News

TEC available and on the way

The Autumn issue of KOTESOL's quarterly newsmagazine, The English Connection, is now available online for members only, and will be going out in the mail in approximately two weeks.  Please be sure your postal mailing address is current in your website user profile!

TEC is at http://koreatesol.org/content/english-connection-tecv17n3-autumn-2013

Go to http://koreatesol.org/user to sign in and update your user profile. Your address should look like a mailing label when you are in profile edit mode (it will always appear as a string in "view" mode).

National Council Evolves

Membership in the KOTESOL National Council evolves over several phases:

National election outcomes were announced at the Annual Business Meeting October 13th, and on this site that same day. Chapter elections take place at various local meetings throughout the year (many occur in November). Each chapter's president has a vote on the national council.

Appointed Committee Chairs are nominated by the president and approved by the sitting council of the time. By custom, the term of office for appointed committee...

National Council Meeting Nov 3

National Council meeting

Nov. 3, 2013 (Sunday) 11am ~ 4pm.
Daejeon International Community Center Meeting Room.

Find the Daejeon International Center: http://www.dicc.or.kr/en/pages/view/9

Draft of the ABM minutes for 2013 loaded

 A draft copy of the minutes of the recent ABM has been loaded under the Documents / Minutes page, and all members are invited to read it and, if there are any comments or corrections they wish to make, to contact the secretary at secretary@koreatesol.org

Draft minutes found at http://koreatesol.org/content/minutes

KAMALL Conference October Oct 19

KOTESOL encourages all members to take advantage of educational opportunities in Korea. The Korea Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning (KAMALL) holds their annual conference October 19th at Hanyang University in Seoul.

2013 KAMALL International Conference

Theme: Smart Language Learning in a Connected World
Conference Date: October 19, 2013
Venue: Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Keynote Speakers
- Jozef Colpaert (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
- Tom Robb (Kyoto Sangyo University)
- Hiroyuki Obari (Aoyama Gakuin University...

New Reading Circle opens

The KOTESOL Professional Development SIG is opening a new reading circle for the Paul Nation book

What should every EFL teacher know? (Compass, 2013)

Learn more at http://www.koreatesol.org/content/reading-group-2-what-every-efl-teacher

Insider's Scoop on the International Conference

As we start counting down the hours to the 2013 KOTESOL International Conference, we thought you might appreciate a few tips from inside ConComm. We hope these help you enjoy your conference experience!

First, everyone should note that the conference venue is not the same as last year. We're across the street, in the old campus. As you're heading up the hill from the subway, turn right at the main gate, instead of left. If you find yourself on a huge flight of stairs, you're in the wrong place.

Global Webcast (Live Streaming)

Once again Korea TESOL has teamed with KoreaBridge to present highlights of the Annual KOTESOL International Conference via webcast.

Throughout the conference, we will be streaming conversations with conference presenters, attendees, and sponsors from the Webcasting Studio in Room 213. Everyone is welcome to stop by and participate in the conversations. Tune in to http://koreabridge.net/kotesol2013 to catch the live stream along with latest photos, videos, and tweets from the conference.

After the conference, a number of presentation video-recordings will become available...

Annual Business Meeting and Bylaws Vote

KOTESOL's Annual Business Meeting for 2013 will be held Sunday, October 13th in Gemma Hall (Sookmyung University), 4-6pm.

Results from this year's elections, Reports, and proposed Bylaws Amendment are included.

Pre-registration Confirmations

All who have successfully completed the #kotesol conference pre-registration process have been sent a confirmation email from admin@koreatesol.org

It is suggested that you bring a copy of this email to the conference.

If you have not received a confirmation email, but believe you should have, please:

Online Voting Update (2013)

72 additional e-ballots were sent prior to Oct 5 for those whose new/renewed membership had been processed between Sept 20 / Oct 1.

Those who haven't received an e-ballot, but renewed/joined on or before October 1, 2013, should send an email to elections@koreatesol.org

Those who renewed/joined after October 1 may vote at the conference venue.

Membership Expiration

Has your membership expired?

Have you just renewed, but still received an expiration notice?

Are you wondering when your membership will expire?

Have you received the following message?

KOREA TESOL: role expired
The role, , you acquired by purchasing a product at our store has expired. Any special access or privileges that came with it are now gone. You can purchase it again by going to KOREA TESOL

Thanks again,

KOREA TESOL

More than 80% of KOTESOL's memberships expire on September 30th each year.  At that time the KOTESOL web system...

Times & Rooms are here! Conference 2013

The timetable you've been waiting for is now available.  It's even a few days ahead of schedule!  Rooms and Times (Saturday and Sunday) for all concurrent sessions have been uploaded to the Conference Program page. http://www.koreatesol.org/content/program

Special Conference Section - TEC (preview)

The Special Conference Section of the forthcoming Autum issue of KOTESOL's quarterly magazine The English Connection is available to all in the weeks leading up to the conference.Enjoy! http://koreatesol.org/sites/default/files/TEC-Special-Conf-Section.pdf