Presenters

19.2 Sponsorship Committee Chair

Robert J. Dickey has been a member of KOTESOL since 1995 and has served in nearly every national office (except Treasurer) as well as vice president of Busan Chapter. He has worked towards having publishers and teacher education organizations (such as MATESOL or TESOL Certificate programs) "invest their marketing resources through KOTESOL" for over 15 years. Rob teaches at Keimyung University (in Daegu) in the Public Administration Department, with his specialty in content-based language instruction.

2. David Paul - Featured Speaker

Motivating Low-Level Students

How can we motivate university students and adults who have studied English for years, but still cannot really communicate, to express themselves more positively? How can we help teenagers to use the English they learn at school more actively and communicatively? This presentation introduces techniques for achieving these aims – aims that have been heavily influenced by the constructivist ideas of George Kelly and Lev Vygotsky and have been successfully tried and tested in the classroom by many teachers.

The approach is based on...

2. Featured: Dr. Ken Beatty

Dr. Ken Beatty

Webinar Abstract

Critical thinking is often seen as a skill that is distinct from language learning. But, within a Communicative Approach framework, a range of critical thinking tasks can be used as opportunities to enhance language learning. This presentation explores ways in which teachers can set up classroom conditions and develop tasks to promote critical thinking among secondary and post-secondary level learners. Drawing on examples from English for Academic Purposes, the presentation...

2. Featured: Robert S. Murphy

Robert S. Murphy

Abstract for Invited Session
Plug & Play Neuroscientific Maxims for your Classroom!

In this dynamic and interactive session, Robert will discuss six of most practical maxims from his new chapter in Language Teaching Insights from Other Fields (TESOL Publications, 2014). Be prepared to do pair work and actively participate in this dynamic and highly informative session,...

2. Fredricka Stoller - Featured Speaker

Moving Students Toward a Perfect Score with Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning has been billed as an effective means for promoting purposeful language learning for well over two decades in ESL and EFL settings. During this time, projects have been successfully incorporated into language classrooms with young, adolescent, and adult learners, as well as classrooms with general, vocational, academic, and specific language aims. Project work has proven to be an ideal complement to more traditional language instruction. Reported benefits include improved...

2. Kyungsook Yeum - Featured Speaker

Leadership and Quality in ELT Organizations

How can we contribute to shaping a successful, knowledge-sharing organizational culture? In other words, how can teachers and administrators in any ELT organization improve their leadership IQs for a program’s success? These questions will be discussed and their answers exemplified through leadership models, a leadership and climate survey, and practical activities.

Extensive work has been done on leadership and management in general, but the discussion on leadership in ELT organizations is still sparse. Recent...

2. Rob Waring - Featured Speaker

Extensive Reading in Korea: 10 Years Going from Strength to Strength

This session will review the developing awareness of Extensive Reading (ER) in Korea in the last few years. It will show how awareness of the concept of ER has grown but is still sadly misunderstood in many quarters despite important gains. The session reviews the development of Korea-based ER organizations such as KOTESOL’s ER-SIG and the Korean English Extensive Reading Association (KEERA), and their contributions to the development of ER on the Korean Peninsula.

The case for ER in Korea...

2. Vice-President

Able Languages, Jeonju
Phone: 010-8535-8337

20. Busan-Gyeongnam Chapter President

Anika Casem double-majored in English and speech communication, has a MA in communication studies, and a TESOL certificate. In the U.S., she taught public speaking at the university level and adult language learners at a local community college. Since joining KOTESOL, she has been a panel speaker at Ewha Womans University, presented at KOTESOL conferences, worked as a Zoom technical assistant for the online National Conference, attended chapter meetings, and acted as the Busan-Gyeongnam Chapter membership officer in 2020. She has been in South Korea since 2016 and currently teaches at...

21. Daegu-Gyeongbuk Chapter President

James "Jake" Kimball holds an MSc in Educational Management in TESOL, and his research interests include program evaluation, assessment, and issues related to curriculum development. James, or Jake, was the founder of the Young Learner and Teens Special Interest Group and has worked for many years professionalizing TYL in Korea. In addition to being Publications Committee chair (2017-19), he has held editor-in-chief positions on The English Connection and KOTESOL Proceedings, and is currently assistant editor and reviews editor for the Korea TESOL Journal.

After teaching EFL in...

23. Gangwon Chapter President

Reece Randall is an English instructor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST). He is a South African with over nine years of experience in the Republic of Korea as a scholar, director, and educator in Busan, Seoul, Seongnam, Wonju, Gangneung, and Gwangju. He brings a diverse skill set gained from a background in EFL pedagogy, financial management, and leadership roles in academic programs – as well as volunteering for education, conservation, and community outreach initiatives – in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Welsh name, Reece, stands for “enthusiasm” – a wealth...

25. Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter President

Lisa MacIntyre-Park holds a BEd (TESL) and BA (Hons) from Brock University in Canada and has been teaching English in Korea since 1997. Since 2005, she and her husband have run their own academy in Jeonju, which, incidentally, is where the local KOTESOL chapter has been holding workshops since 2022. In her free time, Lisa enjoys reading, playing the ukulele, practicing the art of modern calligraphy, and teaching it to others. She was the national secretary for KOTESOL in 2019-2022 and the KOTESOL Financial Affairs Committee chairperson in 2023. She has been an officer of the Jeonju-North...

27. Suwon-Gyeonggi Chapter President

Tyler Clark has spent the past decade teaching English to a wide variety of learners in South Korea. He is currently a lecturer at Gyeongin National University of Education's Incheon campus, a position he has held since 2009 and that primarily sees him instructing university freshman in conversational English skills. In addition to this, he spends time working with teacher trainees in the Intensive English Teacher Training Program at Gyeongin. Furthermore, he holds weekly classes with community members of a wide variety of ages as part of a lifelong education program. From 2010 to 2015, he...

3. FEATURED COLLOQUIUM David Nunan, Martha Clark Cummings, Ken Beatty, Denise Murray, MaryAnn Christison

Moving to Online Instruction: The Challenges and Opportunities

David Nunan will be moderating in person this webcast colloquium.

All teacher educators will be faced with the imperative to teach online, at some stage in their career. The online teaching may supplement one, or more face-to-face classes, or may replace face-to-face instruction, entirely. While some skills will transfer from face-to-face to online, environments, most will not. They will either have to be transformed or, replaced entirely. In this colloquium, teacher educators with extensive...