Thursday, March 12
12.00
Registration opens
13.30
Forum opening, welcome speeches
14.00 – 14.50
Plenary 1 Teaching English to Young Learners
Herbert Puchta: Teaching Very Young Learners – What’s Hot, and What Not
14.50 – 15.40
Plenary 2 Teaching English to Young Learners
Malgosia Tetiurka: Myths and Facts about Teaching Young Learners
15.40 – 16.10
Coffee break
16.10 – 16.50
16.10 – 16.30
16.30 – 16.50
Parallel sessions
Assessment
Hall Levitan
(audience 130)
Assessment-Integrated
Learning or LearningIntegrated Assessment That is the Question
L. Gorodetskaya (Moscow)
Designing and Teaching
Test-Preparation Classes
I. Bolushevskaya (Tula)
ESP and EAP
Hall Vdokhnovenie
(audience 200)
Teaching ESP to
Psychologists and the
Problem of Syllabus
Design
E. Redkina (Moscow)
Cultural Differences in
Academic Discourse:
Implications for EAP
Teachers
O. Rotko (Rostov-on-Don)
Language Issues
Hall Vasnetsov
(audience 340)
What’s Your Favourite
Song to Teach English?
Learning Technologies
Hall Fantasia
(audience 250)
Using Digital Storytelling
in EFL Classrooms
V. Bobkova (Moscow)
Pronunciation Syllabus
for Russian EAP/ESP
Learners: NES Experience
S. Kuznetsova (Moscow)
Fun Mobile Learning: Add
Competitiveness and
Challenge to Classroom
Young Learners
Hall Surikov
(audience 190)
Fluent Bilingual Children
in a Monolingual
Community: Is It
Possible?
A. Arzumanian (Saratov)
Mixing Languages at
School: Where is the
Problem?
T. Skopintseva (Moscow)
E. Turapina (Volgograd)
A. Goborov (Moscow)
17.10 – 18.00
Plenary 1 ESP and EAP
Vera I. Zabotkina: Essential Skills for Academic Success
18.00 – 18.50
Plenary 2 ESP and EAP
Steve Kirk: Teaching ‘EAP’: Enabling Academic Participation
19.00 – 20.00
Welcome reception
Open Slots
Hall Kandinsky
(audience 130)
Sign up at Kandinsky
Hall
Schedule will be
available at Kandinsky
hall and in the reception
area
Friday, March 13
10.00
11.00 – 11.50
11.50 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.10
13.10 – 13.50
13.10 – 13.30
Registration opens
Plenary 1 Language Issues
Catherine Walter: Learning Grammar and Pronunciation: What Do We Know, and What Can We Do About It?
Plenary 2 Language Issues
Svetlana G. Ter-Minasova: Teaching Language Issues in Today’s Russia: To Think About…
Coffee break
Parallel sessions
Assessment
Hall Levitan
(audience 130)
Formative vs. Summative:
How to Motivate Your
Students
ESP and EAP
Hall Vdokhnovenie
(audience 200)
My First Preprint Online:
Product-Oriented
Webinars in ESP
Language Issues
Hall Vasnetsov
(audience 340)
Teaching Grammar
Today: What Modern
Teaching Approaches Say
Learning Technologies
Hall Fantasia
(audience 250)
Language Study outside
the Classroom
Zh. Bakin (Moscow)
Investigating
Postgraduate Students’
Perceptions of Corpusbased Classroom
Activities in EAP Classes
V. Levchenko (Samara)
S. Bogolepova (Moscow)
Exploring Activities to
Make Grammar Engaging
for Young Learners
N. Galanina (Moscow)
Online ESAP Materials
Created in Collaboration
with Students – Viable
and Valuable
O. Fomina (Moscow)
E. Grushko (Rostov-on-Don)
O. Tsareva (Yaroslavl)
Learning Technologies
Hall Fantasia
(audience 250)
10 Reasons to Use
Smartphones and Tablets
at EFL Classes
R. Chaldymbayeva
(Taldykorgan)
Young Learners
Hall Surikov
(audience 190)
Lesson Shells Teaching Grammar to
Kids Creatively
Turning Cinderella into a
Princess: The Workbook
Re-invented
N. Chekurova (St.
Petersburg)
"Use Memes", They Said.
"It'll Be Fun", They Said
A. Fetisova (Moscow)
British Council
LearnEnglish Kids
Brochures for Parents
13.30 – 13.50
A. Panevina (Pavlodar)
13.50 – 14.50
Coffee break
Parallel sessions
14.50 – 16.15
Assessment
Hall Levitan
(audience 130)
Testing the Test Types:
"Up the Down Staircase"?
ESP and EAP
Hall Vdokhnovenie
(audience 200)
Breakthrough to
International Standards
in Academic Writing
Language Issues
Hall Vasnetsov
(audience 340)
Teaching the Whole
Person
I. Kostyukovich (Protvino)
A. Seleznev (Barnaul)
J. Scholes (Nottingham)
Better Speaking
Assessment: Designing
and Using Our Own
Rubrics
Developing Critical
Thinking Skills in an EAP
Foundation Year
Program
FlashmobELT: Activities
and More
A. Nozdrevatykh (Barnaul)
Y. Beymlina (Moscow)
A. Loseva (Moscow)
14.50 – 15.30
15.30 – 15.35
15.35 – 16.15
16.15 – 16.50
16.50 – 17.40
17.40 – 18.30
19.00 – 20.30
Young Learners
Hall Surikov
(audience 190)
Dealing with Young
Geniuses When
Teaching English to
Very Young Learners
A. Voronina (Moscow)
The Geography of a
Pre-primary English
Language Classroom
Open Slots
Hall Kandinsky
(audience 130)
Schedule will be available
at Kandinsky hall and in
the reception area
Open Slots
Hall Kandinsky
(audience 130)
Schedule will be available
at Kandinsky hall and in
the reception area
A. Chistyakova (Moscow)
Break
Coffee break
Plenary 1 Assessment
Jane Allemano: Authenticity in Speaking Tests
Plenary 2 Assessment
Thom Kiddle: Technology in Classroom-based Assessment: Friend or Foe?
Quiz night Hall Fantasia
E. Sheykhametova
(Tashkent)
Schedule will be available
at Kandinsky hall and in
the reception area
Saturday, March 14
10.30
Registration opens
11.00 – 11.50
Plenary 1 Learning Technologies
Alla L. Nazarenko: The Power of Technologies? The Power of a Teacher? The Power of a Learner?
11.50 – 12.40
Plenary 2 Learning Technologies
Gavin Dudeney: Of Big Data & Little Data - How Numbers Have (Almost) Ruined Everything
12.40 – 13.10
Coffee break
Discussion groups in 5 special interest areas
13.10 – 14.00
14.00 – 15.00
Assessment
ESP and EAP
Language Issues
Learning Technologies
Young Learners
Hall Levitan
Hall Vdokhnovenie
Hall Vasnetsov
Hall Fantasia
Hall Surikov
(audience 130)
(audience 200)
(audience 340)
(audience 250)
(audience 190)
Facilitators
Facilitators
Facilitators
Facilitators
Facilitators
Jane Allemano
Steve Kirk
Catherine Walter
Gavin Dudeney
Malgosia Tetiurka
Thom Kiddle
Irina Titarenko
Vera Bobkova
Mikhail Mamaev
Emine Sheykhametova
Marina Ryzhkova
Andrey Nozdrevatykh
Ekaterina Toroptseva
Ekaterina Shadrova
Natalia Zezyulkina
Lucia Zhurukova
Parallel event. Hall Kandinsky (audience 130)
Round table discussion “What Can Be Done to Improve Continuous Professional Development for Teachers in the 21st-Century Environment?”
Lead by Andrey Kuznetsov and Natalia Tsarikova
Coffee break
Discussion groups in 5 special interest areas continue
15.00 – 16.20
Assessment
ESP and EAP
Language Issues
Learning Technologies
Hall Levitan
Hall Vdokhnovenie
Hall Vasnetsov
Hall Fantasia
(audience 130)
(audience 200)
(audience 340)
(audience 250)
Facilitators
Facilitators
Facilitators
Facilitators
Jane Allemano
Steve Kirk
Catherine Walter
Gavin Dudeney
Thom Kiddle
Irina Titarenko
Vera Bobkova
Mikhail Mamaev
Marina Ryzhkova
Andrey Nozdrevatykh
Ekaterina Toroptseva
Ekaterina Shadrova
Lucia Zhurukova
Parallel event. Hall Kandinsky (audience 130)
Webinar and discussion “3 steps to Wellbeing for Teachers” Lead by Brenda Roche Facilitators: Elizaveta Bogdanova, Vlada Lapshina
16.20 – 16.50
Coffee break
16.50 – 17.50
Presentations from 5 discussion groups
17.50 – 18.20
Lottery
18.20 – 18.30
Closure
Young Learners
Hall Surikov
(audience 190)
Facilitators
Malgosia Tetiurka
Emine Sheykhametova
Natalia Zezyulkina