Teachers Research!

Buenos Aires 2017

Second Annual Latin American Conference for Teacher-research in ELT

When? SATURDAY 6 MAY, 2017

Where? IES LENGUAS VIVAS JUAN R. FERNÁNDEZ (Pellegrini 1515, CABA)

09.30 - 10.00 Onsite Registration

10.00 - 10.15 Introduction Auditorium
10.15 - 11.15 ARAS project presentations Part 1 Auditorium
Introduced by Richard Smith, Alex Wood, Carlos Rico
Troncoso & Paula Rebolledo:
1. Fernanda Goncalves (Brazil); 2. Johana Andrea Melo
(Colombia); 3. Bertha Ramos Holguín, with Jahir
Aguirre Morales (Colombia); 4. Víctor Peña Villarroel,
with Elena Adriana and Llanquileo Aranda (Chile); 5.
Leyla Verónica Núñez Aguilera (Chile)
11.15 - 11.25 Break
11.25 - 12.25 Poster presentations Part 1 (details below) Rooms 1-6
12.30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 ARAS project presentations Part 2 Auditorium
Introduced by Darío Luis Banegas, Magdalena De
Stefani, Carlos Rico Troncoso & Inés K. Miller:
1. Mercedes Perez Berbain & María Laura García
(Argentina); 2 Mariana Acosta Guimaraes & Paula Trejo
(Argentina); 3. Laura Flores, with Natalia Bonello, Leticia
Dobrotka, Fabiana Silveira & Valentina Perini
(Uruguay); 4. Mariana Serra & Silvia Severino
(Argentina); 5. Maria Cunha, with Debora Muramoto
Castilho, Marcia Reis, & Mariana Caldas (Brazil)
15:10 - 16:10 Poster presentations Part 2 (details below) Rooms 1-6
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 Round-up plenary & evaluation Auditorium

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 POSTER PRESENTATIONS PART 1 (11.25 – 12.25)

ROOM PRESENTERS & POSTER TITLES

1  Gloria del Carmen Corzo Arevalo: Teaching strategies to improve writing skills in
English for students majoring in Tourism
 Alexandra Simoes Andrade: Why isn’t my advanced students’ English advanced?
Voices echoed in Brazil
 Christine Elizabeth Dickinson: Why don't they do it
 Gabriela Brun and Paola Cossu: Reading strategies at the English teachers'
training college
 Viviana Valenti, Marisa Galimberti, Carla Raguseo, Paola Bianchi: Applying a
metacognitive approach to a digital environment: Effects on ESP learning.

2  Alfredo Daniel Nuñez: Summative evaluation: An analysis of linguistic

competences acquired in English as a foreign language by 7th form Public School
students
 Alicia Edith Laucirica: Teaching learning strategies: Helping EFL students become
better learners
 Ana Janneth Gómez Gutiérrez: Collaborative inquiry in the EFL classroom
 Ana Lía Regueira, Elisabet Caielli, Jenifer Williams and Flavia Cilia: Evaluating
English reading comprehension in state secondary schools

3  Bruno Andrade: BrELT: a case study of continuous professional development

through social networks
 María Mercedes Capomaggi: Feedback as an assessment tool and its impact on
trainees’ efficacy
 Carla Alberio and Lidia Casalini: Meaningful experiences through language
exchanges
 Carolina Curátolo, María Inés Córdoba, Mercedes Rego Perlas, Nolwenn Gautier
and Julia Vanodio: A joint strategy to develop and assess speaking fluency: Why?
What? How?
4  Débora Muramoto Alves de Castilho: Why does my school resist the system?
 Daiana Vazquez: Metacognitive skills training: Note-taking and information recall
 Edith Luna Villanueva, Maria de los A. Vergara Aibar: TEFL to children:
Volunteering as a quality pre-stage to institutionalized teacher training
 Elena del Carmen Amigo Cappelli: The importance of group work to engage all
the students in the learning process
5  Elisa Viviana Pavón: Helping students to become aware of their autonomy
 Fabiana Mallón: Motivation of CT and students through the implementation of
Drama in remote English lessons
 Federico Rojas: Widening the scope: introducing new features into the classroom
 Gisela Laurent and Constanza Agusti: How to give teaching a DRAMAtic twist

6  Griselda Luján Lucchesi: A view into how teachers teach writing

 Itala Susana Diaz España: Using Glogster to support writing outcomes in ESL
classrooms: a blended learning strategy
 Juan Andrés Pereira de Souza: Academic research writing improvement: An
experience on paragraph formation with teacher trainees
 Julia Garbi and Melina Porto: On the construction and negotiation of common
cultural identities in the primary school English class

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 POSTER PRESENTATIONS PART 2 (15.10 – 16.10)
ROOM PRESENTERS & POSTER TITLES
1  Laura Colombo: Commenting, not correcting: Reframing peer-review activities in
the writing classroom
 Laura Flores, Natalia Bonello, Leticia Dobrotka, Valentina Perini and Fabiana
Silvera: Fostering and evaluating students' oral production through a genre-
based approach
 Laura Marina Aza: Scaffolding in a recreational reading project at secondary
school
 Laura Valsangiacomo-Myriam Pacheco:Tech goes to class
2  Julieta Cabrera: To store or not to store: Using Portfolios in Ceibal en Inglés
 Lidia Casalini: The benefits of online games in the English classroom
 Liliana Barro Zecker, Alexandra Panos and Kristine Schutz: Scaffolding teacher
research: learning and developing a teaching-as-inquiry stance.
 Mónica Eberle and Viviana López Larretchart: What do young learners need to
learn to read in English effectively?
3  María Cristina Sarasa and Daniela Solís: Becoming an English teacher: Narrating
the three commonplaces of initial education curriculum
 María de los Angeles Vázquez and Carolina Vizcarra: Should we get a basket?
Action research and mobile learning
 Maria Laura Mas: Key to English learner success: PBL. Providing all-round learning
experiences
 Martha Rocío Conchas Gaytán: Strategies for improving vocabulary learning in
today's Normal Schools
4  Mariana Pires e Albuquerque Caldas: Why does my group of teenage students
like Snapchat so much?
 Marina González and Román Martire: International projects through technology:
Challenges and learnings
 Ruben Daniel Mazzei: Fixed mindset - growth mindset: An exploratory study
through classroom-based research
 Sandra Liliana Hortua Bravo and Milton Pájaro Manjarres: Gamifying the
classroom: Using the kahoot platform to assess formatively vocabulary learning

5  Stella Maris Palavecino: Prominent or non-prominent? That is the question

 Valentina Perini, Laura Flores, Natalia Bonello, Leticia Dobrotka and Fabiana
Silvera: Fostering and evaluating students' oral production through a genre-
based approach
 Veronica Varela Guzman: Why students don't do well on listening tasks?
 Yanilis Romero: Lazy or dislexic?
 Viviana Noemí Miglino: Reading comprehension strategies: The neglected tools

6  Patricia Carabelli: Code switching in the English classroom: Fostering an adequate

balance
 Estela Raquel Ramos, María Julia Forte and Ana Laura Bacci: An interdisciplinary
project at Facultad de Ingeniería (UNLPam)
 Raquel Silvano Almeida: English language teaching through audiovisual media in
a Brazilian teacher education program
 Marcia Oliveira Maciel Franco Rei: Collaborative curriculum design in professional
education
 Rosa Rodriguez Leon: How can we involve parents into the ELP of their children

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