Bio's - Speakers
Nathalie Calderon
Onnuri • Onnuri Hall • 14:00
Actively Incorporating Race Visibility within the Korean ClassroomDeveloping Teaching Skills and Knowledge • Young Learners, Special Interest Groups
(People of Color SIG)
With the ever changing demographics in Korea, and the increased access to social media, Korea is welcoming the most globally connected and diverse generation of students compared to just a decade before. Though this interconnectedness is bringing people across the world closer together culturally, a narrow understanding and lack of sensitivity for people of different...
Nicole Domay
Skills • Room 202 • 15:00
Classroom Management Strategies for the English Foreign Language ContextClassroom Management
Teachers of all creeds are constantly making decisions on behavior management in the classroom. However, when there is a language barrier such as the one in the English foreign language (EFL) setting, those decisions and actions can become more difficult to execute. Due to this issue, this presenter will inform the audience on positive ways to handle difficult behaviors in the classroom through strategies derived from Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)....
Pamila J. Florea
Highlighted • Room 101 • 16:00
Harry Potter and the Muggle MotivationDeveloping Student Skills (Vocab, Grammar, Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking)
There are many avenues for learning a language and expressing an idea. Traditionally, language learning has been based on text, but more and more studies show that the use of art allows students to access concepts, build their lexicon, and to express their ideas. Couple this with material that students enjoy, such as the Harry Potter series, and they are deeply motivated to learn.
Socially, students all over the world...
Paul Johnson
Mixed • Room 204 • 16:00
Why Study Philosophy?Reflective Teaching Practice
This interactive workshop seeks to share with ESL instructors the benefits that the study of philosophy can have in our lives. To do this, the following approach will be taken: First, there will a short introduction to answer the question, “What is philosophy?” During this section, the three branches of philosophy will be examined briefly, namely, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Next, we’ll look at logic. In particular, how learning how to be more logical can benefit us daily. Finally, we’ll...
Randlee Reddy
Mixed • Room 204 • 15:00
Strategies for student engagementLearner motivation / creativity Student engagement
No two students are alike in how they may approach learning. Arguably, no two classes are ever the same, even if the same content or course is being taught. Each class has its own unique atmosphere. Similarly, not every student learns or interacts in the same way. The goal of the instructor is to develop and promote a learning environment that encourages active participation from all students. Students learn in diverse ways, which can be further complicated by majors...
Rhoda Makhanya
Research • Room 203 • 14:25
Project-Based learning: A method to spice up lessons.Learner motivation / creativity
Heads of English departments and English teachers are concerned about South Korean students who are losing enthusiasm or interest in the learning of English as a second language. There are many factors that might be the cause of the problem, but my focus is on the ones that students lack motivation and that course materials are boring and meaningless. In this presentation I’ll explain how Project-Based learning can spice up lessons and how it can be implemented....
Richard Schlight
Skills • Room 202 • 10:00
EFL Academic Writing Instruction WorkshopAcademic Writing Instruction
This workshop is intended as a forum in which writing instructors and tutors can share their approaches towards non-fiction EFL writing instruction and discuss the techniques that work best for them in given situations. We will focus on such big picture issues as helping students generate ideas, understand weak versus strong arguments, plan their essays, support their claims, and cite their sources. From a technical standpoint, we will discuss the technical problems in student...
Richard Steven Eigenberg
Skills • Room 202 • 11:00
Practicing fluency alone? ABSOLUTELY! How about accuracy? MAYBE!Developing Student Skills (Vocab, Grammar, Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking)
Internationally known tests (such as IELTS) show that Korean student production skills lag behind their reception skills. Practicing reception alone (reading and listening) students have many options for practice (videos, books, comics). BUT practicing production alone is problematic.
It would be a wonderful thing if 2nd language learners could always be with a native or near native speaker for...
Samantha Rose Levinson
Research • Room 203 • 10:25
A Dual Literacy Approach For Korean English Learners’ CurriculumDeveloping Student Skills
ELL vocabulary curriculum is often build to help students decode new words in a decontextualized fashion. This project explores the role that task-based curriculum plays on literacy development to better equip second language (L2) English speakers who are living in a non-English speaking country to advance to English language high school and university. The presentation focuses the development of a curriculum with task-based learning activities that supports...
Shufang Wang
Poster • Hallway • All day
Motivating students through self-determination theory and the 5Ts frameworkLearner motivation / creativity
Motivation plays an important role in learning foreign languages and many scholars have conducted research to analyze how motivational strategies can help students learn English well in the EFL class. This paper seeks to extend motivation theory to students’ and teachers’ attitudes in the EFL classroom based on the self-determination theory (SDT) of Barkar et al. (2010) and the 5Ts of motivation framework of Renandya (2013). The 5Ts refer to...
Stephen Patrick Hoag
Research • Room 203 • 10:00
Exploring Learning Autonomy and Motivation in South Korean StudentsLearner motivation / creativity
This presentation illustrates an exploratory approach to motivate students to improve their spoken English in a South Korean regional university setting. After negotiating an observed extracurricular English program which offered limited but facilitative grade points for participation, students gained autonomous learning opportunities to practice their spoken English over a semester. A survey consisting of items related to anxiety towards English,...
Sunhee Ko
Exploring the Effects of Drama Techniques on English Learners' Motivation
This presentation looks at the impact of drama-based instruction on Korean middle
school students. In this presentation, attendees will be guided through what drama-based
instruction is and how drama can be integrated into English class. Attendees will also be
introduced to its influences on EFL Secondary English learners’ motivation. The presenter will
introduce the methods she used to collect data and discuss results from student reflections,
teacher journals, and interviews. Through...
Valentin Tassev
Research • Room 203 • 15:25
English Teachers’ Perceptions on Assessing Pronunciation of Thai StudentsDeveloping Student Skills • Pronunciation
This research study examines the perceptions of both native English teachers (NETs) and non-native English teachers (NNETs) on assessing the English pronunciation of Thai native speakers enrolled at a tertiary institution. Both groups referred variously to a series of features of pronunciation as quite important, such as intonation, rhythm and stress amongst others. Also, both groups stated that overall intelligibility was an...
Vanessa Virgiel
Mixed • Room 204 • 14:00
EFL in Korea's Remote Elementary Schools: Challenges and OpportunitiesYoung Learners
The Ministry of Education mandates that every Korean public school offer English classes starting at elementary grade three, yet students in Korea’s most remote village and island elementary schools are at a disadvantage in accessing quality English education in comparison to their urban peers. In this workshop we will first explore the reasons why students at these rural elementary schools often face a number of challenges in getting a solid foundation in primary-...
Yong-Jik Lee
Research • Room 203 • 11:25
Elementary Pre-service Teachers’ Self-efficacy to Teach ELLsReflective Teaching Practice • Microteaching
Recognizing a lack of previous studies of mainstream teachers’ preparation for teaching ELLs, this study examines four pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy while working with ELLs through ESL microteaching experiences. The data consisted of two individual interviews with four pre-service teachers and researchers’ two classroom observations. Study findings indicated that the four pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy was generally improved after...