10:00 – 12:00    

Registration, book exhibition

Venue: Surgut State University, The Humanities Building, 8 Energetikov Street

12:00 – 12:15    

Official  NATE Conference Opening

Sergey Kosenok, Rector of Surgut State University

Tatiana Osmankina, Department of Education

Frances Westbrook, English Language Officer                       Vitaly Apokin, Director of the Institute of the

Humanities and Sport

PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

12:15 – 13:00    

Dr. Svetlana G. Ter-Minasova, Founding President of NATE, Professor and President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Region Studies of Moscow State Lomonosov University

Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in Russia: Historical Heritage and New Challenges

13:00 – 13:30     

Dr. James D. Brown, Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii

Doing Good Quality Classroom Language Assessment

13:30 – 14:00      

Tatyana Lyutaya, Nizhnevartovsk State  University, Yugra-ELTA

Teaching today: challenges and opportunities

                      Conference photo session

14:00 - 15:00     

LUNCH  BREAK

15:00 - 16:20     

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Conference Hall, Energetikov Str.8

Frances Westbrook, English Language Officer for Russia, Moscow

Reflective Teaching: a Pathway to Continual Professional Development

Room K201

Erin Anderson, Senior English Language Fellow, Novosibirsk State Technical University

Information Transfer Exercises for the IELTS Test

Room K 413

Nancy Burkhalter, Senior English Language Fellow, Herzen State Pedagogical University

Any Questions? How Asking the Right Questions Can Engage EFL Students to Think More Deeply in All Subjects and Levels  

Room K203

Rob Danin, Senior English Language Fellow, Far Eastern Federal University

Learning Styles: It’s In All of Us                       

Room K204

Toni  Hull, Senior English Language Fellow, Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys,

Activating Critical Thinking in the English Classroom

Room K 408

Eric Lundell, Senior English Language Fellow, Belgorod State University

Autonomous Learning and Vocabulary Development in the ESP Classroom

Room K317

Andy Noonan, Senior English Language Fellow, Kazan Federal University

Teaching Culture Using American TV Shows

Room K409

Anthony Samuel, Senior English Language Fellow, Tyumen State University

Preparing Proposals in English: Procuring those Desks, Interactive Whiteboards, or Kindles for our 21th Century Classroom

Room K322

Anna Gorizontova, Head of Moscow Office Cambridge ESOL Exams

Workplace English: needs and assessment ( for Surgut Companies – Employers)

16:20 – 16:30 

COFEE/TEA BREAK

16:30 – 17:50 

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Conference Hall

Dr. James D. Brown (the USA), Lyudmila Kozhevnikova (Russia)

1.       What Makes Reading in English Difficult (or Easy) for Russian University Students?

Room K201

Erin Anderson, Senior English Language Fellow, Novosibirsk State Technical University

Information Transfer Exercises for the IELTS Test                                                                                           

Room K413

Nancy Burkhalter, Senior English Language Fellow, Herzen State Pedagogical University

Any Questions? How Asking the Right Questions Can Engage EFL Students to Think More Deeply in All Subjects and Levels                                                                  

Room K203

Rob Danin, Senior English Language Fellow, Far Eastern Federal University

Learning Styles: It’s In All of Us                       

Room K204

Toni Hull, Senior English Language Fellow, Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys,

Activating Critical Thinking in the English Classroom

Room K 408

Eric Lundell, Senior English Language Fellow, Belgorod State University

Autonomous Learning and Vocabulary Development in the ESP Classroom

Room K317

Andy Noonan, Senior English Language Fellow, Kazan Federal University

Teaching Culture Using American TV Shows

Room K409

Anthony Samuel, Senior English Language Fellow, Tyumen State University

Preparing Proposals in English: Procuring those Desks, Interactive Whiteboards, or Kindles for our 21th Century Classroom

Room K202

Wayne Rimmer, MA in TESOL, Cambridge Exam Writer, BKC International House, Moscow, English Grammar Today

18:15 – 20:00  

CHEESE AND WINE RECEPTION

Book Lottery

Venue: Assembly Hall (Многофункциональный зал),

SurSU Main Building, 1 Lenin Ave., 1st floor