COD 2008 - G440

Reading Groups on Contemporary Literature: Video Conference with Romesh Gunesekera

Literature-lovers.

1 sessions, start: 18-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: A1128 - NEWTECH Solutions
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 40.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 18 March 2008 09:45 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).
Literature-lovers.
Join us in the opening of this year's reading group attending a video conference with Romesh Gunesekera. The Sri-Lankan author, based in London, will be answering the participants' questions and commenting on his work. Programme: 9.45 – 10.45: Reading group session coordinated by Claudia Ferradas Stories: "Carapace" (available at ) http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/britlit/carapace/carapace.shtml and "Goat" from New Writing 13 available at the ESSARP library. 10.45 – 11.00: coffee break 11.00 – 11.40: video conference 11.40 – 12.00: discussion of the experience For information on the author, consult http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth44
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