COD 2006 - G287

English for Teachers I - What ARE notions and functions?

Teachers who have some experience of teaching a subject in English or teachers who have some limited experience of teaching English as a FL.

1 sessions, start: 20-May

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Silvia Rettaroli, Ms. Luciana Fernández
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 20 May 2006 09:00 am 10:30 am

Facilitator/s

Silvia Rettaroli

Teacher and teacher educator. School manager at bilingual schools in the Province of Buenos Aires. Deputy Director at ESSARP (2004 - 2008). Worked in the Research and Educational Development Unit of the MEyC (1998-1999). CLE (Foreign Languages Certifications) coordinator (2008-2011). English Unit coordinator at the CLE (ME- City of Buenos Aires: 2011-2016). Organised and participated in national and international conferences, published papers and textbooks. Areas of interest: professional development (OL and f2f), bilingual education/CLIL, assessment.

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Teachers who have some experience of teaching a subject in English or teachers who have some limited experience of teaching English as a FL.
Workshop participants will be able to: - read about, listen to, reflect on and discuss issues related to discourse aspects, such as topics, situations, notions and functions, - reflect on the learning methods they use, to better understand their own teaching when dealing with the different aspects of discourse, - evaluate the benefit for their own students of different learning activities and approaches to discourse, - feel more confident in their use of English (-ing forms: Gerund and Present participles).
- Language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. - Grammar: Gerunds and Present Participles. - Vocabulary: action words to describe communicative acts. Methodology: Each module is topic-based and self-contained. It includes a number of tasks which provide: - coverage of the four language skills, - opportunities for the study of the language system, - ways of developing teaching-related language, - awareness and evaluation of teaching methodologies.
- Ur, P. (1996) A Course in Language Teaching. Practice and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge.
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