The 2008 SHARE Convention at a Glance

The Academic Committee of the Fourth SHARE Convention wishes to invite teacher trainers, teachers, researchers, material writers, and other professionals in fields connected to ELT, translation and interpreting, the teaching of Spanish to foreigners, education and the Humanities in general to share their practical ideas for the classroom, views, ideas, projects and experiences with colleagues from all over the country during the Convention.

The theme chosen for this year´s Convention: "ELT CHALLENGES” has been conceived of as a workshop, a laboratory or a clinic where different practical applications to English Language Teaching could be discussed by some of the most prominent exponents of our profession in our country.

Presentations will afford direct demonstrations of strategies, techniques, examples, procedures and methods for concrete classroom practice as well as the sharing of successful experiences in EFL and ESL. Within this general framework, presentations that include reports of or proposals for innovative classroom practice or new theories, methodologies or ways of looking at language and language learning and teaching have been favoured in the selection of speakers.

Rather than describing or discussing, the presentations in this Convention will show a technique for teaching or testing. Normally the presenter's statement of the theory underlying the technique will take not more than ten minutes. The rest of the time will be used for showing, rather than telling.

All presentations will be semi-plenaries of a purely academic nature.
There will not be any commercial presentations in this Convention.

The Executive Committee will allocate the presentations in such a way as to offer the Convention participants as much variety as possible at any given slot. Repeats of some presentations might be offered at the discretion of the Executive Committee.

The official languages of the Convention are English and Spanish. Though, presentations in English will be favoured.

Semi-plenaries: 60 minutes

Semi-plenaries will be held in a maximum of three lecture halls with the following seating capacity

Salón Brazil 250
Salón Diamante 150
Salón Primavera 150