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2018 January Workshop

2:30~2:59 On-site registration
3:00~5:00 Workshop
5:01~6:00 Coffee and chat (at a coffee shop around the venue)

To pre-register, click here.

To find Injaegwan, click here.

4. Lisa Casaus

Officer-at-Large

Lisa Casaus teaches English at Pungam and Unli Elementary Schools in Gwangju. She is an accomplished illustrator from Alburquerque, New Mexico (USA), where she studied at the Southwest University of Visual Arts. Lisa is active in Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter's Reflective Practice SIG.

Lisa is the creator of Baby Onion (below) and many other characters. See them at http://babyonionsays.weebly.com/ And more at https://lisamaycasaus.weebly.com/

28. Gyeonggi Chapter President

André Jacobs served as first vice-president for the Yongin Chapter of KOTESOL in 2024 and as secretary in 2023. He is currently a freelance teacher, teaching business English at an elementary afterschool program and a private academy. As president of the Gyeonggi Chapter in 2025, André plans to focus on expanding the newly formed chapter and creating a series of teacher training workshops for elementary school and academy teachers.

Plenary: Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto

Director, International Teacher Development Institute
Co-author of Let’s Go

Let’s Go has the distinction of being the first EFL course book series for children, and of remaining one of the world’s best-selling course books through four editions over 25+ years. As co-author, Barbara has seen trends come and go in materials design for young learners, but some fundamentals have withstood the test of time. She will talk about these in terms of guidelines that can help teachers create...

26. Seoul Chapter President

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,...

24. Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter President

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.

Transit - Getting to the Conference

There are numerous options in traveling to the conference venue from Seoul, as well as from other locales.

Both intercity and express busses land at Yongin Bus Terminal. From Yongin Bus Terminal, take a city bus to Kangnam University.

Many trains stop at Suwon Station. From there bus or subway are available.

There are also options using the Metro from Seoul, or other areas.

Within Gyeonggi-do, you can take the Yongin-Everline Metro.

There are also assorted busses in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do that go to Kangnam University.

Once on campus...

Call for Presentations

May 12, 2018 — Kangnam University, Yongin, South Korea

Theme: Crossing Borders: Korean ELT in the Modern World

Deadline for Proposals: March 16, 2018
 

Korea TESOL invites interested professionals to submit a proposal to present at the 2018 National Conference to be held at Kangnam University, Saturday May 12th 2018.

The theme of this year’s conference is Crossing Borders: Korean ELT in the Modern World. This is an opportunity for language teaching professionals from across Korea (and beyond) to...

21. Daegu-Gyeongbuk Chapter President

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...

14. Membership Committee Chair

Lindsay Herron has been teaching at Gwangju National University of Education since 2008. Prior to that, she taught English on a Fulbright grant at a high school in Jeju-do. She has an MA in cinema studies (New York University, USA); an MSEd in literacy, culture, and language education (LCLE; Indiana University, USA); a graduate certificate in learning sciences, media, and technology (LSMT; Indiana University, USA); and a CELTA and CELTA-YL Extension. And most recently, she obtained her doctorate in LCLE (Indiana University, USA).

A lifetime member of KOTESOL, Lindsay is chair of the...

11. International Conference Committee Co-chair

Meerbek Kudaibergenov, PhD, is an assistant professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology. With a keen focus on Eastern and Central Asian contexts, his research explores various dimensions of ELT, student and teacher identity, higher education, and country image. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Asia-Pacific Education Researcher; International Journal of Educational Development; and Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. Apart from the university, he also serves the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia and SageOpen as an...

12. Nominations and Elections Committee Chair

Dr. David E. Shaffer is an early member of Korea TESOL and a long-term resident of Gwangju, where his career has been as a professor on the English Department faculty at Chosun University (1976-2016). He holds a PhD in linguistics (theoretical) but has done much of his more recent research in applied linguistics and SLA, as well as in TESOL, in which he holds graduate certificates. In addition to research, Dr. Shaffer’s writings include books and articles on English teaching and learning as well as on Korean language, culture, and poetry.

Over the years, Dr. Shaffer has served as...

19. Financial Affairs Committee Chair

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.