Author: rimas

For lunch, we recommend the following restaurants which offer DAY LUNCH and are within a walking distance from the LEU. VERANDA Kęstučio g. 39 / 10 min. walk ŽVĖRYNO SMUKLĖ Pušų g. 7 / Vytauto g. 37 / 10 min. walk GREEN HALL Upės g. 21 / next door to LEU SOYA Konstitucijos pr. 26 / Forum Palace / very close to LEU but also next…

Kaunas Jonas Jablonskis Gymnasium Presentation “Teaching Writing in Secondary Education” In the past decade, writing has become more important than ever, as people spend more and more time communicating via the written word. On the other hand, teaching writing to digital natives at secondary education level has become a real challenge for teachers. Students tend to experiment with written…

Liliane Sakamoto is the Overseas Teachers Course Coordinator at Alpha College of English. She holds an M.Phil in English Language Teaching from Trinity College and has several years experience. In the last year, she has focused on teacher training and development with an emphasis on the use of technology. PLENARY TALK DIGITAL REALIA – Online Communities…

Gretchen KETNER, LCC International University, Lihuania PRESENTATION Values in Action: Using Fiction to Engage with Social Issues Novels and short stories can provide our students with a rich authentic experience of English. And fiction often raises important questions about current issues and ideas. How can reading fiction help our students to identify their own values?…

John CORBETT joined the University of Macau (China) in 2011 and holds a full professorship there; in 2013 he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He has published widely on intercultural language education, as well as on Scottish literature and the Scots language, literary translation and corpus linguistics. Among his main…

Kristina URBONIENĖ, Šiauliai Didždvaris Gymnasium, Lithuania WORKSHOP Start Strong: Career development through learning values In this workshop I will share my experience of coordinating the international project “Start Strong 3+3”. The project is intended for youth and educators and promotes career development, entrepreneurship and relationship building. It helps people develop skills and characteristics necessary for…

Vilda KIAUNYTĖ, KTU Lyceum of Engineering, Lithuania WORKSHOP (Re)creating values and meanings through literary texts: blackout poems We often talk about developing certain values in our students, such as their social and creative skills through composing short stories or poems; however, not every student may write an original work. Blackout poetry is a method which…

Wszechnica Polska Presentation “The Uses of Theoretical Linguistics in Teaching a Practical Course” The aims of the presentation are: to introduce the topical novelty and content of a course of English grammar based on the data of the most recent survey of English usage and on the functional theory of language; to explain the uses of…

Marlene Wall is President of LCC International University in Klaipėda, Lithuania, a multicultural university with tudents from 29 countries and all classes taught in English. Marlene was born in Montevideo, Uruguay; is a Canadian citizen; spent all of her high school years in Asuncion, Paraguay; completed her higher education and spent much of her professional life…

Liliane Sakamoto is the Overseas Teachers Course Coordinator at Alpha College of English. She holds an M.Phil in English Language Teaching from Trinity College and has several years experience. In the last year, she has focused on teacher training and development with an emphasis on the use of technology. PLENARY TALK DIGITAL REALIA – Online Communities…