ARTESOL

• Carolina VERGARA-MERY

5. What to do when rubrics go wrong?  Room: School Auditorium

(demonstration #104)

Rubrics have become one of the most consistent tools to assess written and oral performances in English. How to make sure, then, that those rubrics effectively give us the information we need? Participants will use the techniques and procedures presented to help improve faulty rubrics.

• Erickzon Dany ASTORGA CABEZAS

6. Grammaring:  The effects on EFL learners’ communicative skills – Room: Salón AMICANA

(research paper #122)

This study examines the results of implementing Grammaring to improve grammar proficiency in writing skills of low-level EFL learners. Data from 50-students control group and 50-students experimental group are gathered and interpreted. The results from a comparative analysis of pre- and post-tests will demonstrate improvements in EFL learners’ written skills.

• Jorge LEMOS SHLOTTER         

7. Let’s ‘Grammar’ with and from Systemic-Functional Linguistics  – Room 7         

(demonstration #148)

English grammar teaching in EFL classes should be neither challenging nor frustrating, but fun with and from Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL). Approaching teaching from such a perspective helps students internalize and use grammar meaningful and purposefully in contextualized discourses. To use such an approach improves students’ language intelligibility and performance.

• Jorge SÁNCHEZ

8. Fostering the learning of research genres in higher education – Room 8

(research paper #105)

Mastery of a foreign language is a priority for personal and professional development. At university, ESP courses should enhance the teaching and learning of research genres. Thus, this presentation informs about an on-going research project related to empirical informative abstracts conducted at the School of Political and Social Sciences, UNCuyo.

• Marcela QUINTANA & Lucia RAMOS

9. Metacognitive and cognitive processes in lesson planning – Room 25

(research paper #132)

This presentation will show the results of a study on metacognitive and cognitive processes that occur in the mind of pre-service EFL teachers when planning a lesson. This knowledge will eventually allow to determine better ways to support and improve our students’ higher order thinking skills.

• Paula CABRERA

1. Developing fluency and stress in the EFL Classroom – Room: School Auditorium

(demonstration #114)

English Pronunciation is a very valued skill among students. However, there are challenges with teaching it in an EFL setting. This presentation will focus on two classroom activities to practice and reinforce the teaching of fluency and stress using suprasegmentals.

• Paola DANESI

2. Critical thinking tasks to boost language development – Room: Salón AMICANA   CANCELLED    

(demonstration # 155)

Most children graduate from school today without having developed the critical thinking skills they need to face today´s demands. The speaker will present a portfolio of CT tasks to shake up students´ minds and help them enhance their language skills.

• Nicolle SUAZO ALBORNOZ

3. English Language Teachers’ perceptions towards Critical Pedagogy in ELT – Room 8  CANCELLED     

(research paper #103)

English language teaching needs to go beyond cognition with few socio-political implications. It requires to transform both students’ and teachers’ perspectives towards the society they are immersed. This research analyses the perceptions and attitudes of English language teachers towards critical pedagogy in ELT.

• Beatriz CASTIÑEIRA & María Rosa MUCCI

4. Are you listening to me? Multidimensional classroom talk – Room 25    

(demonstration #124)

Discourse analysis is a useful tool in ESL/EFL teaching for the selection of material, to increase students’ participation, and even to avoid students’ exclusion. This demonstration aims to show the use of DA to empower teachers by analyzing classroom interaction, thus enhancing communication.

Flip your classroom with My English Lab

Room 1. Sat. 12:00-12:45

During this commercial presentation, we will discover My English Lab as a way to flip your classes while encouraging learners to become more autonomous and develop 21st century skills.

Presenter: Daniela Zallocco