1st International Conference on Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, 17-19 May
CONFERENCE DRAFT PROGRAM
FRIDAY, 17. 5. 2013
8.30 – 9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00-11.00 OPENING CEREMONY
11.00 – 11.30 WELCOME COCKTAIL
11.30 – 12.30 KEY NOTE ADDRESS - Ann M. Johns, Professor Emerita, Linguistics &
Writing Studies, San Diego State University (CA/USA): Current Research in English for
Specific Purposes: What Does It Tell Us About Classroom Teaching and Curriculum
Development?
12.30-13.00 PLENARY TALK – Tony O’Brien, Director British Council Serbia: ESP – isn’t it
obvious?
13.00-14.00 work in sessions
14.00 -15.00 lunch
15.00-18.00 work in sessions, round tables
20.00 – Gala dinner Hotel Tami Residence
SATURDAY, 18. 5. 2013
10.00-14.00 work in sessions
14.00 -15.00 lunch
15.00-18.00 work in sessions, round tables
20.00 – Rectorate of the University of Niš, grand hall - book, software, and journal promotion
SUNDAY, 19. 5. 2013
10.00-13.00 work in sessions, workshops
13.00 - CLOSING of the conference
- Niš sightseeing
- lunch in the spa Niška banja
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POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SESSION
Chair: Syrovatskaya Galina
Friday, 13.00-14.00
amphitheater 1
1 / Olga Kornienko / Language for Specific Purposes and Global Studies2 / Syrovatskaya Galina / Designing textbooks in ESP
ART SESSION
Chair: Milica Stojanović
Friday, 13.00-14.00
amphitheater 3
1 / Milica Stojanović / On History and Etymology of Some Colour Terms (On Why Marie Antoinette developed a liking for fleas, what Tintoretto had in common with the English Redcoats, and suchlike curiosities)2 / Reima Al-Jarf / Teaching and Assessing Graduate Students’ Research Skills in English
3 / Darko Kovačević / Texts on (Classical) Music and Some Aspects of their Use in Teaching ESP at the Academy of Music
ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT SESSION
Chair: Kimeta Hrnjak Hamidović
Friday, 13.00-14.00
amphitheater 2
1 / Kimeta Hrnjak Hamidović / Difficulties Encountered in Teaching ESP to Non-English Majors in Higher Education and Future Steps Towards Possible Solutions2 / Jelena Anđelković / Main Issues of Terminology Management in Organizational Sciences
3 / Inese Ozola / Using Audio Materials for ESP Vocabulary Acquisition
4 / Svetlana Kucherenko / An Intergrated View of ESP and EAP: A Case Study
14.00-15.00 LUNCH
15.00 – 18.00
LAW SESSION
Chair: Dorka Balogh
Friday, 15.00-18.00
amphitheater 1
1 / Dorka Balogh / Teaching Legal Contents and Terminology in Foreign Languages2 / Jasmina Đorđević / Legal English: an Opportunity for an Additional Qualification Among ESP Courses
3 / Judit Kocsis / Teaching legal English for students of law at a Hungarian university
4 / Marija Petrovic
Betty Samraj / Discourse analysis of law school lectures and suggestions for listening comprehension activities
5 / Badea Elena Codruta / Teaching Legal English as a Second Language
6 / Dubravka Vlahović / Overcoming the Challenges of Legal English Teaching
NEEDS ASSESSMENT, MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT, PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT SESSION
Chair: Eleni Griva
Friday, 15.00-18.00
amphitheater 2
1 / Eleni GrivaDora Chostelidou
Eleni Tsakiridou / Language Learning Strategies and Styles: A Needs Assessment of ESP Learners in Greek Tertiary Education
2 / Vera Savić / Challenges of Developing ESP Materials
3 / Mihaela Gojković / The need for a change: English language classes to be based on learner’s needs
4 / Aleksandar Vuletić
Ljiljana Jovković / A Summary of Essential Principles for Development of Efficient ESP Syllabi and Teaching Materials
5 / Filip Jelenković
Milorad Tošić / Semantic Multiple-Choice Question Generation and Concept-Base Assessment
BUSINESS ENGLISH SESSION
Chair: Bojan Međedović
Friday, 15.00-18.00
amphitheater 3
1 / Bojan MeđedovićSanja Skorupan / An Overview of Business English Courses Development at Faculty of Economics in Brčko: Past, Present and Future Tendencies
2 / Somana Fatima / Today’s Necessity: Business English and Business Correspondence
3 / Slavica Čepon / Non-Native Speakers of English at the General English Secondary/Business English Tertiary Interface
4 / Nadezhda Georgieva / Exploiting Authentic Video Materials in Business English Teaching
5 / Tetiana Stepykina / Teaching Business Communication to Students
6 / Vesna Stanković
Marija Stevanović / Communicative competence – the ultimate goal of Business English teaching
ROUND TABLES
15.00 – 18.00
Classroom 1
English for MEDICINE
Classroom 2
English for SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PEDAGOGY
Classroom 3
English for AVIATION, POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES, MARITIME FORCES AND SPORT
Classroom 4
English for ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Classroom 5
English for ELECTROTECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Room 1
ESP PERSPECTIVES
Room 2
LANGUAGE TEACHING STRATEGIES
20.00 Conference gala dinner Hotel Tami Residence
SATURDAY 18. 5. 2013
SATURDAY, 18. 5. 2013
10.00-14.00 work in sessions
14.00 -15.00 lunch
15.00-18.00 work in sessions, round tables
20.00 – Rectorate of the University of Niš, grand hall - book, software, and journal promotion
10.00-14.00
MEDICINE SESSION
Chair: Neslihan Önder
Saturday, 10.00-14.00
amphitheater 1
1 / Neslihan Önder / English for medical purposes: A horse of another colour2 / Francesca Ripamonti / Teaching and Learning Medical English using Corpus Resources
3 / Olga Potapova / English course for specific purposes in Medical University: Pragmatic aspects of professional communication
4 / Zorica Antić / Language Use in Medical Setting: Program Design and Evaluation
5 / Ataollah Maleki / The Role of Non linear Methods in Teaching English for Medicine: Example of Storytelling
6 / Nataša Milosavljević / English language skills assessment in medical context: A study of students’ perceptions
7 / Ataollah Maleki / The Role of Non linear Methods in Teaching English for Medicine: Example of Storytelling
8 / Neslihan Önder / Identifying Technical Vocabulary in Cancer Research
9 / Basim M. Abubaker Faraj / English for Medical Purposes (EMP): Libyan medical students’ English language needs and challenges
10 / Betsy Quero / A corpus-based approach for investigating the vocabulary load of medical texts written in
English
11 / Natalya Snytnikova / Medical Scientific Conference at an English Lesson. How it Helps to Develop Communicative Competence
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PEDAGOGY SESSION
Chair: Valentina Yordanova
Saturday, 10.00-14.00
amphitheater 2
1 / Valentina Yordanova / ‘If you give a man a fish…’2 / Nina Vlahović / Recovering and Rediscovering Grammar
3 / Rougia Oghbatalab
Nasser Ghafoori / Interactive and Interactional Resources across Basic Science and Social Science
4 / Sanja Kovačević / English for Special Purposes:A course fit for the educational needs of the 21st century preschoolers
POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES, MARITIME FORCES AND SPORT SESSION
Chair: Elena Gayko
Saturday, 10.00-14.00
amphitheater 3
1 / Elena GaykoVelikova Ludmila / English for the Customs officers. The experience of the RCA in ESP teaching
2 / Delia Lungu
Laura Cizer / Insight into Maritime Vocabulary in Romance Languages from the Intercomprehension Perspective
3 / Nemerkényi-Hidegkuti Krisztina / Let’s see how the land lies – Teaching Sport-specific Languages in Hungary
4 / Elen Laanemaa / Application of CLIL based on the example of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences
14.00-15.00 LUNCH
15.00 – 18. 00
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY SESSION
Chair: Ewelina Kwiatek
Saturday, 15.00-18.00
amphitheater 1
1 / Ewelina Kwiatek / English for Land Surveying2 / Vesna Bogdanović
Ivana Mirović / Texts with Known and Unknown Subjects and Related Exercises – A Case of Textbooks for English in Graphic Engineering
3 / Marina Katić / Lexical Approach as a Method of ESP Vocabulary Enlargement for Students of Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Technical Sciences
4 / Tatyana Yu. Shershneva
Saule K. Abdygapparova / Professional English Priorities and Focus
5 / Gabriela Chmelíková
Emília Mironovová / E-Portfolio – An Output of the English for Science and Technology Course
Classroom 131A 1st floor
1 / Somali Gupta / Language and Leadership WORKSHOPELECTROTECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE SESSION
Chair: Tijana Dabić
Saturday, 15.00-18.00
amphitheater 3
1 / Tijana Dabić / The Correlation of General English and English for Specific Academic Purposes in IT Departments in Serbia2 / Sonja Kitanovska-Kimovska / How to Improve Writing among Students of Computer Science: A Case Study
3 / Sayeh S Abdullah / Retrospective review of the teaching of English in the third world countries
4 / Yvonne Liermann-Zeljak
Ivanka Ferčec / The Importance of English in the Education of Electrical Engineers
15.00 – 18. 00
ESP PERSPECTIVES SESSION
Chair: Vladan Šutanovac
Saturday, 15.00-18.00
amphitheater 1
1 / Oleg TarnopolskyYuliya Degtyariova / Constructivism in Developing and ESP Course and Coursebook for Tertiary Students Majoring in Practical Psychology
2 / Veronika Kareva / The Art of Teaching English for Specific Purposes
3 / Aleksandra Radovanović / Introducing ESP in GE Classroom: Reasons and Implications
4 / Svetlana Velimirac / Teacher Development in English for Specific Purposes Practice
5 / Masashi Nagai / Critical Thinking Approach to Teaching English for Engineering
6 / Jelena Vukicevic / English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Elements of Culture Theory
7 / Vladan Šutanovac / ESP as Culture Specific Language
8 / Nadežda Stojković
Slađana Živković
Vanče Bojkov
Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević / The Hidden Content in the Syllabus of English for Specific Purposes – issues of culture and globalization
LANGUAGE TEACHING STRATEGIES SESSION
Chair: Neda Radosavlevikj
Saturday, 15.00-18.00
amphitheater 3
1 / Neda Radosavlevikj / Implementing Blended Learning Experiences in an EFL Classroom2 / Dora Chostelidou
Eleni Griva
Anastasia Mazaraki / CLIL-NOTE in Higher Education: Benefits and Challenges in Developing Communicative Competence
3 / Kamil Kurtul / New Voices in an Old Song
4 / Viktorija Petkovska
Silvana Neshkovska / Teaching Grammar within ESP Courses
5 / Ljubica Kardaleska / The impact of jigsaw approach on reading comprehension in the ESP classroom
6 / Jasmina Arsenijević / Project Work in ESP
7 / Ksenija Maltez / The effect of strategy instruction on listening comprehension examined through audio and video input
8 / Nataliya Fedicheva / Questioning Skills for ESP Teachers
9 / Aleksandar Vuletić
Ljiljana Jovković / A Summary of Essential Principles for Development of Efficient ESP Syllabi and Teaching Materials
10 / Ana Popović Pecić / A Functional Typology of Linking Adverbials
11 / Aleksandra Radovanović / Introducing ESP in GE Classroom: Reasons and Implications
12 / Gabriela Chmelíková
Emília Mironovová / E-Portfolio - an output of English for Science and Technology course
13 / Marijana Budeč Staničić / An effective method of language acquisition - Panel discussion
ROUND TABLES
15.00 – 18.00
Classroom 1
English for POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Classroom 2
English for ART
Classroom 3
NEEDS ASSESSMENT, MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT, PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT SESSION
Classroom 4
English for LAW
Classroom 5
English for ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Room 1
English for BUSINESS ENGLISH
20.00 Grand hall of the University Rectorate
- Promotion of prof. Oleg Tarnopolsky’s book Constructivist Blended Learning Approach to Teaching English for Specific Purposes, Versita,
London, 2012
- Presentation and tutorial of the OpenSeMCQ Semantic Multiple-Choice Question Generation software by authors Filip Jelenković and Milorad Tošić
- Announcement of the Journal for Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, University of Niš
SUNDAY 19. 5. 2013.
SUNDAY, 19. 5. 2013
10.00-13.00 work in sessions, workshops
13.00 - CLOSING of the conference
- Niš sightseeing
- lunch in the spa Niška banja
10.00 – 13.00
ESP ACROSS COUNTRIES SESSION
Chair: Aija Pētersone
Sunday, 10.00-13.00
amphitheater 1
1 / Aija PētersoneInese Ozola / Underdraduate Engineering Students’ Perception of Framework of ESP Courses at University Curriculum
2 / Nawal Mebitil / Teaching ESP in Algeria: Training or Retraining Language Teachers?
3 / Iram Rubab
Naveed Ahmad Chaudhry / Investigating Reading Comprehension Competencies of Pakistani Students in ESP Situations
4 / Shpresa Delija / ESP Courses at the Tirana University in Albania in the 21st Century
5 / Saule K. Abdygapparova
Tatyana Yu. Shershneva / ESP in the Frame of the English Language Program
6 / Adel Ali / ESP in Vocational Training Centers in Tunisia
7 / Vesna Tasevska / The Status of English for Specific Purposes at Macedonian Universities – a Case Study
ENGLISH FOR TOURISM SESSION
Chair: Milena Lukšić
Sunday, 10.00-13.00
amphitheater 2
1 / Tina Orel FrankŽiva Čeh / Cultural Briefing
2 / Milena Lukšić / Learner’s Needs Analysis required before Teaching English for Tourism
3 / Zorica Prnjat / Content and Language Integrated Learning: English Language and Tourism Management
4 / Aleksandra Jovanović
Rade B. Božović
Dušan V. Jovanović / The English Vocabulary for Serbian Hospitality Professionals
ENGLISH FOR MATHEMATICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES SESSION
Chair: Irina Kochkareva
Sunday, 10.00-13.00
amphitheater 3
1 / Irina Kochkareva / Teaching English for Sciences through Mock Scientific Conferences2 / Anna Stefanowicz-Kocol / Motivating ESP learners in a hybrid course
3 / Ljiljana Vukićević-Đorđević / Teaching English through Science and Vice Versa: a Computer-assisted Approach
4 / Anamaria Supuran / Introducing Environmental Concepts through Metaphors to Adult Learners
Sunday, 10.00-13.00
Classroom 131A 1st floor
1 / Yeliz YaziciAlev Erenler / Hands-on Learning on Profession WORKSHOP
2 / Vladan Šutanovac / ESP as Culture Specific Language
WORKSHOP
13.00 Amphitheater 1
CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE
- to be followed by Niš sightseeing by bus and with tourist guides and a farewell lunch
- visit to St. Pantelejmon church where Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja met with Friedrich Barbarossa on his way to the third Crusade.
- visit to the archeological site Mediana, the birth place and residence of the Roman Emperor Constantine, the founder of Christianity as an official religion. In 313 he signed the Edict of Milan which granted freedom of professing faith for the Christians. This year we celebrate the 700th anniversary of that event.
- Bus ride further on to the beautiful spa Niška banja for a farewell lunch in the Institute Radon.