Manchester Programme

Monday 13 April
Session 3.6 : 1640-1710
Charter 2-3
500 audience
Talk
LAM, LT
Implementing blended learning: an institutional view
Eric Baber (Cambridge University Press) & Carla Arena (Casa Thomas
Jefferson)
Implementing blended learning successfully requires more than just giving
teachers and students access to digital materials. In this talk, we will look
at key considerations including administration of learners and teachers;
teacher and learner training; monitoring teacher behaviour within an LMS;
and resource and cost considerations. We will be using Casa Thomas
Jefferson, Brazil, as a case study.
e, le, p, s,
t, a
Charter 4
190 audience
Talk
LT
Social learning: motivating students to use English through social
technology
Catherine Whitaker (Knowledge Transmission Ltd)
Do you sometimes wish that all the chatting, texting and Facebooking that
happens outside (and sometimes inside) class could be used to help your
students learn English? It can! This talk demonstrates Knowledge
Transmission's new Learn Social platform and shows how integrating
everyday communication tools and peer review into your courses can
improve levels of motivation, as well as results.
e, s, t, a
prodprom
Cobden 1
30 audience
Talk
LT, YLT
Children’s apps you can trust
Tracy Dumais (British Council)
Those involved in the children’s educational app industry often use the
word ‘trust’. But what does that word mean in this context? This talk uses
the development of the British Council’s LearnEnglish Kids Playtime app
as a starting point to reflect on the issue of trust in young learner mobile
app design, marketing and use.
e, le, p
prodprom
MONDAY
Cobden 2
60 audience
Talk
EAP
Developing the vocabulary strand of an EAP program
Ozlem Baykan (Ozyegin University)
This talk will focus on a project carried out to develop the lexical syllabus
of an EAP program. The aim is to explain how this project helped the
program to define the lexical items needed for EAP studies, how these
items can be classified into different proficiency levels, and how the lexical
syllabus can be practised through teaching materials.
e, t
e = experienced audience
le = less-experienced audience
p = primary teaching
s = secondary teaching
t = tertiary teaching
a = adult teaching
prodprom = promoting a particular book or product
pub = speaker is representing or sponsored by a publisher but is not focussing on a particular book or product
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