COD 2006 - G335

English for Teachers IV - Literature Strand - Global Voices in English

Teachers who have attended English for Teachers I, II & III or teachers of English who have some experience of teaching English as a FL.

3 sessions, start: 19-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD, Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 60.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 19 August 2006 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 23 September 2006 09:00 am 12:00 pm
3 21 October 2006 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
Teachers who have attended English for Teachers I, II & III or teachers of English who have some experience of teaching English as a FL.
Workshop participants will be able to: - Sharpen language awareness by building strategies to analyse representational texts. - Develop intercultural awareness by comparing the worlds of meaning in literary texts written in English-speaking countries to their own.
This is a series of workshops aimed at discussing literary texts written in English by writers from Latin America, the Caribbean, Ireland and Wales. More workshops on other texts will be offered in the second part of the year. - Session 1: August, 13th from 9: 00 to 10:30. Coordinated by Florencia Perduca: Women writing Resistance in Latin America: "The Myth of the Latin Woman" By Judith Ortiz Cofer: Issues on the politics of language and identity with a special focus on gender and cross-cultural issues. - Session 2: August, 13th , from 10: 30 to 12:00. Coordinated by Florencia Perduca: Women writing Resistance in the Caribbean: "Las aeious" by Ruth Irupé Sanabria: Issues on the politics of language and identity with particular stress on linguistic penetration and hybridity. - Session 3: Saturday, September 17th , from 9: 00 to 10:30. Coordinated by Florencia Perduca. The Troubles in Bernard MacLaverty's "Father and Son". - Session 4: Saturday, September 17th , from 10: 30 to 12:00. Coordinated by Florencia Perduca. Class in Bernard MacLaverty's "More than Just the Disease". - Session 5: Saturday, October 22nd , from 9:00 to 10:30. Coordinated by Claudia Ferradas Moi . A selection of Welsh texts. - Session 6: Saturday, October 22nd, from 10:30 to 12:00. Coordinated by Claudia Ferradas Moi . A selection of Welsh texts. Methodology: Each module is topic-based and self-contained. It includes a number of tasks which provide: - Opportunities for the study of the language system and global voices in English. - Strategies for working with these texts. - Ways of developing text-based responses. - Awareness of teaching methodologies using literary texts.
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