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Invited Session - International Conference 2015
Exploring World Cultures, Learning More About Your Own
In light of English being a lingua franca, it makes sense for teachers to equip learners with the knowledge and skills necessary for cross-cultural communication that students might be having in their future. How can we address this need? In this session, the presenter will detail the elements of a culture course for high school students in Tokyo, which emphasizes a critical approach to viewing cultures. Participants will be invited to put themselves in students’ shoes to examine and explore aspects of their own native cultures in ways that would allow for communication beyond common perceptions and stereotypes.
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Speaker Bio-Sketch
Anna has been teaching English for over 9 years in a variety of contexts in her native Moscow, Russia. Since April of this year she is an English language teacher at the Tokyo campus of Clark Memorial International High School. She is a proud iTDi Associate and can also be found writing off and on for the Teaching English website and her own blog. Anna is enthusiastic about teacher and student self-development, with reflection through writing being part of it.
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Speaker Online Materials
Personal ELT blog
http://annloseva.wordpress.com/
TeachingEnglish Associates Blog
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teachingenglish-associates/
iTDi Panel at KOTESOL 2014 (video interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-HXbp5M4Wc
Video Interview from the E-merging Forum (Moscow, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBGn5p6zaI
Co-hosting an episode of the TEFLology Podcast on blogging and being connected
http://teflology.libsyn.com/episode-28-blogging-and-being-connected-with...
TEFL article in The Guardian (Sept. 2012)
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/sep/18/physics-inspires-teacher
Anna Loseva’s participation in the 2015 Korea TESOL International Conference and English Expo is sponsored in part by IATEFL’s Young Learners & Teenagers Special Interest Group (IATEFL YLT SIG).
See the full list of Major Speakers at the KOTESOL International Conference and English Expo at http://koreatesol.org/ic2015/MajorSpeakers
