Schedule at a Glance

33rd VenTESOL National Convention

Breaking Paradigms and Borders in ELT

UGMA, Barcelona, Anzoategui, Vzla

May 30th and 31st, 2015

http://www.ventesol.org | http://ventesol.ning.com

TIME SATURDAY May 30th, 2015

08:00-05:00 Registration

09:00- 10:00 Welcoming Session to the Annual Convention

10:00 – 11:00 Opening Plenary: Keys to Success: Prosocial Education, Mindfulness and Empathy by Mary Scholl (US Embassy)

Sessions Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Language Lab

11:15 – 12:00

Ready? Set…Go!

Fun and Effective

Class Planning

Mary Álvarez ALL-TE-TECH

Planning for

Serious Laughter

Mónica Bello & Francis Bellorín

PE-TE

Student Peer

Review Revisited

Audy Castañeda

HE-AE-TE

The Distinctive

Characteristics of

Foreign Language

Teachers

Freddy Vanegas & Evelyn Urbina

HE-RS

Collaboration?

YES! A Team-

teaching

Approach

Elizabeth Ortiz

ALL-TE

Theatricality in the

EFL Classroom

Adriana Lovera

PE-EE-SE-ALL-TE

Light Your Own Fire!

Marcela Raffo

ALL

Social Media and

ELT: A Case for

Pinterest

Andrés Ramos

ALL-TEST-TE-PA-

RS-TECH

Shifting My

Perception from

Teacher to

Freelancer

Marina Majonica

ONLINE

SESSION

ALL

Appraisal Markers

and Critical

Reading in ESP

Ingrid Castell

HE-RS-AL

Why Do Not My

Students Like to

Research?

Yohimar Sivira

HE-RS

12:15 – 01:00

Highlighting

Holidays and

Culture in the EFL

Classroom

Jesús Amado

SE–ALL-TE-AL

In-house

Materials for

ESP Students at

UMC

Freddy Carreño &

Lisbeth Belisario

All-RS

Learning

Strategies in the

Foreign Language

Classroom

Daniel Castillo &

Álvaro Jordán

ALL-RS

A Digital Era is

Unstoppable

Rossaynes

Solórzano

HE-ALL-TECH

Best Practices:

Teachers Making

Things Work

Helena Guerrero

RECORDED SESSION

PE-EE-SE-TE

Poetry for

Meaningful English

Lessons. Let’s Try?

Diego Navarro

ALL-TE

Education

Opportunities in the

US

Marta García &

Ángel García

ALL

VenTESOL

Special Interest

Groups (SIGs) –

Creating

Successful

Communities of

Practice

Evelyn Izquierdo

ALL

01:00 – 02:00 Lunch Break (Lunch provided to participants)

02:00 – 03:00 Plenary Session: A Road from Binary to Complex Thinking by Marina González (Universal Text / Cengage Learning & National Geographic)

03:15 – 04:00

Mind Shakers: A

Different

Perspective in

Teaching

Paradigms

Adrian Rondón

ALL-TE

Enhancing

Critical

Thinking

Through the

Reading of

Literature

Adriana González

ALL-TE

The Teacher’s

Smartphone -

Door to

Technology

Integration

Alirio González

EE-SE-HE-TECH

The ABC’s of EFL

Program Design

Marisela Ferrer &

Cynthia Moleiro

ALL-TE

Music and

English: English

Program for

Young Musicians

Diorling Medina & Yeidi Parra

ALL

Developing

Teaching Resources

Through Reusable

Materials

Zoigrace Sánchez & Mijail Contreras

ALL-MW

Applying Case Study

Method in Language

Teacher Education

Víctor Hugo Rojas

HE-TE

Reading + Sight

Words. Have You

Tried it Yet?

Yusisu Fuenmayor

ALL-TECH

English Students’

Oral Corpus: A

Multicultural

Project

Chinger Zapata

ONLINE

SESSION HE-TECH

04:15 – 05:00

Critical

Thinking

Activities:

Ready to Break

the Paradigms?

Jerry Guerrero

SE-HE-ALL-

TEST-TE-TECH

Pushing Your

Classroom to the

Limit

Damian Laurayne

SE-HE-AE-TE-

TECH

The Perfect

Update:

Technology to

Teach English

Alejandra Lovera

EE-SE-HE-AE-

ALL-TE-TECH

Corpus-based

Digital Dictionary

Construction for

ESP

Julio César Palma

HE-MW-TECH

Mine and Craft

Your EFL

Experience with

Minecraft

Andy Cuevas

EE-SE-HE-ALL-

MW-RS-TECH

Spelling Bee

Competitions: A

Powerful Tool

María Susana Hernández, Mónica

León and Luis Villar

ALL-TE

Gamifying the

ELT course book

Graham Stanley

ONLINE

SESSION

ALL-TECH

05:00– 05:30 Coffee Break

05:30 – 06:30 Plenary Session: Enhancing Language Learning Through Technology by Pete Sharma (British Council)

06:30 – 08:30 Annual Assembly: Board of Directors Elections 2015-2016

SOCIAL GATHERING AND VENTESOL ANNUAL TOAST

TIME SUNDAY - May 31st, 2015

08:00 – 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 – 09:30 Plenary Session: Unleash Your Experience: Being a 21st Century Reflective Practitioner by Micah Risher (RELO Andes)

Sessions Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Language Lab

9:45 – 10:30

Project-Based

Learning (PBL) in

the EFL Class

Audy Castañeda &

Paola Betancourt

ALL-TE

CoPs: 00-

Teachers, Non-

Secret Agents of

Change

Andrés Ramos

ALL-TE-RS

Designing Didactic

Units for

Interactive EFL

Courses

Evelyn Urbina,

Daniel Castillo &

Freddy Vanegas

ALL-MW-TE

English Moment: A

Paradigm Breaker

in ELT

Miriannys Velásquez

PE-EE-SE-ALL-TE

What

@USEmbassyVE

and @reloandes

have for ELT in

Venezuela

Sandra Botero &

Marcela Raffo

ALL

Applications:

Exploring

Prosocial

Education,

Mindfulness and

Empathy

Mary Scholl

ALL-MW-TE

Flashcards: One Tool,

Multiple Uses

María Gabriela Aguirre

PE-EE-SE-ALL

Breaking ELT

Paradigms through

Critical Thinking

SE-HE-AE-ALL

Clevia Perez

40 Practical Ideas

for Using

Technology in

ELT

Pete Sharma

ALL-TECH

10:45–11:30

Did You Say,

Create a PSA?

Cynthia Moleiro

SE-TE-TECH

Teaching Speaking:

Stress, Rhythm, and

Intonation

Jorge Viloria &

Gabriel Carrillo

ALL-AL

Developing New

Habits

Virginia Velásquez

HE-AE-TE-TECH

Sociocultural Factors

in Language Learning

María Elena Silva

ALL

Project & Task-

based Learning: An

Assessment

Approach

Thais Villa, Miguel

Frontado & Jessyca Villarroel

EE-SE-HE-TEST-RS-

AL

11:45: – 12:45 Plenary Session: I’m a Teacher! What’s your Superpower? By Marina Majonica, Miguel Pérez, Milagros Quijada, Johannes Rojas and José Zapata

12:45 - 01:45 Lunch Break (Lunch provided for all participants)

01:45 – 02:45 Colloquium: Breaking Paradigms and Borders in ELT in the Andean Region: VenTESOL – ASOCOPI- Ecuador TESOL- RELO Perú

03:00 - 03:45

Adapting CiSELT

Methodology to the

Speaking

Classroom

Mahly Martinez

HE-TE

Are You

Teaching? Use

Techno-tools!

Henry Ramos

ALL-TECH

Corpus-based

Digital Dictionary

Construction for

ESP

Julio César Palma

HE-MW-TECH

Have fun with

Preschool Kids

Victoria Romero & Freyja Reyes

PE-TE

Humor as a

Motivational

Factor in EFL

Teaching

Desirée Rondón &

Carmen Tonya Linares

SE-AE-TE

Giving the

Classroom a

Purpose:

Interaction

Laura Escalante &

William Chacón ALL-TE-AL

Promoting Research

on Literature for

English Language

Learning

Vanessa Ruiz

HE-RS

Photography as an

Extra Tool In Class

Marta Sojo

SE-HE-AE-AL

What the Flipped

Classroom Means

to Language

Teachers

Russell Stannard

ONLINE

SESSION

ALL-TECH

Boosting EFL

Proficiency

Through TV Series

Olga Galarraga

SE-HE-AE-RS-TE

03:45 – 04:15 Coffee Break

04:15 – 05:15 Closing Plenary Session: ELT for Peace by Doris Molero (URBE)

05:15 – 06:15

CLOSING CEREMONY AND RAFFLES

Announcement of elected members for new board of directors 2015-2016

06:15 – 06:45 Certificates pick-up