The third of a series of five ELT presentations / workshops organized by the Center for English Language Teaching Materials at IFA in the academic year 2008/2009 will take place on Friday, March 27th 2009 at 3.30 p.m. rm 601A.
The workshop will be given by Ewa Grzywaczewska-Stewart
and Przemysław Kaszubski - PNJA writing coordinators
Title: Teaching writing at a higher level
The first part of the workshop will focus on the importance of providing varied activities in the classroom, which can be particularly difficult to achieve in writing classes and may often lead to the perception that they are boring. A selection of tasks will be presented to provide some suggestions on how to introduce variety, while at the same time giving some suggestions for activities dealing with some of the more common problem areas, in particular regarding style and content, that can be used to achieve this.
The second part of the workshop will show some of the web-technological options available to teachers of (academic) writing at IFA. A few tested solutions for organising writing asynchronous activities on the IFA Moodle system will be demonstrated. Secondly, a practical introduction to concordancing as a form of feedback giving and raising discourse awareness will be offered using both paper and electronic media (IFAConc: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/~ifaconc).
Attendance is obligatory for all PNJA writing teachers and for doctoral students at IFA, but everyone interested in the subject and concerned about their professional development is welcome as well.
Iwona Łęska-Drajerczak
PNJA Coordinator
EGG 2009
This summer, from 27 July till 7 August 2009, Poznan will host the famous EGG summerschool (http://egg.auf.net/docs/whatIs.html). EGG 2009 will be centered around the theme of cognitive aspects of language, in particular external evidence for linguistic theories. It will be co-organised with Uli Sauerland's COST project, which focuses on semantic and pragmatic effects related to language acquisition and SLI.
For detailed updates keep an eye on the following website
http://egg.auf.net/
dr Agnieszka Pysz
The text for this meeting of ASAG has been uploaded to Moodle. We are meeting on March 19, the same time (6 p.m.), the same venue (room 612 Ab). See you there!
The 15th meeting of the HELL Reading Club will take place on Thursday, March 19 at 4:45 p.m. in 612Ab. The article is, as always, to be found on Moodle.
Prof. Jerzy Koch został w niecodzienny sposób wyrózniony za propagowanie kultury holenderskiej w Polsce. Otrzymał zaproszenie od Ambasady Królestwa Niderlandów, by stać się współwłaścicielem zaprojektowanej w tym celu stumetrowej ławki "Space to take place" w Amsterdamie. Ławka ta jest prezentem dla tysiąca osób na całym świecie, które na swój własny sposób wnoszą wkład do wizerunku Niderlandów. Akt symbolicznego przekazania własności ławki odbędzie się w piątek, 3 kwietnia 2009 roku w rezydencji ambasadora Holandii w Warszawie.
Zobacz film z oficjalnego otwarcia ławki, której część otrzymał na własność prof. Jerzy Koch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKMb9w18J2I.
Paweł Zajas
IFA Gender and Language Group (GAL) invites everyone to a guest lecture by
dr Natalia Pater-Ejgierd, WSZ 'Kadry dla Europy' Poznań, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna Łódź
Women's matter and visual discourse: Visualization of Polish social transformations in the early 1950s and 1990s in the Polish women's magazines
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 17.00, room 602A
Establishing socialism after the Second World War and democracy after 1989 constitute turning points in modern Polish history. Emancipation and equality of women incorporated either in socialist or democratic ideology, although following different patterns, were supposed to improve broadly understood women’s welfare. Verbal texts dating from those periods supporting the needs of political and ideological campaigns seemed to assist women’s matter. However, we may have the distinct impression that the actual situation was much more complicated. Therefore, in this presentation the visual representations of women and the verbal texts from the early 1950s and 1990s women’s magazines will be scrutinized. It will be underlined that the verbal language plays a role of superior system defining all kinds of social interactions, whereas visual discourse associated with private sphere and related to entertainment was used to employ less formal and bureaucratic forms of communication, which made its transmission more reliable.
Uprzejmie informujemy, że wszystkie budynki Collegium Novum objęte są zasięgiem sieci bezprzewodowej w ramach projektu eduroam. Instrukcja konfiguracji dostępu do sieci oraz wszelkie inne informacje znajdziecie Państwo na stronie: http://eduroam.amu.edu.pl.
KOŁO NAUKOWE METODYKÓW INSTYTUTU FILOLOGII ANGIELSKIEJ
POD OPIEKĄ PROF. TERESY SIEK- PISKOZUB
OPEN WORKSHOPS
HOW TO TEACH LANGUAGES WITH TECHNOLOGY
mgr Elżbieta Koralewska
invitation for everyone interested
19th March/ Thursday, 18.30 p.m.
Al. Niepodległości 4, room 601 A
The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize the participants with the possibilities new technologies offer to foreign language teachers in their everyday work.
The first part presents the findings of the study carried out among teachers and answers the question if they use technology in their classrooms. The second part deals with various ways in which technology can be used to help teachers expand their repertoire of classroom practices by including the use of:
- websites
- webquests
- podcasts
- e-learning courses
- Second Life
- m-learning
The Department of Polish-British Cultural Relations is pleased to invite you to a series of talks on the cultures of modernism in Britain by Prof. Alan Munton (Art History, University of Plymouth) and Prof. Andrzej Gasiorek (English, University of Birmingham)
Time: 16-20 March
Place: Rooms C1, C3 and 601
Monday, March 16th, 6.30pm, Room C3: Alan Munton on film, "Tarantino and Almodóvar: Violence, Sexuality, Style"
Tuesday, March 17th, 4.45pm, Room C1: Alan Munton, "Vorticism: The British Radicals of Modern Art"
Wednesday, March 18th, 8.00am, Room C1: Andrzej Gasiorek, "'To Make You See': Joseph Conrad's Modernism"
Wednesday, March 18th, 6.30pm, Room C1: Alan Munton, "Polish artists in Britain: A Meeting of Modernisms"
Thursday, March 19th, 1.15pm, Room C1: Andrzej Gasiorek, "Literature, Politics and Self: Wyndham Lewis and Others"
Friday, March 20th, 4.45pm, Room 601: Andrzej Gasiorek, "Beyond Modernism: Art and Satire” and Alan Munton, "'What is the Contemporary?': Wyndham Lewis versus James Joyce - and what happened next"
Dominika Ruszkowska-Buchowska
