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Tuesday 14 April<br />
Session 4.2 : 1110-1140<br />
Exchange 5<br />
40 audience<br />
Talk<br />
AL, MD<br />
Emails for teaching pragmatics in the ESL classroom<br />
Afrah Ali (Bahrain Teachers College, University of Bahrain)<br />
Research has shown that ESL students with advanced linguistic skills may<br />
still lack the pragmatic knowledge needed for successful real-world<br />
communications. This talk will present strategies for teaching collegelevel<br />
students about pragmatic competence and politeness by focusing on<br />
a real-life task: email writing. Participants will learn how email messages<br />
can be a valuable resource for raising students’ pragmatic awareness.<br />
le, t, a<br />
Exchange 6<br />
40 audience<br />
Talk<br />
LMCS, YLT<br />
Motivating ESL learners using folktales<br />
Rout Anirudha (District Centre for ELT, Baripada, India)<br />
I will present on a piece of practical research intended to find a way to<br />
motivate a group of secondary level students, who found English<br />
challenging, by using the folktales of their community. After 30 hours of<br />
intervention using folktales, they showed improved motivation and<br />
performance, as seen through tests and classroom behaviour.<br />
le, p<br />
Exchange 7<br />
40 audience<br />
Talk<br />
RES, YLT<br />
Drawings are talking: exploring language learners’ beliefs through<br />
visual narratives<br />
Julide Inozu (Cukurova University)<br />
This presentation reports a study suggesting an alternative use of<br />
drawings in the language classrooms. The study uses young children’s<br />
drawings about learning English as an innovative way of investigating their<br />
perceptions of what it means to learn a foreign language. The<br />
interpretations of the images will be presented with examples of settings<br />
and teaching practices reflecting students’ learning experiences.<br />
e, le, p<br />
Exchange 9<br />
240 audience<br />
Talk<br />
LT<br />
BYOD – a real account of implementation<br />
Leticia Camila Bissoto Queiroz de Moraes (Cultura Inglesa Sao Paulo)<br />
Wearable technology, flipped classroom, cloud computing, apps, BYOD,<br />
social networks... new technologies, devices and digital strategies have<br />
been sprawling everywhere. But how do you select the ones in which it is<br />
worth investing? This talk describes the implementation of a BYOD policy in<br />
a language centre, why it was chosen, how it was done and its initial<br />
results.<br />
e, le<br />
TUESDAY<br />
e = experienced audience<br />
le = less-experienced audience<br />
p = primary teaching<br />
s = secondary teaching<br />
t = tertiary teaching<br />
a = adult teaching<br />
prodprom = promoting a particular book or product<br />
pub = speaker is representing or sponsored by a publisher but is not focussing on a particular book or product<br />
Please note that some presenters have requested a maximum audience size.<br />
Therefore, please check the audience size in the left-hand column of each entry.<br />
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