Program

PROGRAM

DAY 1: September 16, 2015 - MORNING
Time	Activity	Location
8:00 – 9:00 AM	Registration	Lobby Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia
9:00 – 10:00	Opening Ceremony	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia

Time	Activity	Title	Location	Presenter
10:00 – 10:50 AM	PLENARY 1	Foreign language teaching and beyond: Intercultural citizenship in the English classroom	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor	Dr. Melina Porto (Universidad de La Plata - Argentina)
10:50 – 11:00	COFFEE BREAK Language Center -Building 25

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1

Time	Title	Location	Presenter
11:00 – 11:50	*WORKSHOP: Intercultural citizenship in the English classroom in practice: Axioms, characteristics and examples	Language Center Room 25 02	Dr. Melina Porto (Argentina)
11:00 – 11:50	PRESENTATION: Uncovering myself to understand you	Language Center Room 25 07	Santiago Velásquez Tangarife Sayra M. Lozano Carvajal Universidad del Tolima
11:00 – 11:50	PRESENTATION: Speaking Skills Development through the implementation of Multimedia Projects	Language Center Room 2508	Letty Hazbleidy Contreras Ospitia Sandra Milena Charry Universidad del Tolima
11:00 – 11:50	PRESENTATION: “English day: A strategy to motivate students to learning a foreign language”.	Language Center Room 25 09	Ana del Pilar Moreno Hernández María Victoria Cifuentes Lugo San Luis Gonzaga (San Luis Tolima)
11:00 – 11:50	PRESENTATION: Boosting Students’ self-efficacy beliefs in the English classroom through reflective journals	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor	Carol Andrea García Gutiérrez Universidad del Tolima

*This workshop needs previous registration at the front desk located at the entrance of the Auditorium (maximum 25 people)

DAY 1: September 16, 2015 – AFTERNOON
Time	Activity	Title		Location		Presenter
2:00 – 2:50	PLENARY 2		Towards a text-based approach to teaching language		Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor		Dr. Norma Barletta (Universidad del Norte – Barranquilla)
2:50 – 3:00	COFFEE BREAK Language Center -Building 25

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2

Time	Title	Location	Presenter
3:00 – 3:50	*WORKSHOP: Spot the communicative competence	Language Center Room 25 02	Dr. Norma Barletta (Universidad del Norte – Barranquilla)
3:00 – 3:50	PRESENTATION: A reflective supervision proposal on the improvement of the teaching practicum feedback process	Language Center Room 25 06	Lilian Cecilia Zambrano Castillo Universidad Sur Colombiana Neiva
3:00 – 3:50	PRESENTATION: Exploring “aha moments”  when graduate students engage in reflection processes.	Language Center Room 25 07	Norma Constanza Durán Narváez Universidad del Tolima
3:00 – 3:50	PRESENTATION: Improving Reading Comprehension through Direct Learning Strategies	Language Center Room 25 08	Liliana Martinez Deyssi Acosta Universidad del Tolima
3:00 – 3:50	PRESENTATION: Improving oral skills through contemporary strategies	Language Center Room 25 09	Martha Sedeida Devia Grisales Universidad del Tolima
3:00 – 3:50	Teaching to the test or teaching to succeed?	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor	Jair Ayala Zárate ETS Educational Testing Services

*This workshop needs previous registration at the front desk located at the entrance of the Auditorium (maximum 25 people)

Time	Activity	Location	Participants
4:00 -5:00	FORUM	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor	Dr. Norma Barletta (Universidad del Norte – Barranquilla) Dr. Melina Porto (Argentina)

CULTURAL PERFORMANCE 1

	Location
5:20 – 6:00 pm	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor

DAY 2: September 17, 2015 – MORNING
Time	Activity	Title	Location	Presenter
9:00 – 9:50	PLENARY 3	Bilingualism, Bi-Culturalism and Bi-literalism	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor	Anastasia Boldireff McMillan Editores
9:50 – 10:00	COFFEE BREAK Language Center -Building 25

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3

	Title	Location	Presenter
10:00-10:50	Plan Bilingüe and its effects on indigenous communities in Tolima	Language Center Room 25 02	Joshua James Zwister Universidad del Tolima
10:00-10:50	PRESENTATION: Low students’ performance in oral production	Language Center Room 25 07	María Fernanda León Ramírez  Universidad del Tolima
10:00-10:50	PRESENTATION: The Importance of Understanding and Reflecting upon Language Policies	Language Center Room 25 06	Nancy Yolanda Bautista Pérez Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia – Sede Ibagué
10:00-10:50	PRESENTATION: Screenwriting and its use in an educational context	Language Center Room 25 08	Hernán A. Avila Universidad del Cauca
10:00 – 10:50	PRESENTATION: Authentic materials in English Language Teaching in the School of Foreign Languages at Universidad Surcolombiana (ILEUSCO): assessing alternative ways to enhance the students’ communicative competence.	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor	César Augusto Castillo Losada María Fernanda Jaime Osorio Universidad Surcolombiana

*This workshop needs previous registration at the front desk located at the entrance of the Auditorium (maximum 25 people)

POSTER SESSIONS

Time	Title	Location	Presenter
11:00 – 12:00 M	Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Language Teaching	Language Center Room 25 02	Cindy Alexandra Betancourt Ospina Diana Carolina Urrego Universidad del Tolima
11:00 – 12:00 M	An attempt to design a metacognitive model based on the use of monolingual searches to foster the development of Vocabulary and Reading skills. (Research Proposal)	Language Center Room 25 07	Cristian Mauricio López Páez Ladisbel Jiménez Vergara Universidad del Tolima
11:00 – 12:00 M	Metaphor : “Research is like making cupcakes”	Language Center Room 25 – 08	Fabian Amado Soto Universidad del Tolima
11:00 – 12:00	Beliefs and Conceptions of Parents and Students about Learning English at Rural Schools	Language Center Room 25 – 09	Cristhian Yesid Varón Rico Juan José García Florez Universidad del Tolima

DAY 2: September 17, 2015 – AFTERNOON
Time	Activity	Title	Location	Presenter
2:00 – 2:50	PLENARY 4	Skills of Effective Teachers in the 21st century	Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor	Pamela Netinho
2:50 – 3:00	COFFEE BREAK Language Center -Building 25

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4

Time	Title	Location	Presenter
3:00 – 3:50	PRESENTATION: Technology: An educational tool in teaching English as a second language	Language Center Room 25 02	Carolina María Dimas Diaz Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga
3:00 – 3:50	Teacher Professional Development in English didactics and methodology as a means of strengthening primary teachers’ practice at Saludcoop Norte IED School.	Language Center Room 25 06	Breyner Enrique Suárez Villegas Karen Lorena Flórez Pulido Universidad De San Buenaventura Bogotá
3:00 – 3:50	The use of micro-projects in the Pedagogical Practicum of the student-teachers at Universidad Industrial de Santander	Language Center Room 25 07	Fabio Alexander Rodríguez Bustos Universidad Industrial de Santander
3:00 – 3:50	PRESENTATION: Effective ICT in the FL teaching process: A functional didactic model	Language Center Room 25 09	Edwin Yesid Barbosa Ariza Carlos Alberto Jaimes Guerrero Universidad de Pamplona
3:00 – 3:50	WORKSHOP: The Music of Language	Language Center Room 25 08	Mg. Efraín González Juan Carlos Santamaría Gimnasio Británico de Villavicencio English Learning Center

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5

Time	Title	Location	Presenter
4:00 – 4:50	PRESENTATION: “The Development of Critical Literacies and Multiliteracies on Disciplinary Courses at the B. A in English at Tolima University”	Language Center Room 25 02	Deisy Acosta Universidad del Tolima
4:00 – 4:50	WORKSHOP: Metacognitive challenges and Learning in the Modern Languages Program at Universidad del Quindío.	Language Center Room 25 06	Larissa Tatiana Rico Buitrago Jacqueline García Botero Universidad del Quindio
4:00 – 4:50	PRESENTATION: Academic Writing at Graduate School: An attempt to its demystification	Language Center Room 25 07	Angela Yicely Castro Universidad del Tolima
4:00 – 4:50	PRESENTATION: Critical thinking strategies and English language learning	Language Center Room 25 09	Andersson García Universidad del Tolima

CULTURAL PERFORMANCE 2 (CLOSING CEREMONY)

Time	Activity	Location
5:20 – 6:00 pm		Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia. Building 33 – 1st Floor
6:00 – 7:00 pm	Certificates delivery	Lobby Auditorio Mayor de la Ciencia