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Fostering the 4Cs Abstracts

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10:00 - 10:45 Sessions

Digital Tools to foster Interaction and Collaboration In and Outside the Four Walls

Maria da Luz Delfino, Selma Bimbato & Sônia Arantes

 

 

How can digital tools and students’ creativity enhance interaction and collaboration in and outside the classroom?

This workshop aims at sharing some useful, motivating and innovative ideas and activities that have worked successfully with young learners in and outside the classroom walls.

Achieving Excellence in EFL Classroom Language Practice Through Magazines

Vinícius Lemos 

 

This workshop shows how teachers can use magazines to enhance language learning. By way of creative activities and projects suitable for different levels and ages, teachers integrate the four skills, promote interaction, and engage learners in meaningful language tasks.  

From Bedtime Stories to Effective Reading

Dani Lyra & Lilian Marchesoni 

Introduction to Shared Reading - a collaborative learning activity that builds upon bedtime stories experience. Widely used in ESL, it is highly effective when adapted to EFL environment. Shared Reading traditionally uses paper-based materials, but we’ll explore web resources that enable teachers to create suitable materials for any given syllabus. 

How to be Creative in Class

Jorge Teixeira

Creativity is not to be confused with talent, skill, or intelligence. Creativity is not doing something better than others, it is about thinking,exploring,discovering and imagining. Join me in this workshop to explore new possibilities to optimize students' participation and learning in class! 

Supporting Speaking Skills: Controlled Practice Revisited!

Graeme Hodgson

 

One of the biggest challenges teachers face the world over is supporting students' speaking skills (accuracy and fluency). This practical workshop will demystify some of the techniques teachers can use to scaffold learning in such a way that students have the confidence to speak up inside and outside the classroom!

11:15 - 12:00  Sessions

ESL Writers 2.0: A Writer's Workshop to Improve ELLs' Writing

Wallace Barboza 

 

This talk aims at providing its attendees with an overview of my master's thesis on using a technological writer's workshop to improve ELLs' writing skills that combined the use of an interactive whiteboard, SMART Board, a word processor, Microsoft Word, and a Web 2.0 tool, VoiceThread.  

 

New Teachers for New Learners

Marina Couri

The world is changing fast and so are our students. We need to understand who this new generation is so that we can make our classes more meaningful and keep up their interest in the class.Through a dynamic discussion, this presentation aims at exploring the new generation and the various ways we can go so as to learn from our own experience and make the necessary changes to make our students fulfill their potential and keep their motivation high.

It is a Small World. Is It?

A Look at Critical Thinking in the Classroom

Claisa Cordeiro

Students often  get used to  memorizing rules and  repeating what they read in textbooks without questioning or contrasting ideas  from their own reality and the  world around them.  This workshop looks into activities that help students develop skills and question the  topics proposed in the lessons given in the classroom.

Memory and Language Learning Revisted

Sara Walker

A fluent student has mastered several thousand word in a foreign language and can recall them easily and automatically when needed.
How does this process develop?  Participants will be asked to share insights into the role of memory in language learning and how students can be encouraged to develop their capacity to learn new words.

Bringing Technology Into the Classroom

Juliana Mafra

 

Technology can help you maximize your teaching by bringing to class tools that will arouse your students interest in learning English. This presentation will show you different types of technology available not only for teachers but for students too.

15:00 - 15:45 Sessions

From “text as a pretext” to Developing Effective Reading Skills

Isabela Villas Boas

This interactive workshop will empower participants to adapt materials and teach reading classes that will: a) include appropriate pre, while, and post-listening activities, b)  draw readers’ awareness of the features of text genres; c) involve both bottom-up and top-down processing skills; d)  and focus on the development of reading strategies.

Sherlock Holmes and the Deductive/Inductive Approaches

Fábio Ferreira & Makoto Yamamoto

 

Using Sherlock Holmes as a model, this workshop aims at applying both inductive and deductive approaches in English classes. Also, new teachers will be able to understand when - and how - each approach can be used to help their students' learning process.

Inglês Instrumental - 

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down

Cristiane Resende,  

Tauana Brandão & Viviane Alencar 

 

 

Our work aims to show teachers how games and communicative activities may turn a class of “Inglês Instrumental” into a pleasant and significant class for students by showing our colleagues some activities used in a course offered by EAPE ( Escola de aperfeiçoamento dos profissionais da educação) at CILC (Centro interescolar de línguas de Ceilândia).  

Music in the EFL Classroom

Cleide Frazão & Fernanda Barboza

 

A lot has been said about what is the best way to have songs in the ESL classroom. While there's nothing new under the sun, this workshop aims at helping teachers who do not know exactly how to include songs in their classes to spice them up. We are going to present various activities which might help young adults not only have fun, but also have meaningful learning.

Connected and Interactive One-to-One Private Lessons: A Personalized Approach

Justine Arena

 

Knowing students’ backgrounds and needs enable teachers to connect with students more effectively fostering learning and being a resource that goes beyond the classroom. In this presentation, participants will have an overview on ways to personally connect with students as well as how to use technology to foster learning.

15:45 - 16:15 Sessions

Enhancing Parental Communication through WIKIS

Erika Oya & Carolina Piacenti

 

Keeping up with students' school life is a hard task for parents and teachers. By using WIKIS, they can easily communicate with one another and contribute to a successful learning experience. This sessions displays the steps for implementing your own class wiki as an effective teacher-parent feedback tool.

How many careers do teachers have?

Marcelo Elias

Teachers may have several different careers, right? Yes! The aim of this workshop is to debate with participants the many different possible careers teachers can pursue. To do so, professional must be familiar with generation Y characteristics, Y-shaped careers, T-shaped professionals, strategy vs. tactics, entrepreneurship, mission & vision concepts.

Shall we Tweet?

Margarete Oliveira & Patrícia Faustino

 

Have you ever Tweeted? Join us to get to know this powerful tool. We aim to introduce Twitter and its innumerable uses in the classroom.

 

Teaching Grammar. The New v The Old

Shaun Dowling

This workshop will look at the different ways of teaching grammar and it will bring some of the new ideas seen in the recent IATEFL event in the UK. The participants will compare the difficulty of different ways of presenting grammar to students from the perspective of the teacher and the student. Some of these approaches will be more challenging than others and we will look at the pedagogical reasoning as to why teachers would choose these ways of grammar teaching.

Practicing Pronunciation and Listening Online

Claudio Fleury

There is a close relationship between listening and speaking that influence understanding and communicating in English. This session brings online and offline resources and activities that will help students improve their English skills as well as raise awareness of characteristic pronunciation features of Portuguese that affect oral production in English.

 

 

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