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Fathy Moustafa
21-10-2008, 10:27 PM
This is the Program.If you go and register (Free for MOE Teachers ) You will get release letters for the three days for your absence on those days .

No Accomodation provided But it worth a lot of Effort.

EgypTesol 2008
NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
Best Practice in TEFL
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
NOVEMBER 21 – 22, 2008
TRIUMPH HOTEL
Off Khalifa Maamun Str., near Midan Roxy,
Heliopolis, Cairo
CONVENTION CHAIR
v
Nagwa Kassabgy
The American University in Cairo


ASSOCIATE CONVENTION CHAIR
Marian Sarofim
The American University in Cairo
CONVENTION COMMITTEE
Amani Elshimi
The American University in Cairo

Mariam Ghazala
Career Development & Consultations Academy, Cairo

Hoda Grant
The American University in Cairo
Noha Khafagi
The American University in Cairo

Earlene Khalifa
Hemmat Mahmoud
Ministry of Education, Egypt

Yasser Youssif
Egypt Education Reform Project




ELECTRONIC OASIS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ahmed Gabr
TOPNOTCH Computing Technology, Futurekids Egypt

Gini Stevens
The American University in Cairo

Inas Barsoum
Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport

Jill Cargile
The American University in Cairo

Jonah Moos
The American University in Cairo

Maha El Hindawy
General Motors, Egypt

Neveen Al Saeed
The American University in Cairo

Susan Esnawy
The American University in Cairo

Valerie Carpenter
The American University in Cairo



EgypTesol 2008
Best Practice in TEFL

PLENARY SPEAKERS


FRIDAY MORNING PLENARY
"Lifelong"
Professional Development for EFL Teachers
Susie Miller
University of California Santa Cruz, USA


SATURDAY MORNING PLENARY
Student Evolution, Power Devolution
Bill Bowler
Oxford University Press, UK






EgypTesol 2008
Best Practice in TEFL
FRIDAY AT A GLANCE

TIME
EVENT
VENUE
7:30 – 9:00
Registration
Foyer
9:00 – 9:30
EgypTesol
President’s Address
ATON
BALLROOM
9:30 – 10:30
Plenary
"Lifelong"
Professional Development for EFL Teachers

Susie Miller
University of California Santa Cruz, USA

ATON
BALLROOM
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45
First Timers’ Orientation Session

ATON
BALLROOM
12:00 – 2:00
Friday Prayers & Lunch Break
2:00 – 2:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
3:00 – 3:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
4:00 – 4:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
5:00 – 5:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms





EgypTesol 2008
Best Practice in TEFL
SATURDAY AT A GLANCE

TIME
EVENT
VENUE
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
Foyer
9:00 – 9:45
Plenary
Student Evolution, Power Devolution

Bill Bowler
Oxford University Press, UK

ATON
BALLROOM
9:45 – 10:00
Coffee break
10:00 – 10:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
11:00 – 11:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
12:00 – 12:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
12:45 - 2:00
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 2:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
3:00 – 3:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms
4:00 – 4:45
Concurrent sessions
Meeting rooms




EgypTesol 2008 Friday
DAY ONE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
7:30 – 9:00
ON-SITE REGISTRATION
FOYER
9:00 – 9:30
OPENING &
EgypTesolPRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
ATON BALLROOM



9:30 – 10:30
PLENARY
ATON BALLROOM



"Lifelong" Professional Development for EFL Teachers
Susie Miller
University of California Santa Cruz, USA
10:45 – 11:45
ATON BALLROOM


First Timers’ Orientation Session
Hoda Grant, The American University in Cairo
Hemmat Mahmoud, Ministry of Education, Egypt
Maha M. El Hindawi, General Motors, Egypt

12:00 – 2:00
FRIDAY PRAYERS AND LUNCH BREAK



2:00 – 4:45
CONCURRENT SESSIONS





2:00 – 3:30

# ET 818
Education for social responsibility: Integrating community into the learning curriculum
Amani Elshimi, The American University in Cairo
ANNI

2:00 – 2:45



# ET 316
The 5-minute paper is more than student feedback
Phyllis Wachob, The American University in Cairo
TUT B

# ET 480
Students’ perceptions of the teaching of literature: Communicating and understanding through the eyes of the audience
Fauziah Ahmad and Jamaluddin Aziz, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
ANNI ANNEX
# ET 218
Student-teacher one-to-one conferences
Laila Makhlouf, The American University in Cairo
TUT C

# ET 749
Use of morphology in language teaching
Ezgi Topuz, METU NCC School of Foreign Languages, Turkey
TUT A

# ET 758
Move your body: Bringing language to life
Thomas J. Kelley, International Language Bookshop (IL:cool:, Egypt
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM

3:00 – 4:30


# ET 695
Evaluation of ELT materials
Aziz Khalil, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
TUT C

3:00 – 3:45



# ET 501
Collegiality: Friend or foe? Some controversial issues
Sanaa Abdel Hady Makhlouf and Hadya El Minyawi, The American University in Cairo
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM
# ET 780
Transferring empowering language beliefs to learners
Feyza Doyran, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
TUT B
# ET 784
Break the ice and warm them up!
Olena Benedyktova, Fatih University, Turkey
TUT A
# ET 819
Presentations skills
Noha Khafagi, The American University in Cairo
ANNI ANNEX
4:00 – 5:30
# ET 513
Taking structured steps into extensive reading
Bill Bowler, Oxford University Press, UK
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM
# ET 693
Creative non-fiction: Family history – A path to academic writing
Janet Adams, The American University in Cairo
ANNI
# ET 756
Creating your own integrated-skills activities
Elizabeth Arrigoni, The American University in Cairo
ANNI ANNEX
4:00 – 4:45


# ET 786
Succeed at interviews using the STAR technique
Catherine Good, The American University in Cairo
TUT A
# ET 822
Proposal writing for conferences
Hemmat Mahmoud, Central Directorate for In-Service Training, Ministry of Education, Egypt
TUT B
5:00 – 5:45
# 543
Teaching English business writing: A dialectical approach
Sara Mohamed Awad, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Cairo
TUT C
# ET 816
Pump up and Bump down young learners’ reading class
Zahia Marzouk, AMIDEAST
TUT B

DAY TWO
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22
8:00 – 9:00
ON-SITE REGISTRATION
FOYER
9:00 –9:45
PLENARY
ATON BALLROOM


Student Evolution, Power Devolution
Bill Bowler
Oxford University Press, UK

10:00 – 4:45
CONCURRENT SESSIONS


10:00 – 11:30



# ET 817
The Professional Academy for Teachers: A leap towards total quality in education
Mahmoud Abdeen, the Professional Academy for Teachers, Director
Mohamed El-Desouky, the Professional Academy for Teachers, Deputy Director
Safaa El-Ghazaly, the Professional Academy for Teachers, Secretary General
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM
10:00 – 10:45


# ET 692
English salons as learning communities
Hala Ahmed Ali, Ministry of Education, Egypt
TUT C
# ET 753
Student voice in the academic essay
Ghada Elshimi, The American University in Cairo
ANNI ANNEX
# ET 754
The print rich environment in the ESL classroom
Edward Carlstedt, American University of Sharjah, UAE
ANNI
# ET 772
Strategic competence and EFL learners
Sanaa Abdul-Samee’a Khater, Ministry of Education, Egypt
TUT A
# ET 775
An innovative model of professional development in the UAE
Yvonne El Ashmawi, Ministry of Higher Education, UAE
TUT B
11:00 – 11:45


# ET 185
The impact of teacher beliefs on effective EFL learning
Rania K. Jabr, The American University in Cairo
ANNI ANNEX
# ET 759
A pronunciation revolution
Thomas J. Kelley, International Language Bookshop (IL:cool:, Egypt
ANNI
# ET 770
Institutional beliefs regarding research engagement
Jerrad K. Langlois, Bilkent University, Turkey
TUT B
# ET 790
Bridging two worlds
Nashwa Badr, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
TUT A
# ET 503
The effect of negotiation role play on critical thinking
Reem Sohdy, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt
TUT C
12:00 – 12:45


# ET 820
Teachers' career tracks, entities that regulate them and the Professional Academy for Teachers
Mervat El-Dib, Faculty of Education, Banha University, Egypt
ANNI ANNEX
# ET 709
Quality of five listening tests from the same specifications
****lak Puntahachart, King Monkut’s University of Technology, North Bangkok
TUT A
# ET 715
Alternative strategies to vocabulary learning
Raja Mallek Bahloul and Anne-Marie Papadakis, Anadolu University, Turkey
ANNI
# ET 748
Cultural awareness in language teaching
Seyhan Ozmenek and Nuvit Tarhan, METU NCC School of Foreign Languages, Turkey
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM
# ET 821
Is teacher evaluation an appropriate alternative for an IEP final exam?
Bertha Alfred, The American University in Cairo
TUT C
# ET 787
Web 2.0 as a transformative tool in the language classroom
Gihan Osman, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt
TUT B
12:45 – 2:00
LUNCH BREAK




2:00 – 3:30



# ET 801
Praise for Performance
Mark Riad Mikhael, The American University in Cairo
TUT C

2:00 – 2:45


# ET 491
Modal verbs: A corpus-based approach
Salma Waly, The American University in Cairo
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM

# ET 694
Investigating EFL teachers’ assessment beliefs and practices
Aziz Khalil, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
TUT B

# ET 777
"Practically" painless ESP materials development
Karima Mehanny, Oxford University Press
Diana Van Bogaert, The American University in Cairo
Hanaa Soudan, AMIDEAST
Thomas J. Kelley, International Language Bookshop (IL:cool:, Egypt
ANNI

# ET783
Making grammar exercises fun
Olena Benedyktova, Fatih University, Turkey
TUT A

# ET 788
Critical thinking: A stepping stone to writing
Laila Kamal and Mona El Saady, The American University in Cairo
ANNI ANNEX
3:00 – 3:45


# ET 556
Should the EFL teacher make it local or global?
Mayada Tawfik Zaki, The British University in Egypt
ANNI
# ET 725
The relationship between WTC and LLS
Ali Merc, Anadolu University, Turkey
TUT B
# ET 764
Laugh and learn
El Sayed Salem R. Shanab, Ministry of Education, Egypt
TUT A
# ET 779
Tools for change in professional development programs
R. Alan Davies and Iman El Ashmawi, Ministry of Higher Education, UAE
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM
# ET 794
Affective teaching equals effective learning (EI)
Mosad El Zeiny, Ministry of Education, Egypt
ANNI ANNEX

4:00 – 4:45

# ET 774
The importance of soft skills training to undergraduates
Hanaa Soudan, AMIDEAST
TUT C
# ET 424
Utilizing fiction to promote language acquisition
Suhair Al Alami, Al Ghurair University, Dubai
ANNI ANNEX
# ET 773
Importance of ESP teaching in Faculties of Specific Education
Amany Neiazi Khalil, Cairo University
TUT A
# ET 657
Ongoing needs analysis in one EMP context
Cagla Tasci, Pamukkale University, Turkey
ANNI
# ET 768
Exploring the new cadre via induction and mentoring
Nesreen Bahgat M. Elnesr, Ministry of Education, Egypt
OMAR EL-KHAYYAM
# ET 492
Designing an ESP course: Ideas and considerations
Salma Waly, Ebtihal el Badry, Ayman Hegazy, Noha Mazhar, Dalia Saeed Rania Hafez, The American University in Cairo
TUT B

THE ELECTRONIC OASIS
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

TBA

omar1
22-10-2008, 12:43 AM
Thanks Mr Fathy. I was very happy to meet you last year in the electronic oasis.
of course , it ' ll give me great pleasure to be with all of you this year.

Mr. ABDELHADY
22-10-2008, 08:40 PM
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I wish to attend
THANK UUUUUUUU