Gwangju-Jeonnam KOTESOL
Annual Regional Conference
March 12, 2016
Gwangju National University of Education
Pre-Registration: Feb. 25 - March 9. Register online: HERE
SERVICE: A Tradition in Teaching
The conference theme this year focuses on, and indeed celebrates, an aspect of teaching that is often overlooked but one with the potential to have the greatest impact upon our profession and upon us as teachers -- that is, SERVICE.
Increasing one's knowledge and improving one's classroom techniques are of course important in TESOL, but our profession would be quite constricted without service. Service comes in many forms: mentoring a new teacher, concern for students outside the classroom, forming a teacher support group, assistance to the community . . . and very importantly, participating in a teachers association such as Korea TESOL.
Service within Korea TESOL also can take many forms: contributing at chapter meetings, helping to organize chapter events, taking on a leadership role, giving presentations/workshops, organizing conferences/symposia, doing and presenting research, contributing to and editing KOTESOL publications. Service is the foundation of our organization, the cornerstone of our profession, the fabric of our selves. This we highlight, this we celebrate in our theme.
Plenary Speaker: Robert J. Dickey, JD Service – A Hallmark of Professionalism
-- Keimyung University
-- TESOL Intl's Program Administration Interest Section (PAIS) Chair, 2014-15
-- Korea TESOL President, 2001-02
Presentation Titles and Presenters
— Service Strand —
Sylvain Bergeron: Serving the Community Through Adult Language Education
Nancy Harcar: The Shared Benefits of Student Community Volunteer Experiences
Robert Dickey: Service Learning in Foreign Language Learning
Tracy Wiedman: How a Student Internship Program Can Globalize a University
— Social Justice Strand —
Jocelyn Wright: Simple Activities to Make Your Schools More Accepting
Maria Lisak: Content Builders for Community Action
Julian Warmington: Serve Your Students’ Children: Teach Anthropogenic Global Warming
M Lisak & J Wright: Focusing on the Triple Bottom Line in Gwangju
— General ELT —
Billie Pritchett: Grades, Grade Inflation, and What We’re Measuring
Christopher Gallagher, Ken Enochs, Guy Smith: Streamline the Teaching of Writing with Google Classroom
Christopher Redmond: Teaching the Article to Korean Learners
Daniel Corks: Effort-Based Grading for General Skills Language Classes
Daniel Svoboda: “End-to-End” English: The Pitfalls of Translating in ELT
— General / Research —
Brian Burgoyne: Commonly Overlooked Issues with Classroom Management
Jessica Magnusson: Teaching Writing Skills: From Letters to Words to Sentences
Neil McClelland: Profiling EFL Learners’ Motivational Trajectories: A Mixed-Methods Study
Stewart Gray: Young EFL Learners and Critical Thinking: An Action Research Project
Mikyoung Lee: NNESTs’ Anxieties and Insecurities: Self-Perceptions of Their Communicative Limitations
For Presentation Summaries and Presenter Bio-sketches, CLICK HERE.
To Pre-Register for the Conference, CLICK HERE.
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Call for Presentations Page: HERE (Call Closed)
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Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter ||| KOTESOL / Korea TESOL
Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
