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12th
National Congress of Teachers & Students of English |
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ACADEMIC COMMITTEE & CALL FOR PAPERS
President:
Lic. Omar Villarreal
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Vicepresident:
Magíster Ana Maria Rozzi de Bergel
Universidad CAECE
Members
Lic.
Ana Claudia Saraceni
Universidad Nacional de La Matanza
Magíster.
Cristina de Ortuzar
Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
Lic. Marisa Lopez
Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
Prof.
Francisca Abdala
Universidad Católica de La Plata
Magíster
Juan Ferretti
Instituto del Profesorado del Consudec
Lic.
Marina Kirac
Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Nro 35
Lic.
Mariela Lucente
Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Nro 88
Lic.
Nancy Fernandez
Instituto Superior de Formación
Docente Nro 21
Prof.
Marcela Santafé y Soriano
Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Nro 52
Prof.
Viviana Valenti de Ronco
Instituto de Educación Superior
Nro 28 "Olga Cossettini",
Rosario.
Prof.
Fernando Armesto
Instituto Nacional Superior del
Profesorado Técnico.
Magíster.
Graciela Garcia
Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Juan XXIII"
Prof.
Marcela Alvarado
Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Bahía Blanca - APIBB
Prof. Nora Séculi
Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Rosario - APrIR
Prof.
Bárbara Grodzki
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2006
The Academic Committee of the 12th National Congress of Teachers and Students of English 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 views, ideas, projects and experiences with colleagues from all over the country.
The theme chosen for this year´s Congress: “Reflecting upon the Classroom” has been thought of as including two different dimensions: a practical one (strategies, techniques, procedures and methods for concrete classroom practice) as well as a more theoretical one (the consideration of models, paradigms and systems of beliefs for teaching and learning languages).
Therefore, we expect presenters to deal with both concrete classroom applications and more general reflections on teaching, language and education. 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 will be favoured.
All Presentations will be 60 minutes long. Two different kinds of presentations will be considered (*):
Workshop
Rather than describing or discussing, a workshop shows a technique for teaching or testing. Normally the presenter’s statement of the theory underlying the technique takes no more than ten to fifteen minutes. The rest of the time is used for showing, rather than telling.
The abstract should include a brief statement of the presenter’s central purpose and a description of what will be demonstrated (e.g. role playing) and how it will be done (e.g. some of the audience participating as students or an unrehearsed lesson with actual students).
Presenters
should bear in mind that these presentations may be attended by a maximum
of 20 participants.
Colloquium
A colloquium provides a forum for a scholar or group of scholars to discuss current pedagogical, or research issues in ELT among themselves or with the audience. Therefore, both individual and group proposals will be accepted.
In the case of a group of scholars, ideally (but not necessarily) participants exchange papers in advance and make formal responses to each other’s presentations. In any case, both presentation and discussion, should be part of the session.
Abstracts and proposals should include a description of the topic for the colloquium and the name and affiliation of each of the invited participants.
All colloquia will be open to non participating observers and allowances should be made for a 15 minute period of questions and answers or discussion.
A room with a maximum capacity for 20 participants will be allotted to these colloquia.
The Academic Committee can choose to earmark these colloquia as “Forums for specialists” in the Congress Programme.
The Committee will allocate the presentations in such a way as to offer the Congress participants as much variety as possible at any given slot and therefore expects presenters to be prepared to make themselves available at any of the times scheduled for presentations.
The Committee will notify all applicants of their decision to accept or reject the proposals via electronic mail not later than 11th April 2006. All decisions by the Academic Committee are final.
Presenters will be notified of the exact times when they are expected to conduct their presentations at least 30 days before the date of the opening of the Congress.
All proposals must contain the following sections:
1.- Presenter´s Proposal Form. In the case of presentations conducted by more than one presenter, the presenter´s proposal form should be adapted in such a way that it contains all the relevant information about the people who will conduct the presentation.
2.- An abstract of their presentation as the presenter wishes it to appear in the Congress book. This abstract should be not be longer than 100 words and should give Congress participants a clear idea of the content of the presentation so as to help them to choose which presentation to attend.
The applicant should refer to himself /herself using the third person of the singular.
Successful candidates might eventually be asked to re-write parts or all of the abstract, in which case one of the members of the Committee will be appointed to guide the presenter.
3.
A summary of the content and dynamics of the presentation
which must be of a minimum length of two
A4
pages and must not exceed four A4 pages.
The summary should include a statement of the presenter´s goals, a summary of the theoretical framework, and a precise description of the tasks to be performed during the presentation.
The Academic Committee will base their acceptance or refusal of the proposal on this summary exclusively.
The summary must contain a list of the general and specific bibliography used by the applicant in the preparation of the presentation. The bibliography is not to be counted in the number of pages. The bibliographical references should be made in the APA format or any other standard literary or scientific format.
Degrees will be quoted in the language in which the certificates or diplomas were originally issued (e.g. Profesor en Inglés or Especialista en Informática Educativa or Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics) together with the complete name of the institution which granted the degree. No vague descriptions of academic degrees will be accepted (e.g. “has been a teacher of English for ten years” or “holds a degree in Education”)
All details which are not academically relevant should be avoided.
All presenters should be holders of legally valid degrees from our own country or abroad.
Proposals should be written in the language in which the presentation is to be made. The official languages of this Congress are: English and Spanish.
All proposals should be e-mailed to the President of the Academic Committee:
omarvillarreal@speedy.com.ar (NB: villaRReal)
The Deadline for presentation of proposals is 1st March 2006.
All applications for presentations that promote commercial interests will be directly disqualified.
Applications by presenters which offer commercial presentations for the sponsors of the Congress will not be accepted.
All presenters are exempted to pay the Congress fee.
Presenters are entitled to a Diploma which clearly states his or her participation in the Congress as a Presenter (Diploma de Disertante). This Diploma will be presented to him or her in the course of the closing ceremony.
PRESENTER´S PROPOSAL FORM
Title of Presentation:
Format of Presentation: Workshop OR Colloquium
Presenter:
E-mail address:
Alternative E-mail address:
Home address: street and number
City and Province
Telephone number:
Cell-phone:
Affiliation (Name of the Institution where you work):
City and Province:
This presentation is aimed at (check a maximum of three):
English Teachers in general
Preschool teachers
Primary School teachers
Secondary School teachers
University lecturers
Translators and Interpreters
Researchers
Novice Teachers
Other (please specify):
Audiovisual equipment needed (state YES or NO as applicable)
Cassette player
CD player
Blackboard/Whiteboard
VHS player + TV set
Overhead projector
N.B. Computers or Multimedia kits will not be provided. The Organizing Committee will only print a one page (two sides of the page) handout per presentation.
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(*) Adapted from the TESOL Guidelines.