US Delusions
What's in this issue?
- Transcending Borders: The Frayed Edges of Imagination
Robert Mcneer
(A shortened version of McNeer's address to English Week 2004, International Steiner EFL conference, Altenberg, Germany.
- Dynamic Leadership; Leadership as a Journey
Nick Owen, London, UK
(This article is in response to Adrian Underhill's Learning Leadership and ELT Today, Jan 2005 Issue of HLT)
- Dogme, or dancing in the dark
Scott Thornbury, Barcelona, Spain
(Re-published from Folio, Jan 2005)
- Helping Learners to achieve multi-dimensional mental Representation in L2 Reading
Secondary and adult
Dr Hitomi Masuhara, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
(Re-published from Folio, Jan 2005)
- Teacher Isolation
Steve Darn, University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey
- Clowning and the heart of Teaching
Exploring the self that teaches
Secondary
Catherine Bryden, Steiner School, Germany
- From: Eats, shites and leaves
Crap english and how to use it
A.Parody, Michael 0'Mara Books, 2004
Upper secondary adult
- Hans Eberhard Piepho, RIP
Michael Legutke, University of Giessen, Germany
- The Heart of the Matter
Creativity in the classroom comes from how you live your life
Lou Spaventa, California, USA
- Don't roar at difficult students!
Secondary adult
Olga Chekchurina, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Teachers as People
Paul Bress, Whitstable, UK
- Guided Visualisation with 9-year-old pupils
Primary
Songul Erdogan, Turkey
- The Landscape of Change
Using NLP to help Middle School Children
Choose their High School
Secondary adult (using the technique for other purposes)
Gigliola Pagano, Pordenone, Italy
- ELF at the gate: the possibility of English as a Lingua Franca
Jennifer Jenkins, King's College, London, UK
(Re-published from IATEFL 2004- Liverpool Conference Selections)
Five Exercises for teaching Culture
Upper secondary adult
Gill Johnson, Hastings, UK
Boredom
L. John Farley, 17, UK
Questionnaire by Simon Marshall, Pilgrims, UK
- Mastering Business English
A learning Resource Book
Adult
Bryant,Caquot, Metz, Sheehan and Vigier, Clermont Ferrand, France
(Author review)
- More Magic of Metaphor
Secondary and adult
Nick Owen, London, UK
(Author review)
Simon Says...But differently
Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK
Our Children's Courses
Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK
Downsides of staying in UK host families
Anastasia Diamantopoulou, Athens, Greece
Letters out from the class
12 Exercises taken from Letters
Burbidge, Levy, Gray and Rinvolucri, Oxford, 1996
- A school term away from home
Sheila Levy, Cambridge UK
- How do I know it was China?
Jane Arnold, Seville, Spain
- The Third Person Singular
Lina di Ciocco, Thessaloniki, Greece
The British Universities/MATSDA Postgraduate Research Conference: Perspectives on Materials Development 2005
Saturday 7th May, 2005, 10am - 4pm
School of Languages, Headingley Campus, Leeds Metropolitan University
We invite post-graduate students and researchers from British, EU and overseas universities to submit abstracts for 55-minute oral presentations related to research that informs materials development for language learning. We see this as an opportunity to put forward and exchange ideas on the interface between learning/teaching and materials development. We welcome contributions from both first time and experienced presenters and are happy to consider presentations on research in progress. Dave Willis will be plenary guest speaker. Free of charge for both admission and participation.
Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: Tuesday 12 April, 2005
Enquiries, Reservations and Applications - please contact:
Helen Crossley, School of Languages, Leslie Silver International Faculty, Leeds Metropolitan University, Macaulay Hall, Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 3QS.
Tel: 0113 283 7440. Fax: 0113 274 5966. Email: H.Crossley@leedsmet.ac.uk
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