Monday, December 15

THE OPEN WORLD OF ENGLISH

Conference organizing committee:

SPELTA President Tatiana Ivanova (Herzen University)

SPELTA Vice-President Yulia Sergaeva (Herzen University)

SPELTA 2nd Vice-President Elena Vdovina (SPbSPU)

SPELTA acting secretary Julia Geller

SPELTA Board Olga Bartashova (SPSUE)

SPELTA Board Maria Kopylovskaya (SPSU)

SPELTA Board Anna Rodicheva (University of Trade and Service)

SPELTA email - Tatiana-szelinger@yandex.ru, olgamuranova_spelta@mail.ru

SPELTA website – http//: www.spelta.stormway.ru

SPELTA vKontakte group - http://vk.com/club705777

SPELTA Facebook group – http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/145764612216222/

SPELTA LinkedIn group - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4636652

Preliminary Programme

Saturday-Sunday, December 13-14 from 1 to 5 p.m.

Pre-conference Event “Academic Writing Seminar (RAW project)”

presented by Russian experts Viktoria Levchenko, Natalia Koliadina, Svetlana Suchkova, Irina Yunatova . Jan Stanbury with a Christmas Writing surprise!

Venue: Mayakovsky City Public Library, 46 Fontanka, Main Conference Hall, Belyi Zal

Pre-registration is necessary!

Main Conference Events

“The Open World of English”

Venue: – Saint Petersburg State University of Economics, Faculty of Humanities, Moskatelny 4.

Monday, December 15

13.30 – 14.30 Registration, networking and welcome coffee

14.30 – 15.00 Greetings from:

Tatiana Ivanova, SPELTA President, Saint Petersburg

· James Land,US Consul for Press and Culture, Saint Petersburg

Jerry Frank, ELO for Russia, US Embassy, Moscow
Margarita Mudrak,ESU Saint Petersburg

· Lyudmila Gorodetskaya,Cambridge University Press

Plenary

15.00 – 16.00 Jerry Frank, ELO for Russia, US Embassy, Moscow. ELT: Bridging Cultures through Teaching and Learning

16.00 – 17.00Lyudmila Gorodetskaya,Cambridge University Press. From General to Academic English: Changes in Cambridge First and Advanced and their Correlation with English Language Olympiads for School and University Students.

17.00 – 17.15 Break

Plenary workshop

17.15 – 18.00Peter Stepichev(2014 Teacher of the Year in Moscow, IV 2014 participant)A Multiplying Effect in Teaching English Grammar Using Grammar Cubes and Grammar Puzzle Games.

18.00 – 19.00 Wine and cheese reception