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History of KOTESOL National Conferences

KOTESOL National Conferences are one of two major Korea TESOL annual conferences, along with the annual International Conferences. There are also chapter and regional-level smaller conferences each year, plus regular "Chapter meetings" where academic sessions are held.

Traditionally the National Conferences were held in late Spring, while the International Conference was held in mid-Autumn, but Covid has impacted thngs, and recently the scheduling for these two events have been swapped.

National Conference 2020 was our first experience with online-only conferencing, although there had been previous conferences with partial simultaneous webcasting and onsite recordings hosted hours laters on the web.

For general information of KOTESOL conferences, see
https://koreatesol.org/conferences
For archives of early national conferences archives off-site, see
https://koreatesol.org/content/conference-archives-index
For information on KOTESOL International conferences, see
https://koreatesol.org/content/history-kotesol-conferences

Links to past KOTESOL National Conferences available on this website--

2020 KOTESOL National Conference
Be the Change: Creativity, Community & Collegiality in EFL
25 April, 2020
https://koreatesol.org/nc2020
full activities at kotesolconf.com
Slack chatroom to mingle and socialize online during conference session breaks! https://kotesolnatcon2020.slack.com/

2019 KOTESOL National Conference
Motiva(c)tion: Sparking Learner Motivation in our Evolving Context
May 25th (Saturday)
Jeonju University, Jeonju, North Jeolla Province
https://koreatesol.org/nc2019

2018 KOTESOL National Conference
Crossing Borders: Korean ELT in the Modern World
12 May 2018 (Saturday)
Kangnam University, Yongin
https://koreatesol.org/nc2018

2017 KOTESOL National Conference
FAB11 & KOTESOL
Boosting the Power of ELT ㅡ FABulously!
ㅡ Neuroscience for enhancing language teaching ㅡ

May 13-14, 2017 (Sat.-Sun.)
Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul
https://koreatesol.org/nc2017

2016 KOTESOL National Conference
"Our Provinces"  (referring both to the field of ELT/education, and the geographic locales we work in)
28th May 2016 (Saturday)
Sangji University, Wonju
https://koreatesol.org/nc2016

2015 Korea TESOL National Conference
Bridging the Digital Divide: Examining Online Language Teaching in Asia
May 30th, 2015
Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul
https://koreatesol.org/nc2015

2014 KOTESOL National Conference
Change in the classroom: Principled Pragmatism
May 31st, 2014
Global Plaza (Kyungpook National University), Daegu
https://koreatesol.org/nc2014

KOTESOL 2013 National Conference
Developing Professionally: Plug-and-Play SLA Pedagogy
May 25-26, 2013
KNUE, Cheongwon Chungbuk
https://koreatesol.org/nc2013

KOTESOL 2012 National Conference
DRIVE: Putting Students at the Wheel
May 25-26, 2012
Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan
https://koreatesol.org/nc2012

Events not available on this website

(see archives page listed above)

KOTESOL 2011 National Conference
Ten Years In: Advancing Korean TESOL in the 21st Century
May 14, 2011
KAIST, Daejeon

KOTESOL / UCC 2010 National Conference
Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: Lessons From the Classroom
May 15, 2010
Daegu Exhibition & Convention Center (EXCO)

Korea TESOL 2009 National Conference
Professional Development: Improving Learning by Improving Teaching
May 16, 2009
Korea Nat'l University of Ed., near Cheongju, Chungbuk

2006 Korea TESOL National Conference
Helping Students Open Doors to Learning
May 13, 2006
Hoseo University Cheonan Campus