Manchester Programme

Special Interest Group (SIG) Days
Special Interest Group (SIG) representatives will be introducing sessions on these SIG Days
and will be present at the Open Forum. Don’t forget to look through your Programme to see
what other interesting talks and workshops related to your area of special interest are being
held throughout the conference.
Business English
Monday in Exchange 10
Coordinators:
Julia Waldner & Cornelia Kreis-Meyer
3.1 1025-1055 Changing the mindset of lower-level learners through
online collaborations
Ellen Rana
3.2 1130-1200 English for the workplace: changing needs and changing contexts
Jonathan Deer
1205-1235 English for employability: assessing oral skills through a job interview
Patrick McMahon
3.3 1335-1420 Developing listening competence
Evelina Miscin
3.4 1435-1520 Spice up your Business English class with Pecha Kucha!
Suzanne Vetter-M'Caw
3.5 1535-1605 Yesterday... today... tomorrow...
Olena Korol
3.6 1640-1710 How to make ELT videos
Vicki Hollett
3.7 1725-1830 IATEFL Business English SIG Open Forum (see page 227)
English for Specific Purposes
Saturday in Central 7
Coordinators:
Aysen Guven & Prithvi Shrestha
1.1 1040-1125 EAP writing: teaching strategies for effective paraphrasing
Tina Kuzic
1.2 1200-1230 Teaching technical English – a challenge
Dominic Welsh
2 PHOTOS
1235-1305 IATEFL English for Specific Purposes SIG Open Forum (see page 59)
1.3 1405-1450 Dictogloss redux: grammar dictation in a digital age
William Kerr
1.4 1505-1535 An overview of ESP research in Brazil: developments and directions
Rosinda Ramos
1.5 1550-1635 Teaching intercultural communication competence in the ESP tertiary
context
Agnieszka Dudzik & Agnieszka Dzieciol-Pedich
1.6 1710-1740 Metadiscoursal features of academic writing in the university business
school
Philip Nathan
1.7 1755-1825 Structured tasks for reading authentic journal articles in EAP
Barbara Howarth
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