{"id":9761,"date":"2015-04-27T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/11th-in-house-yals-seminar-organized-by-lingva-25-april-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-04-27T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:30:46","slug":"11th-in-house-yals-seminar-organized-by-lingva-25-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/11th-in-house-yals-seminar-organized-by-lingva-25-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"11th In-house YALS Seminar organized by Lingva, 25 April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mirjana LJiljak-Vukajlovic, DoS at Lingva Valjevo, opening 11th YALS In-house Seminar<\/span><\/p>\n

The 11th In-house YALS seminar Creating Engaging and Relevant Classes through Play and Multimedia was held on Saturday, 25 April at the Lingva Centre for Foreign Languages in Valjevo. The seminar was attended by 32 YALS school teachers from Leskovac, Ni\u0161, Jagodina, Belgrade, Kula and Valjevo, and the presenters were two Lingva teachers \u2013 Katarina Andri\u0107, who held a workshop titled Words, Don’t Fail Me! or, Recycling Vocabulary and Beyond, and Lora Petroni\u0107-Petrovi\u0107 who did the workshop under the name Enlivening Skills through Multimedia.<\/p>\n

The goals of Katarina’s session were to experiment with some effective games and activities used to revise vocabulary\u00a0and discuss the benefits of using games for recycling vocabular, while Lora’s worshop was aimed at creating different activities for practising language skills and incorporating formative assessment into teaching. Participants were extremely cooperative in both workshops \u2013 they readily took part in all the activities and made enthusiastic comments throughout the sessions. The presenters efforts were awarded at the end with spontaneous and warm applause. Especially positive were younger participants who stated in their feedback that being at the beginning of their career they \u201cfind these workshops extremely useful\u201c and that the seminar \u201ewill definitely influence their future professional life in a positive way because they have learnt a lot of new games and different ways to develop language skills\u201c. The seminar \u201chas already made them wish to search the links\u201c from the provided list of recommended sites\u201c. All in all, most participants expected to get from the seminar \u201esome new ideas to use in the classroom and to have a wonderful Saturday\u201c. They \u201ereally got them” and “did have a great time\u201c and wished the organisers to \u201ckeep up with the good work\u201c.<\/p>\n

Another reason for gathering of YALS teachers and expressing their good wishes for the future was marking the 25th anniversary of Lingva Centre for Foreign Languages. At the coctail party after the seminar, they joined Lingva’s clients, partners and friends to celebrate together and in high spirits this important landmark in the history of the first foreign language school in Valjevo.<\/p>\n

11th In-house YALS Seminar YALS-a, Lingva Valjevo, 25 April 2014 – Photo Album<\/strong><\/p>\n