16th National BETA-IATEFL Conference, 19 – 20 May 2007, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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| The Bulgarian English Teachers' Association had its annual conference in Blagoevgrad last week. It was a lively fruitful event. The organisation is a relatively small one but always seems to be able to punch above its weight bringing big names to the English teaching community's once a year gettogether. Mario Rinvolucri, Luke Prodromou to name but a few... | |
The beautiful old town 'Varosha' in Blagoevgrad. The rain couldn't spoil it's fascination. |
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The conference was hosted in building of the American University in Blagoevgrad, a wonderful place for a conference being central and with excellent facilities. |
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| Content and Language Integrated Learning had a significant presence at the conference. This has become a tradition now in Bulgaria and is not surprising given the extent of foreign language subject teaching around the country. | |
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Pre conference event Lyubov Dombeva Professional development? CLIL your teaching!
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| Here, Lyubov talked about integrating subjects across the curriculum. A Biology teacher, Lyubov took social information advertisements on hygiene and showed how she developed them to fit her Science needs, to teach the English language and also to bring links to other curricula, including art, business studies among others. | |
| Main conference event | |
| Lida Schoen, Keith Kelly, Stefka Kitanova Training CLIL across the World | |
The idea of this panel discussion was to present a range of issues as raised by teachers working through the medium of English and show how locally, regionally, and globally the speakers deal with challenges and issues raised.
...Stefka gets Mario's considered opinion... |
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Stefka spoke about Bulgaria and a new CLIL project in Macedonia, Lida spoke about Holland and how international projects like Science Across the World (www.scienceacross.org) lend themselves to teacher development.
...colleagues take a look at Science Across... |
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... Lady Lida talks about her work in Holland... |
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| I spoke about principles involved in integrating language and content and examples of where these principles are dealt with successfully around the world including Lithuania, Spain among others. | |
Partners in crime... |
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Our respective presentations can be downloaded here: Stefka's slides - CLIL_Macedonia Lida's slides - CLIL_International Keith's slides - CLIL_TT
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Stefka Kitanova Shaking Belly – Dancing Yoghurt Stefka, a Biology and Chemistry teacher, spoke about nutrition, language and a host of wonderful aspects of CLIL in her own inimitable style.
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