ELECTRONIC VILLAGE ONLINE 2008

The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association offers the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2008 season.

This is a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2008 Convention in New York. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2008 participants and those who can participate only virtually.

You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in a free , six-week , wholly online session of the EVO, Jan 14 - Feb 24, 2008.

Visit the Announcement Page to select one or two among the various offerings.


Looking forward to meeting you in the EVO 2008 sessions.

AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES

Higher Education in the USA, the third book in the "American Studies" series, launched by the American Embassy in Moscow, is the result of collaboration and discussion among Russian and American teachers.

The authors of the idea are Prof. Maria V. Verbitskaya and Prof. Elena N. Solovova. The project was carried out under the guidance of Dr. Bridget F. Gersten, the English Language Officer of the Public Affairs Section.

The authors of the book Higher Education in the USA are Russian teachers of Pedagogical Institute (Rostov-on-Don):

Dr. Tuzlukova Viktoriya Igorevna
Yatsenko Yulia Sergeevna
Suchomlinova Marina Anatolyevna
Andrienko Anna Alexandrovna
Yazykova Elena Vladimirovna

The purpose of the book is to provide a clear and understandable entry into Higher Education in the USA, to reflect its basic values and ideas. Based on the principles of the dialogue of cultures this book also provides a cross-cultural comparison of US and Russian higher education.

You may find the book almost in every bookshop in Russia.

Student Annual Conference

April 12th, within the framework of Student Annual Conference at the Pedagogical Institute of South Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), the section "Information technologies in EFL teaching" was organized.

Seven reports were presented by the students:

1. Project Method in teaching English grammar (Tulisova Galina)
2. WWW resources in teaching EFL to young learners (Pivovarova Natasha)
3. Integrating Blogs into EFL teaching (Yukhanaeva Diana)
4. Wiki as a webtool for creating group projects (Maryukhin Vitaly)
5. Webtools for creating tests, quizes, exercises for EFL learners (Samigulina Yulia)
6. «Opensource Whiteboard» in online EFLT (Marushkina Oksana)
7. WWW social services in teaching EFL (Volkova Yana, Bondareva Rita)

You may become acquainted with the reports on the site of our Institute

The reports of the year 2006 here


Your comments are always welcome!

My Students' Podcast

My freshmen, future teachers of English, are trying to podcast.
Will you leave them your messages just to inspire them to go on?

Проект "Приглашаем всех на праздник!"

Педагогический институт Южного Федерального Университета (г. Ростов-на-Дону) приглашает команды студентов языковых факультетов вузов (1-3 курс), колледжей, учащихся 10-11 классов и их преподавателей-кураторов для участия в проекте "Приглашаем всех на праздник!".

Рабочие языки проекта: русский, английский, немецкий.

Цель проекта: Подготовиться к проведению праздника в традициях страны изучаемого языка, посредством общения с носителем языка с использованием современных информационных технологий.