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					  - Arguments against teaching English as an international
 Language in Brazil Roddy Kay, North East Brazil
   
					  - Country-specific materials- a Brazilian case study
 Secondary Virginia Garcia, Ricardo Sili, Carla Chaves, Cultura Inglesa, Brazil
  
					  - British ELT and the main stream
 Re-published from IATEFL 2005 Conference selections Rod Boliltho, College of St Mark and St John's, Plymouth, UK 
					  - Foreign languages in Steiner-Waldorf education
 Laying the foundations: the first three years of English Primary  Dr Christoph Jaffke, Hiroshima University, Japan 
					  - Means of mass memorisation of multi-word expressions
 Part II the power of images Upper secondary adult  Frank Boers, Brussels, Belgium, Seth Lindstromberg,Kent, UK 
					    
					  
					  
					  
						  
						Portonovo 2006
  
					
						Fifth International Conference on Humanism in Language Teaching 
						28-31 august 2006 in Portonovo (AN) ITALY
  
						Dive into new energy to boost your daily teaching practice and your personal development. Stunning location, unique learning atmosphere, first class training, fun. 
						Featuring: Mark Almond (Christchurch College), Stephanie Dimond-Beyir ( Bell), Keith Kelly (NILE), Donald Freeman (McGraw Hill), Susan Norman (SEAL), Izabella Hearn ( Pearson), Mario Rinvolucri (Helbling), Penelope Williams (Pilgrims)
  
						Comenius fundings for foreign teachers at : www.indire.it/socrates/info/public/showlist.php?startrow=30&maxrows=31
  
						Find out more at  www.lend.it/portonovo2006 
						Contact Valeria Gallerani: v.gallerani@dinoto.net   +39 347 2821223 
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					  Using the CALL classic, Storyboard, for joke-telling   Esther Lozano Estopanyan, EOI 1, Zaragoza, Spain 
					   
					  
					  
					  
					   
 
					  
					  
					  - Being down so long, seems like up to me
 Depression Lou Spaventa, Sta Barbara, Calilfornia, USA
  
					  - The "personal organiser", or portfolio, moves students into autonomy
 Secondary adult Carlos Leite, Flavio Franca, Brazil
  
					  - iTs…..the story of how a newsletter became a magazine
 Robert Campbell, editor, iTs magazine, BArcelona Catalunya, Spain
  
					  - PowerPoint- innocent proven guilty- the case for the defence
 Upper secondary adult Marijana Vucic-Pecnik, Natalija Andrakovic-Kostanjevac, Phil Dexter, Zagreb, Croatia 
					  - Surviving a teaching presentation - the non-verbal way
 Tom Maguire, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  
					  - Straight from the chalkface: test-driving the interactive white board
 Primary secondary adult Re-published from IATEFL SIG Newsletter Miranda Hamilton, Bell, Cambridge, UK  
					   
					  
					   
					  
					  
					  Any difference between cemetery and graveyard? Adults ( very old!) Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK 
					  
					  
					  
					  - Learners become dictionaries
 Simon Marshall, Pilgrims, UK
  
					  - Dealing with stereotypes
  
					  - Feelings
  
					  - I used to, but not any more
 Activities 2-4 are offered by Chaz Pugliese, Paris, France
  
					   
					   
					  
					  
					  
					  Writings of a 13 year old school girl in a Chinese village Exerpts from  The Diary of Ma Yan, edited Pierre Haski.
  
					  
					  
					  Can your students eat in the classroom? A review, by Agota Scharle,Budapest, Hungary, of Creative Resources, Bonnie Tsai, Judit Feher, International Alliance for Leraning, 2005
  
					  
					  
					  Running Dictation and three 2006 improvements on it Primary, secondary, adult Tandy Taylor, Richard Man, Pilgrims, HMS Raleigh, Plymouth , UK
  
					  
					  
					  Easter 2006 at Pilgrims, Canterbury, UK Jim Wright, Head of Teacher training, Pilgrims, UK
  
					  
					  
					  
						IATEFL’s Teacher Development and Teacher Trainers’ and Educators’ Special Interest Groups (TTEd SIG) / Başkent University conference 
						25 – 28 May 2006  
						Venue: Ankara, Turkey. 
						Conference theme Extending development and training horizons. 
						Plenary speakers: Deniz Kurtoğlu Eken and Dave Allan
  
						Proposals for talks and workshops by January 27th 
						Special 'early bird' registration rates until March 25th 
						Further information at http://dudeney.com/iatefl/ttedsig/ TTEdSIG@iatefl.org 
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					   - If you love them……. 
 Paul Davis, Cambridge UK and Sopot Poland
  
					   - How useful is teaching experience? 
 Khoram Balaee, Tehran, Iran
  
					   
					  
					  Introduction to Creative Writing Christine Frank, Mario Rinvolucri
  
					  
					  
					  Iki Masho ( Let's go) Janet Braithwaite, UK
  
					  Acknowledgements JJohn Morgan, UK 
  
					   
					  
					  		
					  	
					  
					   
					  
					   
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