2010 Veliko Turnovo

19th BETA-IATEFL Annual Conference
23-25 April 2010, Veliko Turnovo

Related Publications

Expressing diminutiveness in English – an overview based on fairytales

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

Introduction

This paper is concerned with diminutiveness – how it is expressed in English, and some specifics of forming and using diminutive forms in English. It presents a comparison between English and Bulgarian languages, using examples from two fairytales – “The Ugly Duckling” and “The Little Match-Seller” by Hans Christian Andersen.
I chose these two particular [...]

TPR, BSL and TEYL

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

Creative business English tips

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

Creating motivation through speaking activities

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

Applying Bloom’s taxonomy in teaching composition

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

Bloom’s taxonomy, which presents a classification of the aims of the educational process, can successfully be applied in composition classes taught to students learning English at university level.

Bloom’s taxonomy of the cognitive domain contains six major classes: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.  The latter arrangement presents a hierarchy of the different classes [...]

Using the CEFR for the assessment purposes

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

This presentation is based on our experience in developing a new test for Bulgarian as a foreign language.
There are four main steps in the test development process: development, test production process, live exam, analysis and review. On the stage of development two main features are very important: decisions and task design. They are the [...]

English and business organization teacher collaboration in one Italian University context: the Mediterranean food-and-wine sciences and health degree

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

Introduction
State of the art in EFL teaching reckons the role of English as the international medium of communication and the need to account for specialised discourses and communicative practices to be spent once in the profession (Hyland, 2006, 2009; Solly, 2008). In university programmes, Content Based Instruction (CBI), that is blending foreign language and academic [...]

The creative and challenging experience of textbook writing

by BETA-IATEFL on 03/09/2010 in Publications

One important prerequisite for a well-organized English Language Teaching and English for Specific Purposes course still remains an appropriate core textbook. The aim of this article is to share the authors’ major concepts and experiences while writing and piloting the course book English for Medicine for students at Varna Medical University. Textbook writers attempt [...]

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