Bureau for International Language Coordination

BILC Professional Seminar, Slovenia Fall 2012

Proceedings of the 2012 Professional Seminar

Day 1

• Chairman Opening
• Secretarial Updates
• Towards Instructional Success by Fostering Learner Autonomy
• Autonomous Language Learning and English Language Courses For Military Personnel at Polish naval Academy
• Student & Teacher Motivation From A Humanistic Perspective
• Classroom Management
• Maintaining Student and Teacher Motivation
• Creating Communities of Practice

Day 2

• Testing Challenges at Various Levels
• Does Testing Hinder Instructional Success?
• Better Testing Scores Through Efficient Prognosis
• Assessment Literacy for Language Teachers
• When assessment goes wrong (video)
• Back to basics Professional Seminar Bled, Slovenia
• Plain language: a way of improving interoperability
• Basaads Presentation

Day 3

• ITAF’s Experience in Teaching English to Forward Air Controllers
• Top Down and Bottom Up Approach in Teaching Language Skills
• Back to Basics: Recipes for Instructional Success” Teaching Specific Skills
• Teaching Specific Skills: Approaches to Teaching Listening & Speaking in the Arabic Language
• Podcasting Your Way to Listening Success
• Providing Authentic Learning
• Training of Military Interpreters in the Danish Defence

Day 4

• KISWAHILI
• Fl instruction in the defense forces – the case of Macedonia
• School Management
  • Speech school management
• Complications with English Discourse for Military Oriented
  Coalitions, the Alliance and Interoperability
  • World Battleground, 1000 years of war in 5 minutes
  • Zulu
• “Teamwork as a way of increasing feedback from a short-term language course”
• Back to the Basics at the Swedish National Defense College
• Effective Intercultural Communication Competence
• Working Group Millitary Terminology
• Panel Discussion
• BILC Conference 2013
  • Tbilisi (video)
• Seminar in Stockholm 2013
  • Stockholm video