BOLT SEMINAR 2014

Updated: 2019/08/28

THE 2^nd BOLT – UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES, UD LEARNING SEMINAR SERIES 2014

“WORKING TOGETHER WITH BETTER EXPERIENCES”

Venue: Grand Hall, 131 Luong Nhu Hoc Street

Time: Dec. 26 2014

Time	Events
7:30-8:0	Guest & Participant Reception
8:00-8:20	Opening Ceremony Grand Hall
8:20-9:20	Plenary presentation Grand Hall
9:20-9:35	Break
9:40-16:25	Simultaneous presentation at sessions
	*Room1*	*Room 2*	*Room 3*	*Room 4*	*Room 5*
9:40-10:35	Pres 1	Pres 2	Pres 3	Pres 4	Pres 5
10:35-11:30	Pres 2	Pres 3	Pres 4	Pres 5	Pres 1
11:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:25	Pres 3	Pres 4	Pres 5	Pres 1	Pres 2
14:25-15:20	Pres 4	Pres 5	Pres 1	Pres 2	Pres 3
	Break
15:25-16:20	Pres 5	Pres 1	Pres 2	Pres 3	Pres 4
16:20-17:00	Closing Ceremony Grand Hall

Presentation	Presenter	Workplace	Nationality
Plenary: Teaching supra-segmental pronunciation through Movie Dialogs	Prof. Michael Carroll	Momoyama Gakuin University	British
1) Speaking and Listening in Large Classes: Involving all students	Prof. Michael Carroll	Momoyama Gakuin University	British
2) Teaching Speaking Skills in the English Classroom	Shirley Magnolia Wanner, MBA.	Balsamo Outreach for Learning and Teaching	Filipino
3) Teaching with polling technologies: examples for assessment and interactive activities	Christopher Fulton, MEd.	University of Macau	Canadian
4) “jigsaw in speaking” – an alternative technique for big EFL classes?	Sa Thi Chau Vu, MA.	University of Foreign Language Studies, UD	Vietnamese
5) Incorporating Grammar Exercises that are Active with Positive Influence	Peter John Wanner, PhD.	Tohoku University	American

Speaker Affiliation & Brief Bio

Peter John Wanner, Ph.D.

Biodata

Dr. Peter John Wanner is an Associate Professor at Tohoku University working in the Graduate School Language Education Department. He has a Doctors degree in Human Informatics from Nagoya University (Japan) and a Master’s of Science Degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University (America). He has worked at Tohoku University since 2005 and specializes in Bilingual Education, Linguistics, and Neurology. In 2008, he had his most recent publication ‘Consequences for bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA) and native speaker language acquisition (NSLA) infants.’ in a chapter in a book called ‘Contemporary issues of brain, communication and education in psychology: the science of mind.”

Incorporating Grammar Exercises that are Active with Positive Influence

Direct grammar instruction is a useful tool for teaching English as a Foreign Language or as a Second Language. This presentation will talk about the importance of direct and indirect instruction of grammar rules and when they should be emphasized. This workshop will look at various grammar exercises and determine if they are truly useful. With sufficient discussion, the workshop hopes to generate some new ideas in the participants that might make grammar activities more active providing a positive influence on the acquisition of another language.

Magnolia Koh Wanner

Magnolia has organized workshops teaching students and management personal how to effectively present proposals and ideas in class and in the workplace. She has a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and works has worked closely with BOLT presenting in Vietnam and the Philippines in this area of specialization.

Teaching Speaking Skills in the English Classroom

Abstract

This interactive workshop will map out activities and goals that can be set for students to speak up and actively put forward their ideas or proposals. These skills can be developed as early as high school and help students become good speakers individually and in a group such as in debates. This is a dynamic way of building student’s self confidence. Hence, this presentation will provide opportunities for teachers to incorporate ideas and methods of teaching public speaking as early as high school through active participation of the participants of the workshop.

Michael Carroll, PhD.

Biodata

Professor Michael Carroll is Director of the Language Centre at Momoyama Gakuin University in Osaka. He has both Australian and British citizenship. He is interested is in the connection between success in language learning and learners’ sense of themselves as active agents in that process. Having presented in-service workshops for teachers in Australia, Japan, England, Israel, the Philippines, and Vietnam, he is once again looking forward to sharing ideas with colleagues.

Teaching supra-segmental pronunciation through (movie) dialogues.

Michael Carroll

This presentation concerns a method of raising awareness of the spoken form of English unmediated by the written form. When learners read aloud, they are often unable to detect supra-segmental pronunciation information from the written text. This means that they often fail to group words together meaningfully, and miss the stress patterns that are very important for meaning-making in English. This workshop will demonstrate a method of using readily available movie clips and dialogues that help students to become aware of how they can use intonation and stress for successful communication.

Presentation Title & Abstract for Event at Danang University, January 2015

Teaching with polling technologies: examples for assessment and interactive activities

Formative assessment activities using Plickers, a cost-effective polling technology, are demonstrated in this session. Polling technologies provide a tool that can support teaching pedagogies that involve all students in a classroom. Plickers can be used to conduct quizzes, which are then graded automatically, but this technology can also be used to stimulate classroom interaction and discussions (Chasteen, S. 2013). In this session, demonstrations of how Plickers can be used to involve students are provided using examples from a recent ESL textbook for teens, Interactive (Hadkins, Lewis, & Budden, 2011). In addition, students may appreciate receiving instant feedback from polls, and teachers can benefit from polling technologies by reducing time spent marking quizzes.

Christopher Fulton

Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement

University of Macau

Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China

chrisfulton@umac.mo

+853 6266-5866

+853 8822-4574

https://ctle.umac.mo

Christopher Fulton works at the University of Macau as an E-Learning Technology Officer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement. He is mainly responsible for training staff and faculty members in the use of E-Learning technologies, leading CTLE in E-Learning activities, and overseeing IT development, including integrating digital media into teaching and scholarship. Christopher is a Canadian educator with an MA in Education and Development (UK), a Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Educational Studies in Information Technology in Education (Hong Kong), and an LCCI-ARLES Certificate in Teaching English for Business. He has significant experience in training teachers on the use of information communication technologies in and for education, and has been working with university instructors and colleagues to provide teacher professional development workshops on a range of topics for more than nine years.

The slides that are online available after my resentations, http://goo.gl/hksnIc.

Information about Pickers and the ideas I discuss are documented on the web, e.g. https://www.plickers.com/help