PROGRAMME
THE MAGIC OF INNOVATION: NEW TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES
IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
celebrating the 70th anniversary of
the School of International Relations MGIMO University
4-5 October 2013

Working languages: Russian and English

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4 October 2013, Friday

9:00–10:00

Registration

10:00–10:30

Hall 1

Opening ceremony

1. Professor Anatoly V. Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2. Professor Yury A. Bulatov, Dean of the School of International Relations

3. Professor Angela O’Neill, Director of Communication and Languages, College of Europe

10:30–12:30

Hall 1

Plenary session

Speakers:

1. Professor Elena B. Yastrebova, Associate Professor Dmitry A. Kryachkov (MGIMO)
Revolution or Evolution: How Students and Professors of the School of International Relations View Innovations in Language Teaching

2. Professor Elena G. Belyaevskaya (Moscow State Linguistic University)
Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Acquisition

3. Professor Peter Grundy (Honorary Fellow, English Language Centre, Durham University, UK)
Optimality in Neo-Gricean Pragmatics: the Challenge for E2L Users

4. Professor Hyde Hansen (Copenhagen Business School)
Moving from Human Translation and Revision to Human Machine Interaction

12:30–13:45

Lunch break

13:45–16:30

Room 3001

 

 


Room 442

 

 

Hall 1

 

 

Rooms 423, 216

 

 

 

Room 3038

 

 

Room 530

Parallel Sessions:

1. E-learning: a Buzzword or a Recognized Need?

 

 

2. Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes: What Purposes, What Means?

 

3. Methodology in LT: Teaching, Teaching to Learn and Learning to Teach

 

4. Linguistics: Practical Tips from Academics

 

 

 

5. Towards Effective Models of Cross-cultural Communication

 


6. The Art of Translation: Equivalence in Search of Adequacy

Moderators:

Professor Gennady I. Gladkov, Head of the Language Training and the Bologna Process Department (MGIMO)

Associate Professor Liliya K. Raitskaya, Head of English Language Department No5 (MGIMO)


Professor Jesús García Laborda, Universidad de Alcala (Spain)

Professor Elena V. Voevoda (MGIMO)


Professor Elena N. Solovova (Moscow State University)

Associate Professor Olga A. Kravtsova (MGIMO)

 

Professor Elena G. Belyaevskaya (Moscow State Linguistic University)

Professor Peter Grundy (Honorary Fellow, English Language Centre, Durham University, UK)

Professor Nina A. Levkovskaya (MGIMO)


Professor Nikolai V. Baryshnikov (Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University)

Professor Tatyana М. Gurevich (MGIMO)


Professor Evgeny V. Breus, University of Russian Academy of Education

Associate Professor Мarina А. Chigasheva (MGIMO)

16:30–16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:15

Room 423

 


Room 442

 

 

Room 3001

 


Room 216

 


Room 3038

 

Room 530

 

 

 


Room 3022

 

 

 

 

 

 


Room 2120

 

 

 

Hall 1

Parallel Interactive workshops:

1. Pragmatic accommodation in intercultural talk

 

2. Using the Innovative iTRAINIUM Lingua Technology in Teaching Foreign Languages and Translation (in Russian)


3. Translation as a source of legal interpretation

 

4. A contemporary L2 textbook: from traditional to electronic books (in Russian)


5. Writing the Professional Article

 

6. Interactive Language Learning Software. Opportunities for Students and Teachers (in Russian)

 

Roundtable Discussions:

Using Corpus for ESP Course Design

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching translation / interpretation at universities of various types (in Russian)

 

Master class:

Cambridge English for Universities

 

Professor Peter Grundy (Honorary Fellow, English Language Centre, Durham University, UK)

 

Dmitry Smirnov (developer and copyright holder of the I-Trainium technology, the Institute of Quality Assurance in Higher Education, MISIS University, Moscow)

 

Bart Defrancq (College of Europe, Belgium)

 


Associate Professor Olga A. Kravtsova

Associate Professor Dmitry N. Novikov (MGIMO)


Anne Marie Burk (English Language Specialist, U.S. Department of State)


Alexander Ya. Zhislin (Center for Educational Computer Technology “Repetitor MultiMedia”)

 

 

 

Professor Inna Kozlova (Autonomous University of Barcelon, Spain)

Professor Gennady I. Gladkov (MGIMO)

Professor Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna, Austria, video conference)

Professor Jarek Kraika (University of Lublin, Poland, video conference)

Professor Alejandro Curado Fuentes (University of Extremadura, Spain, video conference)


Professor Evgeny V. Breus (the University of the Russian Academy of Education)

 

 


Professor Lyudmila Gorodetskaya (Moscow State University)

18:15

Reception

5 October 2013, Saturday

10:00–11:30

Hall 1

Plenary session

Speakers:

1. Professor Elena N. Solovova (Moscow State University)
New Tendencies in Teaching Foreign Languages at Tertiary Level

2. Professor Jesús García Laborda (Universidad de Alcala, Spain)
Current Approaches in English for Specific Purposes

3. Professor Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University, UK)
Current Changes in English Grammar in Relation to Society

11:30–11:50

Coffee break

12:00–15:00

Rooms 2140, 221

 

 

Rooms 442, 214

 

 


Hall 1
Room 2126

 


Rooms 423, 215

 

 

 


Room 3038

 

 


Room 222

Parallel Sessions:

1. E-learning: a Buzzword or a Recognized Need?

 

 

2. Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes: What Purposes, What Means?

 

 

3. Methodology in LT: Teaching, Teaching to Learn and Learning to Teach

 

4. Linguistics: Practical Tips from Academics

 

 

 


5. Towards Effective Models of Cross-cultural Communication

 

 

6. The Art of Translation: Equivalence in Search of Adequacy

Moderators:

Professor Gennady I. Gladkov, Head of the Language Training and the Bologna Process Department (MGIMO)

Associate Professor Liliya K. Raitskaya, Head of English Language Department No 5 (MGIMO)


Professor Jesús García Laborda (Universidad de Alcala, Spain)

Professor Elena V. Voevoda (MGIMO)

Professor Alecia A. Jioeva (Moscow State University)


Professor Elena N. Solovova (Moscow State University)

Associate Professor Olga A. Kravtsova (MGIMO)

 

Professor Elena G. Belyaevskaya (Moscow State Linguistic University)

Professor Peter Grundy (Honorary Fellow, English Language Centre, Durham University, UK)

Professor Nina A. Levkovskaya (MGIMO)

 

Professor Nikolai V. Baryshnikov (Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University)

Professor Tatyana М. Gurevich (MGIMO)

 

Professor Evgeny V. Breus, University of Russian Academy of Education

Associate Professor Мarina А. Chigasheva (MGIMO)

15:00–16:00

Lunch break

16:00. Hall 1

Closing ceremony