“Innovations in Theory and Practice of Teaching ESL in High Schools and Colleges”
Russian-American workshop
within the framework of The forth Russian-American Roundtable
«Perspectives of the Russian-American Cooperation in the Context of Globalization»
April 15, 2009
One of the important events in the forth annual Russian-American Roundtable was a one-day seminar for college and school English instructors, “Innovations in Theory and Practice of Teaching ESL in High Schools and Colleges”.
Several topics were discussed and presented:
- key elements of language skills’ forming,
- drama and role-play in language teaching,
- innovative methods of teaching English,
- links between language theory and methodology of its teaching,
- multimedia technologies in foreign language teaching.
Below are topics of the main presentations: Inside Real Classrooms/Outside Traditional Curriculum (professor of California State University Marsha Thicksten, Long Beach, California) Language Development through Puppetry: an Innovative Method for Creating Oral Language Experiences (Jack McGurgan, AMERUS Exchange President) Writing Grants for International Educational Collaboration (professor of California State University Tim Keirn, Long Beach, California) Interactive WhiteBoard in EFL Class: To Use or not to Use (associated professor of Kursk State Pedagogical University Dmitry Klimentyev, Kursk, Russia) Equal Educational Opportunity for All Children: A Snapshot from Compton, California (school instructor Rea Young, California, USA), etc.
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