Event Calendar 2003

WA TESOL Professional Development

3 April 2003
4pm-5.30pm
41 Walters Drive
Osborne Park

IELTS- International English Language Testing System
(IELTS is not suitable for students under 16 years of age)

Presenter : Patricia Dooey, IELTS Testing Centre at Curtin University

Many universities recognise an IELTS qualification as one which confirms that students have the necessary literacy background to undertake a course of study in an academic context

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Patricia Dooey began her career as a primary school teacher in Dublin in 1977. In 1982 she moved to Sydney and worked as a primary ESL teacher in Sydney Catholic schools, for three years. After moving to Perth she began teaching in the ELICOS Program at Curtin, where she also worked as the IELTS administrator, WA for eight years. She is currently the IELTS Senior Examiner for WA and teaches on the English Language Bridging Course preparing overseas students for mainstream study.

WA TESOL Professional Development

“A hitchhiker’s guide to functional grammar”


Thursday 12 June 2003
4.15-5.30 at AISWA,
41 Walters Drive, Osborne Park

Presenter John Polias

Registration by fax to Kate Mullin on 9244 2786

Registrations need to be received by Monday 9 June 2003

Afternoon tea at 4pm

John Polias is an international consultant in language and literacy. He is currently one of two accredited tutor trainers for the ESL in the Mainstream Course and the Language and Literacy Course: Classroom Applications of Functional Grammar. John has been an ESL teacher since 1978 at all levels of schooling, a lecturer in ESL teaching and linguistics at university level and a consultant in language and literacy since 1991. He is also a writer of curriculum and teaching materials and has written or co-written a variety of materials for the SA Department of Education. In recent months John has worked with Geography teachers in the UK, Italy and Hong Kong and with Science and History teachers in South Australia.