The IATEFL Computer SIG
Virtual Pre-Conference Event
Bios
Paul Brett
Pete MacKichan
Gary Motteram
Lesley Shield
Diane Slaouti
Geoff Taylor
Dede Teeler
truna aka j. turner
Eric Baber
Tutor Groups
Paul's Group
Paul's
Tutor Group
Our Tutor:
Paul Brett, PhD
Senior Lecturer in EFL
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences,
University of Wolverhampton,
Wolverhampton
Home Page:- http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1969
My name is Marisa and I am from València (Spain). I
live and work here. I am a primary English and French teacher and I have being teaching
young learners during 15 years. At the moment I am not teaching children. I work as
teacher trainer and Educational Adviser, so that my work has completely changed. I have
lots of experience in teaching children and it has been a challenge to start planning
courses for teachers and giving sessions. I am in charge of preparing the introduction of
the FL to very small children in our schools (6 / 7 year old). Its hard work but it's
worthwhile.
My name is Alicia Rey and I am from Argentina. I live in a
town in the North East of the country, very near Brazil. Most of my friends say that
I’m a bit of an anorak with CALL, Multimedia and Internet… and they ARE right!
My family confirm that and add that I am an EFL fan.I’ve been teaching English for 13 years now and I travelled to England 6 consecutive Argentine "summers" –i.e. six cold English "winters" to attend teacher training courses. Strange / incredible though it may sound for many of you I would really look forward to leave the tropical weather and go for the training. That said, I now guess my new friends will also consider me an anorak!
I am also
very interested in NLP and humanistic approaches. I find them completely fascinating.
What’s more, they are what people need nowadays, after so much contact with hi-tech
stuff. And this is where a have teach English in a multimedia environment to small groups
of students. The is the place where I have 4 PCs connected to the Internet and where I
would like to try on/line teaching in the near future.
Daan van der Tuin :
I have taught in Dutch secondary education for thirty years now. In our system communication is the main item. So a lot of attention is paid to speaking and writing letters.
Students in my classes (12 to 14 year-olds) work independently as the books are fit for that. Teachers find this type of work a bit frightening in the beginning for they feel they are losing control of the class and the students. But after the first tests, if mainly sufficient, they begin to feel better.
In our computer room we practise with programmes that go with the English books. In some higher forms we practise with reading texts or advertisements from newspapers. But as far as internet is concerned, this is still so new to me that I have not yet worked with students on the internet.
I hope to increase my knowledge in PCE, so that I will be able to use internet in my future lessons.
http://www.dolfijn.nl/
Nu ook telefoonnummers vinden op Ilse: http://www.ilse.nl/
John Clark:
I'm an EFL teacher in Valladolid, Spain where I've
lived for ten years now. Last year I was director of studies at a well established
language school. This year I've changed jobs to be part-time with fewer work
responsibilities, to be able to look after my little boy, born last April.
I am a Team Leader for the Cambridge Young Learner exams and oral examiner for the other
Cambridge exams. I've worked for several years preparing students for the London Chamber
of Commerce Written English for Business exams. My interests are teaching children,
Business English and English for Specific Purposes.
I have another job. I've been working as an internet tutor with the Mid-Sweden University,
organised by David Richardson (See IATEFL ISSUES 144). So far I've tutored on an English
for the Chemical Industry Course and we are currently developing a Business Writing
course. The tutoring is done asychronously.
My interests for this PCE are to try out new (for me) technology and to discuss what type
of students are going to be interested in learning languages on line. I suspect that they
will be students who cannot attend
traditional classes. I took a TESOL Diploma at a distance (using 'snail-mail') because I
couldn't attend an intensive face to face course.
Another thing I would be happy to discuss are the advantages and
disadvantages of learning languages at a distance using the new
technologies.