The ninth edition of BBELT took place on 23 and 24 February, 2007 at the Gran Meliá México Reforma Hotel, with the theme “Getting better every day: achieving excellence in Mexican ELT”.

Find the programme overview, the presentations, the presentations' summaries and the photo album.

PRESENTATIONS

			SPEAKER		PRESENTATION
			Ana María Aramayo		Mexico working with Latin America... and the world!
			Bella McGuinness		Assessment skills
			Darragh O'Grady		Improving writing skills for IELTS
			Iffaf Khan		Concordancing
			Pat Grounds		Teacher's associations in Latin America
			Patrick Murphy		L1 should be forbbiden in the classroom
			Rosa Ma. Funderburk		How do our beliefs shape our teacher talk
			Simon Harris & Adriana Rebollo		Planning professional development
			Tom Sarney		Exploring authentic material

SUMMARIES

			SPEAKER		PRESENTATION
			Adelina Ruiz & Esther Villaseñor		Learning to learn training program
			Adriana Rodríguez		Mentoring: The new panacea
			Annette Capel		Developing writing skills at B1 Level
			Annette Capel		Plenary: Insights into Mexican learners' language and development
			Annette Capel		Testing grammar and vocabulary at B1 and B2 Level
			Barbara Taylor		A look at constructivism in the classromm
			Beatriz Ceballos		Updating the Cambridge ESOL YLE tests
			Carla Gastelum & Margarita Knight		Teachers as curriculum makers and course designers
			Carol Lethaby		Using what we know about language learning
			Caroline Moore, Oscar Narváez & Martha Lengeling		The Pragmatics of doing a British PhD - the Mexican perspective
			Christian Leclerc		Magic as a teaching tool
			Diana Jones & Joep van der Werff		Let's sit down and talk standars
			Dixie Santana		Metacognitive training for improving learning
			Eduardo Valdés		What's in word grammar
			Fátima Encinas		Collaborative design, implementation and evaluation - BA in ELT research seminar
			Frank Farmer		Professional practice and education for language teachers
			Iffaf Khan		Concordancing and the upper intermediate level
			José Manuel González		New language 4 a new generation
			Mario Zamora		Getting better everyday through self-assessment
			Martha Lengeling		A sociocultural study of emotions and identity formation of EFL teachers in Central Mexico
			Miriam Moore		Sociopolitical dynamics for English programs in traditional post-secondary academlic institutions in Mexico
			Myrna Navarro		Reflection makes perfection
			Pat Grounds		Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much reflections: on teachers' associations in LA
			Patricia Cánovas		Achieving excellence in a teacher trainign course
			Paul Davies		Research, theory and actual teaching
			Rocío Dominguez		Autonomy in the classroom or in the SAC
			Rosa María Funderburk		How do our beliefs shape our teacher talk
			Rosalía Valero		Error correction and changing roles in the language classroom
			Sally Crabtree		The Poetree
			Saúl Santos		EFL Writing - lexical problems and dictionary use
			Steve Ansell & María Cass		Twenty tips for mixed ability training
			Tonie de Silva		Using manual work in the ELT classroom
			Roxana Cano & Katherine Durán		BA in ELT