Acknowledgements

ANAYA
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY BANGKOK
AULA DIDÁCTICA
BAYARD REVISTAS
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
BURLINGTON BOOKS
CENTRO DE LENGUAS MODERNAS, GRANADA
CETA ASOCIACIÓN DE PROFESORES DE INGLÉS, CÓRDOBA
COLLINS DICTIONARIES/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADOR
DELTA PUBLISHING
DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGÍA INGLESA, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
EDICIONES SM
EDICIONES VIVENS VIVES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CONTACTS SCHEME (ELTeCS)
ENGLISH TEACHING PROFESSIONAL
ELT JOURNAL
ETS INGENIERÍA DE CAMINOS, CANALES Y PUERTOS
EXPRESS PUBLISHING/EDITORIAL STANLEY
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
LAROUSSE EDITORIAL/HARRAPS DICTIONARIES
LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORE'S UNIVERSITY
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (IATELF)
INSITITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES (IML), GRANADA
IT'S MAGAZINES
LA CAIXA
LEXIS LANGUAGE CENTRE, GRANADA
MACMILLAN HEINEMANN ELT
OFICINA DE TURISMO, GRANADA/TURISMO ANDALUZ
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
PEARSON EDUCATION
RICHMOND PUBLISHING
STUDYPLAN
TESOL SPAIN
THE BRITISH COUNCIL
THOMSON LEARNING
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS SYNDICATE (UCLES)

Con la colaboración de la
CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN Y CIENCIA DE LA JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA

Con la colaboración de la Consejería de Educación y Ciencia de la Junta de Andalucía

Friday 12 September

9:30 -10:30 registration
10:30 - 11:00 opening session

11:00-12:00 opening plenary

BARBARA SEIDLHOFER
Towards a pedagogy of English as a Lingua Franca

General
Aula 107
At the two previous GRETA conferences we have started to consider the role of English as an International Language, as a Lingua Franca for communication across the globe. Teachers are becoming increasingly aware that teaching English as a Lingua Franca requires quite a different approach than teaching English as a Foreign Language. A new pedagogy is already emerging in the classroom. The issues involved will be discussed at this year's opening plenary.

12.00 -12:45 break/book exhibition

12:45 -14:15 workshops

PAUL SELIGSON
Warmers: Aren't the Spanish Warm Enough Already?
General
Aula 102
This highly practical workshop looks at the role of warmers and fillers. Wonderful things of course, but some of us seem obsessed with collecting infinite ways to warm or fill, when there's already so much else to do. We rarely get through books/syllabuses anyway, so why bother? After analysing the pros and cons, I'll list some alternative strategies. And for the collectors, of course, there will be plenty of warmers and fillers to add to your repertoire.

MARK ORMEROD
A Dozen Traditional Activities - GREATLY IMPROVED!
Primary 103
Aula
Mime activities, finger-tip pictures, TPR, flashcard games, bingo, pelmanism, Kim's Game, lip reading, categories, etc. etc. As primary teachers, these are activities that we've been doing in the classroom for years. Some of them are our pupils' favourites. But can we make them more effective as learning devices? The truth is that many of these games only give practice of isolated items of vocabulary. In this session we look at how to raise the linguistic content of these activities from word-level to sentence-level using sentences that have been contextualised by stories, songs, rhymes or the simple texts that are to be found in any primary coursebook.

ANNE McCABE
Writing Activities for Effective Discourse
Adults/Bachillerato
Aula 105
These writing activities allow teachers and learners to broaden the scope of writing from a focus on linguistic accuracy to effective written discourse. We will look at various activities centered on information structure (given-new), coherence and cohesion, rhetorical effectiveness through greater specificity of detail, and text design. The tasks are designed to challenge learners' writing skills repertoire, and also to entertain.

VANESSA REILLY
Happily Ever After
Primary
Aula 106
"Young learners acquire language unconsciously. The activities you do in class should help this kind of acquisition. Stories are the most valuable resource you have. They offer a world of supported meaning that they can relate to. Later on you can use stories to help children practise listening, speaking, reading and writing."Mary Slattery & Jane Willis, (2001), English for Primary Teachers, OUP If we are going to exploit the use of this useful resource in primary, it is important to introduce children to stories as early as possible. In this session we will look at using stories with children in 'Infantil' and first cycle. We will concentrate on choosing an appropriate story for very young learners, how to introduce it for the first time and techniques for re-telling it. We will then consider activities which consolidate the language from the story. These are activities that tap into the children's need for fantasy and fun. Be prepared to participate!

12:45 - 13.45 talks

TERRY MORRIS
Semiotic Culture Shock - a pragmatic ESOL classroom therapy
Adults
Aula 109
"I find it strange (illogical, plain daft, unacceptable, charming, quaint...) the way young people do things here." (subtext of Socrates mobility exchange students)...
...but help is at hand from 'interpragmacultural' approaches - No, it's not a German treatment, honest! Engage with style, with humour, with debate, with foreign peers in the classroom - you'll soon begín to crack it!

PETER K. SCHWARZ
A Practical Guide to Electronic Literacy for English Language Learners
General
Aula 110
This presentation will demonstrate an introduction to both electronic language and the use of computers by English language learners at all levels. This channel of communications helps develop the learners' communication skills and their critical thinking. Included are a comparison of student friendly search engines, citation of online research models, and web evaluations designed for various language skills. (Practical handouts will be provided.)

FERNANDO RUBIO ALCALÁ
Multimedia in the Language Classroom: "Action Manager"
General
Aula 111
I will show a multimedia program created at the University of Huelva and the theoretical bases for its design, which include the latest studies of the brain, memory, and learning styles. Besides, the audience will experience what I consider to be a new concept for new technologies: the use of the laptop computer in the classroom and the interaction between the students and the program..

KATHRYN MUNT
Ever thought of being a writer?
General
Aula 112
This workshop will take participants throught the different editorial stages to help give a clearer idea of what goes on behind the scenes in the development of ELT coursbook materials.

13:45/14:15 - 16:00 Lunch break

16:00 - 17:00 workshops

JOAQUÍN A. GERARDO MATEU
Translation and interpretation are back in the classroom 'business'.
General
Aula 102
Translation and interpretation are now recognised as being useful techniques in ELT. Moreover, they are necessary skills in the workplace. In this dynamic and lively talk, we will look at some practical activities simulating real tasks in a professional environment. General English teachers will also find this presentation useful.

MERVYN SMALE
Games Children Play
General
Aula 103
In the world of the computer the school playground still echoes with songs, rhymes, and sayings English children have used for generations. Come and share them and learn some you don't know.

TERESA MORELL
Why Should We Enhance Student Participation?
General
Aula 105
In this talk we will have a look at how classroom interaction contributes to language acquisition. We will begin with a brief review of prominent theories to remind ourselves of why we attempt to enhance classroom participation. Participants will then be asked to analyze some classroom discourse to become more aware of the characteristics of interaction.

MARÍA MARTÍNEZ LIROLA
How to deal with the writing process and the role of the teacher to emphasize it
General
Aula 106
The writing process has normally been considered the most ignored of the language skills, but nowadays that is no longer considered since by writing we understand not only doing grammar exercises, but the creation of other types of exercises, such as, writing a letter, writing about personal interests, describing somebody or something, etc. Our purpose as teachers is that students see writing as a way of communication. In this presentation we are going to propose some activities for students to improve their writing skills, we will consider the main difficulties and some ways of correcting based on the author's experience of teaching at the High School in USA.

ANA Mª QUIJANO LOMBARDO
A break from the textbook
Secondary
Aula 109
This talk will show a few activities which can be used in the classroom to break the monotony of teaching with a textbook. Have you ever felt the pressure or the boredom of the textbook? Objectives can also be achieved through a film and drama. Give your students and yourself a break and some fun and you will go back to the book with a different view.

GRUPO DE TRABAJO GRETA PRIMARIA
Inglés en el primer ciclo de Primaria y como lo enlazamos con el 2° ciclo.
Primary
Aula 110
En nuestro segundo año de funcionamiento seguimos reuniéndonos quincenalmente en GRETA, trabajamos el método de J.Ma. Artigal con su asesoramiento directo. Hemos participado en el 1° intercambio de maestros de primaria con Irlanda y y le hemos sacado provecho. Os lo contamos ...

FCO. JAVIER AVILA LÓPEZ/ FERNANDO D. RUBIO ALCALÁ
Visualising Down Anxiety
General
Aula 111
Recent neuropsychological information underlines the importance of affective components of learning such as motivation, anxiety, self-esteem, ego-boundaries etc. Neurobiological research stresses the importance of mental imagery in every act of knowledge and the relationship between mental images and affective processes. Mental imagery activities can help FL students to control their anxiety and facilitate their learning.

MERCEDES GARCÍA GUERRERO
Graded Readers and Graded Viewers: Today's Special!
Secondary
Aula 112
Every year you think about those small books which come to you as an extra-hyper-miraculous-and-wonderful activity you can exploit in your ELT classroom. The kind of thing you can use… for those who cry, for those who smile, for those who can't, for those who doesn't want, for those who go fast, for those who don't… to realise in the end that just 5% of your expectations become true. Why don't you add a pinch of cinema to the recipe??? The result will amaze you !!!

17:00 - 17:15 break

17:15 - 18:45 workshops

MICHAEL HARRY
Project Work: making a class play/film
General
Aula 102
The talk/workshop outlines a series of clearly staged language activities which can lead towards you and your class producing a class play/film. All the activities can be practised independently to the project, are student centred, will connect with your syllabus, and can be integrated with other school subjects.

JEREMY BUTTERFIELD
Small Is Beautiful and Less Is More: Focusing on the Most Frequent Words in the Language
General
Aula 103
A relatively small number of words constitute a huge proportion of the content of utterances, and mastery of these as part of active vocabulary promotes effective communication. In this workshop, which includes a live linkup to the Bank of English, we will look at practical, challenging exercises to enhance the absorption and production of the meaning and grammar of these words.

Mª JESÚS PÁRAMO GUTIÉRREZ
Beating the clock in the new Bachillerato
Bachillerato
Aula 105
Maybe teachers feel they have a shortage of time in their Bachillerato classes. Lots of teachers feel it is impractical to teach Bachillerato students to listen and speak as well as read and write. In this hands-on workshop we will look at how to integrate the four skills into realistic teaching time and prepare for this new bachillerato.

CLAIRE MEDWELL
Act it out
Primary
Aula 106
Drama is a great way to practise language through meaningful contexts which bring English to life. In this session we look at ways of making drama an easy option in your classroom through tried and tested techniques.

ANNIE MACDONALD
Teachers Do It with Portfolios
General
Aula 109
In 2004, language learners in Spain will start using the Spanish version of the Council of Europe Language Portfolio (ELP). In this session we will look at different portfolios for learners of all ages, briefly consider the underlying rationale, and share practical ideas on how to exploit the ELP with our learners.

EDUARDO DE GREGORIO GODEO
The Challenge of "Blended Learning" for TEFL Professionals.
General
Aula 110
This contribution will deal with the incorporation of e-learning within traditional face-to-face TEFL contexts. A methodological proposal will be presented providing TEFL professionals with various techniques integrating the use of the new technologies (particularly electronic learning) within traditional teaching settings. The applicability of this experience will be thus focused on various teaching contexts, such as university, secondary schools and EOIs.

GEORGE KOKOLAS
Welcoming Your Young Learners to a World of Real Language Teaching
Primary
Aula 111
This talk focuses on the needs of young learners whilst demonstrating techniques on how to cater for individual learning styles at primary level. Material at this level should encourage young learners to become efficient and autonomous members of the language classroom

SIMON ANDREWES
Spanglish
General/Secondary
Aula 112
It can be observed that the use of Spanglish -the constructive intervention of the mother tongue - occurs frequently in the foreign language learning process. Here we take a look at a variety of activities involving Spanglish, including translating and interpreting activities, comparing and contrasting L1 and L2, code switching and calquing (literal translation).

18:45 - 19:15 break

19:15 - 20:15 semi-plenary sessions

FRANCIS EAVES-WALTON
Needs and Norms: Should Teachers Be Subversives?
General
Aula 203
Teachers' have a responsibility to qualify linguistic prescriptions of tradition, coursebooks and exam boards where these exalt arbitrary native-speaker preference over a needs-related approach towards the language as used for international purposes.

MARK LEVY
Different Backgrounds - New Possibilities?
General
Aula 205
Spain is rapidly becoming a multi-cultural society and in our school classrooms there is an ever-growing number of children from different backgrounds. Incorporating these children successfully is obviously an issue for the whole system, but also for English teachers. In this talk I'd like to reflect on some of the learning points from a recent study visit to the UK with the Communidad of Madrid which looked at positive experiences of integrating children from immigrant backgrounds into the state education system. Hopefully, this will be the start of a widespread debate on how we can make our own contribution to the success of integration in our own schools. I'll also propose that our English classes might actually benefit from the challenge of incorporating these children!

VÍCTOR PAVÓN
Evaluating Pronunciation Activities in Textbooks: What the Teacher Needs to Know
General
Aula 206
The intention of this talk is to analyse the attention to pronunciation teaching normally shown in textbooks. Publishing companies spend a lot of effort (and money) in developing excellent tektbooks full of brilliant activities, textbooks nobody could dream of 20 years ago. However, pronunciation still seems to be well behind the teaching of the other skills and capacities, with (very frequently, I'm afraid) activities and techniques based on a rather traditional perception of what teaching the sounds of English should be. Lack of clear objectives, priorities, analysis of students' necessities, and an adequate progression along the different activities is, unfortunately, a normal tendency. But even with the poorest and most mechanical activity something can be done to improve this situation,... we'll talk about it.

KEITH MORROW
Tasks: Are they Exercises in Disguise?
General
Aula 112
This session is based on the ELTJ debate held at the IATEFL conference in April this year. Two contrasting views of the nature and role of "tasks" will be put forward - and we will explore the implications for the classroom of these different views. Finally we will decide. Which is right, and which is wrong?

20:15 - 20:30 break

20:30 - 21:45

Culture Quiz

Cafetería
The boys from BURLINGTON BOOKS bring us a new improved version of the popular "Pub Quiz" that will keep us on the edge of our seats as our intercultural competence is put seriously to the test. Demonstrate your nivel cultural, or simply come and quench your thirst for knowledge. Tapas and ale by courtesy of Burlington Books and GRETA.

Saturday 13 september

9:00 - 10:30 workshops

JESÚS PASCUAL GÓMEZ
Mother Tongue Interference: Making False Friends Our True Friends
General
Aula 102
Avoiding students' natural and instinctive mother tongue interference is one of every English teacher's daily struggles. Direct translations from mother language as well as false friends could lead to communication problems and even embarrassing situations in real-life English. Correcting ongoing errors in class is important but clearly not enough. Thus, several awareness-raising strategies, techniques and fun activities will be presented to tackle this unconscious mental process in second language acquisition.

CARMEN MARCÉN SARTO
Learning English Through Solidarity
Adults/Bachillerato/Vocational Training
Aula 103
"What's behind your morning cup of coffee?" Growing social awareness within the classroom. The whole process of coffee growing and processing in a dynamic and engaging format.
How to become involved in a grass roots campaign, how to be more critical when we go shopping. Introduction to the basic principles of Fair Trade compared to conventional Trade

J.DANIEL TORRES OLALLA
Creación autónoma de materiales para contar historias
General
Aula 104
Ser capaces de diseñar nuestros propios materiales did{acticos nos da la libertad necesaria para decidir qu{e, c{omo, y cu{ando queremos trabajar. Existen una gran cantidad posibilidades a nuestro alcance. En esta sesi{on se reflexiona sobre la experiencia resultante de utilizar los cuentos en el aula y se dan ideas para hacer filminas, transparencias, y montajes en Power Point.

MARISA GONZÁLEZ DÍAZ
Bark Patterns: A Science and Art Content-Based Unit
Primary
Aula 105
Bark Patterns is a simple unit that provides a model for developing integrated lessons related to Science and Art. The purpose of the unit is to broaden students' understanding of the parts of a tree, to record science observations and to develop art skills and creativity. With Bark Patterns, we can create an ideal learning environment in which book-making is used as a motivated and magic outcome.

Mª JESÚS PÁRAMO GUTIÉRREZ
Working with different materials levels in the same ESO class
ESO
Aula 106
This practical session is devised to cater with ideas to improve the reality of the secondary classroom.We will look at how to work the same contents at different levels and at the same time!

SACRA JAIMEZ MUÑOZ
Action Research: Integration of Literature in the Classroom
Bachillerato
Aula 109
Action research is a self-reflective method of investigation of which teachers can take great advantage. Applying it to the use of literary texts in secondary classes can help us to become more conscious of the way we teach, and our students to become more conscious of the way they learn while enjoying relevant topics.

PAUL MROCEK DELCLOS
Looking Back at the Twentieth Century (Without Anger!)
General
Aula 110
Do you still remember the 20th century? What about its music and its films? In this "fun-shop" you will travel through the decades listening to and viewing some of the most exciting moments in show business. Come with your friends and colleagues to this entertaining session and test your knowledge on music and cinema from the 20th century.

NIGEL BWYE
Monkey's Magic Box
Infants/Primary
Aula 111
Time for a surprise? Let's open the box and see who's inside. Come and see how story based language teaching to very young learners is simple and
fun.

MARGIE MARC
Ten Useful Websites for Learning English
Primary & Secondary.
Aula 112
Are you doing it in the classroom? Do you use computers in your language classes or in their preparation? Or is it sometimes more effort than it's worth? Perhaps it's just a case of knowing where to look. In this session, we will demonstrate the usefulness of ten easy-to-access and easy-to-exploit web pages that are bringing a new dimension to the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language. All teachers attending will take away a user-friendly cdrom containing all the information about websites demonstrated in the session.

ED COUSINS
Language Theatre Sports.
General
Aula 202
This workshop is a combination of playing games and proposing a structure for their application in the classroom and throughout the school.

10:30 - 11:30 break/exhibition

including Richmond Publishing Breakfast with Prize Draw

11:30 - 12:30 talks

ROGER WATSON
Of Proms, Pomp, and Poms.
General
Aula 102
The Last Night of the Promenade Concerts shows the British at play. Full of colour and humour it is really an enormous party celebrating the end of the seven weeks of this concert season. To witness the Last Night must make us question how it is that the British have a reputation for being cool and reserved. The songs that are sung, however, also give an important clue as to why the British seem to have more obstacles to overcome than other European nations regarding their relationship to the European Union

MELINDA TAN
Language Errors or Cultural Misinterpretations? Lessons from a Learner Corpus.
General
Aula 103
While the value of native-speaker (NS) corpora in the compilation of dictionaries is widely acknowledged, its use as a resource for the design of pedagogical material however is questionable. This paper will that EFL teachers who rely solely on NS corpora to teach vocabulary, grammar and aspects of discourse unintentionally confuse NNS (non-native speaker) learners about what 'authentic' language use really is.

BEN GOLDSTEIN
Breaking Taboos
Adults, University, Bachillerato
Aula 104
Many teachers have to supplement their coursebooks and other published materials because they often lack topics directly related to the daily lives of our students. By attempting to introduce the real world into the classroom we naturally come up against controversial issues and taboos, topics which our students are often dying to unravel -from Eminem lyrics to politically incorrect jokes. This practical workshop will look at ways these "taboos" can be exploited sensitively and as a motivational tool, not for their shock value. We will do this by challenging what is understood as "taboo" in a variety of contexts - in topic, lexis, approach and general classroom practice.

LINDSAY CLANDFIELD
Teachers Do It in the Staffroom, Too! (Or at least they should!)
Adults/Secondary
Aula 105
"It's a great place to work." When I hear teachers say that about their school, they are often talking more about the working environment and staff relations than facilities and salary. This important workshop looks out how we as teachers can avoid burnout, improve and develop not just alone in the classroom, but together in the staff room.

MA DEL PILAR MONTIJANO CABRERA
Demolishing EFL Intermediate Students' Reluctance to Speak: Making Debates Work!
Adults/Secondary
Aula 106
The realisation that FL Speaking is both demanding and time-consuming often makes teachers not deal with it properly. As a consequence, students may gradually become reluctant to speak, perceiving it as something irrelevant. Teachers count with debates to alleviate this situation. We will analyse in our talk how to implement them effectively to succeed at helping students speak confidently.

ANTONIO VICENTE CASAS PEDROSA
Bringing Humour into the English Class: Is it Possible?
Adults/Secondary
Aula 109
Nowadays most teachers agree that lack of motivation is one of the main (foreign language) teaching problems. From our point of view, one of the possible solutions has to do with using English resources (videos, texts, cartoons, jokes, etc…) in which humour plays a fundamental part. These will hopefully change our students' attitude towards the English language, as we will try to show you..

MERVYN SMALE
The Crimson Joy of Studying English Literature
Adults/University/Secondary
Aula 110
There must be more to English literature than learning when writers lived and died and the titles of what they wrote, but … What is the dark secret?

ANTHONY BRUTON
Updating the Task-Based Instruction Debate.
General
Aula 111
In this talk I will outline some of the current task-based proposals and update critically some more recent views on the issue.

ROBERT QUINN
Picture This!
Primary
Aula 112
Flashcards are probably one of the most useful and most popular tools for presenting, practising, and reviewing vocabulary with primary-age children,
especially when not all of them have the same level, and not everyone is ready to speak just yet. In this talk, we'll see how flashcards and other
picture-based teaching materials can be used with a variety of guessing games and blackboard activities, as well as cut-outs and crafts, to make
vocabulary learning more fun and more memorable for young children.

11:30 - 12:30 debate

FIONA MAUCHLINE, FRANCIS EAVES-WALTON, ADRIAN TENNANT, MERCEDES GARCÍA GUERRERO,
English as a Living Language vs. English as a School Subject: Irreconcilables?
Primary/Secondary
Aula 202
On the one hand, English is just another school subject. At the same time it is a means of communicating with the world. Does English deserve special attention on the school syllabus to take its dual nature into account.

12:30 - 12:45 break

12:45 - 13:45 semi-plenary sessions

PAUL SELIGSON
Trust your instincts! The case for more intuitive, spontaneous teaching
General
Aula 202
A lively, practical talk which argues for greater spontaneity in the classroom, so that teaching can more closely resemble the realities of learning. This will involve de-frocking some of the mythology of lesson planning and instead promote the idea of following your teacher's nose more in class. I will offer ten simple suggestions for you to do so.

ZSUZSA KUTI
Teacher Development and Networking: ELTeCS - connecting teachers globally
General
Aula 203
This session will begin with some information about an active ELT network and then look at the work and activities of ELTeCS. It will go on and
discuss how professionals can build and operate a network. Hopefully, this will be an opportunity to "plug into" English Language Teaching events,
projects and activities throughout the world, and to see what can come from building a professional ELT network. There will also be time to
ask questions about the practicalities.

JOHN McRAE.
Literature in the Foreign Language Classroom for Young Learners.
Aula 206
"But they won't read." Teachers often accuse learners of not reading; but if we look at basic issues like motivation and learning pay-off, we often find that they will
read as long as they know why they are reading, and what they are getting out of it. Professor McRae looks at some texts that work with teenage learners, in
order to see what kinds of text can be used, when they can be used, and what kinds of learning can be achieved - as well, of course, as the pleasure of
the text.

HUGH DELLAR
Lexis, Speaking, and the non-Native-Speaker Teacher
General
Aula 102
Recent research has shown that fluent speakers rely heavily on a huge repertoire of pre-fabricated lexical chunks and collocations. In this
talk, I will suggest that taking a lexical view of language is profoundly advantageous for non-native speaker teachers (NNSTs) and that
NNSTs are in fact the ideal lexical teachers.

13:45 - 14:45 asamblea general

14:45 - 16:30 break

16:30 - 18:00 workshops

LUCY NORRIS
Interactive Stories
Infants & Primary
Aula 102
In this session we will bring stories alive. We will look at the methodology of using stories in Pre-school and Primary English classes and the many tools available to help us animate tales and involve each child. Bring along your favourite stories and activities to share.

FIONA MAUCHLINE
T.T.T. - Test Those Teens
Teenagers/Secondary
Aula 103
Jumping through hoops or learning a language? What do we actually ask our students to do when we test them? Can't tests be more motivating? More fun? More meaningful? Oh, I hope so! This workshop will try to find some ways to take the 'ouch' and the 'zzz' out of testing both teens and grotty grown-ups!

KAREN EINSTEIN
Games and Classroom Dynamics
General
Aula 104
We'll look at some of the principles underlying "games" and how to apply them to typical tefl material. We'll particularly look how these "games" can contribute to a positive, cooperative classroom dynamic in which ss are motivated to not only achieve their own language goals but to help their classmate's achieve their goals as well. We'll play a few too.

GAIL BUTLER
Puppets, Puppets, Everywhere
Infants/Primary
Aula 105
In this practical session we will define the ways in which Business English classes differ from General English classes. We will then try out a number of activities designed to practise speaking, with special reference to the type of speaking that our students need in their professional worlds. The activities can be easily adapted for different levels and group sizes.

17:00 - 18:00 talks

MA DEL PILAR MONTIJANO CABRERA
Classroom-Based Research: Useful Ideas and Proposals for teaching practicioners in search of Effectiveness
General 106
Including CBR as an inherent part of our professional practice is invaluable to tune into and respond to our students' ever-changing needs and characteristics. In our talk, we'll give some tips to make teachers aware of the importance of engaging in CBR research as the key to strengthen the possibilities to attain teaching effectiveness, given the "personalisation" it enhances.

MARÍA ELENA RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍN
Useful Websites for Teaching English Through Films: How to Use Them in Classroom Activities
University/Bachillerato
Aula 109
Films provide teachers of English as a second language with a valuable teaching resource, becoming a powerful tool for attracting students's interest. In this talk, we will offer a selection of useful websites for teaching English through films. We will also propose several practical activities which show how these websites can be used in the English classroom..

MARIA DOLORES LOPEZ JIMENEZ
The ELT Textbook: A Story of Love and Hate
General
Aula 110
The last two decades have witnessed the ELT textbook explosion. Commercial ELT textbooks have become a thriving business. In spite of this prosperity, there is continuous criticism and even hostility to the ELT textbook. Positive and negative aspects of the textbook will be discussed together with the teacher's possible reactions to its use in the classroom.

JESUS GARCIA LABORDA
El Diálogo Colegio - Universidad y La Selectividad LOCE
Aula 111
Aunque las necesidades de los estudiantes de segundo curso de Bachillerato suelen estar marcadas por las exigencias impuestas por el comité de Selectividad de la universidad en que se encuentran inscritas, las necesidades y exigencias reales que demanda la universidad suelen ser bien distintas. Este taller - debate tratará de mostrar estas necesidades al tiempo que de entrar en un genuino diálogo entre los asistentes en torno a los cambios en la nueva Selectividad impuestos por la LOU y la LOCE.

ADRIAN TENNANT
Oops! I Done It Again!
Adults/Teenagers
Aula 112
This 'Talkshop' takes a look at errors in grammar, vocabulary and pragmatic appropriacy. Looking at attitudes towards errors, 'real' errors and some ideas on how to deal with errors this talkshop aims to give participants thought for food!

ROBERT CAMPBELL/LINDSAY CLANDFIELD
iT's online - are you?
Teenagers/Secondary
Aula Informática
By now you know that with the internet your students can make their own webpage, find key pals, create a fan website, practise their English with interactive exercises, send e-cards, join discussion groups, chat, read about interesting topics and explore the world wide web. But perhaps you didn't know that you and your students can now do all of the above in one place. Come and take a practical tour of the its-online network of sites and find out what you can do online.

18:00 - 18:30 break

18.30 - 20.00 workshops

PAUL SELIGSON
Reading aloud: allowed, hallowed or goodbye?
General
Aula 102
I've long been sceptical about reading aloud. Having hated it in French, but enjoyed it in Russian at school, perhaps it's just horses for courses?
It's obviously useful, especially in small classes or with younger learners and can sometimes be great with larger, older classes, but it can be awful too. So, this experimental workshop will try out some alternative, enjoyable reading aloud techniques and see if we can't make it a bit richer regularly, for all concerned.

MAGALY VILLARROEL
Activities for ESO: The Playful Approach
Secondary/ESO
Aula 103
All work and no play makes everyone dull! So especially when we run into demotivated students early on in ESO, it is a good idea to try and vary our approach by bringing new challenges to our English classes. How? In the guise of word games, logic puzzles, questionnaires, quizzes, comics and other meaningful activities. By applying different kinds of strategies to the resolution of the problems they are faced with, students may not even notice that they are actually learning or revising grammar and vocabulary!

NINA LAUDER
Great Games for Primary
Primary
Aula 104
Games help to develop a positive classroom atmosphere and to motivate students. In this lively session we will look at a variety of games appropiate for youn learners and talk about how these games can help evaluate students' linguistic performance and attitudes towards English. Come along, play some games and share your ideas!

SAM PICKARD
Ask me another!
Secondary/ESO/Bachillerato
Aula 105
Teachers and students spend a lot of time bombarding each other with questions - and even the occasional answer! Pupils' books, workbooks,
listenings, tests, exams - all designed to 'test' our students' knowledge. In this session we will see how a 'quiz' format can bring a new dimension
to the question and answer battle by practising the 4 (or 5!) skills while incorporating an all to often missing ingredient... FUN!

KATHERINE BILSBOROUGH
Let's Talk Business in the Classroom
Business
Aula 106
In this practical session we will define the ways in which Business English classes differ from General English classes. We will then try out a number of activities designed to practise speaking, with special reference to the type of speaking that our students need in their professional worlds. The activities can be easily adapted for different levels and group sizes.

BEATRIZ LÓPEZ MEDINA
Tongue-twisters in the foreign language class: 33 ways to make pronunciation fun
Teenagers/Secondary/Primary
Aula 109
This presentation explores the use of tongue-twisters as a way to improve pronunciation in the English Language class. Far from replacing the frequent practices of repetition, drilling or identification of sounds, the use of tongue-twisters is a complement that makes the acquisition of new sounds both effective and fun.

GEORGE KOKOLAS
Active-Holistic-Humanistic Learning
Secondary
Aula 110
For active learning to take place in the classroom, several factors must be taken into consideration: the student must be fully involved in the learning process at all stages ; the student must be encouraged to use the language they have learned to ensure that they posses it. This talk will demonstrate how material at this level should fulfill these requirements, thus, facilitate active-holistic-humanistic learning.

ALI BLAIR
Getting and Holding Children's Attention.
Primary
Aula 111
It can be very rewarding teaching English in first cycle because the children are generally enthusiastic and keen to participate. However, at
times it is difficult to get and hold children's attention, especially as we are trying to do so in a foreign language. What's important is not only the
content of activities but also the way we approach them. This will be a very practical session in which we will look at ways of
setting up and carrying out activities to heighten and develop children's concentration.

LAURA ELORRIAGA
From the Classroom to the Stage and Back
Primary/Secondary
Aula 112
This is a presentation of Interacting Education & Training's entry for the Sello Europeo competition which has been selected by the
Consejeria de Educacion Comunidad de Madrid for consideration in the national finals. The project examines how to maximize the impact of
events such as a theatre show or a storyteller in the classroom..

Debate
KEITH MORROW, HENRY WIDDOWSON, JOHN MCRAE
Language Awareness and the Communicative Approach
Aula 202
Was a cognitive approach to language learning trampled to death by the communicative teaching methodologies? Are we living in a communicative or post-communicative teaching era? Is awareness of language form about to make a come-back? Or has it already? What might a pleasing relationship between communicative competence and awareness of language form look like?

20.00 - 20.15 break

20:15 - 21:25 Theatre

FACE2FACE THEATRE COMPANY
Shakespeare in Chicago
Aula 107
Money's getting short and the two gangsters, Dick and Whacko Vizioso find themselves left with no other choice than to sell books. Join the criminal couple on their mad adventure and discover their particular vision of Hamlet, Macbeth and other great Shakespearean classics. With humour, music, and audience participation.

Sunday 14 september
9:30 - 11:00 workshops

KATHERINE BILSBOROUGH
Using and Adapting Games for Mixed Ability Classes.
General
Aula 103
In this practical session we will look at a selection of games and decide how they can be used and adapted for mixed-ability classes.

KAREN EINSTEIN
Projects for Early Teens, Pop Stars? Peers? Water Resources?
Secondary
Aula 104
Creating fun projects which take into account cross curricular issues as well as typical teen concerns and which attempt to deal with the quantity and complexity of information young learners are inundated with today. Through these projects, (ideally!), young learners become aware of multiple intelligences, critical thinking skills, and information processing /presentation. .

ROB BEXON
Simple Solutions for Difficult Classes
ESO/Bachillerato
Aula 105
In my experience there is no such thing as the 'homogenous class'. Even our nicest students can be difficult at times. In this session we will see
how some ready made, simple activities can prove life-savers when things are not quite going as planned.

HELEN CANHAM
What's in a Story?
Primary
Aula 106
In this session we will look at using children's storybooks as a springboard into classroom activities. As an example, we shall tell the award-winning story, The Gruffalo, and then go on to demonstrate some related games and language activities which can be adapted to many other storybooks.

XAVIER PONCE/ELISENDA MASGRAU
Using Adverts to Teach Grammar
General
Aula 109
In just twenty seconds, advertisements tell convincing stories that can reach audiences from diverse backgrounds and appeal to people with very different interests. In order to get their message across, publicity uses a large number of communication strategies that our students are sure to recognise and feel confident with. Why not take advantage of these in our ELT classroom? This practical talk will suggest a series of activities that can help us use ads to teach grammar and make our lessons more creative, relevant and fun.

ROBERT QUINN
My Kingdom for a Song!
Infants/Primary
Aula 110
When you're teaching young learners, a good song is worth its weight in classroom gold, for teaching vocabulary and useful expressions, for developing oral skills and pronunciation, and of course, for fun and motivation! The best songs are also the ones that can be most easily combined with other activities, like TPR actions, flashcard games,
arts & crafts, cut-outs, finger puppets, and lots more. In this talk we will look at how to get the most out of a good song, with lots of practical
suggestions for both pre-primary and primary classes.

10.30-11.15 mercadillo de ideas

Aula 111
A marketplace for ideas, activities, and techniques that you know work in practice. Find out your fellow teachers' favourite classroom activities, and explain how you, yourself, do it in the classroom.

11:00 - 11:30 break

11:30 -12:00

SARA CASTELLANOS
A task-based strategy to develop university students' communicative competence.
General/university
Aula 111
About the design and implementation of a strategy based on learning tasks to develop the communicative competence in students of mechanical and industrial engineering following a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective.

11:30 -12:30 talks

MARIO SARACENI
Doing World English in the Classroom
General
Aula 103
This paper will first contend that much of the debate around English as an International Language (EIL) is driven by ideological concerns and this is the reason why the subject struggles to be felt as a concrete preoccupation for most ELT practitioners. Subsequently, the paper will suggest ways in which teachers can "do" world English in the classroom.

MARK HANCOCK
Writing is Communication, Too!
General
Aula 104
Too often, we treat writing as mere grammar practice. But writing is communication too. In this workshop, we will look at classroom tasks which
focus on meaning and content in writing, and not just form. Lot's of imaginative and creative ideas to take away!

ADRIAN TENNANT
A Word in Your Ear
Adults/Teenagers
Aula 105
Words can be very confusing. This workshop begins and ends with some examples of clever word use and then takes a look at some activities that can be done in the classroom to make learning words fun.

LUCAS VALENZUELA
Lesson planning made Memorable, New, Easy, Meaningful, Offbeat, Neat, Interesting and Complete.
General
Aula 106
Most people when asked about the names of the Great Lakes in the USA resort to the word HOMES to answer the question. This presentation provides pre and in-service teachers with a mnemonic technique which will guide and help them throughout the process of making a lesson plan. Above all it is a useful tip for everyday teaching. You'll never forget this talk because you'll be using this information from now on.

BARBARA SEIDLHOFER
Teaching with Controversies in Applied Linguistics
General/University
Aula 109
The session will look at how controversies about various issues (the global spread of English, the relevance of corpus linguistics to foreign language teaching, critical
discourse analysis, second language acquisition as well as the nature of applied linguistics itself) can be used to get students critically engaged with these issues.
We can also have a look at some study questions included in my book "Controversies in Applied Linguistics".

ZSUSZSA KUTI
ELTeCS Funding Activities - How to Initiate and Set Up Regional Projects successfully
General
Aula 110
This workshop will give you an opportunity to find out more about ELTeCS funding exercises and help you to initiate and plan projects across
the borders.

XARO MAS
Dime algo que me emocione…aunque sea en ingles.
Primary & Secondary
Aula 112
Cada día del curso escolar surgen temas reales, interesantes e importantes para nuestros alumnos. Si las hablamos en inglés y sus libretas se van llenando con sus propias vivencias, opiniones, sentimientos ... e incluso con aquellas cosas nuestras que puedan interesarles ... ¿Qué pasa?

12:30 - 12:45 Break

12:45 - 13.15 Special Closing Talk

JOSEPH MOSELY
General/Primary/Secondary
Aula 107
Shakespeare, Me, and Other Famous People.
Tall tales for getting out of tight corners in the square classroom.

13:15 - 14:15 closing session debate

HENRY WIDDOWSON
The Culture of the Foreign Language Classroom
General
Aula 107
I will first identify a few points of current contention to which the audience will be invited to respond, and then allow for open debate. If necessary, I will draw the session to a close with a few final concluding comments. Conference participants are invited to prepare questions and comments related to the topic in advance, in which case I will refer to them in my opening remarks. These can be taken up for further elaboration in the open forum.

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