COD 2006 - G328H

Reading Groups on Contemporary Literature

These sessions are aimed at language and literature teachers interested in exploring contemporary texts and perhaps in organising reading groups in their own schools. It is highly advisable that teachers should have read the novels prior to the sessions.

1 sesiones, inicia: 28-Nov

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Ciclo: 2006
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Pospuesto
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Claudia Ferradas PhD
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 28 Noviembre 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Capacitador/es

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).
These sessions are aimed at language and literature teachers interested in exploring contemporary texts and perhaps in organising reading groups in their own schools. It is highly advisable that teachers should have read the novels prior to the sessions.
Intracultures: "Anunciation with Unknown Bird", "Annunciation with a Garland of Self-Heal" and "Annunciation with impending rainstorm: pasó un angel" by John Burnside - "Goat" by Romesh Gunesekera.
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