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Heidi Vande Voort Nam
Heidi Vande Voort Nam holds an MA TESL/TEFL from the University of Birmingham. She currently teaches in the Department of English Education at Chongshin University, where she prepares English education majors for student teaching and for the national English teachers’ exam....Bio's KTT: KOTESOL Teacher Training April 14, 2012
Tim Murphey
Tim Murphey (PhD Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is editor of TESOL’s Professional Development in Language Education book series and co-author with Zoltan Dörnyei of Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom. He has studied and taught in Europe for 15 years and in Asia for...Bio's KOTESOL National Conference 2012 April 14, 2012
Marc Helgesen
Marc Helgesen is author of more than 150 professional articles, books, and textbooks, including the English Firsthand series (Pearson Education/Longman Asia) and Practical English Language Teaching (PELT) – Listening (David Nunan, Ed.; McGraw-Hill) and has been an invited/...Bio's KOTESOL National Conference 2012 April 14, 2012
1. Brock Brady - Plenary Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
1. Glenn Stockwell - Plenary Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
1. Mike Levy - Plenary Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
1. Scott Thornbury - Plenary Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. Frank Boers - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. Clara Lee Brown - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. David Paul - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. Fredricka Stoller - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. Rob Waring - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. Ken Wilson - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. Kyungsook Yeum - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 2, 2012
2. Neil Anderson - Featured Speaker
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 August 31, 2012
3. FEATURED COLLOQUIUM David Nunan, Martha Clark Cummings, Ken Beatty, Denise Murray, MaryAnn Christison
Archive Copy. 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...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 September 3, 2012
1. JOINT PLENARY SESSION Mike Levy and Glenn Stockwell
Archive Copy. Mobile Language Learning: Turning Challenges into Opportunities While mobile language learning is not in itself new, it is true to say there has been a coming of age in recent years. The current crop of technologies, such as smart phones and tablet...Bio's KOTESOL International Conference 2012 September 3, 2012
Tory Thorkelson
Tory S. Thorkelson (BA, B.Ed., M.Ed. in TESL/TEFL), Ph. D (Language Studies/Curriculum Development) is a proud Canadian who has been an active KOTESOL member since 1998 and has presented at or worked on many local and international conferences. He is a Past-President for Seoul...Bio's KTT: KOTESOL Teacher Training October 15, 2012
Rob Dickey, Facilitator
Rob Dickey has been involved in his own professional development, and as a trainer and facilitator, for over 18 years. He is a past president of KOTESOL, a former facilitator of this SIG (when it was known as Teacher Development and Education SIG) and has served in numerous...Bio's Professional Development January 7, 2013
Thomas S.C. Farrell, Advisor
Thomas S.C. Farrell has been a teacher and teacher-educator for more than 30 years. He taught for nearly two decades in Seoul, before moving to Singapore, and finally to Brock University in Canada. His principal field of study is teacher development and reflective practice in...Bio's Professional Development January 7, 2013
01. Jeonju - North Jeolla Chapter President
Lisa MacIntyre-Park 'I Can!' English Academy cellphone: 010-8637-9519 President's Activities: - develop JNJ Chapter enrichment programs - report to National Council - recruit speakers for workshops Get in touch here: jeonju@koreatesol.orgBio's Jeonju-North Jeolla February 18, 2013
07. Promotion
Aida Park CSI Educo Find us on Instagram and Facebook! Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/jnjkotesol/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/jnjkotesolBio's Jeonju-North Jeolla February 18, 2013
02. Vice-President
Aida Park CSI Educo, JeonjuBio's Jeonju-North Jeolla February 19, 2013
1. Plenary: Dr. Keith Folse
Archive copy. Dr. Keith Folse is an internationally renown scholar and lecturer. Perhaps best known for his many books on grammar, he is an Associate Professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida, where his teaching and research interests include second language...Bio's Korea TESOL National Conference 2013 March 6, 2013
Dickey, Robert J.
Planning, Recording, and Displaying Alternative Forms of Professional Development Rob Dickey Abstract Employers are increasingly demanding evidence of professional development from teachers when they make choices in hiring, retention, promotion, and pay-adjustments. Their...Bio's Korea TESOL National Conference 2013 April 22, 2013