1. Asociación de Profesores
de Inglés de Rosario April 2011
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Dear Member,
In this issue of our monthly newsletter, find the 35th Anniversary logo created by Marta Masía,
one of our EC members.
Asamblea General Ordinaria (Annual General Meeting)
The Annual General Meeting took place on April 9th following the agenda forwarded to
members in advance.
After the confirmation of minutes of the previous AGM, APrIR President Prof. Graciela Castelli
presented the Annual Report, and Treasurer Prof. Leda Siburu submitted her report and the
audited Financial Statement. Both were approved by the members present.
During the meeting attendees received several presents. Decisions were made after debating the
different topics, and the annual fee was agreed upon.
The EC would like to show their appreciation to the members who attended the meeting and
contributed their opinions and suggestions. Sharing your views with the EC allows us to improve
on our work and satisfy your needs and expectations better.
Annual Fee
The Annual General Meeting established the fee for active members for 2011 to be $160 (one
hundred and sixty pesos), payable in one or two instalments.
There will be a special "early bird" discount for those who cancel their dues in full before May
31st at our office or through online payment or bank transfer. If you choose this option

2. you will only pay $140 (one hundred and forty pesos). This special offer is not applicable if you
ask for the fee to be collected at your place.
NEW!!!!: There will be a special fee for retired members: $120 (one hundred and twenty
pesos) in one or two installments, regardless of the method of payment chosen. Proof of
retirement status is required.
Let us remind you of payment methods:
a) On-line transfer or bank deposit:
Banco Nación Suc. 3020- Rosario
CBU Nº 01104442/40044427146462
Cuenta Corriente Especial
Nº de cuenta: 444271464/6
Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Rosario
CUIT: 30-6805210-9
b) Cuenta Digital: Claim your payment slip at aprir.cd@gmail.com and then cancel it via
Rapipago, Pagofácil, etc.
c) Postal order or cheque payable to LEDA NOEMÍ SIBURU
d) Ask for the fee to be collected at your place.
New Members
We’d like to give a warm welcome to these new members, who have joined us in
the last few months:
Natalia Birardi
Ingrid Feldman
Mariana Hernandez
María Noel Legaspi
Cecilia Mellano
Cecilia Milesi
Damián Poratti
María Cecilia Sobreville
María Guillermina Sonnet
Raquel Vergara Oroño

3. Recent activities
March 12th: APIBA – APrIR Webinar for Teacher Associations:
“Marketing and Fundraising for TAs”
with the support of FAAPI and the British Council
Our first online joint venture with APIBA was a success. The webinar had 35 enrolments from
6 FAAPI Teacher Association Affiliates and one from UruTESOL. Twenty teachers from the
following Argentinian TAs were represented: APrIR, APIBA, APIM and APIBB, as well as one
UruTESOL member.
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Analia Kandel, APIBA President, for her
enlightening presentation and to all the participants for their enthusiasm. Analia shared extremely
interesting materials and discussed her topic clearly and thoroughly. She allotted the last part of
the presentation to "Collaborative problem solving", and the interaction flourished. A number of
issues were raised and the need for opportunities to interact among sister associations was
emphasised. As a by-product of the webinar , participants decided to create an online space
where to share projects and concerns. It is open now at
https://groups.google.com/group/espacio-de-colaboracion?hl=es. All teachers who are
members of FAAPI affiliates are welcome to join in.
Whether you were present at the webinar and would like to review it , or you had enrolled but
couldn't make it at the last minute , you can watch the recording by simply following this link
http://tinyurl.com/marketingTA
Our gratitude goes once again to FAAPI and the British Council for making this event possible.
Let's hope we can continue interacting to help our associations grow together.

4. March 31st 8.30 pm: Chatting Meal
Advanced students and teachers got together to have a friendly chat over a delicious hot meal
at Café de la Música with Profs. Julieta de Zavalía and María del Carmen Fernández Beitía.
All participants contributed to creating a convivial atmosphere and the activities proposed led to
spirited discussions and good fun.
The next Chatting Meal will take place in the last week in April at 5ta Avenida (San Luis between
Balcarce and Moreno). Don’t miss it! Unfortunately, we cannot have more than 15 people per
session. Watch out for enrolment details. (Members: $60; non-members: $70)
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2011 FAAPI Conference
Check out the new website created by APIT for the September
Conference: http://www.faapitucuman.com.ar/
You can download the Call for Papers from the site. Bear in
mind it closes on April 29th.
You may also be interested in the following information about
fees.
FAAPI member Students Non FAAPI member
Early bird (till May 6) $260 -- --
From May 7 to June 6 $340 -- $460
From June 7 $400 $350 $540
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5. State education
The APrIR Executive Committee submitted a letter to the FAAPI
Committee expressing its concern over the recent decisions in different
provinces to appoint unqualified personnel as teachers of English, and
requesting that this issue be addressed in the Annual General Meeting of all
FAAPI affiliates to be held in Córdoba on April 30th. We are pleased to
inform you that Prof. Dr. Daniel Fernández, FAAPI President, promptly
accepted our request “dada la importancia que reviste para la
profesionalización de nuestro campo disciplinar”
As regards language policy in Santa Fe, APrIR has joined the online forum of foreign and
indigenous language teachers at http://www.ispbrown.ceride.gov.ar/virtual/login/index.php. If you
would like to join it, contact us for access details.
In addition, our Vicepresident, Prof. María del Carmen Fernández Beitía, together with
representatives of institutions and associations of our city, met with reporter Marcela Isaías
from La Capital newspaper. The summary of the discussion can be found at
http://www.lacapital.com.ar/ed_educacion/2011/4/edicion_105/contenidos/noticia_0019.html
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CALL SIG
Coordinated by Mary Di Mónaco (marydimonaco@gmail.com)
Monthly meetings to experiment with the new technologies and think of ways to use
them to enhance our teaching practice. Teachers who own a laptop or netbook may
choose to work on them.
Fee: $10 for Members - $25 for non-Members
LAST SATURDAY of the month, at 9.30. Venue: Zeballos 1220 (cybercafé), 528-3228.
First meeting: April 30th
Workshops:
Remember they are free of charge for APrIR members. Non-members: $20. Please contact the
coordinators to sign up.
Reading for Pleasure, coordinated by Nora Séculi, noraseculi@express.com.ar
Monthly meetings, in which to read, analyze and discuss short stories, poems or
plays, according to the preferences of the group.
SECOND TUESDAY of the month, from 4 to 6 pm.

6. Teaching Tips: Conversations about our Practice, coordinated by Graciela Castelli.
Venue: AprIR. First Wednesday of the month at 9 am. Enrol in advance by writing
to graciela.teachingtips@yahoo.com.ar
Topic for May: How to create a sensible test
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Forthcoming activities
May
Teas and Fashion
Come and taste different kinds of teas and watch a unique fashion parade,
introducing the work of advanced students of Fashion Design.
When?: Friday, May 20th, 6 pm.
Where?: Instituto Superior San Bartolomé, Tucumán 1257.
Fee: $20, members and non-members.
Bring round your friends and relatives!
A crash course with Rita Zeinstejer
Integration of the Internet into Language Learning II
Three Workshops, covering social bookmarking, blogging, wikis, digital
storytelling, moviemaking and more!
June (details to come)
Bloomsday
Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on June 16th in
Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce
and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the
same day in Dublin in 1904.
A special event is being planned at St Patricks’s School. You may
want to watch this video, which explains the existence of such a
celebration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTElzmm0GA&feature=related
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August 19th - 20th
In celebration of our anniversary, APrIR will offer an academic event.
APrIR Seminar: "Teaching and learning together: 35 years and counting"

7. Venue: UCEL
Our speakers will broach interesting topics of their expertise, with a selection of 2.0 technology
geared talks and non-technology ones. All talks will be held f2f, on Friday evening and
Saturday morning and afternoon.
Confirmed speakers to date:
Cristina Thomson de Grondona White
Cecilia Acquarone
Malena Botto
Carla Raguseo
Silvia Rivero
Raquel Vergara Oroño
Florencia Viale
Rita Zeinstejer
A very special fee for AprIR members
More details coming soon!
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September
Teacher’s Day
We are planning a get-together to celebrate both APrIR’s birthday (September 4th) and Teacher’s
Day. More details to come.
October
Session with Viviana Valenti (f2f). Details to come.
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News from our members
Prof. Nora Lilián Séculi, APrIR's Honorary President, delivered a talk entitled: Mary Shelley y su
obra Frankenstein. It was organised by Asociación Literaria “Nosotras” and was held on April
12th at Biblioteca del Club Español, Rioja 1052, Rosario.
Note: If you are an APrIR member and you are giving a presentation, please keep us posted
by filling in this form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHMxMTgxVnhYdjFpR2luM2hiTEFwUFE6MQ
We will be delighted to share the information in our Newsletter.
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8. Your Voices:
Join Professor Jeremy Harmer - and many others already - in celebrating APrIR’s
anniversary!
You can send a greeting to our association on its anniversary by mail or email, or you can leave
an audio / video message at: http://voicethread.com/?#u1642534.b1734523 Check the March
Newsletter for detailed instructions to use Voicethread. We would love to hear your voices!
An appeal to members
An association is only as strong as its membership. You don't need to be an EC member to help
APrIR grow.
“Although it would be naïve to think of all members as fully active members, it is
important to tell people at the moment of affiliation that the association runs on
voluntary work, and this makes all members volunteers. Therefore, each member should
be willing to do their share of work for the association. Inviting colleagues to the
association, posting the association's news to the bulletin board at their schools are just
a few of the simple, almost effortless acts that members can do for their association, yet
a great help if we all do it.”
Developing an Association for Language Teachers - An Introductory Handbook -
Third edition (IATEFL) 2006
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/IATEFL_handbook.pdf
Prof. Carla Raguseo created the Voicethread file and invited Prof. Harmer to record his greeting.
Prof. Valeria Virga is contributing to the organisation of APrIr’s Seminar to be held in August.
Prof. Carina Strappa has agreed to help organize social and cultural events for teachers who may
not be in practice at the moment but wish to keep up their English or their cultural knowledge.
Prof. Valquiria Fazzi has also agreed to help us organize events for the younger teacher
generation.
We thank all of them for their contribution to our association!
Would you like to coordinate a workshop? Do you have a pet project that APrIR can help
bring to life? Can you persuade some friends to join? We are sure we can count you in
to contribute in some way. Contact us, please.
If you are not a member yet, why don’t you join us?
Take advantage of our special offer: 5 x 4: Every five colleagues enrolling together, only four
pay. Total: $640.
Complete the online form at http://tinyurl.com/29fdqyw
Then scan your certificate and email a copy to aprir.cd@gmail.com
Or else drop by APrIR's office.

9. Useful information:
Our office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 pm to 7 pm. Corrientes 1323 (P.B.) Rosario.
Our telephone number is: (0341) 153-983562 Outside office hours, please leave a message.
You may also contact us via email: aprir.2009@yaho.com.ar (about general matters)
aprir.cd@gmail.com (for administrative matters)
Remember to follow us online
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/APrIR/127774673899632?ref=ts ,
Twitter: http://twitter.com/aprir http://groups.google.com.ar/group/aprir
Enrolment for events
A note about enrolment:
You may have realised that there are different ways of signing up for activities and events.
1) APrIR’s Secretary, at our headquarters
2) At bookshops, as indicated in each case
3) Automatic, by following the link and filling in the on-line form. As soon as you click on ‘send’, your name
gets registered on a spreadsheet which we view immediately. This is a very safe kind of enrolment.
These institutions support APrIR:
Are you a Director of Studies?
Contact us to find out how your institution can also support APrIR.
Write to aprir.cd@gmail.com
APrIR is your association. Take pride in belonging.