"I just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for your talk at the BESIG conference. It was inspiring to see how you adapted your teaching to the online environment, and how well students responded to this. I really appreciate that you let us benefit from your research and experience. Your students are fortunate to have such a dedicated, capable, and creative teacher!
Kind regards,
R xxxx
XXXX Verlag GmbH & Co. KG"
33rd IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference
Challenge & Change
Online Conference
13-15 November 2020
ADAPTING TO CHANGE - TEACHING PRESENTATION SKILLS
Lockdown meant most universities suddenly moved online. At first, I questioned if it would even be possible to continue to teach presentation skills. I have and based on my experiences, I will address these issues when it comes to teaching presentation skills online:
- attitudes towards change
- preparation: selecting tools and platforms
- adaptation: you, the learner, materials
- advantages and improvements
- disadvantages and limitations
- exploration of teaching solutions moving forward.
As well as giving this talk, I have been assigned as a mentor for new speakers at the conference.
FHWien der WKW Competence Center for Business English
The 10th Austrian UAS Language Instructors’ Conference
Beyond the Traditional Classroom: Teaching and Learning in ESP Higher Education
15 & 16 May 2020
CASE STUDIES
Business English / ESP course design should focus on activities that give students opportunities to interact and use language communicatively. Case studies provide an excellent platform for improving communication skills and applying theory to practical communication scenarios. Their benefits as learning tools are well documented. This workshop will explore how a case study can be used to generate activities that develop students’ understanding and communication of business tools and strategy.
32nd IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference
Back to Basics
Wista Conventions in Berlin Adlershof, Germany
11-13 October 2019
HOW TO TEACH PRESENTATION SKILLS
"The theme of this year's conference is “Back to Basics” and, in line with this theme, BESIG will be offering a strand of talks and workshops titled “How to...”. This strand, aimed at less experienced business English teachers, is intended to provide delegates with fundamental methods, approaches and techniques for teaching business English, and it will feature strongly in our conference promotional activities.
In keeping with the “How to...” theme of the strand, we would like you to offer a session with the title:
How to teach presentation skills"
"Research on presentation skills and subsequently writing “Presentations in English” (Macmillan 2008) took me back to Aristotle and the 4th century BC. Surprisingly often. Do teachers need to learn new skills and adapt their teaching approach? It can be argued that presentations are all about back to basics and teachers simply need to master a fundamental set of skills and devices. I’ll explore these issues by examining the development or non-development of my own teaching over the past ten years."
CRACOW / KRAKOW, POLAND
Cracow University of Economics
2nd IATEFL Poland Business English Special Interest Group (BESIG) Event
11 May 2019
TITLE: TEACHING AND ASSESSING PRESENTATION SKILLS IN UNIVERSITY COURSES
This talk addresses issues in teaching and assessing presentation skills in a university and outlines solutions that are part of the ongoing development of Business English at the Hochschule Düsseldorf. Teaching presentations in a meaningful way in a university context can be problematic and is often done in such a manner that a student can pass an exam but cannot present confidently and authentically in the actual business environment. Problems revolve around the size of university classes, the time allocated to teaching, teaching itself, student attendance, student engagement and the criteria for assessment. Alumni of the Faculty of Business Studies have stated in feedback that they recognise that their presenting skills in English are good in comparison to graduates they have encountered from other institutions. We must have begun to find some answers to the problems.
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
FH Technikum Wien - University of Applied Sciences Vienna
9th Austrian UAS Language Instructors’ Conference
English for Specific Purposes: A Multidimensional Challenge
25-26 May 2018
TITLE: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF PRESENTATION SKILLS
This talk addresses issues in teaching and assessing presentation skills in a university and outlines solutions that are part of the ongoing development of Business English at the Hochschule Düsseldorf. Teaching presentations in a meaningful way in a university context can be problematic and is often done in such a manner that a student can pass an exam but cannot present confidently and authentically in the actual business environment. Problems revolve around the size of university classes, the time allocated to teaching, teaching itself, student attendance, student engagement and the criteria for assessment. Alumni of the Faculty of Business Studies have stated in feedback that they recognise that their presenting skills in English are good in comparison to graduates they have encountered from other institutions. We must have begun to find some answers to the problems.
MALTA
The 30th IATEFL BESIG ANNUAL CONFERENCEIATEFL - International Association Teaching English as Foreign Language
BESIG - Business English Special Interest Group
10-12 November 2017
"Evidence-based practices: what the data tell us about business English"
TITLE: ADOPTING ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL CORPORATE LANGUAGE
Handout
FRANKFURT, GERMANYELTAF CONFERENCE 2017English Language Teachers' Association
International School Frankfurt
24 June 2017
TITLE: MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS IN ENGLISHCOLOGNE, GERMANYELTA (English Language Teachers' Association) Rhine
Members' Day
10 June 2017
TITLE: MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS IN ENGLISH - BRANDING - A Question of Meaningfulness and Relevance
LUBLIN, POLAND
University of Life Sciences
13 January 2017
IATEFL- International Association Teaching English as a Foreign Language
4th International ESP Symposium (English for Specific Purposes)
TITLE: MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS IN ENGLISH - ESP CONSIDERATIONSONLINE WORKSHOP WORLDWIDE4 September 2016
Business Trainer / Teacher Training
IATEFL - International Association Teaching English as Foreign Language
BESIG - Business English Special Interest Group
TITEL: MARKETING COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY BESIG SUMMER SYMPOSIUM
June 2015
"Business English for Specific Purposes: What do our learners really need?"
IATEFL - International Association Teaching English as Foreign Language
BESIG - Business English Special Interest Group
TITLE: NICHE MARKETING IN MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
BONN, GERMANY
The 27th IATEFL BESIG ANNUAL CONFERENCE
November 2014
Sankt Augustin Campus, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Bonn
TITLE 1: THOSE MAD MEN ... and WOMEN - BUSINESS ENGLISH FOR MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS (selected for worldwide simulcast)
TITLE 2: 2044's BUSINESS LEADERS - WILL THEY THANK US? (Presentation of English programme for Business International Management)
GRAZ, AUSTRIA
BESIG SUMMER SYMPOSIUM
June 2014
"Putting the research to work: research, practical applications and materials in business English teaching"
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (University of Graz)
IATEFL - International Association Teaching English as Foreign Language
BESIG - Business English Special Interest Group
TITLE: THOSE MAD MEN ... and WOMEN - BUSINESS ENGLISH FOR MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
COLOGNE, GERMANY
ELTA-RHINE
English Language Teachers' Association
March 2014
Half Day Workshop - Train the Teacher / Trainer
TEACHING IN THE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS & ADVERTISING INDUSTRIES