Speakers, sponsors and talks given

XVI Xornadas Didácticas do Inglés			Speakers


Arantxa AZURMENDI	es Directora de Programas de Westland Language Courses y fue durante dos años Jefe de Estudios en el Instituto Cervantes de Liverpool. Co-fundadora de RE.A.L. (REsearch in Active Learning y co-directora del programa de radio The English Connection	Go for Hollywood! - Video and video making
Jeannine BOGAARD Sponsored by Richmond Publishing	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.	Learning English in the Playground: English for Pre-School Children Listening: The steps to success
Alison BUCKETT RIVERA A.P.I.GA. member	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.	What do we mean by ‘good pronunciation’? Do you speak Estuary English? Panel Session: Bilinguals

María Encarnación CORTÉS MATE	is a graduate of Complutense University. She holds an RSA qualification from INternation 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, Madrid.	Daring for Diversity: A whole world of questions ... some answers (I, II, III)
Mauricio CORRETJÉ	es Director de Estudios de Westland Language Courses y Director y guionista del programa de radio en inglés English Here & Now en Onda Latina (Madrid). Co-fundador de RE.A.L. (REsearch in Active Learning), músico y compositor para materiales EFL y co-director del programa de radio The English Connection.	Writing Communicative Games Say it again, Sam Did you say see or she? - A session on pronunciation
Robin DE ANDRÉS		Puppets are Great!
José Tomás DÍAZ TEIJO A.P.I.GA. member	is a Secondary school teacher at IES de Mugardos. He is currently devoted to drawings as a means of teaching English.	Life of Brais
Michael DOWNIE Sponsored by Richmond Publishing	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.	Motivation - A Key to Success in ESO

Rosa Mª FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ, Itzíar ARENAS VILLAROEL, Fátima GARCÍA-PICHER RODRÍGUEZ, Mª Elvira PÉREZ FERNÁNDEZ A.P.I.GA. members	are primary school teachers.
Jane FORREST Sponsored by Richmond Publishing	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 profesora 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.	How are we Getting on? Make, Dio and Learn
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.
Patricia FRA	é 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.
José Miguel A. GIRÁLDEZ A.P.I.GA. member	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’.
Jim LAWLEY Sponsored by Richmond Publishing	graduated in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford in 1980. He hold an M.A. in Applied English Linguistics from Birmingham. His doctoral thesis in the field of English Language Teachign won a Premio Extraordinario at the Universidad de Educación a Distancia in 1977. He has lived in Spain for fifteen years and is author and co-author of over twenty EFL textbooks, including Different, the new 4 level ESO course from Richmond Publishing.
Colin GRANGER Sponsored by Heinemann	has been teaching since 1970 and has worked as a teacher trainer for 18 years. He is the author of Generation 2000, New Generation, Heinemann English Grammar (with Digby Beaumont) and Play Games with English. His most recent publication is Vision, a new two-level course for Bachillerato.	Making the Most of Mixed Ability Taking the Danger out of Drama *Play*

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.

Ignacio M. PALACIOS MARTÍNEZ APIGA member	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.	Translation and English Language Teaching

Archana PATEL GARCIA-CASTRO		Assertive Discipline: Supporting teachers dealing with difficult classes Active English for Children

Sarah PHILLIPS APIGA member	lives 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.	Say that again, Xan

Evaristo QUINTÁNS HERMIDA APIGA member	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.	Stick no Bills! ¡Pois a pintar!

Ana María QUINTELA GÓMEZ APIGA member	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).	What's the Plot?

Peter REDPATH Sponsored by Burlington Books	is 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.	Late 70's - Late 90's: Spot the difference? Songs as contextual seas Error- sin or Gift?

Mario RINVOLUCRI Sponsored by A.P.I.GA.		Many Students: Many Intelligences (Opening Plenary) Jumping Letters Ways of Teaching Words Fast

Penny UR Sponsored by Cambridge University Press		From Accuracy to Fluency: Grammar Activities in the Classroom Panel Session on grammar Teaching Grammar (Closing Plenary)

Anne Marie ELISABETH YARDELEY Sponsored by Richmond Publishing		Story telling in the class Learning English is fun

XVI Xornadas Didácticas do Inglés