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Research Grants Opportunities

As in years past, KOTESOL is proud to support the efforts of its members by offering two types of research grants through the Research Committee. This year, we will offer one "Research Paper Grant" and up to five "Conference Presentation Grants." Please read on for more
information about each type of grant.

Research Paper Grants
Research Paper Grants are offered for the purpose of stimulating new research, especially by beginning researchers, of high quality and worthy of appearing in the Korea TESOL Journal.

For 2014,...

National Council Evolves

Membership in the KOTESOL National Council evolves over several phases:

National election outcomes were announced at the Annual Business Meeting October 13th, and on this site that same day. Chapter elections take place at various local meetings throughout the year (many occur in November). Each chapter's president has a vote on the national council.

Appointed Committee Chairs are nominated by the president and approved by the sitting council of the time. By custom, the term of office for appointed committee...

KAMALL Conference October Oct 19

KOTESOL encourages all members to take advantage of educational opportunities in Korea. The Korea Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning (KAMALL) holds their annual conference October 19th at Hanyang University in Seoul.

2013 KAMALL International Conference

Theme: Smart Language Learning in a Connected World
Conference Date: October 19, 2013
Venue: Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Keynote Speakers
- Jozef Colpaert (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
- Tom Robb (Kyoto Sangyo University)
- Hiroyuki Obari (Aoyama Gakuin University...

Membership Expiration

Has your membership expired?

Have you just renewed, but still received an expiration notice?

Are you wondering when your membership will expire?

Have you received the following message?

KOREA TESOL: role expired
The role, , you acquired by purchasing a product at our store has expired. Any special access or privileges that came with it are now gone. You can purchase it again by going to KOREA TESOL

Thanks again,

KOREA TESOL

More than 80% of KOTESOL's memberships expire on September 30th each year.  At that time the KOTESOL web system...

Announcement for the Annual Business Meeting

Notice is hereby given to all members of KOTESOL that the Annual Business Meeting (ABM) will be held during the International Conference in October.

Venue: Gemma Hall at Sookmyung Women's University.

Date: 13th of October 2013

Time: 16:00 (4 pm)

The results of the election for the following positions will be announced at this meeting:
President, 1st Vice-president, 2nd Vice-president, Treasurer, Secretary, International Conference co-chair and Nominations and Elections Committee chair.

The preliminary agenda is as follows:

1. Call to order...

Council Meeting Derailed

The KOTESOL National Council meeting scheduled for 10am August 31st failed to reach a quorum due to a train collision north of the Daegu train station early Saturday morning. The collision between KTX and Mugunghwa passenger trains cancelled all northbound rail service for several hours.

A number of Seoul-bound KOTESOL council members were delayed at DongDaegu Station for nearly an hour before the decision to cancel service was announced. For those south of the accident, KORAIL recommended taking commercial bus service to Daejeon or Seoul. The Express Bus Terminal adjacent to...