Meetings

Programme of Meetings, 2007/08

Meetings will normally start with coffee and a book display at 10am (you are invited to keep a book in return for supplying the Newsletter with a review).

Presentations normally run from 10.30 to 12 noon.

Non-members are welcome: a small fee will be charged.

Date

Details

June 14th 2008

Panel Discussion

with:

Euan Reid, Member of the Scottish Executive ESOL Panel
Anna Connor, EAL Secondary School teacher
Remzie Memishi, Student at Anniesland who is moving on to GCU
Sybille Brinz, ESOL Lecturer at Aberdeen College

A panel discussion on how recent changes in immigration patterns to Scotland may have impacted on the culture in our ESOL classrooms.

Venue:

Room A526F (enter through George Moore Building)
Glasgow Caledonian University Website - Campus Map

10am: book display (there is no catering!)
10.30am to 12pm: Panel discussion

For further information contact Sybille Brinz at s.brinz@abcol.ac.uk

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Recent Meetings

Date

Details

25 November 2006

 

Interactive Whiteboards in the EL classroom

Speaker: Judith Wells (CUP)

Venue: Stevenson College Edinburgh

16 December 2006

Teaching Scottish English as a Foreign Language & AGM

Speaker: Prof. John Corbett (Glasgow University)

Venue: Aspect Edinburgh

17 February 2007

Fifty!

Speaker: Jim Scrivener

Venue: Perth College

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18-22 April 2007

IATEFL Annual conference

Venue: Aberdeen Conference Centre

http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/
2007/index.php

26 May 2007

Blogs and ELT

Speaker: Dr Eddy Moran (CELT, Stirling University)

Venue: Stirling University

October 20th 2007

 

Stirling University: Professor Vivian Cook

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December 8th 2007

‘The Fall and Rise of Intonation’

Speaker: Gerald Kelly, Northumbria University
Author of ‘How to Teach Pronunciation’ (Longman)

In this paper I aim to show how intonation teaching is possible and necessary at all levels of language learning and how it can be simplified (and hence made useful) for the classroom. I will compare the treatment of intonation with the treatment of grammar and lexis, and I will attempt to show how intonation can be (and should be) an integrated part of any teacher’s repertoire of teaching skills.

Venue:

Randolph School of English
63 Frederick Street
Edinburgh
EH2 1LH
http://www.randolph.org.uk

10.00: Christmas food and drinks
10.30 – 12.00: Presentation

There will be the SATEFL AGM after the Presentation

Non-members welcome - a small fee will be charged

For further details contact: Joanna Coley - j.coley@hw.ac.uk

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February 23rd 2008

Perth: Margaret Allan: ESOL SQA

April 26th 2008

Aberdeen: Rita Baker - Phrasal Verbs

The global approach to understanding phrasal verbs.

Phrasal verbs are often listed as discrete items of vocabulary, the meanings of which just have to be learnt. Most learners (and teachers) perceive them as difficult. Why then are they the first verbs that native speaker children manage to master? The reason is  that placed in an environment where they can discover the language  for themselves, children soon intuit that there is a simple and  economic system which can be used to generate new verbs and which can  be readily understood by listeners who are equally familiar with the  system. Phrasal verbs are probably the most dynamic area of English vocabulary as new ones are created every day. The interpretation of their meaning is context-dependent so there is absolutely no point trying to learn them in lists with accompanying definitions. They are cryptic metaphors. This workshop will show you how to approach them visually and kinaesthetically through the simplicity of a young child's experience of the world.

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Further details about meetings, including any changes, will be announced via email (SATEFL Announcements).

 


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