PROGRAMME

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It is possible to have a light lunch at Villa Pamphili on Friday at the additional cost of 28 euro. The lunch includes a choice of pasta, greens, dessert, water, wine and coffee. If you would like to reserve a place at this lunch you can pay at the conference registration desk on Thursday morning up until 13:00
 
Wednesday 2nd March
4:30 ~ 9:00 pm Registration opens  
 
Thursday 3rd March
8:00 ~ 8:45 Registration
Hall at garden level
8:45 ~ 9:15 Opening Remarks – Eithne Gallagher
Salone dei Papi
  Welcome – Dr Yvonne Hennigan  
9:15 ~ 10:30 Keynote Speech
  Dr Stephen Krashen
Applying the Comprehension Hypothesis (Part 1)
Salone dei Papi
10:30 ~ 11:00 Break
 
11:00 ~ 12:00 Concurrent Sessions
 
  Eugenia Papadaki
Promoting Multilingualism/Multiculturalism through Language Awareness
Sala Aldobrandini
  Sheri Valentine and Emma Kirk
Primary Use of Authentic Texts in Teaching ESOL Reading Comprehension
Sala Odescalschi
  Michael O’Neill
Whole School Approaches
Sala Colonna
  Fatemeh Alipanahi
Using Music in EFL classes
Sala Farnese
  Maurice Carder
Issues of Assessment Concerning ESL Students
Salone dei Papi
  Dr Rebecca Freeman-Field
Individual Consultations
Sala Carpegna
12:15 ~ 1:15 Invited Speaker Workshops
 
  Dr Else Hamayan
Is it LD or L2?
Sala Colonna
  Dr John Landon
Recognising the priority of early literacy development in L1
Sala Aldobrandini
  Dr Krashen and Dr Sternfeld
Lowering the Barriers
Salone dei Papi
1:15 ~ 2:15 Lunch
 
2:15 ~ 3:30 Invited Speaker Lecture
 
  Dr Jim Cummins
Communicative Language Teaching: Can We Do Better?
Salone dei Papi
3:30 ~ 4:00 Break
 
4:00 ~ 5:00 Concurrent Sessions
 
  Mary Ann Canzanella
Comprehensible and Authentic Texts: Alternatives to Graded Readers in the High School ESL classroom
Sala Odescalchi
  Jackie Holderness
Whole-brain learning for ESL students
Sala Colonna
  Gisela Rabearisoa
Games for the Language Classroom and Ideas for Creative Writing
Sala Farnese
  Kim Oppenheim
Ideas for ESL Proficiency Assessment
Sala Aldobrandini
  Dr Anna Uhl Chamot
The Role of Learning Strategies in English Language Teaching
Salone dei Papi
   
 
 Friday 4th March
9:00 ~ 10:15 Plenary Speaker
 
  Dr Stephen Krashen
Applying the Comprehension Hypothesis (Part 2)
Salone dei Papi
10:15 ~ 11:30 Invited Speaker Lecture
 
  Dr Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Wanted! Rationality for educational language planning for information societies, instead of today’s linguistic and cultural homogenization and linguistic genocide in education.
Salone dei Papi
11:30 ~ 12:00 Break
 
12:00 ~ 1:15 Concurrent Sessions
 
  Dr Rebecca Freeman-Field
Individual Consultations
Sala Carpegna
  Cathy Allen
Does the Emperor Have Clothes On? (Is our ESL support effective?)
Sala Rospigliosi
  Matthew Thurstan
10 Practical Steps to Overcoming Mother Tongue Cynicism
Sala Farnese
  Michael Allan
Language, Discourse and Learning in Culturally Diverse Learning Situations
Sala Colonna
  Jeanne-Marie Briginshaw
Educating Parents on ESL Issues
Sala Aldobrandini
  Brian Dare
Teaching about Language, Learning about Language
Sala Borghese
  Maurice Carder
IB MYP Second Language Acquisition and Mother Tongue Development
Sala Pamphili
  Poster Session
Sala Odescalchi
  Language A/Mother Tongue Programme at Munich International School
Helen Duckworth
  Elements of the Sheltered Immersion Mode
Michele Hussey and Olga Steklova
 
  Helping New LEP Students Adjust: Newcomers’ Stories From the Classroom
Alyssa Kolowrat, Jan Stipek and Troy Titterington
 
  Multimedia Story Maps
Tenley Newcomb
 
  ESL, Beginners and Inquiry
Liz Newman
 
  Building an ESL Program Web Site: an electronic compilation of the essentials
Jan Stipek and Troy Titterington
 
  A Cross-Curricular Trip to the Loire Valley
Sheri Valentine
 
  ESL Program Management Aspect of Orientation of New Junior School Staff in the ESL Programme and classroom Management with ESL Students
Elaine Warmington
 
   
 
OPTIONAL EVENTS … 
2:30 ~ 6:00 City Tour
A guided city tour starting from Villa Pamphili Hotel is organized for the afternoon of Friday 4th march at 2.30 p.m. and will last approximately 3½ hours.
 
8:00 ~ 11:30 Dinner in Rome in a “Ristorante tipico romano”
The social dinner will be held at Meo Patacca, a typical Roman restaurant in the famous Trastevere quartiere.
A shuttle service is provided from the Villa Pamphili Hotel to the restaurant starting at 8:00 and returns at the end of the dinner.
 
   
 
Saturday 5th March
9:00 ~ 10:15 Plenary Speaker
 
  Dr. Stephen Krashen
Applying the Comprehension Hypothesis (Part 3)
Salone dei Papi
10:15 ~ 10:45 Invited Speaker Lecture
 
  Edna Murphy
The Long and Winding Road: Why the International Community Should Be Doing Its Own Research
Salone dei Papi
10:45 ~ 11:15 Break
 
11:15 ~ 12:15 Invited Speaker Workshops
 
  Dr Jim Cummins
The Comprehension Hypothesis and Technology: Friend or Foe?
Sala Pamphili
  Dr Else Hamayan
Is it LD or L2?
Sala Colonna
  Dr Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Is English enough? Or are voluntarily English-monolingual dinosaurs going to be in pathological museums in 2100? Economic fairness of English language imperialism in education and elsewhere.
Sala Borghese
  Dr Anna Uhl Chamot
How to Plan and Implement CALLA Instruction
Sala Aldobrandini
12:30 ~ 1:45 Lunch
 
1:45 ~ 3:00 Invited Speaker Lecture
 
  Dr John Landon
L1 Development in Schools –rhetoric or reality?
Salone dei Papi
3:00 ~ 4:30 Panel Discussion
Salone dei Papi
  Closing Remarks
Eithne Gallagher

Chair of ECIS ESL and Mother Tongue Committee
 
  Farewell Coffee
 

 


Marymount International
School


Rome, 3 - 5 march 2005




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