Conference Grants

Conference/Presentation grants

Each year, KOTESOL's International Outreach Committee (IOC) provides conference presentation grants to select international conferences hosted by our international partners. These grants provide waived registration fees for presenters. If you’ve been accepted as a presenter to one of these conferences, or if you have a solid presentation you’d like to share there, you may apply for this grant:

• CamTESOL (Cambodia)
• ELTAI (India)
• ELTAM (aka Mongolia TESOL)
• HAAL (Hong Kong)*
• MAAL (Macau)*
• MELTA (Malaysia)
• NELTA (Nepal)
• TEFLIN (Indonesia)
• TESOL Asia*

* Not offered annually

Ideal candidates

• are familiar with how KOTESOL functions
• can answer questions about KOTESOL’s conference management
• can act as a diplomat and emissary for the organization

In our selection criteria, some things that work in your favor: 

• whether you have submitted a proposal, and whether it has been accepted 
• whether you are currently on the National Council or otherwise active in chapter/SIG/conference leadership, how long you have served, and what your position is 
• your length of KOTESOL membership
• whether you have close ties with the partner conference organizers 

Things that may work against you: 

• if you are not a member of KOTESOL (this automatically disqualifies you) 
• if you have recently represented KOTESOL at an event 
• if you are unable to complete all the duties expected of you at the conference
• if you cannot attend for the duration of the conference

Duties of the representative:

• Represent KOTESOL at any events to which you are invited by the host organization;
• Attend the full duration of the conference;
• Bring back ideas to share with KOTESOL conference committees;
• Take KOTESOL promotional materials for distribution (if offered a table for display);
• Give small gifts (provided by the IOC Chair) to the conference chair and the organization president. In addition, we recommend taking 5-10 small gifts (<1,000 won each) to give to the other partner organizations' reps and the international liaison who assisted you;
• Write a technical report about the conference, to be submitted to the IOC Chair for distribution to the National Council

Additional details and the application form are available on the IOC's web page.