in keyboarding and surfing.

 

3. Have you taken online courses before? If so, which ones and when?

4. Please describe how this course will benefit you, your students, and/or members of your ELT community:

5. What is your topic of interest for project work during this course? Priority will be given to those who intend to focus their course participation around topics related to American Studies in the EFL classroom or to topics that promote U.S.-Russian intercultural communication, cultural studies, or civic education.

 

6. All selected participants are required to do presentations after they have completed the course in order to share what they have learned with colleagues and/or students. Please describe which activity you will perform, with what type of audience(s), and where/when, following your completion of this course.

 

7. Please provide us with any other reasons that explain why you feel this course is right for you and/or why you feel you are qualified for sponsorship.

 

Candidates for "E-Teacher" course should be teacher trainers or teachers who are working, or plan to work, with one of the five subjects covered by the courses. They should be highly motivated individuals who are dedicated both to their own professional development and to sharing the knowledge gained with colleagues through workshops or professional presentations. In addition, candidates should meet the following criteria:

 

English language skills:

- an advanced level of reading and writing, roughly equivalent to a minimum TOEFL score of 525;

--general understanding of technical terms in English relating to computers and the Internet;

--good command of the necessary vocabulary for each of the five topics.

Computer fundamentals:

--regular access to e-mail and the Internet;

--ability to navigate in Windows and create a Word document;

--basic familiarity with the Internet and web browsers;

--ability to type in English well enough to perform on-line tasks in real-time and to submit written assignments in a timely manner.

 

If you meet the above-mentioned criteria and would like to apply for the course, please submit the following information by July 1:

 

First name

Last name

Institution name

City

Mailing address

E-mail address

Contact phone number

Course choice (first choice, second choice, third choice)

 

Why are you interested in taking this course? How it will help you and your ELT community?

 

Are you willing to share the knowledge and skills acquired as a result of the course? How are you going to do this?

[Suliko]

<<Umbrella Newsletter # 33.doc>>

 

Are you willing to share the knowledge and skills acquired as a result of the course? How are you going to do this?

Спасибо за информацию, как раз то, что я и искала!

[Anglo]

Что планируется на 2009 год?

[Lyudmila]

Межотраслевой институт повышения квалификации и профессиональной переподготовки кадров (ННОУ «МИПК») совместно с лабораторией дистанционного обучения Института содержания и методов обучения Российской академии образования (ДО ИСМО РАО) c 9 по13 февраля 2009 г. проводят повышение квалификации преподавателей иностранных языков (ИЯ) по программе:Применение информационных и коммуникационных технологий в обучении иностранным языкам. Подробная информация во вложенном файле.

ИП_ИКТ_в_обучении_иностранным_языкам__9_13_февр_09_с.doc