Officers of the Extensive Reading SIG

Scott Miles is an assistant professor in the Foreign Languages Department at Daegu-Haany Univeresity in Kyoungsan, Korea.  Scott has an MA in TESOL and is currently working on a doctorate degree in Applied Linguistics in language acquisition. He has published a reading course book for Macmillan publishers (Essential Reading) and is the editor of the TESOL Review journal. He is board member of the Korea English Extensive Reading Association and the Extensive Reading Foundation. His research interests include extensive reading, grammar and vocabulary acquisition.

ER-SIG Facilitator

Contact:

scott@dhu.ac.kr

Link to Scott's presentations page

Aaron Jolly is an English teacher, workshop presenter, teacher trainer, textbook writer and editor, and curriculum developer, who has taught students of all ages in Korea. He has been a private institute teacher for elementary and teen age children, and a public middle school teacher, as well as a university lecturer. Currently he is employed by Hanseo University, in Seosan, in the west of Chungnam province, where amongst other tasks he is the lead instructor and curriculum developer at the university's Institute for the Development of Talented and Gifted Education. His job includes teaching a reading based 4 skills program, which combines critical thinking and discussion, with activities for multiple intelligence to children and teens from 3 years old to 17 years old. 
 
Aaron is also a lecturer in the university's General Studies department working with freshman students of varying majors, and also with seniors in the Health Management department. At present he is a Korea TESOL teacher trainer, and is also serving on the National Council of the organization. From 2004-6 he was President of KOTESOL in Daejeon-Chungnam, where he is now the 2nd Vice President. In 2006 he was the co-Chair of the National KOTESOL conference held in Cheonan, his first home-town in Korea.

Events Chair

Contact: jollyprofessor@gmail.com 

Link to Aaron's presentations page

Tim Dalby is from Portsmouth, England and has been teaching since the summer of 2000. He has taught in Korea, New Zealand and the Czech Republic in a variety of contexts including business English, general English, EAP, FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOEIC and TOEFL. He has been a head teacher and a teacher trainer and is about to complete his M.A. in English Language Teaching. He currently teaches at Jeonju University.

Webmaster

Contact: tim_dalby@yahoo.co.uk

Link to Tim's presentations page