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Motivated learners and Stephen Krashen, Keith Johnson, Kia
Karava and Elizabeth O'Dowd were the plenary speakers.
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Ù˘ ÁÓÒÛ˘ Í¤ÓˆÓ ÁψÛÛÒÓ Ù·Ûı› ÛÙËÓ ÂÚ¯fiÌÂÓË ÂÍÂÙ·- Costas Pitichoutis, the of belonging to a
‰Ú·ÛÙËÚÈÔÔÈÂ›Ù·È ‰˘Ó·ÌÈο ÛÙÈ΋ ÙÔ˘ M·˝Ô˘ 2008, ı· ¤¯ÂÈ newly elected TESOL professional culture an
ÙÔ KÚ·ÙÈÎfi ¶ÈÛÙÔÔÈËÙÈÎfi ˆ˜ ·ÔÙ¤ÏÂÛÌ· Ó· ‰È·ÁˆÓ›˙Â- Greece chairperson integral part of
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Á›Ԣ EıÓÈ΋˜ ¶·È‰Â›·˜ Î·È Î·È ÛÙ· ‰‡Ô ›‰·, ÁÂÁÔÓfi˜ exhibitions in Athens professional
£ÚËÛÎÂ˘Ì¿ÙˆÓ, Ô˘ ÚfiÎÂÈ- Ô˘ ı· ÂÈʤÚÂÈ ÛÙÔÓ ›‰ÈÔ fi- for a brief chat on his development and
Ù·È Ó· ÎÏ›ÛÂÈ ÂʤÙÔ˜ Ì ÙËÓ Â- ÊÂÏÔ˜ Û ¯ÚfiÓÔ Î·È Û ÎfiÛÙÔ˜. involvement with personal growth.
ÍÂÙ·ÛÙÈ΋ ÙÔ˘ M·˝Ô˘ 2008 ºÈÏÔ‰ÔÍ›· Ù˘ ¢È‡ı˘ÓÛ˘ TESOL and his
(10/11 M·˝Ô˘) ¤ÓÙ ¯ÚfiÓÈ· Â- ÙÔ˘ K¶Á ηıÒ˜ Î·È ÙˆÓ EÈ- immediate plans. Can anyone get
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O ¶Úfi‰ÚÔ˜ Ù˘ KEE K·ı. AÓÙÒÓÈÔ˜ TÛÔ¿- How did you get there any restrictions?
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ÓÔÁÏÔ˘ ηٿ ÙË ‰È¿ÚÎÂÈ· Ù˘ ÙËÏÂͤٷÛ˘ Ô˘ involved with TESOL Greece in Any professional in ELT, applied
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the first place? linguistics, linguistics, and
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I heard about TESOL Greece education in general, who wishes
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while I was studying in the US and to dedicate a certain amount of
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ÙÔ˘ Y¶E¶£ ‰È·‰Èηۛ·. „ÂÈ Ì¿ÏÈÛÙ· Î·È Ù˘ ÚÔÛÂ- returned to Athens. Interest and more than welcome to get actively
(www.ypepth.gr/kpg) Ô˘ Û‡- TÔÓ ÚÔÛ¯‹ M¿ÈÔ ı· ÂÍÂÙ·- ¯Ô‡˜ ÚÔÛı‹Î˘ Ó¤ˆÓ ÁψÛ- commitment to the profession involved in TESOL Greece events.
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TESOL Greece?
Tesol Greece new board
First and foremost I intend to do my best to On a different note, I would like to help practitioners in Greece and will become a
maintain the high standards set by past make the next TESOL Greece convention a point of reference for all. TESOL Greece
chairpersons. Secondly, I would like to help very special event to celebrate the 30th can cater for diversity and offer equal
broaden our scope as a professional anniversary of our association. The fact that opportunities to all. As professionals who
association and to ensure that a wider range a volunteer professional association like work to promote communication via a
of practitioners, researchers and ours, has managed to persevere and grow common medium, we inevitably share
theoreticians are addressed, ranging from through the years, regardless of more or less similar objectives, principles and values. All
novice teachers to highly acclaimed favourable conditions demonstrates our we need to do is listen to our membership
individuals in the fields of ELT, applied mindset, attitude and determination as a and incorporate hopes, expectations and
wishes into our mission statement. Alternate Members:
linguistics and education. I strongly feel that group. Wouldn't you agree?
In other words, I see TESOL Greece as an Smaragda Skoulou, Konstantina Diroplaki,
we can cater for our diverse membership in What is your vision for TESOL Greece?
organic entity that can evolve, develop and Denis Cheng, Matina Katseli
an inclusive manner that can meet different I envisage an even stronger professional
grow in an inclusive manner, embracing all Oversight Committee Members:
expectations and requirements. association that will embrace all the
and fostering continuous professional Eleni Alifieri, Katerina Dima, Vicky Mellou
development. Oversight Committee Alternate Member:
Officers: Konstantia Papavassiliou
Chairperson: Costas Pitychoutis TESOL Greece Executive Officer:
Vice Chairperson: Fotini Migadaki Anastasia Lakioti
Secretary General: Anna Zacharatou Special Interest Group Coordinators:
Treasurer: Panagiota Arnaouti YL: Voula Moustakidou
Members-at-large: Danae Kozanoglou, EAP/ESP: Nektaria Vlachogianni
Maroussa Pavlis, Sofia Panaghis MM/CALL: Eftichis Kantarakis
Irene Protopapadaki, Jeffrey Doonan Dr/Lit: Georgia Voutsina
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In this column we will be What’s more, these so-called Popcorn Lung dramatically that in many cases
presenting you with new ‘misery memoirs’ have spawned From housemaid’s knee to a lung transplant becomes
concepts, new words, or new a brand-new literary genre: phossy jaw, occupational necessary for survival.
uses of old words so that you misery lit, or mis lit. diseases have always been, well, Although the disease has a
will always be up to date ! If Bridget Jones creator Helen an occupational hazard. This is number of causes, its colloquial
Source: Chambers Wordwatch Fielding can be considered the especially true for those who name comes from the fact that
Column Editor : Lawrence mother of chick lit (frothy work in close proximity to it can be brought about by
Mamas (Andrew Betsis ELT) fiction about young urban potentially harmful substances inhalation of diacetyl, the
lmamas@yahoo.com women looking for love), then such as coal dust and chemical which for years has
the founding father of mis lit is Source: Chambers Wordwatch radioactive materials. Even so, been used in the manufacture
Mis lit generally held to be Dave Column Editor: Lawrence Mamas the news that working too close of microwave popcorn to
Pelzer, whose 1995 book A (Andrew Betsis ELT) lmamas@yahoo.com to microwave popcorn poses a
Walk into any bookshop these provide the requisite buttery
days and you can’t fail to be Child Called It recounted his risk to health does prompt a
flavour. While it is
struck by the number of shocking ill-treatment at the people’s misfortunes as a form quick check of the calendar to
of macabre titillation? predominantly popcorn-factory
bestselling autobiographical hands of his mother. Make make sure that it isn’t April 1st.
Or are they inspirational stories But popcorn lung is no April workers who, having endured
titles detailing miserable plenty of room on your shelves
of triumph over adversity, Fool’s joke. Also known as prolonged exposure to
childhoods. With their washed- beside the lad lit (chick lit for
boys), mum lit/dad lit (about written as a cathartic popcorn workers’ lung, its particularly high levels of the
out covers featuring haunted-
looking children and dramatic the trials of parenthood), Brit experience? Some official name is bronchiolitis chemical, have developed
straplines like ‘the ultimate lit (books by young British commentators believe that they obliterans – a Latin descripion popcorn lung, there is at least
betrayal’ or ‘a childhood authors) and hic lit (true stories are little more than self- of the blocking of the airways one known case of an over-
shattered’, these harrowing of battling the booze); there are indulgent fantasies, cynically that results from inflammation enthusiastic consumer of
tales of abuse, cruelty and literally hundreds of gloomy dreamt up in order to cash in of the bronchioles. As these microwave popcorn
neglect have become so popular mis lit masterpieces waiting to on the fastest growing sector in small branches of the airways succumbing to the disease.
that many bookshops now be snapped up. publishing today. become inflamed, scar tissue Manufacturers have recently
devote an entire section to Debate rages over the merits of Whatever your opinion, one forms and fills up the air sacs; begun to introduce alternative
them: just ask for the ‘Real these gut-wrenching reads: are thing’s for sure: mis lit is big this causes irreversible damage methods for buttering up our
Lives’ or ‘Painful Lives’ shelves. they exploitative, using other business. and reduces lung capacity so movie-time snacks.
14
Antanas Mockus had just resigned from laughter began to break the ice of their stakeholding. He is a most
the top job of Colombian National extreme skepticism. engaging, almost pixieish math
University. A mathematician and Mockus, who finished his second term as professor, not a stuffy 'mayor' at
philosopher, Mockus looked around for mayor this past January, recently came to all. The students were enchanted,
another big challenge and found it: to be Harvard for two weeks as a visiting fellow as was I."
in charge of, as he describes it, "a 6.5 at the Kennedy School's Institute of
million person classroom." Politics to share lessons about civic A theatrical teacher
Mockus, who had no political experience, engagement with students and faculty. The slim, bearded, 51-year-old
ran for mayor of Bogot?; he was successful "We found Mayor Mockus' presentation former mayor explained himself
mainly because people in Colombia's intensely interesting," said Adams thus: "What really moves me to do
capital city saw him as an honest guy. With Professor Jane Mansbidge of the Kennedy things that other people consider
an educator's inventiveness, Mockus School, who invited Mockus to speak in original is my passion to teach."
He has long been known for Mockus' seemingly wacky notions have a respectable
turned Bogot? into a social experiment her "Democracy From Theory to Practice"
just as the city was choked with violence, class. "Our reading had focused on the theatrical displays to gain people's intellectual pedigree. His measures were informed by,
lawless traffic, corruption, and gangs of standard material incentive-based systems attention and, then, to make them among others, Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass
North, who has investigated the tension between formal
street children who mugged and stole. It for reducing corruption. He focused on think.
and informal rules, and J?rgen Habermas' work on how
was a city perceived by some to be on the changing hearts and minds - not through Mockus, the only son of a dialogue creates social capital. (Staff photos Jon
verge of chaos. preaching but through artistically creative Lithuanian artist, burst onto the Chase/Harvard News Office)
Colombian political scene in 1993
People were desperate for a change, for a strategies that employed the power of
when, faced with a rowdy auditorium of the extra taxes. A dramatic indicator of
moral leader of some sort. The eccentric individual and community disapproval. He the shift in the attitude of "Bogotanos"
the school of arts' students, he dropped
Mockus, who communicates through also spoke openly, with a lovely partial during Mockus' tenure is that, in 2002, the
his pants and mooned them to gain quiet.
symbols, humor, and metaphors, filled the self-mockery, of his own failings, not
The gesture, he said at the time, should be city collected more than three times the
role. When many hated the disordered suggesting that he was more moral than revenues it had garnered in 1990.
understood "as a part of the resources
and disorderly city of Bogot¿, he wore a anyone else. His presentation made it which an artist can use." He resigned as Another Mockus inspiration was to ask
Superman costume and acted as a clear that the most effective campaigns rector, the top job of Colombian National people to call his office if they found a
superhero called "Supercitizen." People combine material incentives with University, and soon decided to run for kind and honest taxi driver; 150 people
laughed at Mockus' antics, but the normative change and participatory mayor. called and the mayor organized a meeting
The fact that he was seen as an unusual with all those good taxi drivers, who
leader gave the new mayor the advised him about how to improve the
opportunity to try extraordinary things, behavior of mean taxi drivers. The good
such as hiring 420 mimes to control taxi drivers were named "Knights of the
traffic in Bogot¿'s chaotic and Zebra," a club supported by the mayor's
dangerous streets. He launched a "Night office.
for Women" and asked the city's men to Yet Mockus doesn't like to be called a
stay home in the evening and care for leader. "There is a tendency to be
the children; 700,000 women went out dependent on individual leaders," he said.
on the first of three nights that Mockus "To me, it is important to develop
dedicated to them. collective leadership. I don't like to get
When there was a water shortage, credit for all that we achieved. Millions of
Mockus appeared on TV programs people contributed to the results that we
taking a shower and turning off the achieved ... I like more egalitarian
water as he soaped, asking his fellow relationships. I especially like to orient
citizens to do the same. In just two people to learn."
months people were using 14 percent
less water, a savings that increased Taking a moral stand
when people realized how much money Still, there were times when Mockus felt
they were also saving because of he needed to impose his will, such as when
economic incentives approved by he launched the "Carrot Law," demanding
Mockus; water use is now 40 percent that every bar and entertainment place
less than before the shortage. close at 1 a.m. with the goal of diminishing
"The distribution of knowledge is the drinking and violence.
key contemporary task," Mockus said. Most important to Mockus was his
"Knowledge empowers people. If campaign about the importance and
people know the rules, and are sacredness of life. "In a society where
sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, human life has lost value," he said, "there
they are much more likely to accept cannot be another priority than re-
change." establishing respect for life as the main
Mockus taught vivid lessons with these right and duty of citizens." Mockus sees
tools. One time, he asked citizens to put the reduction of homicides from 80 per
their power to use with 350,000 100,000 inhabitants in 1993 to 22 per
"thumbs-up" and "thumbs-down" cards 100,000 inhabitants in 2003 as a major
that his office distributed to the achievement, noting also that traffic
populace. The cards were meant to fatalities dropped by more than half in the
approve or disapprove of other citizens' same time period, from an average of
behavior; it was a device that many 1,300 per year to about 600. Contributing
people actively - and peacefully - used to this success was the mayor's inspired
in the streets. decision to paint stars on the spots where
He also asked people to pay 10 percent pedestrians (1,500 of them) had been
extra in voluntary taxes. To the surprise killed in traffic accidents.
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™˘Ó¤¯ÂÈ· ·fi ÙË ÛÂÏ. 14 to go out at night. "At that time, we were But most men graciously embraced said. "With neither words nor weapons,
also looking for what would be the best Mockus' campaign. In the lower-middle- the mimes were doubly unarmed. My goal
'Knowledge,' said Mockus, 'empowers
image of a safe city, and I realized that if class neighborhood of San Cristobal, was to show the importance of cultural
people. If people know the rules, and are
you see streets with many women you feel women marched through the streets to regulations."
sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they
safer," Mockus explained. celebrate their night. When they saw a
are much more likely to accept change.'
So he asked men to stay home and man staying at home, carrying a baby, or A bigger classroom?
(Photo by Gerardo Chaves/El Tiempo)
suggested that both sexes should take taking care of children, the women Mockus noted that his administrations
advantage of the "Night for Women" to stopped and applauded. were enlightened by academic concepts,
"Saving a single life justifies the effort,"
Mockus said. reflect on women's role in society. About That night the police commander was a including the work of Nobel Prize-winning
The former mayor had to address many 700,000 women went out, flocking to free, woman, and 1,500 women police were in economist Douglass North, who has
fronts simultaneously. In his struggle open-air concerts. They flooded into bars charge of Bogot?'s security. investigated the tension between formal
against corruption, he closed down the that offered women-only drink specials Another innovative idea was to use mimes and informal rules and how economic
transit police because many of those 2,000 and strolled down a central boulevard that to improve both traffic and citizens' development is restrained when those
members were notoriously bribable. had been converted into a pedestrian behavior. Initially 20 professional mimes rules clash; and J?rgen Habermas' work
Mockus was a constant presence in the zone. To avoid legal challenges, the mayor shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow on how dialogue creates social capital.
media, promoting his civic campaigns. stated that the men's curfew was strictly crossing rules: A pedestrian running Mockus also mentions Socrates, who said
"My messages about the importance of voluntary. Men who simply couldn't bear across the road would be tracked by a that if people understood well, they
protecting children from being burned to stay indoors during the six-hour mime who mocked his every move. Mimes probably would not act in the wrong way.
with fireworks, protecting children from restriction were asked to carry self-styled also poked fun at reckless drivers. The Luis Eduardo Garz?n, the new mayor of
domestic violence, and the sacredness of "safe conduct" passes. About 200,000 men program was so popular that another 400 Bogot?, is the first leftist who has been in
life reached many, including the children," went out that night, some of them angrily people were trained as mimes. charge of the second-most important
he said. calling Mockus a "clown" in TV interviews. "It was a pacifist counterweight," Mockus political position in Colombia. Said
Once the mother of a 3-year-old girl Mockus, "His election expresses a
called his office to say that meeting consensus around the importance of
Mockus was her daughter's only birthday addressing social issues. Garz?n has the
wish. challenge of opening space to new
But the meeting also revealed, said political forces in a country that has been
Mockus, that Colombian society has a dominated by a 'bipartidismo bobo'
long way to go. During the visit, the (dumb two-party system)."
mother told him: "When I am going to hit Mockus - a sterling exemplar of the
her, she runs to the telephone and says FURNITURE FOR: SCHOOLS - OFFICES - HOTELS current vogue in Latin America for "anti-
that she is going to call Mockus. She politicians" - says that transforming
GENERAL TRADE - IMPORT - EXPORT Bogot?'s people and their sense of civic
doesn't even know how to dial a number,
but obviously she thinks that you would culture was the key to solving many of the
protect her." Mockus, who has two city's problems. He is looking forward to
daughters himself, was shocked at the returning to the classroom at Colombian
woman's nonchalance about striking her National University after a sabbatical
M‡ÏˆÓ 75, 104 41 Aı‹Ó· year. But Mockus is also considering the
daughter.
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Women's night and mimes Fax: 210 51 57 507 campaign - and perhaps being in charge of
There is almost always a civics lesson a 42 million student classroom.
behind Mockus' antics. Florence Thomas, Mar?a Cristina Caballero, a native of
a feminist and a professor at Colombian www.marantoni.gr Bogot?, is a fellow at Harvard University's
Center for Public Leadership at the John
National University, pointed out to e-mail:info@marantonl.gr F. Kennedy School of Government
Mockus that in Bogot? women were afraid