COD 2006 - S233

Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourne (Set text IGCSE Literature 2006)

High School teachers (especially those training students for IGCSE literature). Previous reading of the play is presupposed.

1 sessions, start: 05-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 15.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 05 June 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 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).
High School teachers (especially those training students for IGCSE literature). Previous reading of the play is presupposed.
To get teachers to: - Evaluate the obstacles that make it difficult to approach this dramatic text with adolescents whose native tongue is not English, as well as the points that make it a good choice. - Discuss approaches and develop techniques to approach the play in the high school classroom. - Explore tasks which can help students who are being trained for the IGCSE examination. - Relate the play intertextually to other discourse genres and media.
- Ayckbourne and the modern London theatre scene - Humour and irony. - Thematic lines. - Discussion points and textual intervention techniques for the high school classroom. Methodology: Workshop: participants will discuss different entry points that may motivate students to read on, analyse different literary aspects of the play and design IGCSE-type tasks in groups.
An interview with Sir Alan Ayckbourne http://www.on-cue.org.uk/acting9.html
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