3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Teaching English to Young Learners: Integrating Culture and Language Teaching

June 1-2, 2012, Faculty of Education in Jagodina, University of Kragujevac, Serbia

Friday, 1 June 2012

time / activity / Speaker / topic / room / min
9:00-10:00 / Registration
10:00-10:30 / Opening statements / Mr Sretko Divljan, Dean of the Faculty of Education in Jagodina
Мr Ryan Rowlands, Public Affairs officer, American Embassy in Belgrade
Ms Gordana Petričić, Conference Programme Committee / Room 1 / 30
10:30-11:20 / Plenary I / Gordana Petričić / Teaching English to young learners - enjoyable and difficult / Room 1 / 50
11:30-11:45 / Coffee Break
11:45-12:35 / Plenary II / Nina Lauder / Creating Curiosity in the Classroom / Room 1 / 50
12:45-13:35 / Plenary III / Mark Andrews / Exploring culture beyond the classroom in comparative, critical ways / Room 1 / 50
13:45-15:00 / Lunch Break
15:00-15:50 / Parallel sessions 1 / 1.1 Nina Lauder / Bringing the Real World Into the Classroom / Room 1 / 50
1.2 Damian Ross / Poetry : A World of Difference / Room 2 / 50
16:00-16:15 / Coffee break
16:15-17:05 / Parallel sessions 2 / 2.1 Nina Lazarević / Facing the Challenge of ICC in the Classroom / Room 1 / 50
2.2. Sanja Čonjagić / To read or not to read / Room
3 / 50
2.3 Danijela Prošić-Santovac / Happily ever after: teaching gender equality in the primary classroom / Room 2 / 20
2.4 Stojković / Živković / Teaching Cultural Content as a Means of Enriching the Future Identity of Young Language Learners / Room 2 / 20
17:15-18:05 / Parallel sessions 3 / 3.1 Vera Savić / Developing Cultural Literacy in Young Learner Classroom / Room 1 / 50
3.2 Aleksandra Strahinić / Teaching English to Very Young Learners – a practical approach / Room
3 / 50
3.3 Olja Milošević / Listening to your students / Room 2 / 20
3.4 Gordana Ljubičić / Teaching Culture through Proverbs / Room 2 / 20

Saturday, 2 June 2012

time / activity / speaker / topic / room / min
9:30-10:20 / Plenary IV / Nenad Tomović / Cultural content in ELT books / Lecture hall / 50
10:30-11:20 / Parallel sessions 4 / 4.1 Ivana Milošević / Cross-cultural communication and Global English / Room 1 / 50
4.2 Marijana Matić / Storytelling as a Means of Raising Cultural Awareness in Young Learner`s Classroom in Serbia / Room 2 / 20
4.3 Glušac / Mazurkiević / The CLIL initiative in AP Vojvodina / Room 2 / 20
4.4 Nataša Jonović / Young Learners Online / Room 2 / 20
11:30-11:45 / Coffee break
11:45-12:35 / Parallel sessions 5 / 5.1. Dragana Filipović / New Kids - New Ways / Room 1 / 50
5.2 Ćirković Miladinović / Kocić / Native American Culture in EFL Classroom / Room 2 / 20
5.3 Ivana Bančević Pejović / Cultural Pluralism, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Awareness in TEYL / Room 2 / 20
5.4 Biljana Petrović / Teaching English in a Mixed-Ability Class / Room 2 / 20
12:55-13:45 / Parallel sessions 6 / 6.1 Draginja Ristić / Culture makes learning enjoyable / Room 1 / 50
6.2 Vujinović / Panić / Hatala / Mazurkiević / Radenković / / Teaching Languages to Young Learners with Special Educational Needs / Room 2 / 20
6.3 Anica Radosavljević / Using paintings as culturally authentic material in TEYL / Room 2 / 20
6.4 Biljana Pršić / To Rise or to Fall: That is the Question / Room 2 / 20
13:55-14:55 / Lunch Break
14:55-15:10 / Closing statements / Conference Programme Committee / Lecture hall / 15
15:10-15:30 / MOES certificates / Lecture hall / 15
15.30-16.30 / Museum of Naïve Art / Museum of Naïve Art / 60