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BIODATA Vilma BIJEIKIENĖ is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, where she teaches English for Politics and Diplomacy, Legal English and Sociolinguistics. She is also an Executive Editor of the international biannual scientific journal Darnioji Daugiakalbystė// Sustainable Multilingualism (http://uki.vdu.lt/sm, Open Journal Systems, indexed in CEEOL). She has…

BIODATA Phil BALL works for the Federation of Basque Schools, based in San Sebastián, Spain. He has been closely involved with their successful plurilingual project, ‘Eleanitz’, and has been involved in several European projects. He has written a wide variety of CLIL textbooks for the Basque Schools’ social science syllabus (studied in English), and co-wrote and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Tauragė Žalgirių Gymnasium  Presentation “Something Different in Teaching English” We will present the experience of English language teachers from Tauragė Žalgirių gymnasium. The presentation will cover various ways of involving students into the learning process, such as using a different environment, giving integrated lessons, holding conferences and non-traditional days of education. We will try to reveal the…

Kuršėnai Laurynas Ivinskis Gymnasium Presentation “Teaching English with Technologies” Teaching with technology is not just about staying current on the latest tools, it is about knowing how to successfully incorporate the best tools into your teaching when and where it makes sense. The presentation deals with the possibility to apply different Microsoft tools to make learning English…

Lentvaris Motiejus Šimelionis GymnasiumPresentation “Integrating TED into ELT” English language teachers always look for new learning resources to make their lessons more interesting and more meaningful. For me – TED is the answer and I would like to invite you to join the global net of TED. TED is a nonprofit organisation devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of…

Rūkla Jonas Stanislauskas Basic School Workshop “Synesthesia and Associations in the English Language Classroom” The terms “Synesthesia” and “Synesthete” will be introduced to the workshop participants in a very practical way. The participants will take an easy test which shows their level of involuntary/voluntary associations. Then, a few methods suitable for English language teaching will be…