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Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter Elections 2023

Gwangju-Jeonnam KOTESOL chapter elections will take place at our chapter meeting on December 9, 2023.

There are three positions up for election:

This year's chapter elections officer is Jocelyn Wright, who can be reached by email at jocelynmnu at yahoo.com

Any current chapter member may nominate one person, including themselves, for each position. Candidates for chapter vice president or treasurer must have been chapter members for at least three months prior to nomination, and candidates for president must have been...

Service Awards Presented at 2023 Annual Business Meeting

At the conclusion of Korea TESOL's Annual Business Meeting on Tuesday, November 1, President Lindsay Herron recognized a variety of volunteers for their exceptional service to the organization between November 2022 and October 2023.

The following awards were announced:

Recognitions for Service

Busan-Gyeongnam is looking for leaders for 2023-2024

See attached PDF for officer position duties.  Fill out the application AND send the following information in an email to bgkotesolpres@gmail.com:

Remember to VOTE

Have you voted in Korea TESOL's 2023 national elections? If you haven't, no worries, there is still time. If you haven't cast your ballot yet, you should have received an email reminder on Tuesday, October 17 (KST). Your invitation to vote was sent out on October 8 and contains the link to your online ballot. It should be in your email inbox at the address that you provided KOTESOL in your KOTESOL profile. If you can't find the email in your inbox, check your spam folder. If all else fails, contact elections@koreatesol.org

Voting ends October 29, but don't wait and forget later --...

Inquiries in AI & Globalization - JNJ KOTESOL, September workshop.

Each month our workshop brings educators from around Korea to share their passion and expertise with us on the most pressing issues. In September Dennis Laffey and Silayan Casiño came to talk about AI and globalization.

Dennis Laffey’s presentation, titled “There Is No Fate but What We Make: Language Education in the Age of Generative AI,” was an opening inquiry into a new and crucial topic. Beginning from the premise that generative AI is “very much artificial, but not yet really intelligent,” he provided some key background on what generative AI is. Broadly put, generative AI is a...

Korea TESOL Journal 19-1 Online Now

The most recent issue of the Korea TESOL Journal (KTJ 19-1) is now available online for your professional reading enjoyment. In addition to a paper authored by Professor Emeritus William Littlewood, a pioneer in communicative language teaching (CLT), there are four additional research papers, three brief reports, and three book reviews (see Table of Contents below).

Members can view the table of contents and download a copy: HERE. (Remember to log in first.)

If you are not yet a KOTESOL member, you can enjoy a complimentary paper (the William Littlewood paper) HERE.
And...

DCC October Workshop (ONLINE)

Presenter: Nicki L. Gerstner
Date and Time: Wednesday October 18th, 7-8pm (please note the earlier start time)
Title: Global Citizenship Education in Korean Higher Education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes

Abstract: As the call for higher education to produce global citizens becomes increasingly necessary in our cross-culturally interconnected world, it is important and relevant to continuously and critically question what kind of global citizens institutions of higher education are fostering. Many higher education institutions and educators are...

Nominations Close Sept. 27

Nominations for Korea TESOL's national elected officers are ending very soon: September 27, 2023, just before Chuseok begins. For details on KOTESOL nominations and elections, visit the Nominations and Elections Committee pages at http://www.koreatesol.org/elections.

Represent KOTESOL at the 2023 ELTAI, 2023 JALT, 2024 ThaiTESOL or 2024 CamTESOL Conference

How would you like to represent KOTESOL at the 2023 ELTAI, 2023 JALT, 2024 ThaiTESOL or 2024 CamTESOL Conference? KOTESOL is looking for a representative for:

the 2023 ELTAI conference, October 11-14, 2023 in Dehradun, India. *This is a speaker grant* (You will be provided with a free, unvetted presentation slot at the conference. All other expenses will be up to the selected representative.)

the 2023 JALT conference, November 24-27, 2023 in Tsukuba, Japan? *This is a travel grant.* (You will be provided with a free, unvetted presentation slot at the conference. The hosting...

Nominations Open September 1-27

Nominations for elected National Council positions are open during September 1-27, 2023. For details, go to the Nomination and Elections pages at https://koreatesol.org/elections

Or if necessary, you may contact the Nominations and Elections Committee chair at elections@koreatesol.org

Members are encouraged to participate in the KOTESOL national elections, either as a candidate or as a voter (or both!). The nominations period runs from September 1-27, and candidates’ information and endorsements will be available online throughout the voting period (October 8-29).

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DCC September Workshop (ONLINE)

Presenter: John Breckenfeld
Date and Time: Wednesday, Sept 27th, 8-9pm
Presentation: Making the Most of Pen and Paper Writing in the Classroom
 

Abstract: Existential dread around writing instruction and assessment is commonplace these days; the anxiety is well founded. Fortunately, we can fall back on tried and true methods of in-class paper and pen/pencil writing tasks. This fall semester, I have taken advantage of my in-class writing instruction portfolio that has developed over the past eight years. From Day 1, while referencing Dweck’s Growth Mindset, I do my...

Call for Presenters at the 2023 National Conference

 with a Kids Cafe

This conference aims to bring together educators and researchers from a range of backgrounds to discuss the current status of multicultural education in Korea and its potential for English language teaching and...

TEC - The Summer 2023 Issue Now Online

Climbing temperatures indicate the arrival of both summer and the Summer issue of The English Connection (TEC)! As your spring semester winds down, pick up your copy of the Summer TEC (27-2), or read it online.

In this issue, you will find articles on using music, learning student names, using YouTube, a book review, our regular columns, a collage of the international conference, and much more. For the TEC Table of Contents and to download its interesting articles, click/tap HERE.

Much was learned at JNJ May Workshop

JNJ KOTESOL gathered last weekend for our May workshop. 

We had a presentation from Paul Johnson, who travelled here from Daejeon, to talk about teaching vocabulary - specifically, corpus linguistics for language teachers.

We also heard from Maria Lisak, who came in from Gwangju, to speak on how students can express themselves - meaning making beyond words.

You can find all the details here:

https://koreatesol.org/content/jeonju-north-jeolla-may-workshop

We hope to welcome even more attendees to our workshop in June. 

Those interested in joining us...