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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