Manchester Programme

Sunday 12 April
Session 2.3 : 1230-1300
Exchange 3
40 audience
Talk
TTEd
Teaching English at public nocturnal schools in Brazil
Andreia Fernandes (Public School)
This talk aims to analyze the meaning students at public nocturnal schools
at low-income areas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, attribute to the English
language learning process. For that, students’ profiles will be given, as
well as the strategies teachers have been using to deal with those
students, in order to make the English language learning process a
meaningful experience.
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Exchange 4
40 audience
Talk
PRON, RES
Exchange 5
40 audience
Talk
EAP, MD
Focusing on sounds - using synthetic phonics to teach listening
Adam Scott (St Giles International, Brighton)
A classroom project on the Cambridge-EnglishUK Action Research
Mentoring Scheme investigated how integrating synthetic phonics as a
study tool for A2-B1 learners helped develop listening skills and
confidence. I will summarise findings and present phonics activities,
through which learners engage with the challenges of listening and
pronunciation, identifying sound-spelling correlations, features of
connected speech, and the content of natural speech.
However, while, thus... how to teach transitions successfully
Petra Kletzenbauer (University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM)
This talk aims to shed some light on the use of linking words in written
contexts and the difficulties arising when teaching them to foreign
language learners. As transitional words are mostly ignored or completely
misunderstood in written assignments, best practice examples should help
to raise the learners’ awareness of the need of correctly used transitions
while producing sophisticated texts.
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SUNDAY
Exchange 6
40 audience
Talk
MaW
Teaching creative writing through the iStory project
Djalal Tebib (University Constantine 1)
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The relationship between project-based learning and creativity is
undoubtedly significant and worth investigating. This presentation will
demonstrate the effectiveness of a classroom project, called iStory, in the
teaching of creative writing to EFL learners. The project’s design, benefits,
potential drawbacks, feasibility and future developments will also be
discussed during this session.
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e = experienced audience
le = less-experienced audience
p = primary teaching
s = secondary teaching
t = tertiary teaching
a = adult teaching
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pub = speaker is representing or sponsored by a publisher but is not focussing on a particular book or product
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