Invitation

The Slovene Association of LSP Teachers is happy to invite you to a short event: three Association members will present their recent research.
Programme
dr. Mihaela Zavašnik (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana): Analiza potreb učiteljev angleškega strokovnega jezika z vidika njihovih specifičnih sposobnosti v okviru usposabljanja in izpopolnjevanja.
dr. Slavica Čepon (Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana): Analiza jezikovnih [...]

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Visualize words

The WordNet project of Princeton University groups words into sets of cognitive synonyms. This modern thesaurus can be searched with a browser. The information you get when you search for the word travel, for example, looks like this:

However, if you check the same word in Visuwords, it’ll look like this:

Learners may find the second more [...]

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CALL Workshop

A CALL workshop was organized last Saturday by the E-Learning SIG of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers. It was hosted by Saša Sirk from Tehniški šolski center in Nova Gorica.
There were two workshops: searching for authentic materials and using Vocabulary Profiler for material design (Violeta Jurković) and using Hot Potatoes (Vida Zorko).
A few photo [...]

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Marketing slide shows and a video

Slideshare is a real blessing: you can watch slide shows on various topics. For example these by Stephan Dahl on the topic of Consumer behaviour and Segmentation. They are also great as a teaching tool: you can ask your students to do the talking and sharpen up their presentation skills that way. The slide shows [...]

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Proceedings of LSP Symposium

The proceedings of the LSP Symposium will be available online in electronic form.
The deadline for submitting manuscripts presented at the symposium is 7th January 2008.

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