2012 Bled, Slovenia: Back to Basics: Recipes for Instructional Success

• Opening Remarks - Chairman
• BILC Updates - Secretary

Presentations

October 22, 2012

• Towards Instructional Success by Fostering Learner Autonomy - Hafner (Slovenia)
• Autonomous Language Learning and English Language Courses for Military Personnel at Polish Naval Academy - Szczepanski (Poland)
• Fostering Learner Autonomy in the Language Classroom - Hetu (Canada)
• Student & Teacher Motivation from a Humanistic Perspective - ÇAGALOGLU (Turkey)
• Classroom Management - Khachaturyan (Armenia)
• Maintaining  Student / Teacher Motivation (Jordan)
• Creating Communities of Practice - Fischer (USA)

October 23, 2012

• Testing Challenges at Various Levels - Rogan (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Does Testing Hinder Instructional Success? - Petek (Slovenia)
• Better Testing Scores Through Efficient Prognosis - van der Heede (Belgium)
• Assessment Literacy for Language Teachers - Garza (USA)
• The Problems of Language Proficiency Testing Before a Short-term Language Course - Galiev (Russia)
• Plain Language: A Way of Improving Interoperability - Murto-Linden (Finland)
• The Imagery and Sybolism of the Mesopotamian Garden in English Poetry - Mhayyal (Iraq)

October 24, 2012

• ITAF’s Experience in Teaching English to Forward Air Controllers - Di Castri/Pim (Italy)
• Top Down and Bottom Up Approach in Teaching Language Skills - Ghanwi (Slovakia)
• "Back to Basics: Recipes for Instructional Success” Teaching Specific Skills - Parreira (Portugal)
• Teaching Specific Skills: Approaches to Teaching Listening & Speaking in the Arabic Language - Almilaik (United Kingdom)
• Podcasting Your Way to Listening Success - Engel (USA)
• Recipes for Instructional Success: Providing Authentic Learning - Quattrone (Italy)
• Training of Military Interpreters in the Danish Defence - Mathiesen (Denmark)

October 25, 2012

• KISWAHILI - A 5-week Introductory Course (USA)
• FL Instruction in the Defense Forces – The Case of Macedonia - Popovska (Macedonia)
• School Management (Austria)
• Complications with English Discourse for Military Oriented Coalitions, the Alliance and Interoperability - Chaloupský (Czech Replublic)
• Teamwork as a way of increasing feedback from a short-term language course (Russia)
• Back to Basics at the Swedish National Defence College - Leimanis (Sweden)
• Effective Intercultural Communication Competence - Kiss (Hungary)
• Working Group Military Terminology (Austria)
• BILC Panel
• Next Seminar: Stockholm
• Next Conference: Tbilisi, Georgia - May 2013