Presenters
19. Financial Affairs Committee Chair
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Tom Wyatt is from Brantford, Ontario. He holds an honours B.A. in English and comparative religion from the University of Toronto. After graduation, he got his CELTA, and after that, he taught EFL at a language academy in Cheonan for three years. He served as a guest English teacher with the Gwangju Metropolitan Board of Education until recently. He is now a full-time Korean language student studying in Seoul.
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19.1 Diversity Committee Chair
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This position is vacant at the moment.
19.2 Sponsorship Committee Chair
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Robert J. Dickey has been a member of KOTESOL since 1995 and has served in nearly every national office (except Treasurer) as well as vice president of Busan Chapter. He has worked towards having publishers and teacher education organizations (such as MATESOL or TESOL Certificate programs) "invest their marketing resources through KOTESOL" for over 15 years. Rob teaches at Keimyung University (in Daegu) in the Public Administration Department, with his specialty in content-based language instruction.
2. Clara Lee Brown - Featured Speaker
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Choose Content-Based Instruction
One cannot help noticing how far the field of language education has travelled from the tradition of grammar translation used for teaching Latin, but also how prevalent it still is today. Also, foreign language learning in the Middle Ages was limited to the privileged, but this is still the case in modern days. In Korea in 2012, KOTESOL is featuring content-based instruction as a main theme. Perhaps this means that something is changing in language education. In my session, I will argue for the necessity of a paradigm change in...
2. David Paul - Featured Speaker
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Motivating Low-Level Students
How can we motivate university students and adults who have studied English for years, but still cannot really communicate, to express themselves more positively? How can we help teenagers to use the English they learn at school more actively and communicatively? This presentation introduces techniques for achieving these aims – aims that have been heavily influenced by the constructivist ideas of George Kelly and Lev Vygotsky and have been successfully tried and tested in the classroom by many teachers.
The approach is based on...
2. Featured: Dr. Jeong-ryeol "Jay" Kim
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Dr. Jeong-ryeol "Jay" Kim
Abstract
Successful foreign language learning in the "smart era" starts from students in their self-directedness. Teachers are not the knowledge transmitter any more: no teacher can compete with Wikipedia in their knowledge base. Teachers have to be designers and facilitators in that these students are motivated to learn and engage in foreign language learning. Foreign language teachers are those who know how to organize the language input that compels students to engage. It's...
2. Featured: Dr. Ken Beatty
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Dr. Ken Beatty
Webinar Abstract
Critical thinking is often seen as a skill that is distinct from language learning. But, within a Communicative Approach framework, a range of critical thinking tasks can be used as opportunities to enhance language learning. This presentation explores ways in which teachers can set up classroom conditions and develop tasks to promote critical thinking among secondary and post-secondary level learners. Drawing on examples from English for Academic Purposes, the presentation...
2. Featured: Dr. MaryAnn Christison
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Dr. MaryAnn Christison
Webinar Abstract
In this workshop, teachers will be introduced to strategies for developing EFL lessons and curricula that promote learning language through content. This approach to L2 teaching in academic contexts is known as content and language integrated learning (CLIL) or content-based instruction (CBI). Four main theoretical principles for integrating language and content will be introduced – making content connections, managing demands on cognition, developing academic language...
2. Featured: Robert S. Murphy
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Robert S. Murphy
Abstract for Invited Session
Plug & Play Neuroscientific Maxims for your Classroom!
In this dynamic and interactive session, Robert will discuss six of most practical maxims from his new chapter in Language Teaching Insights from Other Fields (TESOL Publications, 2014). Be prepared to do pair work and actively participate in this dynamic and highly informative session,...
2. Frank Boers - Featured Speaker
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Applications of Cognitive Linguistics to L2 Pedagogy
The pace at which new L2 words, expressions, and patterns are acquired is influenced by the degree of engagement with them on the part of the learner. Several researchers with a Cognitive Linguistics (CL) background have, since the 1990s, proposed ways of exploiting non-arbitrary aspects of language as stimuli for such engagement. In my talk, I will first illustrate these proposals. Examples range from ways of helping learners appreciate how abstract word meanings (e.g., beyond in Why she got married to him is...
2. Fredricka Stoller - Featured Speaker
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Moving Students Toward a Perfect Score with Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning has been billed as an effective means for promoting purposeful language learning for well over two decades in ESL and EFL settings. During this time, projects have been successfully incorporated into language classrooms with young, adolescent, and adult learners, as well as classrooms with general, vocational, academic, and specific language aims. Project work has proven to be an ideal complement to more traditional language instruction. Reported benefits include improved...
2. Ken Wilson - Featured Speaker
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Ten Quotations to Make You Think
Teachers often quote the words of wise folk to support their ideas and opinions, usually from within the world of education. I find it useful to go outside our specialized world for words of wisdom that can genuinely make us all think about how we teach. When you reflect on quotations like these, they often prove to have more meaning that you originally thought.
For example, Mark Twain: I never let my schooling interfere with my education. A mildly amusing remark, but if we take it seriously for a moment, what does it tell us?...
2. Kyungsook Yeum - Featured Speaker
Leadership and Quality in ELT Organizations
How can we contribute to shaping a successful, knowledge-sharing organizational culture? In other words, how can teachers and administrators in any ELT organization improve their leadership IQs for a program’s success? These questions will be discussed and their answers exemplified through leadership models, a leadership and climate survey, and practical activities.
Extensive work has been done on leadership and management in general, but the discussion on leadership in ELT organizations is still sparse. Recent...
2. Neil Anderson - Featured Speaker
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Engaging in Motivational Teaching Practices to Achieve a Perfect Score
Teachers play a powerful role in motivating learners in their classrooms. In order to engage in effective motivational teaching practices, each teacher must embark on a journey towards excellence. This session will present the results of research conducted in Guatemala and in the United States that report on teacher journeys to achieve a perfect score.
This featured speaker session will focus on ways that teachers can weave motivational moments into their teaching. Research by Guilloteaux...
2. Rob Waring - Featured Speaker
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Extensive Reading in Korea: 10 Years Going from Strength to Strength
This session will review the developing awareness of Extensive Reading (ER) in Korea in the last few years. It will show how awareness of the concept of ER has grown but is still sadly misunderstood in many quarters despite important gains. The session reviews the development of Korea-based ER organizations such as KOTESOL’s ER-SIG and the Korean English Extensive Reading Association (KEERA), and their contributions to the development of ER on the Korean Peninsula.
The case for ER in Korea...
2. Vice President
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Gwangju International Center
Chosun University, English Language Department (rtd)
Gwangju
David Shaffer has been a KOTESOL member since the beginnings of the Jeolla Chapter in 1993. He has been a professor of English at Chosun University throughout his career in TESOL/applied linguistics. He holds a doctorate in theoretical linguistics and post-graduate certificates in TESOL. At Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter, Dr. Shaffer served a number of years as Chapter advisor and as Chapter conference officer before becoming Chapter president (2009-16). At the National level, he has...
2. Vice-President
Suhhee KangAble Languages, Jeonju
Phone: 010-8535-8337
2. Yongin Chapter First Vice-President
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Yongin Chapter's First Vice-President holds a diverse academic background in Psychology, English Literature, and Philosophy. His journey led him to Korea, where he has resided and taught for the past two decades, primarily within the hagwon industry. During this time, he dedicated three years to teaching at a Korean university and ventured into public school and business English instruction. His base for most of his Korean journey was in Gangneung on the East coast, where he ran a hagwon for a decade and played a role in establishing a volunteer organization.
Throughout...
20. Busan-Gyeongnam Chapter President
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Anika Casem double-majored in English and speech communication, has a MA in communication studies, and a TESOL certificate. In the U.S., she taught public speaking at the university level and adult language learners at a local community college. Since joining KOTESOL, she has been a panel speaker at Ewha Womans University, presented at KOTESOL conferences, worked as a Zoom technical assistant for the online National Conference, attended chapter meetings, and acted as the Busan-Gyeongnam Chapter membership officer in 2020. She has been in South Korea since 2016 and currently teaches at...
2024 Seoul Chapter Officers
Meet Seoul KOTESOL Chapter Officers for 2024!
21. Daegu-Gyeongbuk Chapter President
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James "Jake" Kimball holds an MSc in Educational Management in TESOL, and his research interests include program evaluation, assessment, and issues related to curriculum development. James, or Jake, was the founder of the Young Learner and Teens Special Interest Group and has worked for many years professionalizing TYL in Korea. In addition to being Publications Committee chair (2017-19), he has held editor-in-chief positions on The English Connection and KOTESOL Proceedings, and is currently assistant editor and reviews editor for the Korea TESOL Journal.
After teaching EFL in...
22. Daejeon-Chungcheong Chapter President
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Mike Peacock is originally from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He has been living in the Daejeon area for 21 years. Mike has been teaching English at Woosong University's Culinary Arts Department for the past 15 years and is currently in my 17th year at Woosong. He has previously served the Daejeon Chapter as 2nd VP, 1st VP, and is currently serving his 10th year as chapter president.
23. Gangwon Chapter President
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Reece Randall is an English instructor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST). He is a South African with over nine years of experience in the Republic of Korea as a scholar, director, and educator in Busan, Seoul, Seongnam, Wonju, Gangneung, and Gwangju. He brings a diverse skill set gained from a background in EFL pedagogy, financial management, and leadership roles in academic programs – as well as volunteering for education, conservation, and community outreach initiatives – in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Welsh name, Reece, stands for “enthusiasm” – a wealth...
24. Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter President
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Maria Lisak creates safe environments to encourage learners for risk-taking and growth. Currently at Chosun University in South Korea, she has diplomas and certificates in business, technology, education, and meditation. She is a lifetime member of KOTESOL and AsiaTEFL. Her research interests include funds of knowledge, cosmopolitan literacies, and autoethnography.
25. Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter President
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Lisa MacIntyre-Park holds a BEd (TESL) and BA (Hons) from Brock University in Canada and has been teaching English in Korea since 1997. Since 2005, she and her husband have run their own academy in Jeonju, which, incidentally, is where the local KOTESOL chapter has been holding workshops since 2022. In her free time, Lisa enjoys reading, playing the ukulele, practicing the art of modern calligraphy, and teaching it to others. She was the national secretary for KOTESOL in 2019-2022 and the KOTESOL Financial Affairs Committee chairperson in 2023. She has been an officer of the Jeonju-North...
26. Seoul Chapter President
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Rhea Metituk began her career teaching health education in an HIV/AIDS NGO in Africa. Since her “pivot Asia” move in 2002, she has been based in Seoul, Busan, Ulsan and now again in Seoul. She has an MA in rhetorical writing and digital media, and currently is at Myongju University. She is researching blended learning methods for teaching conversation. Her academic interests include rhetorical analysis: study of appeals in communication using pathos, ethos, and logos, as well as media literacy and using creativity in digital media. She has served as Busan-Gyeongnam Chapter president,...
27. Suwon-Gyeonggi Chapter President
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Tyler Clark has spent the past decade teaching English to a wide variety of learners in South Korea. He is currently a lecturer at Gyeongin National University of Education's Incheon campus, a position he has held since 2009 and that primarily sees him instructing university freshman in conversational English skills. In addition to this, he spends time working with teacher trainees in the Intensive English Teacher Training Program at Gyeongin. Furthermore, he holds weekly classes with community members of a wide variety of ages as part of a lifelong education program. From 2010 to 2015, he...
28. Yongin-Gyeonggi Chapter President
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Originally from Berlin, Germany, Daniela has called Korea home since 2006. Her journey began as a student, but over the years, she seized opportunities to teach at prestigious institutions such as Seoul Foreign School, and Myongji University. In 2014, she earned her PhD in baduk (go) studies. Since 2015, she has been a tenure-track professor at Myongji University. Her teaching portfolio encompasses go teacher education, go culture in Korea and abroad, and English. She is a passionate researcher with a keen interest in the board game of go, education, culture, and foreign languages. In 2023...
3. FEATURED COLLOQUIUM David Nunan, Martha Clark Cummings, Ken Beatty, Denise Murray, MaryAnn Christison
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Moving to Online Instruction: The Challenges and Opportunities
David Nunan will be moderating in person this webcast colloquium.
All teacher educators will be faced with the imperative to teach online, at some stage in their career. The online teaching may supplement one, or more face-to-face classes, or may replace face-to-face instruction, entirely. While some skills will transfer from face-to-face to online, environments, most will not. They will either have to be transformed or, replaced entirely. In this colloquium, teacher educators with extensive...
3. Treasurer
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Gwangju National University of Education
Gwangju
Lindsay Herron has been a visiting professor at Gwangju National University of Education in Gwangju since 2008. Prior to that, she taught English on a Fulbright grant at Seogwipo High School in Jeju-do. She has a master’s degree in literacy, culture, and language education from Indiana University, a master’s in cinema studies from New York University, bachelor’s degrees in English and psychology from Swarthmore College, a CELTA, and the CELTA YL Extension. She is presently pursuing her doctorate at Indiana University. At the...