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Event Details
Time: April 22, 2012 from 11am to 12:30pm
Location: Adobe ConnectPro
Website or Map: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.…
Event Type: presentations
Organized By: Heike Philp
Latest Activity: Apr 22, 2012
Event Description
Sunday, 22 April 2012 - 11am GMT | 8pm Tokyo | 4am LA
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Parallel Session (90min)
Moderator: Marina Petrovic
Arkady Zilberman
Language Bridge
How to heal linguistically wounded
In childhood our brain has an ability to hear the speech sounds (phonemes) of all languages in our environment that is why children can easily learn one or a few languages and speak them without an accent.
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Arkady Zilberman has developed and patented in 2002 the Language Bridge method of learning a foreign language that is more effective than the leading methods of learning English. (More in the comment box below)
Tyson Seburn
@seburnt
Blogs for interactive intensive and extensive reading
Paper-based texts face inherent limitations (physical and interactive to name a couple) that can be overcome by using blogs instead. Although we often use blogs as tools to share with other teachers, create a classroom community and facilitate student projects, they lend themselves well to content for reading-based lessons. In this workshop, we’ll look at how teacher- or ultimately student- created reading blogs attack the limitations of paper-based texts and increase engaging interactivity between student and text.
Bio
Tyson has 15 years of ELT experience as instructor, director and publishing manager. (More in the comment box below)
Mike Harrison
@harrisonmike
Sound activities for the ELT classroom
Sound is a very powerful stimulus as it can evoke such strong feelings and emotions. Yet it seems a little underused as a resource in the language classroom. Why can't we use sound, that is music and sound effects, in the classroom just as we do images and pictures. I would like to share a number of activities I have used with my students over the past few years in a very practical workshop. I will share activities that show how sound can be used to: elicit vocabulary, provide instant contexts for speaking activities, change and enhance reading and listening activities, and provide creative prompts for written work. I hope you will join the session and get some sound ideas.
Bio
Mike Harrison is an ESOL teacher based in London where he has been teaching for the last 4 years. (More in the comment box below)
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Comment by Heike Philp on April 14, 2012 at 10:44am
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Bio Tyson Seburn
Tyson has 15 years of ELT experience as instructor, director and publishing manager. He is currently an instructor in a content-driven EAP program at University of Toronto and promoter of teacher and learner development through technology via 4C (http://fourc.ca).
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Arkady Zilberman
Language Bridge
How to heal linguistically woundedIn childhood our brain has an ability to hear the speech sounds (phonemes) of all languages in our environment that is why children can easily learn one or a few languages and speak them without an accent.
Adults lose this ability; they see things through the lens of our native language, which results in subconscious cross-translation into native language of all information given in the course of learning a foreign language.
To become efficient learners of a foreign language adults need an application for learning a foreign language as a skill on a subconscious and conscious levels which activate digital learners’ left and right cerebral hemispheres. New learning paradigm turns off cross-translation automatically.
The new learning paradigm uses a combination of self-study application and private or public online or offline classes. Blended learning eliminates negative effects of prior experience and restores the innate ability to learn a new language.Bio
Arkady Zilberman has developed and patented in 2002 the Language Bridge method of learning a foreign language that is more effective than the leading methods of learning English. With Language Bridge, students reach the same level of fluency as those who spend four times as long learning through a conventional language program. Language Bridge turns any adult into a language prodigy. The brain-compatible method of learning a foreign language takes into account the new characteristics of Digital Learners. In December 2011 he has applied for the new patent which covers the latest developments of the Language Bridge Technology.
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Bio Mike Harrison
Mike Harrison is an ESOL teacher based in London where he has been teaching for the last 4 years. He also previously taught in Pamplona in northern Spain. He is interested in using images and sounds in the classroom, particularly with lower level language learners. Apart from teaching, his interests include amateur photography and Spanish. He is also currently taking the DELTA course at UCL in London. He blogs at www.mikejharrison.com and tweets @harrisonmike
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