Dear colleagues,

A lot of things have distracted us from completing this issue on time. First of all, there was the 6th ELTA IATEFL Conference at the end of May. Then, it took us several days to digest the absorbed information and let the impressions settle. Besides that, the end of the school year was approaching fast and there were numerous tests that needed to be checked and marked. Moreover, the weather has been just fine and whenever there is a moment to spare, we rush ouside to catch a breath of fresh air. Despite all that, we have managed to accomplish the task – the June Newsletter is right in front of you.

Enjoy if you find time to browse through it as there are numerous other things to enjoy now that the school year is over.

Best wishes,

on behalf of the Editorial Team

Tatjana Glušac

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14th NATE / 7th FEELTA Conference
"Building Bridges with Languages and Cultures"
Russia's National Association of Teachers of English and
the Far Eastern English Language Teachers' Association
June 26 - 28, 2008 at Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia

FEELTA's premier event is the international conference, which is held every other year and attracts 500 participants. It is a major event and EFL practitioners from even the remotest parts of the Russian Far East come to network and expand their knowledge. The location of the conference alternates between Vladivostok and one of the other FEELTA posts.

Topic Areas: English in the Pacific Rim Countries ,Teaching Methods, Cultural Issues , English for Specific Purposes , CALL, Technology and Multimedia , Materials Writing , Teaching Literature and Arts, Teacher Development and Education , Interpreting and Translating, Linguistics , Other Languages, Global Issues in Language Education , Area Studies
There will also be a Materials Share Fair and Publishers' Displays.

For further information contact feeltacon@dvgu.ru
For international participants: Stephen Ryan - ryanyama@hcc5.bai.ne.jp
FEELTA website at http://feelta.wl.dvgu.ru/

18th IATEFL Hungary
”Thinking outside the Box”
Current Approaches and Future Trends in English Language Education
3rd October – 5th October

The last three decades in ELT have produced a variety of methods and approaches that have been espoused with various degrees of enthusiasm and success - but how much closer are we to really knowing what makes a successful learner... and a successful teacher? What have we learnt over this period, and how should we approach the future?

Workshop themes include: the methodology of TEFL and ESP; curriculum, syllabus and materials design; teacher education (pre- and in-service) and professional development;   language education related research; intercultural communication, multicultural challenges; information and communication technology.

Venue: Hotel Füred Balaton Kongresszusi Központ***, 8230 Balatonfüred, Széchenyi u. 20.
Information is available on www.iatefl.hu, at sales@hotelfured.hu, or via Online Booking. Please, always indicate the code of the conference (IATEFL-H 2008) in the comments; Make your booking till 1 August 2008.

ETAS SIG Day,
English language teachers of Switzerland
20 September, SIG Day 2008 will be held at the Berufsfachschule BBB Baden

The Baden Region Local Organizing Committee together with the 12 SIG Coordinators invites you to join us for this year’s spectacular SIG Day Conference, chock-full of workshops (at least 32!).

Venue: Technical College, Baden
Event link: www.e-tas.ch

Fifth International ELTAM - IATEFL Conference, Skopje, Macedonia
Creating a Philosophy of Teaching:
Linking the Personal and Professional Self

25 & 26 October 2008 Conference presentations
24 October 2008 Research SIG pre-conference event

Aim of the conference is to enable English language teaching professionals from Macedonia as well as from other countries to develop professionally by sharing their experience and ideas in the field of ELT. The Research SIG pre-conference event „Research in EFL: Connecting Theory and Practice” has in view sharing experience in research activities concerning English language teaching and learning.

Workshop themes include: presentations, workshops, plenary sessions, discussion groups, commercial presentations, exhibition (Pearson - Longman, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, American Corner, Universities).

Registration: Friday morning for pre-conference event- October 24, 2008
Saturday morning 9a.m.-10a.m. for main conference-October 25,2008

Closing date for registration of participants September 30, 2008
Closing date for registration of speakers June 20, 2008

For all information regarding the conference please contact the conference secretary Jagoda Trajcova by e-mail: jagodatrajcova@yahoo.com or visit http://www.eltam.org.mk/events/events.php.

Necessity for Introducing English-Serbian Contact and Contrastive Aspects in Teaching EFL at Non-language Faculties in Serbia
by Mira Milic
English as a language with no frontiers has brought great danger  for languages getting in contact with it, and Serbian is no exception.
Read the whole article (MS Word 104KB)

Building and Maintaining an Adequate Vocabulary
Focusing on Word Meaning
by Ljubica Kardaleska
I have evaluated the proposed method in several classroom realities and my findings are  that teaching vocabulary through semantic decomposition of words, and pointing to the concepts where words are related to one another is an effective approach.
Read the whole article (MS Word 159KB)

Pictures from the Event
PowerPoint Presentation
by Maja Smirak-Grbic
View the whole presentation (MS PowerPoint 3.01MB)

Ways Teachers

Can Use Computers
by Nina Lauder
Students of all ages are becoming more and more technologically literate as years go on and, as a teacher, I feel it’s important to keep as up to date as possible with the world of ICT.
Read the whole article (MS Word 116KB)

Test Practice Materials
contributed by the English Book
Candidates will be sitting the revised exams (FCE and CAE) from December 2008. Both exams will be about an hour shorter, include new or improved task types and be more user-friendly.
Read the whole article (MS Word 170KB)

Modern and Postmodern Fiction
The specific variety of the English language - The Australian idiom
by Sonja Babic and Andrea Djilvesi
The process of the continuous exploration and exploitation of the world by the British Empire towards the end of the 18th century brought about the establishment of the English language in the southern hemisphere.
Read the whole article (MS Word 304KB)