·Mª JESÚS ÁLVAREZ PAZ, mestra de Primaria, na actualidade destinada no C.P. Fermín Bouza Brey, Ponteareas. Nos últimos anos ven traballando en seminarios permanentes cun grupo de mestras da zona.
-Walking Down the Streets (I and II).
·JOHN ANGELORIis co-founder of The New School (Italy). He is currently working as a Language and Human Resources trainer for multinational companies in Italy. He is interested in the use of meditation and awareness training applied to diverse areas such as language learning and maximizing personal and professional resources.
-Teaching Listening: Meditation, Phonetics and Awareness Training.
·Mª ROSA AMADO PÉREZ, mestra de Primaria, na actualidade destinada no C.P. Fermín Bouza Brey, Ponteareas. Nos últimos anos ven traballando en seminarios permanentes cun grupo de mestras da zona.
-Walking Down the Streets (I and II).
·CHRIS BARKERhas developed materials for the teaching of foreign languages in Britain and has written materials for magazine-based English teaching. He worked with the British Council teaching English at the University of Belgrade, where he was involved in syllabus design. He has also taught ESL, EFL and Adult Literacy in Britain. Together with Brian and Ingrid Freebairn, Chris is also the author of the new four-level lower secondary course ‘Snapshot for ESO’.
SPONSORED BY ALHAMBRA-LONGMAN
-Getting Teenagers Talking.
·JEANNINE BOGAARD is a certified teacher of Bilingual Education for Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade from the State of California. She has taught at a bilingual school in Madrid for nine years.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-To Write or not to Write.
·ALISON BUCKETT RIVERA has taught English at pre-school, primary and university level for twelve years. She is currently working at the University of Vigo, Campus de Ourense, and doing her doctorate in General Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Strategies for Effective Communication: Body Language and other Non-verbal Factors.
·ELISABETTA BURCHIETTI is a certified English teacher at elementary school level (L. Piccaro Elementary School, Latina, Italy) and in-service teacher trainer for English teachers.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-Using Computers with Young Children (Monographic).
·KEITH KALLhas worked in Hungary and the USA. He is now based at the University of A Coruña. He holds an M.A. in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California.
-Student Journals for a Diverse Economy.
·RICARDO CALVO AGREDANO es profesor de alemán y jefe de departamento (EOI de Sabadell). Anteriormente ha trabajado como profesor de inglés en la enseñanza secundaria. Primer premio de la modalidad C (Trabajos o proyectos de investigación) del 8º Concurso de L’APAC 1997 (Asociació de Profesors d’Anglès de Catalunya) por el proyecto ‘Let’s Thrill Together’.
-Make the Most of Graded Readers.
·M. SOLEDAD CARBÓN RIOBOÓ holds a Masters Degree in Linguistics from the University of Kansas. She has taught at the University of Kansas and is now working at the E.O.I. Vigo.
-Round Table: Practical Approaches Towards a Career in Foreign Language Teaching..
·Mª DEL CARMEN CEJUELA MAQUEDA se ha especializado en educación infantil y ha estado enseñando inglés desde hace ocho años en el segundo ciclo de Educación Infantil y en el primer ciclo de Primaria en el Colegio Arturo Soria de Madrid.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-St. George and the Dragon.
-Playing with my Five Senses.
-Come and Sing! One, Two, Three, …
·DAVID M. CLARK, a graduate of the University of Kent and a qualified teacher, he also holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Alicante and a Diploma in Translation from the Institute of Linguistics and a PhD for the University of A Coruña. David has been living and working in Spain since 1980, and is currently teaching at the University of A Coruña.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Sinking the Titanic: Popular Culture and the Language Classroom.
·JANE FORREST trabaja como profesora y formadora de profesorado de inglés en España, con más de diez años de experiencia en este campo. Hasta hace poco tiempo ha sido profesra del British Council. Ha colaborado en distintos proyectos de formación con la UNED y le Teacher Development Unit del British Council. Es licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesas por la Universidad de Leicester y tiene el título RSA Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
·MARÍA ENCARNACIÓN CORTÉS MATE is a graduate of Complutense University. She holds an RSA qualification from International House and a Masters in Linguistics from Complutense University. She has presented over ten lectures in the last three years and is currently Head of Studies at IES Fuenlabrada 6.
-Someone Forgot to Say this... A Whole Picture of my First School (I, II & III or Monographic Course)
· MARTA DAHLGREN is a lecturer at the Universidade de Vigo and Director of the Master of TEFL at this university.
SPONSORED BY THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE – A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Las Nuevas Tecnologías en la Formación.
CARLOS DAVIS is subdirector at Chief Product Officer for Richmond Publishing.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-The Future of Language Teaching in Galicia
·JOSÉ TOMÁS DÍAZ TEIJO is a Secondary school teacher at IES de Mugardos. He is currently devoted to drawings as a means of teaching English.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Life of Brais: A Pictorical Story of a Galician Boy who Once Met English.
·MICHAEL DOWNIE lives in Spain, where he works as an author and teacher trainer. He has worked for International House in Madrid, as well as at state and private schools in Great Britain, Sweden, Greece and Italy. He has a teaching diploma from the University of Keel and the RSA Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Michael is co-author of Freeform and Your Choice, and author of Your Turn, all of them secondary coursebooks published by Richmond Publishing.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING.
-Navigating English in Secondary (First Cycle).
-The Future of Language Teaching in Galicia.
·ALICIA FLETCHERhas been a Spanish teacher for 18 years at a Catholic High School in New Mexico, with Masters Degree in Spanish. She is especially interested in cultural education exchange programmes for teachers and students.
-New Mexico -USA, the Land of Enchantment..
·JANE FORREST trabaja como profesora y formadora de profesorado de inglés en España, con más de diez años de experiencia en este campo. Hasta hace poco tiempo ha sido profesra del British Council. Ha colaborado en distintos proyectos de formación con la UNED y le Teacher Development Unit del British Council. Es licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesas por la Universidad de Leicester y tiene el título RSA Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-English in Our World...
·JAMIE FOWLIE has been an assistant teacher at York University in Toronto, Canada, and taught high school English for eight years. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Media Education and the new technologies and teaching English at the University of A Coruña.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-High Tech / Tech High: IT is Coming to a School Near You
-Making Magazines: Desktop Publishing in the FL Classroom.
·PATRICIA FRAé profesora asociada do Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa da Universidade de Santiago. As súas áreas de interese céntranse na literatura americana e nos estudios sobre o cine.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-Film and Literature: Theory and Practice of Adaptation (I and II).
·JOSÉ MIGUEL A. GIRÁLDEZ é profesor de enseñanza secundaria. Ten participado en Xornadas Didácticas en anteriores anos. Entre as súas áreas de interese cabe cita-las de vídeo, televisión e aplicacións das novas tecnoloxías na ensinanza do inglés. Foi editor durante un ano do ‘Galician Weekly Mail’.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-TV or not TV. (Using Television Programmes as a Relevant Source of Authentic Materials in the English Class).
·JESÚS GARCÍA LABORDA teaches English at ESIC College. He has a BA from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Masters in ESL from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia. He has given over 25 lectures, and produced four publications, which will shortly be released.
-Someone Forgot to Say this... A Whole Picture of my First School (I, II & III or Monographic Course).
· ELISABETH GASSÓ is Academic Counsellor of the Interuniversity Master of TEFL from the Australian Institute.
SPONSORED BY THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE
-Las Nuevas Tecnologías en la Formación.
·SANTOS GRACIA VILLAR es profesor de la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya. Co-Director del Campus Virtual del Australian Institute.
SPONSORED BY THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE
-Las Nuevas Tecnologías en la Formación.
·COLIN GRANGERhas been teaching since 1970 and has worked as a teacher trainer for 18 years. He is the author of Generation 2000, New Generation, HeinemannEnglishGrammar (with Digby Beaumont) and Play Games with English. His most recent publication is Vision, a new two-level course for Bachillerato.
SPONSORED BY HEINEMANN
-Collecting Words.
-When Energy Levels are Low.
·MICHELE GUERRINIis director of the English Department, Editorial Santillana. She holds a PhD in Foreign Languages for the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught EFL at University in the United States, Materials Development at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and Methodology at ESCUNI, Escuela de Magisterio in Madrid. She has given workshops for teachers throughout Spain.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-Learning and Motivation Via the Internet.
·MARK HANCOCKhas been an English language teacher for 14 years in places such as the Sudan, Turkey, Brazil and Spain. He is the author of Pronunciation Games and Singing Grammar (Teacher’s Resource Books - CUP).
SPONSORED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
-What do Students Say in Groupwork.
-What to Look for in a Song.
·JILL HEADis an Education Consultant and Inspector of Schools. She has previously been School Inspector with Oxfordshire (England) and Head Teacher of a primary school (London). Jill has taught 4-11 years old students. Her areas of interest are school management, the teaching of reading and writing and primary education. She has published some books related to children’s literature.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-An Overview of Primary Education in England Today.
-An Introduction to the Recently Introduced Literacy Strategy.
-Using Good Books to Promote Literacy -an Opportunity to Look at Books and Explore their Use.
·SUSAN HOUSEis a director of a language school and author. Her main areas of interest are language competence in young learners, the relationship between language development and the development of the whole child, rural schools, and the Internet as a tool for language learning.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-Learning English by Learning in English – How to Bring the English Language Alive in the Classroom.
·RICKY LOWEShas taught EFL in the UK, Spain and China. She now lives in London where she teaches and train teachers at Waltham Forest College of Further Education. She recently published Helping Your Students to Learn (Richmond 1998) with Francesca Target.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-Learner Autonomy (I and II)
-The Primary Task of the Teacher... Planning for Autonomy.
·ARACELI MÁRQUEZ RAÑA é mestra e licenciada en Ciencias da Educación, na actualidade destinada no IES Mondariz. Nos últimos anos ven traballando en seminarios permanentes cun grupo de mestras da zona. Traballou nun "Seminario Permanente: Interculturalismo" durante os dous últimos anos, centrándose nas tradicións e festivais, non só dos países de fala inglesa, senón tamén das nosas propias culturas, analizando semellanzas e peculiaridades.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Walking Down the Streets (I and II).
·STUART McNICHOLLS is teacher at the Business and Teacher Training Schools on the Ourense Campus of the University of Vigo since 1988. His is currently doing research into clildren literature. He is the author of Ideology & Discourse in Roald Dahl’s Matilda, a paper presented at the International Congress on Popular Texts, University of Castilla La Mancha.
-Using Children’s Literature in the EFL Primary Classroom.
·MIGUEL OLIVERA TEJEDOR is a secondary teacher and teacher trainer. He’s currently teaching "Didactics Applied to the Teaching of Second Languages" at Comillas University, Madrid. Miguel is the co-author of Burlington Books’ Navigator for Bachillerato LOGSE.
SPONSORED BY BURLINGTON BOOKS.
-Time Out on Internet
· Ignacio M. Palacios, MATEFL, Ph. D.; Ignacio is at present teaching courses on English Linguistics and Second Language Acquisiton at the University of Santiago. Author of La enseñanza del Inglés a debate: perspectivas de profesores y alumnos, published by the University of Santiago.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING – APIGA MEMBER
-The Future of Language Teaching in Galicia.
·Mª ELENA PEREIRA RODRÍGUEZ, mestra de Primaria, na actualidade destinada no C.P. Santiago de Oliveiras, Ponteareas. Nos últimos anos ven traballando en seminarios permanentes cun grupo de mestras da zona.
-Walking Down the Streets (I and II).
·SARAH PHILLIPSlives and works in Galicia. She is a teacher and teacher trainer with a special interest in teaching young learners and teacher development. She has worked closely with both APIGA and the Consellería de Educación de Galicia giving training courses and writing materials, as well as the British Council and NILE, giving workshops in Spain and Europe and as a tutor on the University of East Anglia/NILE Masters programme. She is the author of Young Learners (OUP) and of Drama with Children (OUP), and is at present working on a textbook for Primary. Her special concern at the moment is the challenge of finding activities that stimulate children’s intelligence but take into account their limited language resource.
APIGA MEMBER
-Thinking –that Other Skill (Opening Plenary)
-Multiple Intelligences in Your Classroom
-Cutting and Sticking –Using the Materials Your Children Make.
·EVARISTO QUINTÁNS HERMIDA holds a degree in English Philology from the Universidade de Santiago. He has been a teacher of English at Secondary level at Colexio M. Peleteiro for over 15 years. He has presented several workshops in former APIGA Conferences related to visual material for the classroom.
APIGA MEMBER
-How to Survive Out There: It Pays to Advertise!
·ANA MARÍA QUINTELA GÓMEZ traballa como mestra de educación primaria e actualmente imparte inglés ata o primeiro ciclo de ESO no C.P.I. Doutor López Suárez de Escairón (Saviñao-Lugo). Foi tamén profesora bilíngüe no estado de Novo México (USA).
APIGA MEMBER
-Traditions, Celebrations, Cullinal Contents, ... Are they Important to us on Teaching a Language?
·PETER REDPATHis a teacher, teacher trainer and trainer trainer. He has taught and trained in the UK, Spain, Germany, Austria, India and Australia. His main interests are related to teaching younger learners, lexical and humanistic approaches and teacher development.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-Lexis in the Classroom: Memory, Storage and Retrieval.
-Conveying Meaning and Checking Students’ Understanding.
·ANA ROBLES is a secondary school teacher at I.E.S. de Burela (Lugo), as well as Master Practitioner in NLP (neurolinguistic programming).
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER.
-Emotional Intelligence and Teaching
-Classroom Management: More Tools than Language.
·ISIDORA RUBIO LÓPEZ atópase no programa de intercambio das universidades de Colorado e Kansas (EE.UU.) e a de Santiago de Compostela, Instituto de Idiomas. En 1998 doutorouse pola Universidade de Kansas (EE.UU.) co tema ‘20th Century Fiction’. Posúe a acreditación como traductora oficial (A.T.A.) e o Master of Arts in Spanish and Spanish American Literature (Universidade de Kansas, 1992). Licenciada en Filoloxía Inglesa e diplomada en E.X.B. pola USC.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Round Table: Practical Approaches Towards a Career in Foreign Language Teaching.
·ALBERTO SACIDO ROMERO é profesor de enseñanza secundaria. Ten participado en Xornadas Didácticas en anteriores anos. Entre as súas áreas de interese cabe cita-las de vídeo, televisión e aplicacións das novas tecnoloxías na ensinanza do inglés. Foi editor durante un ano do ‘Galician Weekly Mail’.
APIGA MEMBER
-TV or not TV. (Using Television Programmes as a Relevant Source of Authentic Materials in the English Class).
·SARA RUIZ SALGADO is co-author of several workshops awarded by the Xunta. The last one, called `Linking Cultures’ was second in last year’s awards for Educational and Pedagogical Research.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Choosing your Role in Society.
·ANA SÁNCHEZ MARTÍN es profesora de inglés y coordinadora pedagógica de ESO - Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria Margarita Xirgu - Hopitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona). Primer premio de la modalidad C (Trabajos o proyectos de investigación) del 8º Concurso de L’APAC 1997 (Asociació de Profesors d’Anglès de Catalunya) por el proyecto ‘Let’s Thrill Together’.
-Make the Most of Graded Readers.
·KATHARINE SCOTT is a teacher, author and developer of on-line materials. Her main areas of interest are language competence in young learners, the relationship between language development and the development of the whole child, rural schools, and the Internet as a tool for language learning.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-Learning English by Learning in English – How to Bring the English Language Alive in the Classroom.
·FRANCESCA TARGET lives in London where she teaches and trains teachers at Waltham Forest College Further Education. She recently published Helping Your Students to Learn (Richmond 1998) with Ricky Lowes.
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-Learner Autonomy (I and II).
-When you Walk with a Friend... Project Work for Developing Autonomy.
·STEPHANIE TAYLOR is a teacher training with many years of experience, including with the British Council and International House. Stephanie has worked as a consultant for the Basque Government’s teacher training programme, as well as the Director of the National Teachers’ Centre in Great Britain. She is the author of the Teacher’s Edition of Your Turn and co-author of Your Choice, Richmond Publishing.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING.
-Why Are We Always Starting from the Beginning?
·HANNAH THACKERhas taught EFL in Spain since 1993. She has worked at Alfonso X El Sabio University in Madrid designing course materials, preparing examinations and serving as Academic Coordinator. She now works at the University of Surrey in Madrid and teaches at International House.
SPONSORED BY BURLINGTON BOOKS
-Let’s Talk!
·SCOTT THORNBURYis Director of International House-Barcelona and has worked in England and Egypt. He also appears regularly in English Teaching Professional. His most recent publication is About Language (Cambridge University Press).
SPONSORED BY A.P.I.GA.
-Grammar in Context: the Whole Picture
-Good Lessons: the Whole Picture (Closing Plenary)
·JANET TORRES is a freelance teacher and teacher trainer with over a decade of experience. She holds the RSA Preparatory and Teaching Young Learners’ Certificates.
APIGA MEMBER
-Student Autonomy for Primary.
·MARINA TREBOLLE works at I.E.S. Blanco Amor (Ourense).
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING.
-The Future of Language Teaching in Galicia.
·MARÍA TRILLA holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, the Preparatory Certificate in TEFL and the Certificate for Teaching Young Learners. She has previously taught in Ireland and she is know working for Inter Idiomas (Santiago de Compostela).
-Don’t Spare the Rod! Using Rods to Stimulate Oral Production in Secondary.
·ELISA VÁZQUEZ é Asesora de Linguas Estranxeiras no CEFOCOP da Coruña.
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-The Future of Language Teaching in Galicia.
·MARÍA AMPARO VÁZQUEZ VIVAS is co-author of several workshops awarded by the Xunta. The last one, called `Linking Cultures’ was second in last year’s awards for Educational and Pedagogical Research.
A.P.I.GA. MEMBER
-Choosing your Role in Society.
·ANNE MARIE ELISABETH YARDLEY
SPONSORED BY RICHMOND PUBLISHING
-English in Our World ...
·RAMÓN YBARRA RUBIO is a Spanish-American actor, writer and director. Trained in the USA, he has worked in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Now Based in Madrid, he has a bilingual theatre company (Trasatlantic). He is the author of the Burlington Readers Series.
SPONSORED BY BURLINGTON BOOKS
-It’s Showtime! Motivating Students Through Drama Activities and
Theatre.