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KOTESOL International Conference 2023 Deadline Extended

The deadline for submitting proposals to the KOTESOL International Conference has been extended to January 15, 2023. If you were thinking about submitting and were disappointed to miss the deadline, now's your chance!

The 30th Korea TESOL International Conference, in collaboration with Pan Asian Consortium of Language Teaching Societies, will take place April 29-30, in Seoul and online. The theme is “Advancing Collaboration: Exchanges Among Scholars, Instructors, & Students." A wide range of session types and topics are possible.

Find out more, including how to submit, at...

JNJ KOTESOL's 2022 Wrap-Up

It was nice to see all who came out for meetings this 2022 season with JNJ KOTESOL!
I'd love to know what attendees thought of our presentations this season ~ and if there are any other ideas or requests for presentation themes or topics. 

I'd like to give a big shout-out to all our presenters this autumn 2022 season: Lindsay Herron: Easy-to-Adapt Conversation Games: Some Basic Types to Take and Tweak, Ingrid Zwaal: Bored? Board games, Heidi Vande Voort Nam: Activating Active Listening, and Jasmine Collins: Speak Up! - Getting Students to Actively Use English in Class. Let's...

Yongin Chapter December 2022 News

On Saturday, December 10th, Yongin Chapter held a December Event bringing the total number of events to 8 for the year. Smiles and laughter were exchanged as some people hadn't seen each other since 2019, before the pandemic. The group discussed 2022, brought it to a close, heard about the incoming chapter leadership, and considered plans for 2023.

After general conversation and ‘coffee-catchup’, the group got started by sharing how they have experienced doing “Year-in-Reviews”. This was either as an educator in the classroom or practices as individuals in their personal lives....

Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter Officers Elected for 2023

Congratulations to the new officers for the Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter, elected at the meeting on December 10, 2022:

Information about the 2022 chapter election can be found here.

We look forward to a great 2023!

Join us for the Jeonju North Jeolla December Workshop

The Jeonju North Jeolla KOTESOL chapter will be hosting the final workshop of the year on Saturday December 17th.

Check out these great presentations:

Activating Active Listening, given by Heidi Nam 

Speak Up! - Getting Students to Actively Use English in Class, given by Jasmine Collins

Both educators are coming from out of town to present at this upcoming workshop.

Please drop by and help us give them a warm welcome!

Here's the event with all the details:

https://koreatesol.org/content/jnj-kotesol-december-workshop

DCC End of Year Party

Sunday, December 18th, 2022

Our last event of the year is almost upon us: the End-of-Year Party! It'll be held on Sunday, December 18th at Ashley's Buffet in Daejeon, in Eunhaeng-dong (inside NC department store). Please meet us outside Ashley's at 5pm. Also, please be aware that you have to pay upfront at Ashley's before you eat. We're not going to do an online reservation form this time - just, please be there by 5pm, as that's when we'll go inside to eat - and remember that we initially will meet outside (that will let us know how many tables to ask for when we go in).
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Yongin Chapter Elections 2022

Along with details to be shared by email, this is a public sharing of the positions and duties. 

Duties of Yongin Chapter Officers and other jobs

as found in Appendix 1 of the Yongin Chapter constitution as of 2018

The Chapter Officers should attend monthly chapter meetings and special meetings and work as much by consensus as possible.  All Chapter Officers should perform the following duties: they should attend to the business of the chapter; they should keep track of and submit changes needed to their own job description; they should make themselves aware...

Service Awards Presented at 2022 Annual Business Meeting

At the conclusion of Korea TESOL's Annual Business Meeting on Tuesday, November 1, outgoing president Bryan Hale recognized a variety of volunteers for their exceptional service to the organization between November 2021 and October 2022.

The following awards were announced:

Recognitions for Service

2022 DC Chapter Election

The 2022 DC Chapter Executive Election!

Are you interested in joining our chapter executive? Submit your candidate bio here: https://forms.gle/MaKsURKGEe9tnCkt6

The nomination period will run from  Monday, October 31st,  to Monday, November 13th.

Our voting period will run from Monday, November 14th,  to Sunday, November 27th. 

The results will be announced  on Monday, November 28th.

You can find the duties of our officers on page 7 of our Governance Manual. 

DCC Executive

Jeonju - North Jeolla KOTESOL Reboot

With Covid restrictions slowly going away, JNJ KOTESOL will resume hosting workshops on the third Saturday of each month this autumn. We're so excited for this reboot, and we hope you can join us!

KOTESOL (Korea TESOL) is an organization run by teachers for teachers. At the Jeonju - North Jeolla Chapter, we offer workshops and conferences where teachers can learn new ideas to add to their classroom repertoire and be encouraged in their professional development.

Please join us for our next workshop on Saturday, November 19th at "I Can!" English Academy in SamCheon-dong of...

KOTESOL Elections: Have You Voted?

Did you vote? Don't miss the boat.

If you have voted, great! If you haven't voted yet, there's still time. The KOTESOL 2022 National Elections are open to all KOTESOL members through October 29. Your online ballot was sent to you on October 8 via the email address recorded in your KOTESOL profile. It contains an email message with voting information and your official KOTESOL elections ballot. 

If, for some reason, you don't find your email message and ballot in your inbox, it may be due to one of the following reasons:
1. The email message went to your spam folder....

KOTESOL Proceedings 2022 Now Available Online

KOTESOL Proceedings 2022 is now available online. This compilation of selected papers based on the authors' presentations at the 2022 Korea TESOL International Conference (April 30ㅡMay 1) includes 13 research papers, 2 action research papers, 13 papers on techniques and approaches, 4 workshop reports, and an invited speaker paper ㅡ 33 papers in all, nearly 400 pages covering many of the various aspects of TEFL. We hope you find within these pages an abundance of information of relevance to your research, your work situation, and your professional development.

The link is https://...

Mondays with Yongin-Gyeonggi: What's Going On?

Monday evenings: a summary. This time online is a healthy balance of professional learning community discourse with ample opportunities for social sharing.

October 2022 News for Yongin Chapter: Mondays, Event, and Elections

What a great way to end September and now we look forward to October 2022!

The energy could be felt through the booming music at Kangnam University on Saturday, September 24th. This helped give the message of "things are almost back to normal". Yet, the September Event for Yongin Chapter was a journey of paradoxes:

Summary of our "late event". Thanks to Daniel Corks. See ya soon to Dr. Gray.

Mondays in October:

10/3 - Foundation Day (Myths and Values) - Discussions about What's Next for.....(each of us, the chapter, the organization, English education...