25th and
Sede: Universidad CAECE,
Tte Gral Perón
2933
CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION
The Academic Committee of
the 9th 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, and education 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: “Exploring Strategies and Models for Better Teaching” 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, presentations dealing with both concrete
classroom applications and more general reflections on teaching, language and
education are encouraged. 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.
Only proposals for
WORKSHOPS with a strong component of participation of the audience will be
accepted. All workshops will be 60 minutes long and workshop leaders should be
prepared to conduct one repeat of their presentations.
The Committee will
allocate the workshops in such a way as to offer the Congress participants as
much variety as possible at any given slot and therefore expects workshop
leaders to be prepared to make themselves available at any of the
times
scheduled for workshops.
Workshop leaders will be notified of the times when they are expected to conduct
their workshops at least 20 days before the date of the opening of the Congress.
Of all the proposals
submitted, the Academic Committee will select a maximum of ten for presentation
during the Congress. The Committee will notify all applicants of their decisions
stating clearly the reasons for rejecting or accepting the proposal. All of
these communications will be sent to applicants via electronic mail in the first
week of July. All decisions by the Academic Committee are
final.
The Academic Committee is
made up of the following members:
Presidente:
Lic. Omar Villarreal
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Vicepresidente 1ra Prof. Cristina de
Ortúzar
Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
Vicepresidente 2da Lic. Ana Maria Rozzi de
Bergel
Universidad CAECE
Secretaria
Lic. Andrea Coviella
Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Nro
41
Miembros
Titulares:
Prof.
Francisca Abdala
Universidad Católica de La
Plata
Prof. Maria
Isabel Copello
Universidad Tecnológica
Nacional
Prof.
Bárbara Grodzki
Universidad de Buenos
Aires
Lic. Marina
Kirac
Instituto Superior de Formación Docente
Nro 35
Lic. Maricel Valladares Instituto del Profesorado del Consudec
Prof. Marcela Santafé y Soriano Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Nro 52
Prof. Martha
Ortigueira
Centro de Graduados en Lenguas Vivas de
la
Pontificia Universidad Católica
Argentina.
Lic. Susana Boratto Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
Prof. Rosana
Famularo
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Prof.
Roberta Valsecchi
M.A.
Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
Lic. Graciela Raffo Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas
“Juan R. Fernandez”.
All proposals must contain
the following sections:
1.- Workshop Leader Proposal
Form. In the case of workshops conducted by more than one leader, the
workshop leader proposal form should be adapted in such a way that it contains
all the relevant information about the people who will run the workshop.
2.- An abstract of their
presentation as the workshop leader 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 workshop so as to help them to
choose which workshop 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 workshop leader.
3. A summary of
the content and dynamics of the workshop which must not exceed two A4 pages.
The Academic Committee will base their acceptance or refusal of the proposal on
this summary exclusively.
4.- A biographical statement
which should not be longer than 50 words (in the case of workshops run by more
than one leader, 50 words per workshop leader).
The Academic Committee
will also accept proposals that require the use of a computer laboratory.
Provisions have been made to accommodate a maximum of 20 participants in each
one of those workshops.
Proposals should be
written in the language in which the workshop leader is to be run. The official
languages of the Ninth Congress are: English and
Spanish.
All proposals should be
e-mailed to: novenocongreso@netizen.com.ar
The deadline for
presentation of proposals is 25th of
June.
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.
Workshop leaders are full
members of the Congress and as such they are expected to pay the regular
Congress fee to attend it.
All Workshop leaders are
entitled to a Diploma which clearly states his or participation in the Congress
as a Workshop leader (Diploma de Disertante). This Diploma will be presented to
workshop leaders in the closing ceremony.
WORKSHOP LEADER PROPOSAL
FORM
Title of
Workshop:
Workshop Leader:
E-mail
address:
Alternative E-mail
address:
Home address: street and
number
City and
Province
Telephone
number:
Cell-phone:
Affiliation. Name of the
Institution:
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
Other (please
specify):
Audiovisual equipment
needed (check as applicable)
No audiovisual
equipment
Cassette
player
Blackboard/Whiteboard
VHS player + TV
set
Overhead
projector
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All applications for the “Primeras
Jornadas
These should be written in
the language in which the workshop is to be run. The official languages of the
Jornadas are Spanish,French, Italian and Portuguese.
Enquires should be
e-mailed to: French – susanaboratto@movi.com.ar ,
Italian – Roberta Valsecchi robertav@arnet.com.ar and
Portuguese- Graciela Raffo glraffo@infovia.com.ar