TESOL Scotland 21st Annual Conference Proceedings

15th November 2003, University of Abertay Dundee

"Englishes - Whose English?" Proceedings

Speakers' summaries

From the Editor

Nearly 200 people gathered at the University of Abertay Dundee for the 2003 TESOL Scotland conference, including delegates, stewards and exhibitors. Mario Rinvolucri came up from Canterbury by overnight bus and Rebecca Freeman Field flew in from the USA! Of the other presenters, Vesna Vyroubal came from Croatia and Marnie Holborow from Dublin. So it could be said that the conference had a very wide reach. The varied programme also attracted delegates from all sorts of other places and the usual meeting-old-friends atmosphere pervaded. Regular up-dates on the internet meant that there was much more pre-conference information for anyone interested.

The summaries presented here are arranged in programme order. I hope you enjoy this memento of a good day in Dundee.

Jean S McCutcheon
Editor
Email: newsletter@satefl.org.uk

CONTENTS

Plenary 1: Teaching culture and teaching language (Mario Rinvolucri)

Concurrent sessions I

• The Canadian French immersion education programme: Its effects and application in Scotland (Ewan McIntosh)
• Our mumbling is rumbled: learning to listen to fast spontaneous speech (Richard Cauldwell)
• One-to-one ELT (Vesna Vyroubal)
• Learning our language: helping learners decipher Dundonian (David Catterick)
• World English – as seen from below (Marnie Holborow)
• Taking up time (A Douglas Mcfarlane)
• Englishes – whose English? Teacher training implications (Sally McPherson)

Plenary 2: Language planning for educational and social change (Rebecca Freeman Field)

Concurrent sessions II

• High-stakes testing: the impact of IELTS (Lee Knapp)
• Using a corpus in the language classroom (Alison Macaulay)
• Grammar and movement (Mario Rinvolucri)
• Using a dictionary CD-ROM and finding a goldmine of materials and resources for teachers (Daniel Wilson)
• Task – Whose task? Learner adaptations of classroom activities (Lesley Gourlay)
• A comparison of peer and sibling code-switching (Alice Lawrence)
• Parallel literacy classes and multilinguagl flexibility (Leena Robertson)

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