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Day 2: Saturday 28 February
Time Venue Activity
10.15 – 11.30 Various PARALLEL SESSION 1 continued
motivated the trainees to ‘notice’ their language and work towards
acquiring the relevant vocabulary and grammar. This has implications for
course designers and teachers on pre-service and in-service teacher
training programmes as they can learn from the experience.
Mala Palani has over ten years of experience in teaching teachers. She
works towards improving in-service teachers' English proficiency and
English language teaching skills.
11.00 – 11.30 102 Using the POGIL technique for improving listening, speaking, reading
and writing skills, Baishali Bhaumik Mitra
The presentation focuses on the case study of using the POGIL (Processoriented
guided-inquiry-learning) method in developing LSRW skills for
undergraduate engineering students in the English language
communication skills laboratory. The paper describes the approach to
using POGIL and discusses the teacher and the students’ observations
about their experiences of POGIL as an alternative and effective
pedagogy. The article concludes with recommendations for further uses of
POGIL to improve English communicative competence.
Baishali Bhaumik Mitra is a Senior Assistant Professor in VNR Vignana
Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India. Her
interest area is CALL, MELL and Diaspora-Literature.
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10.15 – 11.15 103 CBB project impact assessment: were the eight years of distance
teacher training worth it? Lesley Dick and Richard Lunt
The Council for Business with Britain Teacher Training Project has been
running since 2006. This year qualitative and quantitative evidence was
collated to demonstrate the project impact. A documentary was made
showcasing the project and an impact assessment was commissioned to
evaluate project impact. This talk will present the findings of this impact
assessment and their pedagogical implications, using clips from the
documentary to illustrate the talk. One of the longest Sri Lankan rural
teacher training projects, the results of and methods used in the impact
assessment have relevance to other countries in the region wanting to run
rural teacher training projects.
Lesley Dick works for British Council Colombo as the ELT Projects
Manager.
Richard Lunt is a freelance consultant based in Sri Lanka.
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10.15 – 11.15 104 Making textbooks communicative, Rageshree Mukherjee
This interactive workshop explores ways of exploiting textbooks to add a
‘wow’ factor and make learning more interesting, fun and creative.
Techniques include: developing a culture of enquiry through questioning,
making use of drama and role play, transforming words into art, and
exploiting resources using ICT and collaborative learning.
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