● 講題:
Explore, Discover and Learn: Language Instruction through a Global Context in Your Own Classroom
● 時間: 2010.11.12 (五) 15:30~16:30 at 欣悅廳
● 摘要:
‘Explore’ amazing places and fascinating cultures of our world. ‘Discover’ the exciting worlds of science and technology, nature, history, geography, and popular culture. ‘Learn’ how to use language to communicate effectively in the ‘real world’. Heinle/Cengage Learning have partnered with National Geographic to bring your language classroom stunning images, video, and content in a unique and engaging way to build English language skills through an exciting global context without leaving the walls of your classroom.
In this presentation, audience members will not only travel to the far reaches of our globe with four young reporters, but also uncover how Time Zones, a brand new 4 level, four-skills series for teenagers, offers students a new way of language learning through practical and communicative activities brought to life through interactive technology including a Multi-ROM, DVD and IWB compatible Classroom PPT Tool. Find out how you can enhance your students’ real world language experience to help them become future global citizens with linguistic confidence…
● 講者:
Derek Mackrell is a senior editor for Cengage Learning, one of the world’s largest providers of ELT products, both print and digital. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he has worked in English language teaching (both children and adults), teacher training, and publishing in Japan and Singapore since 1994. He has a Cambridge/RSA Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults, He is currently based in Singapore.
Andrew Robinson is originally from the United Kingdom, and has been based in Asia since 1994. He has been active in English teaching and publishing for over 15 years, and has worked as an editor and consultant for several international ELT publishing houses.
He currently works as Publisher (Asia and Global ELT) for Cengage Learning, one of the world’s largest providers of ELT products both print and digital. Most recently, he has been working with the National Geographic Society to develop Cengage’s major content-rich series: Time Zones. He is based in Singapore and travels extensively throughout Asia.