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TEC - The Spring 2024 Issue Now Online

Oo-oo oh-oh, just letting you know, so you can glow; just giving a shout that the TEC is out!
That's right, the spring issue of TEC -- the International Conference Edition -- is now online for your reading enjoyment. In addition to an introduction to the conference by Conference Chair Bryan Hale, in this issue of The English Connection, we have articles and interviews on eight of our featured speakers for you to get to know them better: 3 articles and 5 interviews.

To read or download its interesting articles, click/tap HERE.

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TEC - The Autumn 2023 Issue Now Online

Cooling temps herald the autumn season – the season for reading – as well as the autumn issue of The English Connection, with which this iteration brings you the ChatGPT Edition for your reading pleasure and for adding to your expertise.

ChatGPT has been weighing on educators' minds in recent months: Should my students be allowed to use it? If so, how? How can I use it in my classes? Or should I? Can I use it in preparing my lessons? But how?

This ChatGPT Edition of The English Connection provides you with answers to these questions from experts on the topic. Open the pages...

TEC Article of the Year Award Announced

The English Connection, KOTESOL's quarterly ELT magazine, announced its annual Article of the Year Award at the opening ceremony of the 30th Korea TESOL International Conference on April 29. The award was presented by Dr. David Shaffer, Publications Committee chair, on behalf of The English Connection and its editor-in-chief, Dr. Andrew White. This year's award went to

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The award is "for exhibiting excellence in article...

TEC - The Winter 2022 Issue Now Online

As autumnal leaves fall and trees bare their branches, signaling wintery winds and soft but shivery snow, the Publications Committee offers another seasonal issue of The English Connection. As the school semester winds to a close, pull a chair up beside your heater or stretch out on your warm ondol floor and open the Winter 2022 issue of TEC for your reading pleasure.

For the Table of Contents and the magazine's PDF, click/tap HERE.
(Remember to log in first.)

  The "Less Is More" Edition

Available at: https://koreatesol.org/content/english-connection-tec-26-4-...

TEC - The Summer 2022 Issue Now Online

Games are fun, of course, but to be efficacious in the language learning classroom; they need to be engaging, challenging, rewarding. This Summer issue of The English Connection follows our IC Squire–Steinkuehler duo of featured sessions with this special TEC edition on Games and the Gamified Classroom. Articles by experts such as Vance Stevens and Deborah Healey write about language learning games and how they can add to one's repertoire of teaching skills and strategies.  

For the Table of Contents and the magazine's PDF, click/tap HERE.

TEC - The Winter 2021 Issue Now Online

The mercury’s dipping to 0 degrees Celsius notifies us that winter is here, and at the same time, we announce that the Winter issue of The English Connection (aka “TEC”) is also here. Access it online today; print copies will soon go into the mail for those members who requested them. 

In this issue, you will find useful information on visualization techniques, video game literacy, language class reframing, connecting virtually, Korean–English similarities, coursebooks, and high-heeled students!

Within these pages, you will also find a review of our recently completed KOTESOL...

TEC - The Summer 2021 Issue Now Online

The summer is nearing, and as it does, we bring you the Summer edition of The English Connection for your summer reading pleasure. Access it online today; print copies will soon go into the mail for those who requested them.

In this issue, the Language 2.0 Edition, you will find a variety of interesting articles -- articles on online teaching, online teaching roles, online tasks, 1-1 online lessons, online feedback, online chat rooms, and Zoom!

Take a look at the brand-new column; take a look at the Brain Connection, too! Read an article by this year's KOTESOL Reflective...

TEC Article Series - Reflective Practice

The Publications Committee has added yet another compilation of past articles from The English Connection. This latest addition to the Article Series is the Reflective Practice column, penned by reflective practice guru Dr. Thomas S.C. Farrell of Brock University. This highly insightful series consists of 20 articles appearing the The English Connection in the 2015-2020 time period.

You will want to add this to your must-read reading list for your winter vacation.

The Article Series and the Reflective Practice articles: HERE

TEC - The Autumn 2020 Issue Now Online

The time is always right to broaden our perspectives, and the Autumn issue of The English Connection is here to help us do that with "Perspectives" as this issue's theme. In this issue, you will find perspectives on language, lessons, and institutions.

 Also within the pages of this edition are our popular regular columns, The Reflection Connection and The Brain Connection, as well as Member Spotlight.

To begin reading, make sure that you are logged in to your KOTESOL account, and click here: https://koreatesol.org/content/english-connection-tec-24-3-autumn-2020

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TEC Article Series - Grammar Glammar

Grammar Glammar articles are now available in one convenient location in one convenient file for your reading pleasure and professional development. Grammar Glammar is a series of 23 articles on EFL grammar teaching ideas and tips that ran in The English Connection (TEC) during the years 2005-2011. The column was penned almost in its entirety by Ksan Rhubadeau.

You can access the Grammar Glammar articles on the Article Series page:
https://koreatesol.org/content/english-connection-article-series

TEC Article Series - Young Learners

Young Learners is a series of 37 articles on teaching techniques, materials, activities and other considerations for teachers working in young learner contexts. This very popular article series ran in The English Connection (TEC) continuously from 2002 to 2011.

You can access the Young Learner articles from the Article Series page:
https://koreatesol.org/content/english-connection-article-series
 

TEC Article Series - "Teachniques"

"Teachniques" is a series of 50 articles on teaching techniques and activities for the classroom. This cornucopia of teaching resources have been written by a myriad of EFL teachers in Korea and applicable to a variety of learner ages and proficiencies.

This series of articles ran in The English Connection between 1997 and 2011, and has now been compiled into a single PDF file for your resource-searching convenience.  The articles' contents remain quite applicable to today's classroom.

You can access the Teachniques articles from the Article Series page:
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TEC Article Series: Update

An additional article series from The English Connection has been archived for your reading convenience: Membership Spotlight, which ran from 2004 to 2011, along with Featured Member (appearing in TEC News, 2012-2013), has been added to the Article Series page.

You might have heard of Kathy Moon, Michael Griffin, Ingrid Zwaal, Grace Wang, Heidi Vande Voort Nam, Allison Bill, Maria Lisak, or Kyungsook Yeum but don't really know that much about them. This article series will let you know more!

If you liked KOTESOL People, Presidential Memoirs, Chapters in History, and Korea of...

TEC Article Series Archived

In years past, The English Connection (TEC) has run several series of articles related to historical accounts of KOTESOL's chapters and its presidencies as well as of Korea and its education in times gone by. Three of these article series have been compiled and each put into an easily readable PDF for your reading convenience:

Korea of Decades Past, written in 2004, is a collection of four articles on what Korean life and education was like 10, 20, 30, and 40 years earlier.
Chapters in History, written in 2005 and 2006, is an eight-article series on the beginnings and...