Presenters

Robert S. Murphy (Featured Session)

Featured Session - International Conference 2016

Deeper understanding. Sounds good, but what is it? — and how can we foster it in the classroom? Neuroscience is helping us remove the guesswork! Come hear about seven well-researched cutting-edge tactics that greatly enhance understanding, autonomy, leadership, and students' feelings of ownership toward the teaching material. Learn how to implement them into your own teaching context. It will make your job easier — and your students will thank...

Roger Fusselman

(Material Design) 3:00-3:45 pm Zoom

Creativity canceled them any problems teachers may face, but being creative can be difficult when teachers feel burdened by the circular an institutional pressures of their work. How does a teacher take command of materials and curriculum and become one's most creative self? The principles illustrated in the workshop focus on four skills: seeing the world with an integrative frame of mind, using specific values to fill your subconscious, applying techniques for advancing one's ideas further,...

Roger Fusselman

(Concurrent Session) 

Roger Fusselman, Sookmyung Women's University
 

Abstract
TED Talks are high-interest, academic, and often inspirational talks useful in the university classroom. The ted.com website provides great support for many talks. However, even with such help, teachers can find it hard to focus on what is important in the lecture while being overly involved in details that arise in the talk.
Based on the presenter's experience in TED Talks courses, this...

Rose Golder-Novic

(Concurrent Session) 

Rose Golder-Novick, English Language Fellow
 

Abstract
Improvisation is not only for entertainment in a theater. Improvisation games and activities help English language learners build public speaking skills, practice authentic (ie unplanned) language, and foster collaboration in the classroom. In this workshop the presenter will introduce and demonstrate several improvisation games that teachers/instructors can use in their classes to...

Ruriko Tsuji

(Concurrent Session) 

Ruriko Tsuji, FLP, Kanda University of International Studies
 

Abstract
"Collaboration" is one of the essential keys in language learning, not only in foreign language educational settings, but also in worldwide situations as stated in the "21st Century Skills Map" represented by P21 and ACTFL. In this current study, 56 university students (freshmen) in Japan involved in a peer tutoring program are...

Samantha Levinson

(Reflective Practice) Webinar Library 

The Critical Incident Protocol was developed through Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University and introduced the concept of personal and shared teacher reflection. Reflective practice includes identifying a problem and identifying why it happened but often stops there. The meaning of the episode and how it affects our practice is often overlooked. The idea of educators as learners makes many students uncomfortable, but why? Shouldn’t educators...

Sandler & Mountain

Professor Jared Sandler and Professor Drew Mountain

Abstract

During Gimcheon University’s annual Spring Festival in 2012, we created and deployed a location-based, EFL QR Code Quest for students, faculty, and community members. Our goal was to offer players a relevant and authentic way to engage with second language acquisition. Players used their smartphones to link to internet videos of EFL professors and Korean students giving spoken directions to the location of the next QR code station. Videos also featured speaking tasks that...

Sara Davila

Featured Session - International Conference 2015

The message being communicated across all areas of education is that there is a growing need to bring 21st century skills into the classroom. Without these skills, learners will be left unprepared for the challenges and opportunities that will arise throughout the course of their life. The essential question, however, is what skills should EFL teachers focus on, and how can we engage our learners, at every age, to build this skill?

Across sources, most...

Scott Berlin

(Special Guest Workshop)

Scott Berlin, American University of Kuwait
 

Abstract
Today’s technological revolution has created a border all teachers must face: crossing into the digital age of learning. Students born in the digital age have an ever increasing array of internet and smart phone learning tools that allow them to learn much differently than previous generations. Today’s teachers must adapt to meet the students in this new frontier. But what if you are a department head, director, or...

Scott Thornbury

International Conference 2018
Plenary Session
 

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Fluency is a slippery concept: we think we know it when we hear it, but we have a lot of trouble trying to define it. And even more trouble trying to teach it! Various contributing factors have been proposed, including speech rate, lack of pausing, accent, vocabulary range, idiomaticity and grammatical accuracy but it’s not always clear which of these factors are key, nor which are teachable. In this talk we will together assess a speaker’s fluency, and then address the...

Shaffer, David E.

Dr. David E. Shaffer

Abstract for presentation #1

In recent decades, the teaching of English in Korea has matured from a short-term stint abroad for the native English speaker to extended periods of employment. The NEST today is less likely to be a BA-generalist and more likely to be a TESOL-certificate or MA-TESOL holder. As with their Korean counterpart, today’s NEST exhibits an increased desire for professional development but an uncertainty...

Shaun Manning

(Concurrent Session) 

Shaun Manning, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, College of English & Graduate School of TESOL
 

Abstract
Trying to get your students to write more accurately and with more complex structures? This study investigated doing this through a linked-skills approach. After reading an article, one class of students worked in small groups of three or four members each to reconstruct an instructor-written summary which had all the grammar (function)...

Shufang Wang

Poster • Hallway • All day

Learner 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...

Siti Nurul Azkiyah

(Concurrent Session) 

Siti Nurul Azkiyah, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
 

Abstract
Research has found that teachers is the most influential factor in education. The question is how to improve teaching quallity. This study investigates whether teaching quality could be divided into several stages so that development program could be tailored according to teachers' need. The eight classroom factors (orientation, structuring, modeling, application,...