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August Workshop - Curriculum Design: Dealing with Issues in Conversation Classes
August 18, 2012 - 3:00pm to 5:00pmDo you struggle with curriculum choices in conversation classes? Do you have a hard time motivating low level students to talk? Is it difficult to make your classes enjoyable while still teaching the content that will be tested? Then this workshop just might be for you. These are some of the questions that will be discussed and hopefully solved during this interactive presentation.
What is the role of the textbook in my class? How is the curriculum designed in your language program? How can it be improved? How do I incorporate other skills in conversation classes? How do I come up...KOTESOL Presenter International Conference Registration
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2. Kyungsook Yeum - Featured Speaker
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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...
1. Scott Thornbury - Plenary Speaker
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The Secret History of Methods
I am regularly asked “What’s the latest method,” suggesting that the concept of method persists, despite recent attempts to bury it (“The method concept is dead!”). Drawing on an extensive archive of language teaching textbooks, I will review the history of methods, and in so doing, will argue that the prescriptive concept of method is less useful than the descriptive concept of methodology, i.e., what teachers actually do, rather than what they are obliged to do.
I will also attempt to show that the history of methods is best...
1. Mike Levy - Plenary Speaker
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Towards a Podcasting Pedagogy: Recent Developments in CALL with a Focus on Listening
Digitized audio and video have made their way into all aspects of educational computing. On the Internet, streaming audio and video allow the learner access to a vast quantity of audio material of all kinds. Audio and video files may be stored, managed, and distributed using technologies such as iTunes/iTunesU and YouTube along with mobile phones. Listening materials may be manually or automatically downloaded to a computer or portable media players for later study and use through...
1. Glenn Stockwell - Plenary Speaker
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Technology and Motivation in English Language Teaching and Learning
Advances in technology have made it easier for teachers and learners of English to access a wide range of resources in terms of authentic input and communication with native and nonnative speakers of English around the world. From the early days of computer-assisted language learning (CALL), there has been discussion of how technologies can play a role in motivating learners in learning a language (e.g., Warschauer, 1998), and as technologies have become more sophisticated, the growing range of uses...
1. Brock Brady - Plenary Speaker
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Plant Teacher Communities of Practice – Harvest Personal Satisfaction and Professional Growth
Communities of Practice form the foundation of teacher professional development. Communities of Practice (CoPs) are spaces where people in a trade or profession can “talk shop.” In some fields, CoPs happen naturally on the job. However, teachers do not practice their craft alongside other teachers; they practice it in a room full of students. Teachers must consciously build CoPs.
Teachers who participate in Communities of Practice rarely experience burnout or fall into...
International Community
July 29, 2012 - 3:45am
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The International Community (Inter. Comm.) of Korea TESOL serves its ELT members across the globe who have a vested interest, academic connection, and/or personal interest in Korean ELT. Unlike in-country KOTESOL chapters that can host in-person professional development events as well as disseminate online member communication, the Inter. Comm. group has predominantly relied on the annual Korea TESOL International Conference as a means of sustaining the community. With growing international membership, KOTESOL has designated a venue for its international members...
ELT Calendars of Events Are Back!
Welcome back the ELT calendars of events that have in the past been one of the most visited pages on the KOTESOL website. These events calendars feature (1) pan-KOTESOL Chapter events, arranged both chronologically and by Chapter, (2) National KOTESOL events, (3) other Korean ELT events, and (4) international ELT events in the Asia-Pacific region or of special interest to KOTESOL members. To view these events calanders at their temporary site, click the following links:
Pan-KOTESOL Chapter Events
http://koreatesol.org/content/calendar-events-3-chapters...
Extensive Reading Competition
If you are interested in having your students from elementary through high school become more interested in or more involved in Extensive Reading (ER), here is an English Extensive Reading competition for them to take part in -- The 2012 KEERA Graded Reader Review Competition.Awards will be given in four categories to the students who can write the best review of a graded reader either fiction or non-fiction. An individual Award will be given to the writer of the best review in each category and the main Award (sets of graded readers) going to the winner's school.
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Gwangju-Jeonnam August Social Function
August 25, 2012 - 5:30pmThis late afternoon get-together will take place on the rooftop of The First Alleyway Restaurant. It will be an afternoon picnic of pizza, barbeque, and Filipino cuisine. Come join us for food, games, and entertainment, as well as professional and social networking.
Foods
Pizza (by The First Alleyway - The best in Gwangju) Grilled sausages Barbecued skewers Beef Afritada Filipino-style noodles and rice Cold drinksEntertainment
Games (a few) Attendee Talent -- Everyone attending is invited to bring their talent with them to perform (magic tricks, reciting poetry,...01 Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter Event Calendar
Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter MeetingSchedule of Presentations & Events
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Calendar of Events for All Chapters
December slide deck & Event
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Oct National Conference
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Aug - Break
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Jun 8 Language & Lumpia
May 16 Social Justice SIG Poetry Share (cohost)
May 11 ELT & AI Workshops
Apri 9: Cocktail Connect at Tequilaz
April 13 - Workshops on Poetry & Nature
Workshop 1: Reading Joseph Brodsky by Dr. Yeon-seong Park Workshop 2: Nature to Soothe the EFL Soul...
03 Chapter Officers
Gwangju-Jeonnam Officers: 2024
President
Maria Lisak
Chosun University
Email: gwangju@koreatesol.org
Vice-President
Dr. David E. Shaffer
Gwangju International Center
Phone: 010-5068-9179
Treasurer
Lindsay Herron
Gwangju Natl. University of Education
Dept. of English Education
Officer-at-Large
Jocelyn Wright
Mokpo National University
Dept. of English Language & Literature
Immediate Past President
Bryan Hale
Yeongam High School, Yeongam, Jeonnam
KOTESOL Judge for China English Competition: David Shaffer
It was my first trip to the south-central region of China, and it would be my first time to serve as a judge of an English speaking contest in China. When I landed in Kunming, the venue city proved to be as beautiful as I had heard it was. Knowing that the event was organized by the China Daily and 21st Century English Education Media, I also had high expectations of the Seventeenth China Daily “21st Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition. I felt gratitude toward 21st Century and China Daily for asking KOTESOL to send a competition judge and thankful that KOTESOL selected me....
Chapter Newsletter Library Archive: The Gwangju Communicator
The Gwangju Communicator, the Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter's official newsletter, is published in months of regularly scheduled Chapter meetings and distributed in hard copy at the monthly meetings and at select locations prior to Chapter meetings. Also included are the conference books of our annual conferences, held each March. Copies of The Gwangju Communicator from 2010 through 2016 may be accessed and downloaded from the "Attached PDFs" section below.
January 2017 ㅡ Present issues can be found HERE.
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Mar. 2010 - Dec. 2015: Dr. David Shaffer
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Presenter Advisory
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August 11, 2012 - 1:30pmSchedule
1:30 pm: Registration and Welcome
2:00 pm: ELT Presentation 1
Reflective Teaching: Improving the Learning Context
By Allison Bill (Jeonju University)
2:45 pm: Refreshment Break
3:00 pm: ELT Presentation 2
Facebook and English Learning in Korea
By Jeremy Bissett (Chosun University)
4:00 pm: Special Presentation
Korean Highlights: Four Decades of History
By Dr. David Shaffer (Chosun University; Chapter President)...
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KOTESOL International Conference 2012
October 20, 2012 - 12:00am to October 21, 2012 - 12:00amArchive Copy. "Perfect Score: Methodologies, Technologies, and Communities of Practice"
The conference is over. We wish all of our attendees a safe journey back home and we hope that everyone who attended got more than you hoped for out of this years conference.
We will see you next year for our 21st annual International conference. In the mean time please enjoy the KOTESOL chapter meetings and various National Conferences and workshops that come up throughout the year.
Welcome to the 20th KOTESOL International Conference 2012!
This year, we look at...