Jeonju North Jeolla KOTESOL are getting ready for the last workshop before the summer heat is too intense.
Reserve the date this June 15, when we'll hear about some information gap activities suitable for all levels and see a presentation on multi-modal writing.
Following the workshop, anyone interested in going out for dinner is welcome to join us.
Multimodal Writing: A Key for Creative Learning and Teaching
A multimodal approach to writing in an ESL/EFL classroom can be a source of creativity for both teachers and students. It focuses on the combination of text, audio and image as individual modes and how these can be creatively combined to produce meaning, encourage interaction and learning in the classroom. By integrating multimodality into teaching writing, teachers can prepare learners to effectively communicate in these contexts.
Multimodal writing uses more than one mode to achieve its intended purpose. The modes are “visual, audio, gestural, spatial, or linguistic means of creating meaning” (Selfe, 1995). Accordingly, this workshop attempts to explain the significance of multimodal writing in teaching writing in an ESL/EFL setting. It will also present samples of multimodal projects, along with its assessment techniques, that teachers can use inside the classroom.
Bio: Teri An Joy G. Magpale, M.A is is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Wonkwang University in Iksan City, Jeollabukdo. She is currently teaching different ESL/EFL courses namely Conversational English, Cultural English, and TOEIC speaking. She has also presented in various international and regional research conferences. Her research interests include World Englishes, Discourse Analysis and Current Pedagogical issues of ELT. She finished her Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English Literature with an Academic Honor in the Philippine Normal University-Manila. She finished her Master of Arts in Teaching English Language in the De La Salle University-Manila.
Novel Pair Information Gap Activities for Mixed-level Classes
Information gap activities come in all shapes and sizes, but these activities often are not especially engaging. Students may find their language skills put to the test, but not their other cognitive abilities. Those same information gap activities, if done in Korean, wouldn’t be able to hold their attention. An activity should be engaging to students even if done in their first language.
Coming up with tasks that can hold a person’s interest independent of language ability solves two major issues teachers encounter in classrooms. The first is mixed level classes with a very wide range of abilities, and the second is very low level students that have significant trouble understanding the teacher’s instructions.
The presenter will explain the basic structure used to create simple activities of this nature and show a number of examples. The presentation will include two in-depth activities. One focuses on reading and interpreting song lyrics, and the second focuses on remembering, describing and drawing faces.
Suitable for teachers of all levels.
bio: Daniel Corks is a long time member of KOTESOL and an active presenter at various conferences and chapter meetings. Daniel graduated from Sogang University in Seoul with a master‘s degree in applied linguistics specializing in second language acquisition. He’s currently a member of the Daejeon-Chungcheong chapter and an assistant professor at Woosong University in Daejeon.
