29th VENTESOL ANNUAL CONVENTION: “REDEFINING TODAY’S ELT IN VENEZUELA” SATURDAY - MAY 28TH, 2011 Registration & Book Exhibit Opening Plenary: “Best Practices for Teaching Young Learners” – Joan Shin ROOM 2 Making Minibooks: A popular handson activity session TE-ALL Mairi Mackinnon ROOM 3 Empty Handed but Ready to Teach Children EE-TE ROOM 4 Technology in the EFL Classroom, is it possible? ALL-TECH ROOM 5 Blogs, Social Networks, & IM Tools for Language Teaching ALL-TECH Joan Colmenares ROOM 6 English in Venezuela: Cultural Learnings from Native Speakers AL-RS
Lianne Gonsalves Eric Buley Jillian López Carolyn Cuong Camille Sheffield
ROOM 7 Teaching Strategies and Activities for Limited Resource Classrooms TE-ALL
TOP NOTCH: The best just got better SE-HE-TECHTE-PA
COMPUTER LAB Creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN) with Web 2.0 Tools ALL-TECH
PARANINFO The 21st Learner and the Grammar Issue ALL-TE
Ma. Patricia Gonzalez
Maria Cecilia Avila
Tim Robinson and Johanna López
Evelyn Izquierdo
Alfieri Avilan
Mary Allegra and Mónica Fernandez
ICTs and Distance Education Materials: Assessing their Quality and Multicultural Understanding in EFL Materials ALL-RS Audy Castañeda
Plenary: “I Am Not A Toy!: Including G-learning in the ELT Curriculum” – Nick Perkins Lunch Break Plenary: Building Fluent, Passionate and Confident Readers – Mairi Mackinnon Brain Based Myths, Legends CEVAZ TEFL Technophobe A Stylistic View of Learning & Humor: Certification Teachers ‘Hybridity’ and Activities for Highlighting Program ALL-TECH ‘Resistance’ in Second Culture in ALL-TE Postcolonial Anglo Language TEFL Caribbean Poetry Acquisition ALL-TE HE-RS EE-TE Claritza Basabe and Marlene Cynthia Moleiro David Durán Parada and Eliluz Diaz Eufrandy Tineo Julie Pisano
Teaching English: a Valuable Free Resource for Teachers ALL-TE
Learning and Teaching styles for Primary Students EE-TE
Coffee Break Plenary: “The Four Cs Exposed” – Mickey Rogers VenTESOL Toast CULTURAL ACTIVITY AT BARRIO SANTA LUCIA
HOUR ROOM 1 Empowering ELT Classroom through Images ALL-TE Concurrent Sessions 08:00-09:30 WORKSHOPS Alexana Alambarrio and Yanette Dacosta Mariela Salazar Yskeila Garcia and Carlos Rivero ROOM 2 Developing Teaching Resources for your Students ALL-TE ROOM 3 Creative and Dynamic Strategies for Teaching ESP Classes ALL-AL
SUNDAY - MAY 29TH, 2011 MORNING ROOM 4 8:00 – 9:00 Developing and Assessing Speaking Skills: Helpful Hints ALL-TE Luisa Cristina Alvarez and Waleska Ruiz 9:05 – 9:30 Education Opportunities in the US for English Teachers Angel Garcia US Embassy A Multimodal Approach when Teaching English Stress ALL-TE ROOM 5 Vocabulary Strategies to Enliven your Class SE-HE-AE-TE ROOM 6 ESP Training Need Analysis at Universidad Metropolitana HE-RS ROOM 7 Sing and Dance, Make a Fun Class! PE-EE-TE COMPUTER LAB High-Tech Resources for Immigrant and Native Digitals ALL-TECH PARANINFO The Case for a Two-strand Skills Syllabus ALL-TE
Liliana Ortega
Olga Galarraga
Mariana Alloca and Marian Trias
Elida Gomez
Mickey Rogers
09:30-10:00 EST Reading Activities for University Level Teaching HE-TE Blended Learning for Children EE-TESTTECH-TE Online Teacher Development: Challenges and Opportunities ALL-TECH
Concurrent Sessions 10:00-11:00
PRESENTATIONS
Coffee Break Connect Students to the Multicultural World EE-PA-TE
Classroom Management ALL-AL
Making the Journey as Exciting as the Destination! EE-PA Julie Pisano McGraw commercial
The BBC Learning English Website ALL-TECH
Carlos Torrealba
Andrés Ramos MacMillan Commercial
Teadira Castillo and Elvina Pérez
Johannes Rojas and EnderRojas
Mercedes Perleche
Joyce Muñoz
Ciro Garcia
11:10-12:10 12:10 – 1:30
Plenary: “Becoming Interculturally Competent in English” - Joan Shin LUNCH BREAK SUNDAY - MAY 29TH, 2011
HOUR ROOM 1 Cultural Care Au Pair Venezuela ALL Concurrent Sessions 01:30 -02:30
PRESENTATIONS
AFTERNOON ROOM 2 1:30 – 1:55 Getting University Students to Grammar through the Internet and Self-Assessment HE-RS Josefina Espinoza 2:05 – 2:30 Blog: An Evaluative Tool in "Instrumental English" at Marketing Career HE-TECH Orquidea Flores Creating Activities with Podcasts for the ESL Classroom ALL-TECH Daniel Castillo, Evelyn Urbina and Freddy Venagas ROOM 3 Meet Education USA! ALL ROOM 4 Influence of Knowledge of text Structure on Reading HE-RS ROOM 5 Errors in Word Stress and Segmental Features ALL-AL ROOM 6 Taking English to the Barrios ALL-TE ROOM 7 Expanding the EFL Teacher trainee's Profile at UPELIBID PE-EE-PA-RS COMPUTER LAB Who’s Afraid of the Web? ALL-MW-TECH
Johanna Phelan Commercial
Claudia Sánchez CEVAZ Commercial
María Carolina Lizardi
Melissa Delph
Jeremy Newton British Council
Abilio Mujica and Luz Mujica
Rubena St. Louis
Teaching Strategies Supervision for Language Learning ALL-RS 2:35 – 3:35
PRESENTATIONS
Careless Talk Cost Lives ALL
MP4-Literature Teacher: Hand in Hand Promoting Reading HE-TECH
Making the EFL Class Come alive with Videos AE-TE Lourdes Betancourt
Teacher: Are You Redefining your Way? HE-AE-RS
IPMAR students' Perception of the Native Speaker in EFL HE-ALL-RS-PA Yvonne Saulny, Yvemar Peraza, Cruz Colmenarez and Manuel Arrioja
Blended EFL Classes at University Level HE-TECH
Marco Hernández
Nelson Curbelo, Eugenia Di Bella and Jennifer Parra
Rosaura Hernandez
Lucenia Farias
Doris Molero
03:35-04:05 4:05 -5:05 5:10 - 06:00 Intended Audience : PE – Preschool Education EE – Elementary Education SE – Secondary Education HE – Higher Education AE – Adult Education ALL – All interested persons
Coffee Break Plenary: Re-examining the “E” in TESOL through World Englishes – Carmen Chacón VenTESOL Assembly Topic of Interest : MW – Materials Writers TEST – Testing and Assessment RS - Research PA - Program Administration TE – Teacher Education AL – Applied Linguistics TECH – Technology in ESL/EFL