29th VENTESOL ANNUAL CONVENTION: “REDEFINING TODAY’S ELT IN VENEZUELA”

HOUR SATURDAY - MAY 28TH, 2011

08:00 - 9:00 Registration & Book Exhibit
9:00 – 10:30 Opening Plenary: “Best Practices for Teaching Young Learners” – Joan Shin
COMPUTER
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LAB PARANINFO
TOP NOTCH: Making Empty Handed Technology in Blogs, Social English in Teaching Creating a Personal The 21st Learner
Concurrent The best just got Minibooks: A but Ready to the EFL Networks, & IM Venezuela: Strategies and Learning and the Grammar
Sessions better popular hands- Teach Children Classroom, is it Tools for Cultural Learnings Activities for Network (PLN) with Issue
SE-HE-TECH- on activity EE-TE possible? Language from Native Limited Resource Web 2.0 Tools ALL-TE
10:35-12:05 TE-PA session ALL-TECH Teaching Speakers Classrooms ALL-TECH
TE-ALL ALL-TECH AL-RS TE-ALL
WORKSHOPS
Nick Perkins Mairi Lianne Gonsalves
Longman - Mackinnon Ma. Patricia Maria Cecilia Joan Colmenares Eric Buley
Pearson Gonzalez Avila Jillian López Tim Robinson and Evelyn Izquierdo Alfieri Avilan
Commercial Carolyn Cuong Johanna López
Camille Sheffield
12:10–01:10 Plenary: “I Am Not A Toy!: Including G-learning in the ELT Curriculum” – Nick Perkins
1:10 – 2:40 Lunch Break
02:40 – 3:40 Plenary: Building Fluent, Passionate and Confident Readers – Mairi Mackinnon
Strengthening ICTs and Brain Based Myths, Legends CEVAZ TEFL Technophobe A Stylistic View of Teaching English: a Learning and
the Listening Distance Learning & Humor: Certification Teachers ‘Hybridity’ and Valuable Free Teaching styles for
Experiences Education Activities for Highlighting Program ALL-TECH ‘Resistance’ in Resource for Primary Students
ALL-TE Materials: Second Culture in ALL-TE Postcolonial Anglo Teachers EE-TE
Concurrent Assessing their Language TEFL Caribbean Poetry ALL-TE
Sessions Quality Acquisition ALL-TE HE-RS
and EE-TE Claritza Basabe
03:45 - 04:45 Mary Allegra and Multicultural and Marlene Cynthia Moleiro
Mónica Understanding David Durán Parada and Eliluz Diaz Eufrandy Tineo Jeremy Newton Joan Shin
PRESENTATIONS Fernandez in EFL Julie Pisano British Council
Materials
ALL-RS
Audy Castañeda
04:45 – 5:15 Coffee Break
05:30 - 06:30 Plenary: “The Four Cs Exposed” – Mickey Rogers
06:30-08:00 VenTESOL Toast
09:00-10:00 CULTURAL ACTIVITY AT BARRIO SANTA LUCIA
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HOUR MORNING
COMPUTER PARANINFO
ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3 ROOM 4 ROOM 5 ROOM 6 ROOM 7
LAB
Empowering Developing Creative and 8:00 – 9:00 Vocabulary ESP Training Sing and Dance, High-Tech Resources The Case for a
ELT Classroom Teaching Dynamic Developing and Strategies to Need Analysis at Make a Fun for Immigrant and Two-strand Skills
through Images Resources for Strategies for Assessing Enliven your Universidad Class! Native Digitals Syllabus
ALL-TE your Students Teaching ESP Speaking Skills: Class Metropolitana PE-EE-TE ALL-TECH ALL-TE
ALL-TE Classes Helpful Hints SE-HE-AE-TE HE-RS
Concurrent ALL-AL ALL-TE
Sessions Luisa Cristina
08:00-09:30 Alvarez and
Waleska Ruiz
WORKSHOPS 9:05 – 9:30
Education
Alexana Opportunities in Mariana Alloca
Alambarrio and Mariela Salazar Yskeila Garcia and the US for Liliana Ortega Olga Galarraga and Marian Trias Elida Gomez Mickey Rogers
Yanette Dacosta Carlos Rivero English
Teachers
Angel Garcia
US Embassy
09:30-10:00 Coffee Break
EST Reading Blended Online Teacher A Multimodal Connect Classroom Making the The BBC Learning
Activities for Learning for Development: Approach when Students to the Management Journey as English Website
University Level Children Challenges and Teaching Multicultural ALL-AL Exciting as the ALL-TECH
Concurrent Teaching EE-TEST- Opportunities English Stress World Destination!
Sessions HE-TE TECH-TE ALL-TECH ALL-TE EE-PA-TE EE-PA
10:00-11:00

PRESENTATIONS Julie Pisano

Carlos Torrealba Andrés Ramos Teadira Castillo Johannes Rojas Mercedes McGraw
MacMillan and Elvina Pérez and EnderRojas Perleche Joyce Muñoz commercial Ciro Garcia
Commercial
11:10-12:10 Plenary: “Becoming Interculturally Competent in English” - Joan Shin
12:10 – 1:30
LUNCH BREAK
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HOUR AFTERNOON
COMPUTER
ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3 ROOM 4 ROOM 5 ROOM 6 ROOM 7
LAB
Cultural Care Au 1:30 – 1:55 Meet Education Influence of Errors in Word Taking English to Expanding the EFL Who’s Afraid of the
Pair Venezuela Getting University USA! Knowledge of text Stress and the Barrios Teacher trainee's Web?
ALL Students to Grammar ALL Structure on Segmental ALL-TE Profile at UPEL- ALL-MW-TECH
through the Internet Reading Features IBID
Concurrent
and Self-Assessment HE-RS ALL-AL PE-EE-PA-RS
Sessions
HE-RS
01:30 -02:30
Josefina Espinoza
PRESENTATIONS
2:05 – 2:30
Blog: An Evaluative
Johanna Phelan Tool in "Instrumental Claudia Sánchez María Carolina Jeremy Newton Abilio Mujica and
Commercial English" at Marketing CEVAZ Commercial Lizardi Melissa Delph British Council Luz Mujica Rubena St. Louis
Career
HE-TECH
Orquidea Flores
Teaching Strategies Creating Activities Careless Talk Cost MP4-Literature Making the EFL Teacher: Are You IPMAR students' Blended EFL
Supervision for with Podcasts for the Lives Teacher: Hand in Class Come alive Redefining your Perception of the Classes at
Language Learning ESL Classroom ALL Hand Promoting with Way? Native Speaker in University Level
ALL-RS ALL-TECH Reading Videos HE-AE-RS EFL HE-TECH
2:35 – 3:35 HE-TECH AE-TE HE-ALL-RS-PA
PRESENTATIONS
Marco Hernández Daniel Castillo, Evelyn Nelson Curbelo, Yvonne Saulny,
Urbina and Freddy Eugenia Di Bella and Lourdes Betancourt Yvemar Peraza,
Venagas Jennifer Parra Rosaura Hernandez Lucenia Farias Cruz Colmenarez Doris Molero
and Manuel Arrioja
03:35-04:05 Coffee Break
4:05 -5:05 Plenary: Re-examining the “E” in TESOL through World Englishes – Carmen Chacón
5:10 - 06:00 VenTESOL Assembly
Intended Audience : Topic of Interest :

PE – Preschool Education MW – Materials Writers TEST – Testing and Assessment

EE – Elementary Education
SE – Secondary Education
HE – Higher Education
AE – Adult Education
ALL – All interested persons
RS - Research
PA - Program Administration
TE – Teacher Education
AL – Applied Linguistics
TECH – Technology in ESL/EFL