Vilma Bačkiūtė

BIODATA Vilma BAČKIŪTĖ works for the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science, where her responsibilities include language education policy and leadership in education issues. She has extensive experience in project management and EL teacher training, including CLIL. In 2002 – 2012, Vilma worked as a partnerships and projects manager for the British Council in Lithuania. In…

International conference “Focus on CLIL – Lithuania 2015”

17th LAKMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOCUS ON CLIL – LITHUANIA 2015 16-17 October 2015 Vilnius On October 16-17 LAKMA held its 17th international conference “Focus on CLIL- Lithuania 2015”. The conference brought together local and international experts who shared their insights into Content and Language Integrated Learning and offered examples of good practice. Over 200 participants from…

Giedrė BALČYTYTĖ-KURTINIENĖ

LEU Workshop “Phonetic Linking Aspects in Connected Speech” In English words are not pronounced in isolation. They are linked together to produce a natural and fluent speechflow and communicate a message to the listener. Various phonetic and phonological features contribute to the fluency and naturalness of connected speech, such as rhythm, intonation, elision, contractions, weak…

Irena NAVICKIENĖ

LEUPresentaion “Partnership Project “Learning at the hearth”. The presentation reveals the outcomes of the project Learning at the Hearth which had a great influence on the development of the intercultural awareness of project participants.The project celebrates traditional methods of learning through stories, songs, wisdom, recipes and crafts which were once handed down from generation to generation at the fireside.The project extends the…

Elmyra JURKŠAITIENĖ

Tauragė Versmės GymnasiumPresentation “Critical thinking at school?! Breaking the myth” Critical thinking is a utopia in the classroom! “Students” and “thinkers” are incompatible words! Are we, teachers, capable of replacing such desparate claims with more optimistic ones? Definitely YES. How? By helping our students to develop as thinkers by taking them through stages of intellectual…