March 28-29, 2016
A Multicultural Workshop for School and University EFL Teachers at Kazan Federal University Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela.
List of the Presenters:
Zhenya Bakin, Director of the Academic Writing Center, at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow; studying at NILE:
- “Features of Academic Writing”
- “Help Yourself to the Cake: ICT in EAP Consultancy and Teaching”
- “Communicative Teaching: Setting Standards”
Elena M. Bazanova, PhD in Education; Chair of the English Philology Department at the Russian State Social University, and Director of the Academic Writing Center at the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”:
- “Scaffolding Scientific Writing in the Academic Writing Center”
- “Ten Commandments of Scientific Writing in English”
- “Creating a Publishable Paper”
Diana Nailevna Davletbaeva, PhD; Associate Professor and Head of Department of Germanic Philology, KFU:
- “Integration of Information and Communication Technologies into University Foreign Language Teaching”
Ana Maria Ferraro, MA TESOL; U.S. State Department:
- English Language Fellow, KFU
“Global Citizenship and EFL Instruction”
Alsu Gilmetdinova, PhD; Head of the Office of International Affairs, and Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign languages at KNRTU-KAI:
- “10 Writing Tips for EFL Students”
Christopher Hastings, PhD; U.S. State Department English Language Fellow, ITMO University, St. Petersburg:
- “Motivational Teaching Practices in the English Language Classroom”
- “Dimensions of Intercultural Communication”
- “L2 Motivation and Intercultural Communication in ELT”
Ludmila A. Kozhevnikova, PhD in Pedagogics; Senior Lecturer, SSAU (Samara State Aerospace University):
- “Enhancing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Through CLIL Methodology”
- “How To Get Teachers To Love Tests”
Victoria Levchenko, PhD; Head of the Modern Languages Department of SSAU (Samara State Aerospace University):
- “How To Get Teachers To Love Tests”
Anna E. Pushkina, PhD in Pedagogics; Head of the Cambridge Resource Center, Kazan:
- “Teaching Values in the English Classroom”
- “English Life Skills vs. Exam Skills”
Eve Smith, Two Master’s degrees: in Applied Linguistics and International Relations; U.S. State Department Writing Specialist, SSAU (Samara State Aerospace University):
- “Writing to Find Your Voice and Capture a Market”
Marina Ivanovna Solnyshkina, PhD in Philology; Professor, Department of Germanic Philology, KFU:
- Closing speech
Petr A. Stepichev, PhD in Pedagogics; Associate Professor of the Chair of English Philology at Russian State Social University; Vice-President of MELTA:
- “The Pedagogy of Surprise as a Tool to Meet the Requirements of Federal Educational Standards”
- “Grammar and Vocabulary Games for Your Classroom”
- “The Magic of Teaching English: a Few Tricks for Teachers to Become Magicians to Their Students”
- “Creative Assessment Through Games”
Organizers:
Kazan RegELTA, Kazan Federal University, Ministry of Education, Republic of Tatarstan, Cambridge University Press, Moscow Office, NATE Russia.
