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ENHANCING TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
16th
NATE-Russia International Annual Conference
Chelyabinsk
June 24 – 26,
2010
Speaker
Proposal Form
Details of Presenter
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Last name:
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Tukbaev
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First name:
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Valerian
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Patronymic:
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Islamovich
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Position:
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Teacher of English
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Institution:
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Secondary School No 25
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City:
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Zlatoust
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Country:
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Russia
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E-mail:
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Phone:
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Details of Co-
Presenter
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Last name:
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Marx
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First name:
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Reinhard
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Patronymic:
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-
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Position:
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Media Educator
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Institution:
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Realschule Sundern
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City:
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Sundern
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Country:
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Germany
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E-mail:
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Phone:
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Details of Co- Presenter
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Last name:
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Zaremba
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First name:
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Graźyna
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Patronymic:
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-
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Position:
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Teacher of English
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Institution:
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Zespół Szkół nr 10 im. Stanisława Staszica
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City:
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Warsaw
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Country:
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Poland
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E-mail:
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Phone:
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Details of Presentation:
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Title
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Distant Collaboration Enhances Teacher Effectiveness
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Type
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Workshop (40 min)
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Content Area (please
underline)
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Cross Cultural Issues in Teaching English
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Equipment
Required
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OHP; Computer ; Skype
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Abstracts for XVI NATE
- Russia
Annual Conference, Chelyabinsk 2010
Content Area: Cross Cultural Issues in Teaching
English
Distant Collaboration
Enhances Teacher Effectiveness
School education in respect to foreign
languages is mostly aimed in fact to teaching how to cope with basic rules a
foreign language offers, to be able at least to read and maybe translate into
own language the texts. When it comes to understanding, the language learners
face the context that implies additional competence which can be specified as
cultural awareness, to interpret new facts and events.
For better understanding, it is substantial for
us and our students to see things related to the relevant topic through the
eyes of the author or the person we write or talk to. We can come to this
awareness through collaborative communication, team work, and distant
collaboration with peers in other cultures. The new age of ITC offers a wide
choice of eTools to teachers who are looking forward to seeing their students
competent in the language they learn, both in writing and speaking, which is in
fact intercultural communication.
Teachers and their students can exchange emails
and enclose picture, voice or video files; they can do school student projects
to different topics like The Way We Are.
They are free to choose PowerPoint or video to put everything together to have
fun and share the new experience with their teammates.
Teachers can also create blogs, join wikispaces
or similar virtual communities, such as the ePals Global Classroom or the Heinle
Language Community, with their students as one team with peers in other
countries to work at a particular topic.
To showcase how it can work, I would like to
introduce to the colleagues at conference four quite different collaborative
school student projects with teachers and their students who live in Canada, Italy,
the USA, Germany, and Poland.
Valerian Tukbaev
Teacher of English
School No 25, Zlatoust
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