ELT (English Language Teaching) NİLÜFER



	Biodata	Mora Hockstein is an ESL/EFL teacher, curriculum developer, and teacher trainer currently working as an English instructor in the preparatory program at Koç University in Istanbul. This is her 11th year teaching overseas, and her 7th school year in Turkey. In Turkey, she has also worked as a high school English and Spanish teacher and as a visiting lecturer in the English Language Teaching program at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu. She received her Master's in Instructional Systems Design and ESOL/Bilingual Education from the University of Maryland in the United States, and completed her K-12 teaching certification at the American School of Asuncion in Paraguay, South America. She is keen on empowering teachers with practical ideas for the classrom that increase active learning, student autonomy, and student self-confidence.
	Abstract	This is a workshop designed to give teachers a handful of quick informal assessment tools that allow them to systematically evaluate, document, and analyze what, how well, and how much their students are learning before a high-stakes testingsituation.

	Biodata	Teresa Doğuelli has been a teacher and trainer for over 35 years, fighting for best practice and freedom to learn and teach naturally, with joy and passion, and above all, with lasting results. She has lived and worked in Turkey since 1979, teaching adults, university undergraduates, teenagers and children. She has trained teachers, teacher trainers and ELT inspectors for the Turkish Ministry of National Education, the British Council, METU University and College in Ankara, and Bilfen College in Istanbul. She has also held interactive workshops in Turkish for parents, administrators and teachers of other subjects in schools around Turkey and N.Cyprus to try and change outdated views, expectations and practices in education. Most recently she has worked as a freelance teacher trainer for Macmillan UK as Project Leader in Georgia, training materials writer and editor for Oxford University Press, and Oxford Teachers’ Academy Director throughout Turkey and abroad in Bosnia, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Morocco, N. Cyprus, Poland, Qatar, Russia and Serbia. She has an MA in Applied Linguistics (University of Reading, 1985) and a Dip.RSA TEFLA. In November 2011 Teresa joined British Side in Istanbul as a teacher trainer.
	Abstract	You don’t need to be an actor to experience drama! This interactive presentation deals with ways to prepare learners for and get them involved in a wide variety of drama activities as an integral part of the FL lesson. Participants will have the chance to try out and evaluate some of the activities for themselves.

	Biodata	Meghan Beler is a full-time teacher trainer for Oxford University Press and gives seminars and presentations on a variety of topics from young learners to adults. She has been working in the field of ELT for 9 years and has taught learners of all ages in Spain, Greece, and Turkey. She has been involved in many different ELT projects including CEFR syllabus mapping and exam alignment and her interests include learner autonomy, assessment and materials design. She is currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
	Abstract	11 Secret Weapons for Fighting Monotony All language teachers reach a point where classes become monotonous. Whether we are teaching the same tired students or drilling the same tired grammar point, sometimes we need to break out of the rut. This workshop offers participants 11 “Secret Weapons” that can be used time and time again.

	Biodata	Kathryn joined Express Publishing as an Educational Consultant bringing with her a wide background in teaching and management. She began her career as a Primary Teacher in Australia, later completed a Post Graduate Degree in Management and has worked in Istanbul since 1999, teaching all ages and working in the private, government and business sectors, including university and TEVİTÖL, a high school for gifted Turkish students. Kathryn has held many posts including Mentor, Academic Coordinator, Skills’ Coordinator and Editor of examinations and she holds the new Cambridge DELTA. Kathryn’s aim is to facilitate teacher development with a strong focus on participative learning in the classroom which caters for different learner needs and abilities.
	Abstract	The position of English as a vital global language is discussed with an emphasis on the implications for the ELT classrom. For students today, English is both a tool for communication and a means of cultural understanding. To 'open their doors to the world,' teachers are given examples of media and internet resources along with suggestions for using them in their lessons.

	Biodata	Devrim Özdemir was born and brought up in London and has been involved in ELT for the last twelve years, with teaching and teacher-training experience in primary and secondary schools and universities in Turkey, England and China focusing primarily on classroom management, personalised teaching and learning and interactive teaching/learning techniques in his training sessions. Devrim is a full time Educational Consultant for Cambridge University Press. In addition to this, he also continues to teach EAP courses every summer at the University of Leicester in the UK.
	Abstract	Dialogues are commonly used to present, practice and produce new language at almost every level. However, they can tend to become quite boring and repetitive unless the teacher takes initiative to liven up the way dialogues are handled. Even then many obstacles make dialogues less attractive than they could possibly become. Listening to other pairs carry out a role play, making students create interesting variations of dialogues, the artificial and impersonal nature of many dialogues used in course books, adding variety to the way they are used to present, practice and produce language and not use them in the same way all the time are just some of the issues this workshop will tackle by providing a range of activities that can be done with dialogues at almost every level.