Andy Curtis

Plenary Session
International Conference 2017

Confessions of an Online Instructor: Returning to the Classroom

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Approximately 20 years ago, the Internet as we know it today, started to become widely accessible. As part of the ensuing technological transformation, Online teaching and learning was hailed as being the "pedagogical future," which would democratize education. Students anywhere in the world could learn anything they wanted or needed to know, finally free of the traditional constraints of space, time and money. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) heralded a bright new dawn in the teaching and learning of languages and content. However, in June 2017, the Brookings Institution ㅡ a century-old, nonprofit, public policy organization based in Washington, DC ㅡ reported that “in their current design, online courses are difficult, especially for the students who are least prepared. These students’ learning and persistence outcomes are worse when they take online courses than they would have been had these same students taken in-person courses." This raises the uncomfortable question: What happened?

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Invited Second Session

Using Film in Class to Connect Languages and Cultures

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“Little has been done in the utilization of moving pictures in the teaching of foreign languages, but the moving-picture industry in this country [USA] has made our students so familiar with films for entertainment that the adaptation of their use to another field would be simple.” As it turns out, it was not so simple, but those were the assumptions and expectations expressed by W.S. Hendrix, in 1939, in his article entitled "Films in the Learning of Foreign Languages" in The Journal of Higher Education. In this session, we will, then, look at where we are nearly 80 years after Hendrix’s claim and see how films can be used to make more explicit the links between language and culture in ways that print media, such as traditional textbooks, cannot. We will also consider some of the resources available to help language teachers and learners to make those connections.

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Biographical Sketch

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Andy Curtis received his MA in Applied Linguistics and his PhD in International Education from the University of York in England. He is currently working with the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University, which is based in California, USA. From 2015 to 2016, Andy served as the 50th president of the TESOL International Association. In 2016, he received one of the Association’s 50-at-50 Awards when he was voted one of the Fifty Most Influential Figures in the Field over the last 50 years. Over the last 25 years, Andy has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and books, and has been invited to present to around 25,000 teachers in 50 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as in North, South, and Central America. He is based in Ontario, Canada, from where he works as an independent consultant for teaching and learning organizations worldwide.

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Special Q&A Session

Tea with the Speaker

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Meet with the speaker for a casual discussion. (Limited availability, extra fees apply)
More information here:  https://koreatesol.org/ic2017/special-event-tea-speakers

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Invited Panel Discussion

The Future of Face-to-Face Conferences in the Digital Era

Panelist: Andy Curtis

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Resources on the Web: Andy Curtis

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Video: Meet Andy Curtis, TESOL President 2015-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34QhtudZWns

KOTESOL TEC Article: Whatever Happened to Peace (Linguistics)?
(PDF attached at bottom of this page.)

TESOL Blog
http://blog.tesol.org/tag/andy-curtis/

Article: Introducing Andy Curtis, TESOL Leader
http://www.catesolnews.org/2014/03/introducing-andy-curtis/

Interview: Multilinguals in TESOL
http://nnesintesol.blogspot.kr/2009/05/andy-curtis.html

University Faculty Page
http://www.anaheim.edu/about-anaheim-university/faculty-and-staff/school...

Latest Book: Methods and Methodologies for Language Teaching (2017)
https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/Methods-and-Methodologies-for-Langua...

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Andy Curtis's participation in the Korea TESOLㅡPAC 2017 International Conference is sponsored in part by the TESOL Affiliate Speaker Request Program.

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