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CATESOL 2020 State Conference

10/08/2020

09/07/2021

About

Resiliency. This is the theme of the CATESOL 2020 State Conference. If you’re new to CATESOL, our state conference is an annual event where educators from up and down the state and beyond come together in one place for four days to learn, collaborate, and enjoy the company of passionate colleagues. Knowing this, you can imagine why we decided to center this year’s conference around resiliency. We, the conference organizers, hope that this year more than any other year in CATESOL’s recent past, conference attendees walk away from the four days with renewed passion and resolve, and sharpen their skills so that they may continue to show up for their students and colleagues amidst the many obstacles that we currently face.

Downloadable Program Available HERE.

Note: downloadable program lists sessions in U.S. Pacific time. The Virtual Lobby adjusts times to your local time zone.

For Attendees

Once you are registered, use your unique link to start exploring the platform and sessions. We have posted basic conference information and tutorials at catesol.org/attendees.php

For Presenters

If you are presenting, there is some great information for you at catesol.org/presenters.php

Speakers

Keynote

Justin Shewell

Justin Shewell has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Arizona State University and an M.A. in TESOL from Brigham Young University. He is the co-designer of the award-winning Teach English Now! (https://teachenglish.asu.edu/), the world’s largest online TESOL certificate program, and co-designer of the popular Learning How to Learn a Language MOOC (https://language-warriors.com). He is the author of several books and book chapters, including 50 Ways to Teach Online (https://jshewell.com) and 50 Ways to Learn a Language (https://jshewell.com). He is the creator of the Perception of Spoken English (POSE) Test (https://posetest.com) and ESL Activities (https://eslactivities.com). He is a member of the Board of Directors for the TESOL International Association (https://tesol.org), the premiere international association for teachers of English to speakers of other languages. He has lived and worked in the UAE, Korea, and Utah, and Hawaii in the United States. He currently lives in Arizona with his wife and their 5 children.

Mandy Manning

Stephen Krashen

Stephen Krashen has published over 500 articles and a dozen scholarly books in the fields of literacy, language acquisition, neurolinguistics, and bilingual education. Many of these publications are available for free download at sdkrashen.com.

In addition, he was the 1977 Incline Bench Press Champion of Venice Beach (181 pound class) and before the corona virus trained at Gold's Gym in Venice, California. He holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do because he passed the written examination.

Willy Renandya

Dr Willy A Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia. He currently teaches applied linguistics courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has given more than 100 presentations at regional and international ELT conferences and published extensively in the area of second language education. He maintains a large language teacher professional development forum called Teacher Voices: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachervoices/.

Invited

George Kormpas

Alice Savage

Colin Ward

David Cutler

Dorothy Zemach

Georgios Kormpas

Jeff Frost

Jim Papple

Kimberley Gamez

ESOL Teacher @Centreville High School / English Language Programs

Kimberley Gamez

ESOL Teacher @Centreville High School / English Language Programs

Maggie Sokolik

Nooshan Ashtari

Walton Burns

Speaker

Dina Papachristou

Belinda Braunstein

Abigail Sider

Adrienne Seo

Alanna Carter

Alejandra Lozano Estrada

Aleksandra Swatek

Alexandra Sacramento

Alice Dominguez

Alinuer Abulikemu

Alireza Maleki

Alisa Takeuchi

Aliya Abulikemu

Allison Yasukawa

Alyssa Kermad

Amanda Bent

Amanda Ronco

Amanda Simons

Amy Pascucci

Anagit Traganza

Andrea Willis

Andreea Corona

Angie Lee

Anita Arias

Ann Snow

Anne Crutchfield

Anthony Burik

April Zuniga

Ashley Velázquez

Aziz Qureshi

Bahiyyih Hardacre

Benjamin Taylor

Betsy Gilliland

Betsy Parrish

Bette Empol

Bita Bookman

Bozo Dzakula

Brenda Custodio

Brian Bennitt

Brittany Zemlick

Cara Lazarus

Cari Ryan

Caterina Skiniotou

Cecilia Salzer

Celine Signorini-Bakan

Cheryl Eccles

Chisako Cole

Christian Vela Che

Christopher Stillwell

Chuqi Wang

Corrie Larson

Cristin Boyd

Cynthia Wislofsky

Daniel Moonasar

Danny Tsai

David Malinowski

David Olsher

Deborah Meshel

Diana Batista

Dina Papachristou

Donna Brinton

Donna Price

Dustin Crowther

Eliana Santana

Elizabeth Eastman

Elizabeth Norman

Elizabeth Wadell

Elza Hess

Emily Vandermade

Emmy Min

Eric Roth

Erika Saito

Evelyn Burgos Martinez

Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui

Federico Pomarici

Garrett Larson

Gena Bennett

Gerardo Pacheco Matus

Gina Ruggiero

Gorge Bebawi

Grazia Mora

Gretchen Bitterlin

Gust Yep

Haejin Kim

Hanaa Soudan

Heidi Vellenga

Holly Bogomyagkova

Hossein Khodabakhshzadeh

Ildeberto Ojeda

Ingrid Bairstow

Ingrid Greenberg

Israa Osman

Jacqueline Vega López

Jade Chau Nguyen

Jaydene Elvin

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein

Jeff Buck

Jenifer Crawford

Jennifer Bean

Jennifer Gagliardi

Jennifer Park

Ji-young Shin

Joan Prigian

Joanie Brillant

Jody Fernando

John Liang

Jordan Ruyle

Joseph Schwaller III

Judith O'Loughlin

Julie Goldman

Kara MacDonald

Karen Russikoff

Katalin Gyurindak

Kateryna Lysenko

Kathleen Bailey

Kathleen Ziqi Li

Kathy Koupai

Katrina Tamura

Kelly Metz-Matthews

Kerry Fogarty

Kimmie Tang

Kristi Reyes

Krystal Suh

Krystie Ritchey

Langdon Holmes

Lara Wallace

Laura Razo

Leigh Anne Shaw

Lia Kamhi-Stein

Lily Lewis

Lorena Lopez

Lori Howard

Luba Hodges

Luz Navarrette García

Lydia Sparksworthy

Lynda Franco

Mahshad Sheikholeslami

Margaret Teske

Mariana Silva

Maricel Santos

Marsha Chan

Matthew Dame

Melody Abarca-Millan

Michael Beamer

Michael Domínguez

Minghan Sun

Mirjana Radovanovic

Mirna Khater

Monica Rosso Tabrizi

Muriel Vanrell

Nairi Issagholian

Nancy Kwang Johnson

In March (2020), Dr. Nancy Kwang Johnson began serving as the CATESOL Social Media Coordinator and oversees social media presence on FB, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In June (2020), she became the CATESOL Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee Chairperson.

Based on Dr. Johnson’s experience liaising with the White House (on behalf of Asian American Pacific Islanders, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Native-American, and Hispanic-serving institutions in higher education), and working as a US Senate staffer for Alan Cranston, she looks forward to serving in this capacity. On a personal level, she is passionate about issues regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion due to her Korean, African, and Cherokee ancestry. Korean and English are her mother tongues, respectively.

Dr. Johnson pursued her graduate studies in Public Administration and Government at Cornell (MPA, MA, PhD). Her dissertation focused on the politics of language, culture, and assimilation in France and Senegal. She taught International Relations (Content-Based Instruction) at the University of Ottawa (Canada) in the French language and at the University of New York in Tirana (Albania), UNYT in English. At the University of New York Belgrade (Serbia), Dr. Johnson taught Business English to Serbian banking executives. As the Founding Executive Director at UNYT, she launched the first executive education program (M.A. in International Relations) in the English language.

In her capacity as a professor, department chair, and program director, she has lived in Albania, Canada, France, Kosovo, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, and South Korea. Upon her return to the U.S., she taught American Business Culture classes to South Korean students in the WEST program at Harriet Fulbright College, Korean-Americans (children and adults) at hagwons (Korean cram academies), and adults in the San Fernando Valley at Build My English. As a lifelong learner, she has decided to pursue another graduate degree, and is currently pursuing her MA in TESOL at USC.

Nancy Pontius

Nazila Amrahi Dizai Takieh

Neda Sahranavard

Nevin Durmaz

Nicole Brun-Mercer

Nina Ito

Nirmla Flores

OkHee Ahn

Olga Sukhanova

Ondine Gage

Paige Endo

Patricia Darnell

Patricia Hernandez

Patricia Vecino

Paula Madsen

Paulina Cortez

Perla Abeldano

Prima Gonzalez

Priya Abeywickrama

Qinghua Liu

Rabail Qayyum

Ragaa Shenouda

Raina Levesque

Rana Khan

Ricardo De La Torre

Rick Kappra

Rita Van Dyke-Kao

Robb Hill

Robert Filback

Ronna Magy

Roz Tolliver

Ryan De La Vega

Ryan Detwiler

Ryane Willis

Sachiko Oates

Samantha Jungheim

Sandra Watts

Sarvenaz Hatami

Satomi Abe

Savyonne Steindler

Sean Trunk

Sharin Jacob

Shayne Fogle

Shelley Staples

Shereen Seoudi

Sherry MacKay

Silvia Breiburd

Siwei Liu

Sofia de Almeida

Sonia Estima

Soo Min Lee

Stefan Frazier

Stephanie Wright

Suzanne Bardasz

Sydney Rice

Sylvia Henel

Sylvia Ramirez

Tamara Collins-Parks

Tamara Jones

Taylor Myers

Teresa Abelaira

Thi Thuy Trang Tran

Tianshi Hao

Undarmaa Maamuujav

V. Angel Pablico-Kobayashi

Vanessa Quezada Ayala

Victoria Weiss

Viktoriia Lipska

Viktoriya Shevchenko

Wenhao Chen

Xintian Ji

Yeseul Kim

Yi Lu

Yifan Wang

Yuhsin Chen

Yuxuan Liao

Ziyue Guo

Zoia Palgova

Exhibitor

Jessica Lutu

Lei Kayanuma

Page Pastore

Amy Goeltzenleuchter

Andrew O'Shea

Andrew Shannon

Annette Acosta

Bonnie Bicksler

Brenda Marquez

Christina Cavage

David Bracey

David Burke

Drew Robinson

Elizabeth Mays

Emily Hall

Emily Vandermade

Frank Gerdeman

Heidi Brumbaugh

Helen Chade-Mahshi

Iyad Alomari

Jeff Ward

John Antrasian

Jonathan Maiullo

Kate Strauss

Ken Kelch

Kia Perkins

Leo Islas

Lori Guilford

Maggie Steingraeber

Marjorie Olavides

Natalie Bertsch

Randy Erickson

Romi Viana

Rob Jenkins

Author - National Geographic Learning / Consultant / Speaker

Rob Jenkins

Author - National Geographic Learning / Consultant / Speaker

Rob Jenkins is an author, presenter, and retired Professor of English as a Second Language, and Professional Development Coordinator at Santa Ana College, School of Continuing Education. During his 27-year tenure, he received various awards including the Best Practice of Model Program Award in 2013 from the Association of Community and Continuing Education and eight awards from Santa Ana College including the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2008 and the Professional Achievement Award in 2019. He was named as an Orange County Teacher of the Year in 2009, and he and Staci Johnson received the 2013 Heinle Outstanding Achievement Award from National Geographic Learning for their contributions to the field for textbooks they authored. Rob is the co-author with Staci Johnson of Stand Out, a popular six-level series they wrote for National Geographic Learning now in its third edition. He has presented workshops and plenaries in and outside the United States.

Serena Rapp

Seth Cervantes

Tammy Wik

Toni Hull

Agenda

20+ Poster Sessions

View any and all Posters at any time during the conference. Go to Also see Q&A Sessions on Friday at 10:45, Saturday at 12:00, or Sunday at 1:30. See the schedule for details.

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

A Tip for Coping with Teacher Anxiety

As teachers, we can never escape the 'first day of school'. The presenter will demonstrate his process of handling first-day anxieties and its application to other teacher firsts. He will also go over the benefits this process has on overall lesson planning and flexibility.

Ricardo De La Torre

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Bring Yourself and Students to Online Course at IEP

This presentation describes activities used in IEP courses during Spring and Summer 2020 to humanize online classes. By utilizing google drive and a school provided learning management system, these activities helped to increase instructor and student presence in zoom classes that would boost students' motivations, classroom engagement, and community involvement, which all lead to these pre-matriculated students' academic success. Presentation attendees will discuss issues in remote teaching as well as the adaptability of these materials for their teaching contexts. Products created by students, worksheets, and materials will be shared, which would be utilized in both synchronous and asynchronous courses.

Satomi Abe

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Eight Technological Tools to Teach Proverbs

Proverbs commonly found in many cultures make great learning materials! This presentation demonstrates how a teacher can use eight technological tools to teach proverbs and engage EFL/ESL students in meaningful practices on vocabulary, grammar, and communication skills while enhancing their intercultural awareness. A list of proverbs will be shared.

OkHee Ahn

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

How to Organize Short Student Presentations in a Virtual Classroom

Shifting classrooms online runs the risk of their becoming overly teacher-centered when not in Breakout Rooms. One way to put student-led production and interaction at the center of Zoom meetings is to organize class-wide short individual presentations. Key to their success is (a) the selection of content that generates student enthusiasm for participation and (b) the organizational framework of the assignment on Canvas for appropriate student submissions. This teaching tip demonstrates with examples how a podcast and a film served as the basis of multiple Canvas assignments linked to Google Slides culminating in very successful individual student presentations on Zoom.

Sylvia Henel

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Pronunciation Activities: Interactive, Meaningful and 'Zoomable'

This presentation provides suggestions for three activities that focus on practicing pronunciation. These activities are designed to be fun, effective, meaningful, communicative, and rich in context for target pronunciation features, including both segmentals and suprasegmentals. They are also easy to be adapted - the teacher can be flexible to revise the content to match with the target feature or adjust the level of scaffolding to make it appropriate to the competency level. The activities are based on previous practice in the field and/or have been successfully conducted in a Zoom class by the presenter.

Jade Chau Nguyen

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Resilience Against Content-Development Fatigue: FRIEDs to the Rescue

Resilience in writing skills helps students feel confident and improve skills! FRIEDs supports students in developing relevant content. This simple mnemonic stands for Facts, Reasons?. Want to learn more? Join us for the best teaching tip of the conference! Google Doc handout and activities provided.

Cristin Boyd

Karen Russikoff

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Riding the Wave of Wakelet: Curate, Organize, and Share Remotely

With the transition to remote learning, educators need to curate online educational resources for students. Wakelet is a tool that allows teachers and students to bookmark, curate, organize, and share resources. This presentation will introduce Wakelet and provide tips on how it can be used in a remote learning environment.

Suzanne Bardasz

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Spice Up Your Zoom Class with Four Simple Games

Do you need a fun activity for your online classes? Spice up your daily synchronous class meetings with word search puzzles, Kahoot, Pictionary and Taboo. These four simple games can make your online ESL classes more engaging on Zoom. Students will have fun and learn at the same time.

Kathy Koupai

V. Angel Pablico-Kobayashi

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Teaching Word Stress with TED Ed Talks

This 20-minute teaching tip will guide viewers through a mini-lesson which uses a short TED-Ed Talk to teach word stress rules when adding suffixes. The transcription of the TED-Ed Talk is provided with missing words that need to be filled in. Once filled in, the suffix of the word should be identified and then classified according to how it affects stress on that word. Once rules have been classified, the words should be practiced aloud among peers to obtain feedback. This mini lesson will provide teachers with an educational listening activity that has a pronunciation focus.

Alyssa Kermad

Joseph Schwaller III

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Translanguaging Math Projects

Bilingual Math teacher candidates discuss how they research their students to effectively use translanguaging for integrated ELD in their math classrooms and how math translanguage projects could be used in ELD classrooms.

April Zuniga

Perla Abeldano

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Translanguaging Science Projects

Bilingual Science teacher candidates discuss how they research their students to effectively use translanguaging for integrated ELD in their science classrooms and how similar lessons could be used for content-based ELD in designated ELD classrooms.

Evelyn Burgos Martinez

Ildeberto Ojeda

Paulina Cortez

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Using Fables to Teach Reading, Writing Sentences and Critical Thinking on Canvas

The Aesop's fable 'The Two Goats' is read and then students write original sentences and critically think about current political and social problems. Students express their thoughts and opinions briefly through Canvas discussions, and this can easily be applied in many online contexts.

Kathy Koupai

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Using Zoom and Canvas to Enhance Warm-Up Conversations

This 15-minute teaching tip shares ways to leverage Zoom and Canvas features to enhance routine warm-up conversations in listening and speaking classes. Topics include the rationale for such conversations, time management and classroom management strategies, and key features of preparation, conversation, and reflection stages.

Christopher Stillwell

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

TESOL Legislative Priorities: What Educators Need to Know in 2020

This session offers a broad overview of the current political landscape in Washington, DC, as well as the key policies and issues that TESOL International Association is tracking and supporting. Issues that will be covered include the federal budget process, immigration, ESSA, adult English education, and several pieces of legislation that TESOL is working to get passed in Congress.

David Cutler

Judith O'Loughlin

Start

12:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

Start

2:00 PM

End

5:00 PM

The 2020 California Legislative Session – An Update

The 2020 Legislative Session has been one of the most unique in history given the COVID-19 virus. Its impact on the state’s budget and school programs have established a new set of policies and a return to “normal” may take longer than educators would like. This session will provide a detailed overview of the state’s current budget, its impact on school programs, and a forecast on the state and school district finances in the years to come.

Jeff Frost

Judith O'Loughlin

Start

2:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Adult Ed: Maximize State and Federal (WIOA) Funding: How Your Actions Impact Adult ESL

Adult Education programs serve the neediest students with minimal resources. Learn about the latest news regarding two funding streams for one set of outcomes. Learn how you can advocate and take action for your programs. Even though COLA promised in January was not maintained, local legislators held adult education at the current level of funding. Keeping stakeholders informed to avoid future cuts is critical. Learn how to identify data and deliver your message to secure your place with representation that counts.

Bette Empol

Diana Batista

Judith O'Loughlin

Start

3:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Advocacy in Action – The English Learner Roadmap and Resources

Everyone involved in our schools has a role to play to ensure equity of access and achievement for our English Learners (K-12). Fortunately, California’s English Learner Roadmap (EL Roadmap) provides a clear path to make this happen. Learn more about the resources available from Californians Together in the New Resource Hub.

Judith O'Loughlin

Victoria Weiss

Start

3:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Defining Linguistic Equity for California Community Colleges

Despite gains in more accurately defining adult ESL students, gaps still exist in these students gaining linguistic equity. The session will focus on creating a working definition of linguistic equity in terms of ESL students and how faculty can engage their campus in helping to ensure equitable access.

Judith O'Loughlin

Sydney Rice

Start

3:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Exhibitor Hour

Browse and shop for the titles and ESL materials you need all in one location. The reps are here to answer your questions and help you!

Start

4:00 PM

End

5:00 PM

Language as a Vehicle for Connection and Belonging

Language is culture. It is geography. Language is the means through which we find and maintain human connection. More than 71 million people worldwide are displaced from their homes and on the move. 52% of those displaced are children. As a result, so many in our society feel separate and afraid. With over 1 billion people worldwide learning English, language is the vehicle through which we may reach across differences, connect with our neighbors, bring communities together, and ensure every person knows they belong, especially in these uncertain times.

Mandy Manning

Start

5:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

CATESOL TELL Swap Shop and Business Meeting

Join the Technology Enhanced Language Learning interest group and swap ideas on tools, methods, and lesson plans that you can implement in your own classroom! We will also elect new interest group leaders for 2021. Come to this meeting to share your ideas and meet and network with other educators interested in using technology in the classroom!

Cara Lazarus

Suzanne Bardasz

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

CSU Interest Group Business Meeting

If you work at or attend classes at a CSU campus, you might be interested in attending our annual business meeting. We will discuss issues of current relevance, such as professional development, political climates, updates from TESOL/ EAP programs, etc. Please join us!

Bahiyyih Hardacre

Stefan Frazier

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

ICIG Business Meeting

Join the Intercultural Communication Interest Group Rap Session to discuss what we've been up to, where current leadership stands, and what we hope to achieve as a group in the year to come. Feel free to bring your beverage and we'll toast the year to come! All are welcome.

Kelly Metz-Matthews

Rick Kappra

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

Material Writers Interest Group Business and Networking Meeting

Are you interested in creating and publishing teaching materials? Come to the Material Writers Interest Group Business and Networking Meeting. We will be sharing tips and resources as well as discussing particular areas of interest for future meetings and talks. Whether you are new to material writing or have decades of experience, this meeting is an opportunity to find fresh ideas and partners for collaboration.

Nicole Brun-Mercer

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

Non-Native Language Educator Issues Interest Group Business Meeting/Rap Session

The business meeting will focus on electing new leaders, reviewing the past year's activities and progress, and looking towards future development and growth of the group.

Paula Madsen

Vanessa Quezada Ayala

Zoia Palgova

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

Online Teaching IG: Business and Networking Meeting - Striking a Balance: Synchronous/Asynchronous

How much is too much Zoom? How distant can we go with asynchronous classes before students lose interest? What are the three most effective strategies for minimizing zoom fatigue? My students are getting lost in the LMS - how can I simplify homework? _x000D_ Join us for a short presentation on these topics and best practices for encouraging student persistence in online classes, followed by informal discussion with your colleagues, and election of the 2021 CATESOL Online Teaching Interest Group Coordinator. _x000D_ See you there!

Ingrid Greenberg

Ryan Detwiler

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

Research Writers Interest Group: Establishing a Community of Practice

Many would like to publish their work, but may not have sufficient experience to navigate the process independently. The Research Writers Interest Group (RW-IG) session offers strategies and resources to navigate the world of academic publication, as well as an opportunity to connect with colleagues similarly interested in publishing.

Kara MacDonald

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

TOP-IG Business and Networking Meeting

Come join your fellow TOP-IG members for a virtual Bring Your Own Beverage discussion. In this Business & Networking Meeting we will provide you with an update of what TOP-IG has been doing and the current TOP leadership. We will have a chance to share trials and tribulations, successes and ideas for teaching pronunciation in today's remote environments. We will also discuss events we would like to see in the group over the next year.

Jaydene Elvin

Marsha Chan

Start

6:30 PM

End

7:30 PM

San Diego Area Rap Session and Networking

Come network with the San Diego chapter, share your experiences, and learn from our triumphs and challenges.

Lydia Sparksworthy

Ryane Willis

Start

7:30 PM

End

8:30 PM

20+ Poster Sessions

Start

7:00 AM

End

10:00 PM

Eight Technological Tools to Teach Proverbs

OkHee Ahn

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

How to Organize Short Student Presentations in a Virtual Classroom

Sylvia Henel

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Pronunciation Activities: Interactive, Meaningful and 'Zoomable'

Jade Chau Nguyen

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Resilience Against Content-Development Fatigue: FRIEDs to the Rescue

Cristin Boyd

Karen Russikoff

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Riding the Wave of Wakelet: Curate, Organize, and Share Remotely

Suzanne Bardasz

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Spice Up Your Zoom Class with Four Simple Games

Kathy Koupai

V. Angel Pablico-Kobayashi

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Teaching Word Stress with TED Ed Talks

Alyssa Kermad

Joseph Schwaller III

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Translanguaging Math Projects

April Zuniga

Perla Abeldano

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Translanguaging Science Projects

Evelyn Burgos Martinez

Ildeberto Ojeda

Paulina Cortez

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Using Fables to Teach Reading, Writing Sentences and Critical Thinking on Canvas

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Using Zoom and Canvas to Enhance Warm-Up Conversations

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

An Introduction to the SIOP® Model

By the year 2025, one in four K-12 students will be an English Learner (EL). With such rich diversity, all teachers need greater support to help ELs - and all students - gain access to the content and language of a lesson. Developed by Jana Echevarría, Ph.D., Deborah J. Short, Ph.D., and MaryEllen Vogt, Ed.D., the SIOP® (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) Model is the only empirically-validated sheltered instruction framework that meets this objective. This session will present an overview of how the SIOP Model can help move all learners toward academic excellence.

Page Pastore

Jeff Ward

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Bringing the World into the Online Language Classroom

A constant challenge for ESL teachers is how to make connections between curriculum and book content to students' lives, interests and culture. This interactive presentation showcases how to create an immersive learning environment using Google Earth/ MS Teams/ SWAY. Presenters share activities/ scenarios to create a virtual classroom experience.

Bozo Dzakula

Gorge Bebawi

Ragaa Shenouda

Sonia Estima

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Building Racial Justice and Equity-Mindedness into a TESOL Masters Program

This workshop draws on a four-year equity initiative to transform a professional masters program into one known for nurturing racial justice and equity-minded practices in graduates. Workshop will cover three strategy areas: redefining program goals and course objectives, modifying syllabi and instructional practices, and strategies for student recruitment and support.

Emmy Min

Jenifer Crawford

Robert Filback

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Classroom-based Assessment Practices in an L2 Public Speaking Class

Classroom based assessment highlights the relationship between instruction, learning, and assessment. In an L2 public speaking class, the use of effective questioning, teacher feedback, and students' peer and self-assessments will be presented to show how such formative assessment practices have implications for both learning and teaching.

Priya Abeywickrama

Sofia de Almeida

Start

8:00 AM

End

8:45 AM

Connecting the Dots: Teaching Students to Summarize and Evaluate Infographics

Interpreting visual information (tables, graphs, etc) helps ELLs understand statistical information and make sense of our world. Describing and understanding infographics is an important skill for academic success, professional development, and active citizenship. This workshop shows how to effectively teach ELLs to summarize, evaluate, and share short commentaries on data.

Eric Roth

Samantha Jungheim

Start

8:00 AM

End

9:15 AM

Critical Pedagogy in the Language Classroom: A Case for Global Contemporary Art

How can the arts create critical engagement in the language classroom? This presentation will analyze the politics of representation in common arts-based, English Language Teaching materials to address the ways in which artists and their works are framed. It will propose an alternative model of artists and the arts based on contemporary artistic practice that is accessible to everyone, not only people with backgrounds in the arts, to create opportunities for creative and socially-just language learning.

Allison Yasukawa

Start

8:00 AM

End

9:15 AM

Fostering Language Development: Case Study on Effects of Creativity

This case study explores ways creativity can foster language development. Based on classroom observations, innovative activities have been essential in encouraging students' level of creativity as they generate unique, imaginative meaning-making connections. Focusing on teacher-led imaginative contexts, students have been exploring linguistic creativity to improve language development.

Chuqi Wang

Jennifer Park

Start

8:00 AM

End

8:45 AM

How to Build a Better Financial Future, Whether You're Paid in the Summer or Not!

Welcome to SchoolsFirst FCU. We're Your Biggest Fans. Everything we know about being an expert partner and empowering our Members, we learned from you. We've been helping school employees build their futures for more than eighty years. Wherever you're starting from, we can't wait to help you bring your future to life. We design our products and services with you in mind, creating an ever-growing number of lower-cost, higher-quality offerings to help you build a strong financial future.

Kia Perkins

Lori Guilford

Start

8:00 AM

End

8:45 AM

How to Get the ESL Job of Your Dreams

Looking to stand out from the job market crowd in California? Glean tips from an experienced hiring manager on navigating a competitive job market. The workshop will review strategies for building a professional network, creating job applications, and diversifying employment experience to get faculty, administrative and classified jobs related to ESL.

Jody Fernando

Start

8:00 AM

End

8:45 AM

Kinesthetic Grammar Activities: Grammar on the Go

Kinesthetic Activities are, at the most basic level, activities where students use gesture, motion, and activity to practice language. Kinesthetic activities can lower the affective filter, make target language more salient and thus more memorable, and demonstrate nonverbal communication including body language and gesture. Teaching and practicing grammar this way can take it off the worksheet and into a concrete meaningful social context, helping students see how language functions as a communication tool. And yes, they can be done online! Participants will experience several kinesthetic activities such as Pirate Island to practice articles and Advice Alley to practice modal verbs.

Walton Burns

Start

8:00 AM

End

8:45 AM

Resiliency and Building Trust in the ESL Classroom

Having close secure relationships is a characteristic of people who are resilient; trust is essential. This interactive workshop focuses on building trust by increasing a sense of safety in the classroom. Participants learn about the approach, lesson plans and activities, and how to adapt them to their own class setting.

Elizabeth Eastman

Start

8:00 AM

End

9:15 AM

Sustainable Extensive Reading Programs: Approach, Strategies, Resources, Techniques

This workshop aims at sharing and exploring an approach, free resources, strategies and techniques for designing and implementing sustainable Extensive Reading curriculum components for EFL/ESL learners in online or blended learning settings and contexts.

Caterina Skiniotou

Start

8:00 AM

End

9:15 AM

Virtual Learning Exchange with Google Slides

This summer students from classes in Oregon, California, and Texas used Google Slides to exchange colorful weekly writing assignments and comment on each others' work. Feedback from the students was excellent with 99% wanting to do the project again. Why? Interacting with other online students is interesting and improves real-world communication and computer skills. _x000D_ Join this workshop to learn how to set up a virtual exchange with another teacher. You'll walk through the steps of finding a partner, brainstorming assignments, forming student groups, and sharing Slides with them. Everything you'll need to kickstart your collaboration!

Corrie Larson

Melody Abarca-Millan

Patricia Darnell

Ryan Detwiler

Start

8:00 AM

End

8:45 AM

Develop Pronunciation, Writing, Listening, and Vocabulary with AmEnglish Online FREE!

Teachers and students around the world have shifted to remote online and hybrid teaching, and we are here to help you! We are offering the whole suite of AmEnglish products free of charge through the end of June, 2021. Programs include Read Aloud eBooks (9 volumes), Vocabulary Builder (4 volumes), Idioms in English (7 volumes), Writing in English (2 volumes), and Pronunciation in English (4 volumes). Elementary, middle, and high school; college, university and corporate training classesâ??we have solutions to help learners of English. Our course management system allows teachers to track user activity. Attend our session to get access.

Marsha Chan

Start

9:00 AM

End

9:45 AM

Developing and Implementing an ESL Guided Self-Placement in an Online Format

With the implementation of AB705, some California colleges and universities are developing Guided Self-Placements (GSP) to replace placement tests. In this presentation, the participants will learn about an online GSP developed by ESL faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College. The presenters will describe the development process of multiple measures, display the GSP's portal, and discuss the item types corresponding with different courses at Santa Rosa Junior College. They will also discuss the challenges they have faced while pilot-testing and using this self-placement instrument. There will be time for Q&A and idea exchange.

Bita Bookman

Luz Navarrette García

Start

9:00 AM

End

9:45 AM

Fostering Equity and Resiliency through Open Learning, MOOCs, and OERs

David Wiley (2000), a prominent Open Learning scholar, said that 'education is sharing.' The presenter will offer an overview of Open Learning and will invite attendees to explore reputable Open Educational Resources (OERs) rooted in CRP that can support ESOL educators and students to foster equity and resiliency. She will also share a Mini-MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that she designed and piloted as her culminating project of an Open Learning course, and which focuses on ESOL teachers' and students' mental health and self-care strategies.

Monica Rosso Tabrizi

Start

9:00 AM

End

9:45 AM

Free Online ESL Classes - USA Learns

Are you looking for free online resources to teach ESL? Tour USA Learns' five English courses (www.usalearns.org), which use engaging multimedia to teach beginning and intermediate English online. Learn to use the interactive activities to teach listening, vocabulary, grammar, spelling, pronunciation, reading, writing, speaking and life skills. Brainstorm ways to use these materials in your distance learning class. Learn to create your own USA Learns course that tracks students' progress, scores, and time.

Andrea Willis

Start

9:00 AM

End

9:45 AM

Integrating Technology into Bloom's Taxonomy in an ESL Classroom

This presentation focuses on Bloom's Taxonomy and how technology can be integrated in each level based on the students' technological skills, interests, introducing the pedagogy wheel as a tool for implementing technology in Bloom, the Criteria upon which technological tools are chosen and a sample rubric for apps selection.

Israa Osman

Start

9:00 AM

End

9:45 AM

Promoting Reconnection and Rebalance in the Online EAP Communication Classroom

This presentation demonstrates that Zoom mediated participants to socialize with new routines and norms and positively position active students to speak out. Participants will learn how to adapt on-ground to online teaching strategies through routines and norms that support collaboration and communication.

Wenhao Chen

Start

9:00 AM

End

9:45 AM

Publishing as Senior and Academic Program Administrator Leadership: Lessons Shared

Academic leadership and administers struggle to get out from behind the desk and in the field. Years pass quickly, and then the awareness of limited industry leverage/employment options arises without broadly visible academic activity. The presenter shares experiences of engaging in academic engagement and publication, while a senior program academic administrator.

Viktoriya Shevchenko

Start

9:00 AM

End

9:45 AM

Building Community with Compassion, Curiosity, and Celebration

While teaching virtually or in person, community is essential. Building and strengthening relationships in the classroom allows for a more resilient classroom community. Learn practical strategies for practicing compassion, being curious, and celebrating learners. Manage changes and challenges by developing these habits for community growth.

Kimberley Gamez

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

CATESOL Board Office Hours

Not recorded: Sit down with CATESOL board members and have your voice be heard. Perhaps you have a suggestion, a question, or a complaint. Or just stop by to say hi. All are welcome!

Start

10:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Engagement, Interactivity and Grammar! It Can Happen!

The new Modular Grammar Course Powered by Nearpod transforms a traditional grammar class by creating an engaging learner-centered experience. Through a powerful student engagement platform, learners interact with compelling grammar lessons, interactive content, classmates and more. Teachers can customize content to best meet their learners' needs. See for yourself how you can enhance students' learning experience in both face-to-face and remote setting. Bring a secondary device, such as a phone or a tablet to get the full experience.

Christina Cavage

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Exhibit Hall Open

Browse and shop for the titles and ESL materials you need all in one location. The reps are here to answer your questions and help you!

You'll find all of the Exhibitors in the Main Lobby by scrolling to the bottom of the page or using the Search bar to find who you're interested in. Also, searching for 'Exhibitor' will bring them all to the top.

Start

10:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Increasing Active Learning in One EAP Class through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

Employing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) across both in person and distance learning, teachers may bring their students' linguistic, literate and cultural backgrounds into the classroom to perpetuate and foster the active learning and encourage the students to become autonomous in the learning process.

Nevin Durmaz

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Meeting the Challenges of Remote Instruction with Stand Out Canvas Shells

Establishing clear lesson goals, a logical progression of tasks, helpful scaffolds and meaningful tasks while teaching online can be challenging. As more ESL instructors turn to learning management systems to facilitate the delivery of their course content, many are finding it difficult to bridge student 'learning' with classroom 'management.' This session will focus on how Stand Out meets the pedagogical challenges of goal-setting, learner engagement, interactivity, collaboration, and application while teaching remotely. Join Stand Out author, educator, content-developer Rob Jenkins as he discusses how these objectives are met with the Canvas shells he created specifically for Stand Out.

Andrew O'Shea

Rob Jenkins

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Preparing Future ESL/EFL Teachers: From Theory to Practice

Current thinking in ESL/EFL teacher preparation supports the notion that theory-to-practice should be a strong component of any language teacher preparation program (Jumani, 2012). In this session, three teacher educators describe MA in TESOL student projects that address the theory-to-practice gap observed in language teacher preparation around the world. Three of the projects described in this session include: 1) low-tech online modules for a community-based ESL program; 2) content-based instruction units taught by ESL teachers in sheltered high school social studies and college credit ESL classes; and 3) language tests created to place and assess the progress of ESL learners.

Ann Snow

Bahiyyih Hardacre

Lia Kamhi-Stein

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Quizlet, Kahoot, and Quizizz: What's the Difference in Classroom Use?

This presentation compares the strengths and weaknesses of the free educator versions of Quizlet, Kahoot, and Quizizz, which are engaging online games primarily used for practicing vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing. Activity ideas for online classes will be explained using the strengths of each app. Active audience participation is anticipated.

Nancy Pontius

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Remembering Gail Weinstein, A Call to Past (and Future) Storytellers

This session pays tribute to Gail Weinstein, one of our most significant practitioner-scholars on the power of learner stories in ESL teaching. 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of Gail's passing, and the 16th anniversary of a special CATESOL Journal on Learner-Centered Teaching With Accountability. Through video, testimonials, and lesson materials, we trace Gail's professional journey, from anthropology, community work, and eventually, university teacher training. Share how learner stories have 'deepened and sustained your work' (Gail's words). Learn about classroom strategies and resources for professional growth focused on keeping learner stories at the heart of our practice.

Maricel Santos

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Teaching L2 Writers Online: Engage through Fieldwork and Multimodal Writing

For the pivot to online teaching, we propose two adapted non-traditional writing assignments, a fieldwork project and a multimodal project, for use in university-level L2 writing contexts. Both projects ask students to observe community and culture, taking advantage of the affordances of digital tools to foster meaningful critical reflection while students engage in academic writing. This interactive session will use the two assignments as a springboard for a broader conversation among attendees about instructional resiliency and how we can best respond as L2 writing instructors.

Chisako Cole

Jordan Ruyle

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Teaching Online with ESL Library

ESL Library is an online subscription service for teachers used in over 10,000 schools around the world. Access ready-made lesson plans, flashcards, and resources, as well as interactive digital activities and homework. Learn how to build a flexible curriculum and teach your best class every day, whether that's online or in-person.

Lei Kayanuma

Tammy Wik

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Tech Tools to Present to and Assess Learners Simultaneously

Assessment is a crucial part of instruction. In this workshop, we focus on tech tools to present to and assess learners simultaneously to check comprehension as the lesson proceeds and strengthen understanding of the content. We will review through discussion and practice the tech tools Edpuzzle that adds assessment to video content and Poll Everywhere that can be added to PowerPoint and Google Slides. By the end of the workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of these tech tools through practice and an explanation of how to get started using these tools and create assessments right away.

Anthony Burik

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

The Impact of School Closure on ESL Students' Learning in the Pandemic

School closure resulting from the Covid-19 has enforced too many schools to transit from the typical classroom instruction to online teaching platforms. This presentation will shed light on the ESOL learners' perceptions about the unexpected change, TESOL remote pedagogy, and the potential learning loss during the school closure because of the pandemic.

Aliya Abulikemu

Iyad Alomari

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

USA Learns Citizenship - A FREE Online Course

Are you looking for free online resources to teach U.S. Citizenship? Take a tour of the USA Learns Citizenship course (www.usalearns.org), which uses engaging multimedia to teach the English skills and information needed to pass ALL parts of the citizenship test: N-400 interview practice, civics, reading, writing, and speaking. Brainstorm ways to address the most challenging aspects of teaching U.S. citizenship, and learn to create your own free online course based on USA Learns' content.

Andrea Willis

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:45 AM

Zooming Out: A Reflective Checklist to Improve Online English Instruction

Shifting educational landscapes has forced educators to quickly adapt from in-person to online classrooms while leaving little time for reflective practices. This TESL Student Forum will provide ELL educators with a digestible self-assessment checklist rooted in culturally sustaining pedagogy to promote equity and excellence in education.

Jacqueline Vega López

Samantha Jungheim

Start

10:00 AM

End

10:20 AM

Case Study of Adult Learner: BICS and CALP Dichotomous Dimensions

This study examines an adult ESL learner with high CALP, but low BICS. The dichotomy in these two aspects of language proficiency was observed to be affected by two factors: Instruction and content-specific engagements. Findings show learner's low proficiency and confidence in BICS impeding SLA, despite higher developed CALP.

Jennifer Park

Ziyue Guo

Start

10:30 AM

End

12:00 PM

Examining Unconscious Bias: The Special Role of ESL Teachers

This presentation aims to help teachers identify the unconscious biases which could be preventing them from creating a truly inclusive classroom environment. Through a series of activities and discussions, the presenters will offer tools to help pre-service teachers recognize their biases and better understand how these hidden beliefs may affect their students' learning experiences.

Abigail Sider

Kerry Fogarty

Start

10:30 AM

End

10:50 AM

Assessing Novice Language Teachers' Oral Communication: Rubric Development

Resilient teachers need to know how to effectively present information to their future students. This presentation describes a project to develop an oral communication rubric for undergraduate language teacher education courses. We explain the rubric creation process and piloting, then facilitate discussion of teaching and assessing teachers' oral communication online.

Betsy Gilliland

Cari Ryan

Dustin Crowther

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Connecting the Classroom to the World through Pictures

A discussion about a project to help students develop language recognition and writing skills by interacting with the local community through photographs and reflection. This project was designed and adapted for the virtual environment to build awareness of the ubiquitous nature of the language and grammatical structures learned in class.

Alanna Carter

Shayne Fogle

Shereen Seoudi

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Engaging Students Creatively Using Free Websites for Grammar and Writing

This teaching tip introduces Linoit and Padlet for grammar and short writing activities. The presenters share an easy setup and simple ways of engaging students in the virtual classroom. Examples, characteristics, and advantages of the websites including student collaboration and creativity in a low stress environment will be discussed.

Robb Hill

Soo Min Lee

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

English Modal Verbs, and Present Perfect, in Interactional Contexts

This poster presents modal verbs and the present perfect form in U.S. American TV and radio interviews with two or more people conversing. How do they use these structures in interaction? The results point to the benefits of the subfield of 'corpus pragmatics,' a synopsis of which is included.

Stefan Frazier

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Error Correction Before the Error: Weekly TIPS for Students

Before a semester starts, do you know which errors (vocabulary, writing, pronunciation, grammar, cultural) your students will likely make? This poster describes a way to systematically attack common errors in a 'Don't do that. Do this' way, week by week, before students make them. The presenter explains how she records a weekly asynchronous video with up to four tips (e.g. Use 'last' in a series, not 'at last'), and her students must take notes. The students are happy to learn; the teacher is happy to not see the errors. It's a win-win situation!

Nina Ito

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Five Tasks to Help EFL Students Learn English through TV Series

TV series are more than entertainment. They also offer authentic materials that tend to stimulate EFL students' interest in English language learning. This presentation will demonstrate five tasks that exploit TV materials to help EFL students develop language communication skills and foster autonomous learning.

Yuhsin Chen

Start

11:00 AM

End

11:20 AM

Getting on Top of Troublemakers In/At/On Using Corpora

This presentation explores the most commonly used idiomatic expressions formed with in, at, and on in both formal and informal contexts using corpora. Best practices for doing personalized corpus-based research will be introduced, and practical teaching ideas will also be shared and demonstrated. Active participation anticipated.

John Liang

Stephanie Wright

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Spotting Contract Cheating with Lexical and Syntactic Complexity Analysis

Examining differences between student and contracted papers, researchers used two computational tools developed by Lu (2010, 2012) that automatically identify 23 syntactic and 25 lexical complexity features. Contract cheating is defined as purchasing custom-made university assignments with the intention of submitting them for course credit (Dawson & Sutherland-Smith, 2018).

Kathleen Bailey

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Teaching U.S. Citizenship Preparation Online

No book, low tech--no problem! Learn how to use simple online resources to prepare students for their US citizenship interview.

Jennifer Gagliardi

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

TESOL Student Teachers Connecting the Personal and Professional in Times of Pandemic

This poster session highlights challenges to student teachers' abilities to integrate their cognitive, emotional, and identity development in our current moment of pandemic and social distancing. It showcases the experiences of fourteen students currently enrolled in the second-year methods course of a Master's in TESOL program at a large public university in Northern California. Drawing from a number of written, spoken, and multimedia assignments in which they are asked to reflect upon challenges, successes, and interconnections between each of the three potential growth areas (cognitive, emotional, identity), the students portray a complex and diverse picture of professional knowledge in-the-making.

David Malinowski

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Using Oscilloscopes to Help Advanced Academic EFL Students Improve Pronunciation

This presentation demonstrates an unusual technology tool that EFL teachers can use to improve pronunciation by visually demonstrating using a manual and online oscilloscope to improve pronunciation. Using an oscilloscope helps the students to visualize the different sounds and also diagnose incorrect pronunciation of phonemes and digraphs.

Holly Bogomyagkova

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Virtually Recruit, Instruct, and Retain Students in Adult Education

Thousands of adult education programs nationwide are working hard to maintain their connection with students and deliver effective virtual instruction. Join us to learn strategies to successfully attract, connect, and teach ESL students online. To ease the transition to virtual instruction, Burlington English is excited to introduce Burlington Core - a fully blended, standards-based curriculum, with ready-made lesson plans and online independent student work to reinforce instruction. Transform your classroom with Burlington Core.

Amy Goeltzenleuchter

Start

11:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Co-regulation Effect on Social Anxiety in Iranian EFL Learners' Speaking Performance

The present study set out to investigate the effect of co-regulation on social anxiety in Iranian EFL learners' speaking performance. To this end, 48 upper-intermediate adult (male and female) EFL learners were chosen. The results of the study indicated that learners' co-regulation decreased the amount of their social anxiety.

Alireza Maleki

Hossein Khodabakhshzadeh

Mahshad Sheikholeslami

Start

11:20 AM

End

11:45 PM

Exhibitor Hour

Browse and shop for the titles and ESL materials you need all in one location. The reps are here to answer your questions and help you!

Start

12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Ten Strategies for Successful Teaching During the Pandemic

During this unprecedented time of remote teaching and online learning, students and teachers struggle to adapt and find success in their teaching and learning experiences. Dr. Justin Shewell will discuss ten strategies that will guide you toward successful teaching experiences. These strategies will help you prioritize your curriculum and plan for learning in a variety of circumstances, and help you engage your learners no matter where they are.

Justin Shewell

Start

1:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

'E' is for Effective - Pronunciation Teaching, That Is

Volumes have been written about second language (L2) pronunciation pedagogy. However, relatively little has been written specifically to address effective practice in the L2 pronunciation classroom. This session summarizes existing research on effective L2 pronunciation teaching. Based on recent research findings, the presenter proposes twelve evidence-based principles for effective practice.

Donna Brinton

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Building Integrated Employment and Training Programs for ELLs in the Lake Tahoe Basin

The pandemic has made it clear that high-quality, virtual learning is now a necessity, and it has highlighted the need to address issues of access and equity, especially with chronically underserved populations. While there is a national focus on apprenticeship and other workforce development programs, they have too often left English Language Learners behind. ADVANCE (serving the southern region of the Lake Tahoe Basin in California and Nevada) is building a fully-integrated education and workforce development system from the ground up using innovative digital platforms. Discover the secret sauce that makes this multi-state program so successful.

Frank Gerdeman

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Building Our Resilience through Changing a Negative Self-Concept

An aspect of resiliency is having a positive self-view and self-efficacy, but many ESL students hold negative views about themselves and their ability to learn. This workshop provides teachers with skills to help students strengthen their resiliency and lower their affective filter by starting to change a negative self-concept.

Elizabeth Eastman

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Designing a Student-Centered, Multimodal, CRT, Task-Based Online Reading Orientation

The presenter will share an online task-based, multimodal, student-centered, high-context and engaging reading orientation that leads novice academic ESL learners to learning to read in English. It combines research on L2 reading and principles of culturally-responsive teaching in a non-text reliant environment. This approach is applicable in teaching various content.

Eliana Santana

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

From Hands-On to Digital: ELT Classroom Games after the Pandemic

The Pandemic has hit teachers hard; they had to review practices, rethink strategies and ensure students' engagement online. Going from hands-on to digital is a challenge. The Web and social media can be allies when it comes to rekindling games in a digital format. Let's explore the possibilities together!

Muriel Vanrell

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

From Paper to Pixels: Multimodality in ESL Instruction

Since multimedia has increasingly been enriching communication, instructors must consider the adaptations needed to prepare ESL students to be successful writers. Presenters seek to provide creative strategies to implement multimodal technologies in the ESL classroom. Hands-on experience with creating multimodal activities that facilitate ESL teaching and learning will be emphasized.

Dina Papachristou

Laura Razo

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

How Vocab Victor Can Help Your Students Improve their Vocabulary

Do your students need to learn more words? Of course they do! A strong vocabulary is foundational to language learning! The smartphone app Vocab Victor teaches words through a series of word games. In this presentation the game's creator will give a demo of the app and discuss the pedagogy and linguistics underlying the games. Learn how Victor adapts to the student's learning level, and how they can use advanced features like word lists to get even more out of the app! Vocab Victor talk 1 of 2!

Heidi Brumbaugh

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Making English for Academic Purposes Teaching Socially Relevant in The Online Class

This presentation will provide online teaching strategies of language learning based on an ethnographic case study of one university pre-master English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language course during the pandemic. Participants in this session will learn how to enact three promising strategies to support EAP online class more effectively.

Kathleen Ziqi Li

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Modifying Instruction So ELLs Can Access Grade-Level Text in Elementary Classrooms

This session presents an instructional procedure for teachers to follow which will allow ELLs at all proficiency levels to access grade-level text in elementary classrooms.

Lynda Franco

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Pandemic Possibilities: MA TESOL Student Teachers in the Coronavirus Era

Among the many educational disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the move to online, distanced instruction presents particular challenges for real-world experiences for TESOL students. Unable to conduct in-person classroom observations or engage in immersive classroom teaching, mentoring, and relationship-building activities, student teachers require new forms of support in order to succeed. In this session, faculty from three CSUs share their Spring 2020 experiences adapting TESOL courses to these challenging circumstances, as a starting point for a discussion on options for CSU-wide collaborations to address the teacher training needs we hold in common.

Bahiyyih Hardacre

David Malinowski

Jaydene Elvin

Stefan Frazier

Start

2:30 PM

End

3:45 PM

Raising the Bar: Introducing Challenging Text

The College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) highlight the skills gap between the reading texts and skills ESOL instructors have traditionally taught, and the texts and skills students need for work, life, and academic success. Today's ELLs need to tackle complex text in work, school, and community environments. See how Future's second edition engages students in higher order reading skills from the start. Learn about scaffolding instruction to support students in developing the skills of citing evidence, making inferences, interpreting data, and solving problems.

John Antrasian

Leo Islas

Ronna Magy

Start

2:30 PM

End

3:15 PM

Resiliency: CASAS Remote Testing and What Works for Online Learners

Documenting learning progress for adult English learners is a challenge when all students are online. Three presenters explain tried-and-true techniques for CASAS progress tests and EL Civics assessments done remotely. Could these models work for your program?

Katalin Gyurindak

Margaret Teske

Rita Van Dyke-Kao

Ryan De La Vega

Start

2:30 PM

End

3:15 PM

Self-Publishing for (Some) Fun and (Hopefully) Profit

Thanks to ebooks and print-on-demand publishers, publishing your own materials is very accessible. Learn about the publishing process from three successful self- and small scale-publishers. What can you publish, what do you need, and where will you get those things? This workshop will provide an overview of everything from developing an idea to preparing a book to formatting, to distributing, selling, and marketing, including ways to arrange for editing, book design, software, and covers.

Dorothy Zemach

Maggie Sokolik

Walton Burns

Start

2:30 PM

End

3:45 PM

Gamification as Assessment: Successful Strategies for Online Citizenship Instruction

In the development of online instructional strategies, assessment emerges as a major concern. The presenter demonstrates how gamification provides instructors with a tool to evaluate student performance, while offering an enjoyable experience for the participants. Today's session activities will enable attendees to design their own assessment games tomorrow.

Patricia Hernandez

Start

3:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Helping Students Onboard: Welcoming and Engaging Practices for Student Retention

Teaching ESL online requires additional approaches and support to encourage students to persist. The interactions of the first few weeks are crucial for students' investment in the course. The presenters will share how they start their online classes in ways that are supportive while encouraging engagement and building relationships.

Christian Vela Che

Katrina Tamura

Kristi Reyes

Start

3:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Success for All English Language Learners through Equity

The California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO) is pleased to announce a related professional development opportunity: Success for All English Language Learners through Equity. Recent events have focused the attention of our country on the need for equity and steps to eliminate racism and other biases in our society. Adult education addresses equity in some ways by its fundamental purpose, but there is more work to do. You will share a definition of equity and explore program and classroom practices that support equity for all English language learners, and then consider ways of using program data to identify equity issues. The goal is to be able to create an open and welcoming environment where students of all cultures and ethnicities get the support they need to work toward their educational goals.

Sachiko Oates

Start

3:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

The Affordances of Infographics for L2 Students' Writing Development

This research-oriented presentation focuses on the pedagogical integration of infographics as a digital tool to scaffold writing development. Substituting the first draft with an infographic assignment reduces teachers' load of responding to multiple full-text drafts and facilitates feedback that targets higher-order writing issues in the early stages of writing.

Undarmaa Maamuujav

Start

3:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Accelerating Language Development for English Learners with iLit ELL

iLit ELL, a device-based reading program, promotes 2 years or more reading growth in one year. Written with struggling ELL readers in mind, with a focus on academic language, vocabulary, writing and comprehension, iLit provides student choice of over 3,000 ebooks, translations in 47 languages, and uses culturally relevant content written for Grades 4 and up. Districts across the country have seen over 2 years growth in student reading levels, based on norm referenced reading assessments in a little as 6 months. This session will provide an overview of the iLit program.

Bonnie Bicksler

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Collaboration, Accessibility & Resiliency through Open Educational Resources

With current changes in instructional delivery, it takes resiliency to rethink and redesign curriculum for online instruction. Open Educational Resources are the answer! Attend this presentation to access and contribute to an OER project. Join a network of ESL teachers who create original materials from authentic, free sources.

Katrina Tamura

Kristi Reyes

Mariana Silva

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

How to Build a Better Financial Future, Whether You're Paid in the Summer or Not!

Jessica Lutu

Kia Perkins

Lori Guilford

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Models for Preparing Adult English Learners for the Workforce

ELs need support to realize their career goals. Integrated EL Civics (IELCE) curriculum enhances Integrated Education and Training (IET) in order to prepare learners for the workforce. Presenters describe their exemplary program models, distance learning, challenges and successes to assist participants in evaluating the models for their own program use.

Deborah Meshel

Joan Prigian

Lori Howard

Paige Endo

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Online Foreign Language Instruction in Higher Education: Lessons Learned

With the extension of online classes into the fall, higher education is assessing used practices and adjusting for the coming semester's. This session shares lessons learned and recommendations for resources, faculty training and administrative procedures provided by academic leadership and platform teachers within the culture of a transformative environment.

Kara MacDonald

Mirna Khater

Viktoriya Shevchenko

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Remote yet High-Touch: Successful Online Guided Self-Placement at Laney College

Assessment testing remains a common ESOL placement method in community colleges, despite AB 705's discouragement of its use. Laney College instead uses a high-touch guided self-placement (GSP) and recently moved it online. Learn about the technical and student-focused considerations that underpin Laney's GSP.

Elizabeth Wadell

Sean Trunk

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Revitalizing Student Voices: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in the Literacy Classroom

In an increasingly complex and diverse world, serving students requires that we do more than simply offer cultural responsiveness and inclusivity; our pedagogies must sustain, honor, and nurture the dynamic practices, voices, and literacies of culturally and linguistically diverse youth. In this session, we will examine the idea of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy-how it asks that we think about, relate to, and engage with historically marginalized youth and communities-and consider particular examples of literacy practices that advance this critical shift in praxis, and illuminate how CSP can live in the daily life of the classroom.

Alice Dominguez

Michael Domínguez

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Swimming in Uncharted Seas: Revisiting a 'Failed' Lesson

The presenter revisits a 'failed' classroom lesson delivered five years ago as part of teaching practicum. The presenter, teaching ESL to Grade Eight students in Pakistan, analyzes her own written reflections and raises four key questions. This exercise in introspection has implications for pedagogy, teacher education programs, and teacher learning.

Rabail Qayyum

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Teach Abroad with the English Language Fellow Program

Learn how you can enhance English language teaching capacity abroad through 10-month paid teaching fellowships designed by U.S. Embassies for experienced U.S. TESOL professionals. As an English Language Fellow, you can provide English language instruction, conduct teacher training, and develop resources. Hear from program staff and alumni.

Andrew Shannon

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Using Free Digital Tools to Transform Your Virtual Reading Instruction

Adapting second language reading classes to an online environment is a challenge, but also the new reality for many teachers. This presentation shares creative ways to use free digital tools to develop students' reading skills while increasing their engagement and interaction in the virtual classroom.

Celine Signorini-Bakan

Grazia Mora

Jennifer Bean

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

The Primacy of Extensive Reading and Listening: Theory, Research & Application

In my talk, I first discuss the key theories behind extensive reading (ER) and extensive listening (EL), followed by a brief review of some of the exemplary research studies that show the impact of ER and EL in language learning. In the second part of my presentation, I offer practical tips on how ER & EL can be integrated productively into our reading, listening, speaking and writing courses.

Willy Renandya

Start

5:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Celebrating 21 Years! NNLEI IG - Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

In this session, we will celebrate the 21st anniversary of our NNLEI Interest Group by sharing its past, present, and future ideas and developments. We will have Professor Lía Kamhi-Stein, founder of the NNLEI Interest Group, join us on this journey down memory lane.

Lia Kamhi-Stein

Paula Madsen

Vanessa Quezada Ayala

Zoia Palgova

Start

7:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Creating Holding Space in PreK-12

Abstract: The purpose of this rap session is to hold space for new & veteran K-12 teachers to share and discuss the following in a supportive environment: reflective questions to promote social emotional learning, what it means to be anti-racist, and tips/strategies for teaching English learners.

Erika Saito

Julie Goldman

Ondine Gage

Start

7:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

IEP Rap Session

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, IEPs (Intensive English Programs) in the United States had been experiencing a downward trend in student enrollment. Now, the situation has become more precarious. How have your fellow teachers and administrators been coping? Please join us as we share our stories, network with one another, and find the silver lining in this new age of remote instruction during a global pandemic.

Danny Tsai

Prima Gonzalez

Start

7:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Low versus High Bandwidth Online Teaching: Considering Efficiency and Equity

When teaching online, we must find a balance between interacting with our students live via Zoom and being mindful of our students' potentially limited access to high bandwidth wi-fi and a suitable computer. This workshop will offer low-bandwidth solutions for both synchronous and asynchronous modes of online teaching.

Bahiyyih Hardacre

Start

7:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Motivating Adult Learners Online

Join other Adult Ed professionals for a 'swap session' and discussion about the challenges faced in keeping adult ESL students motivated while learning online. Topics will include avoiding distractions at home, navigating new technology, and managing asynchronous learning.

Elza Hess

Roz Tolliver

Start

7:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Teaching Intercultural Communication: Lessons from our Classrooms

Teaching language offers unique opportunities to examine and understand intercultural communication in action, including questions of difference such as race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, and the body. Using an intersectional approach, the panelists discuss teaching intercultural communication by highlighting the construction and contestation of differences within and across cultures.

Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui

Gust Yep

Kelly Metz-Matthews

Rick Kappra

Start

7:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

20+ Poster Sessions

Start

7:00 AM

End

10:00 PM

Eight Technological Tools to Teach Proverbs

OkHee Ahn

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

How to Organize Short Student Presentations in a Virtual Classroom

Sylvia Henel

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Pronunciation Activities: Interactive, Meaningful and 'Zoomable'

Jade Chau Nguyen

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Resilience Against Content-Development Fatigue: FRIEDs to the Rescue

Cristin Boyd

Karen Russikoff

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Riding the Wave of Wakelet: Curate, Organize, and Share Remotely

Suzanne Bardasz

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Spice Up Your Zoom Class with Four Simple Games

Kathy Koupai

V. Angel Pablico-Kobayashi

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Teaching Word Stress with TED Ed Talks

Alyssa Kermad

Joseph Schwaller III

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Translanguaging Math Projects

April Zuniga

Perla Abeldano

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Translanguaging Science Projects

Evelyn Burgos Martinez

Ildeberto Ojeda

Paulina Cortez

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Using Fables to Teach Reading, Writing Sentences and Critical Thinking on Canvas

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:00 PM

Using Zoom and Canvas to Enhance Warm-Up Conversations

Start

7:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Action! Promote Engagement and English Skills with Student-Created Videos

Thinking about using videos in the classroom? Let students create them! This presentation shares how the use of student-created videos, both in online and in-person classrooms, enhances all four language skills, while promoting engagement and active learning. Explore ways to adapt this project to your classroom and scaffold effectively.

Grazia Mora

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Agents of Change: Fostering Students' ICC through Experiential Activities

Individuals naturally tend to fit a cultural event into predetermined social labels, which, in turn, encourages an 'Us vs Them' attitude. The session offers experiential activities to foster a broader critical perspective and build intercultural competence (ICC) to participate in diverse cultural learning contexts.

Federico Pomarici

Kara MacDonald

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Contextualizing Linguistic Input in One Physical and Online Synchronous Class

This presentation demonstrates differences in contextualizing linguistic input between physical and online synchronous classes through active learning in an EAP program. Participants will gain insights in the possibilities and constraints of a shift from in-person to online classes and adapt their teaching practices to maximize their motivation and engagement.

Minghan Sun

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Designing Activities for Academic Writing with Interactive Data-Driven Learning

In this workshop we will demonstrate how to use Interactive Data-driven Learning (iDDL), a dynamic way of integrating excerpts from learner corpora of academic writing . This workshop is addressed to teachers of students from diverse linguistic backgrounds, including heritage Spanish speakers and other multilingual students.

Aleksandra Swatek

Ashley Velázquez

Ji-young Shin

Shelley Staples

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Dynamic Assessment: A Framework for Student Engagement and Differentiated Instruction

Participants in this workshop will engage in a brief discussion on assessment of and for learning, participate in activities exemplifying the elements of Mediated Learning Experience, critique classroom techniques aiming at assessing the Learner's skills, knowledge as well as learning potential and draw their own conclusions on the applicability of Dynamic Assessment strategies and techniques in their own teaching context.

Caterina Skiniotou

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Facilitating Learning and Success with Linguistics in Middle School Content Classrooms

Although providing grade level reading materials is important for learners in the classroom, it may not be enough for culturally and linguistically diverse students. This session explores how teachers can differentiate vocabulary and provide targeted scaffolds to approach content area materials with a more critical eye toward English learners (ELs). In addition, presenters demonstrate techniques from their own math and civics courses to help facilitate comprehension, learning, and success for ELs.

Amanda Ronco

Gena Bennett

Jeff Buck

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Global Citizenship Education: Bridging the Gap between Policy and Practice

There is a need for students today to grow into a global mindset, since 2015, Global Citizenship Education (GCE) has been a hot topic in education field, particularly in South Korea where the international GCED conference is held. Despite the numerous programs in and out of school, there has been a lack of research on the effect of integrating GCE into the English-language classroom. This session seeks to demonstrate the possible benefits of integrating GCE principles into the ESL/ELL classroom, as well as explore the resources to make this a practicality for educators in any situation.

Elizabeth Norman

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Integrating Workplace Soft Skills in Online Instruction

Workers, amidst today's dramatically changing workplace, require the soft skills of adaptability/flexibility, oral and written communication, teamwork, and critical thinking to build resilience and thrive. Presenters share strategies for teaching soft skills in online and face-to-face ESL learning environments. Participants learn five activities to implement in their classrooms.

Donna Price

Ronna Magy

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Simple Steps for Creating Integrated-Skills Lessons from Authentic Texts

In adapting to the new normal of online instruction, access to and creation of online materials are key. In this presentation, you will learn about steps that will help you develop topic-based, integrated-skills lessons from authentic sources and the presenter's process for creating an Open Education Resource textbook.

Brittany Zemlick

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Students First, Always: Two Decades of Student-Centered Online TESOL Programs

Overview of the Students First, Always philosophy and how it's behind Anaheim University's online certificate, master's, and doctoral TESOL programs. Courses are taught in small classes online with residential sessions by a world-class faculty (David Nunan, Rod Ellis, Denise Murray, MaryAnn Christison, Andy Curtis, Brian Tomlinson, Hayo Reinders, and more.)

David Bracey

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Using Vocab Victor Classroom to Create Wordlists for your Students

The Vocab Victor smartphone app teaches vocabulary using fun word games. Now you can customize your students' experience by creating your own wordlists and assigning them to your students! Join this LIVE, INTERACTIVE DEMO of the NEW Vocab Victor Classroom app, which lets you create classes that students join from inside the app. Learn how to create wordlists, assign them to students, and track their progress! In order to get the most out of this presentation, please DOWNLOAD Vocab Victor (https://vocabvictor.com/download) and REGISTER an account (requires email confirmation) BEFORE the talk! Vocab Victor talk 2/2.

Heidi Brumbaugh

Start

8:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Designing Formative and Summative Assessments for EAP Courses

This session explores the design process, benefits, and challenges of implementing formative and summative assessments in integrated-skills EAP courses. Formative assessments for activities that can be difficult to assess, such as reading circles and online discussions, are coordinated with summative assessments for more traditional assignments, like essays and presentations.

Lily Lewis

Luba Hodges

Michael Beamer

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

On Being Resilient: Teacher and Student Self-Care During COVID-19

COVID-19 has affected English language teachers and learners from around the world. In this session, two EFL teachers and a US-based teacher educator describe self-care strategies they have implemented to lower their own and their students' stress. Strategies to be discussed include--but are not limited to: 1) having a routine; 2) meditating and using mindfulness techniques; 3) participating in learning communities; 4) creating opportunities for students to discuss concerns; 5) keeping classes low tech to address issues of access and equity; 6) providing a strong teacher presence. Attendees will leave the session with ideas to implement in their classes.

Lia Kamhi-Stein

Patricia Vecino

Teresa Abelaira

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Principles of Teacher Observation, Online and in Person

Teacher observation has long offered a powerful means for colleagues and administrators to learn about classrooms and foster professional development. Now that many classes are moving online, it is time we revisited the foundational principles of observation to see what adaptations must be made in order to maximize their effectiveness.

Christopher Stillwell

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Second Language Learning and Gender: An Examination of Emerging Connections

Poststructuralist feminism asks that second language learners be considered agents of their own learning. Taking that approach, this presentation will review the emerging scholarly literature related to access, motivation/desire, and agency in second language education and the ways in which those things are gendered.

Kelly Metz-Matthews

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Successful Strategies and Tools for Teaching Adults Online

A panel of adult ESL practitioners share strategies and tools appropriate for online platforms they've used or observed, focusing on the stages of a lesson and how to ensure engagement and interaction at each stage. Participants observe and experience examples of strategies and tools at different instructional levels.

Belinda Braunstein

Betsy Parrish

Donna Price

Gretchen Bitterlin

Sylvia Ramirez

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Translanguaging with Bilingual Students in Integrated ELD Classrooms

Translanguaging makes use of bi- and multilingual students' full repertoire for learning (Garcia, 2020). Bilingual middle and high school teacher candidates give examples of how they use translanguaging in their classrooms and how translanguage projects could be used in ELD classrooms.

Anita Arias

Lorena Lopez

Mirjana Radovanovic

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Use It or Lose It: Insights into Building Resiliency in Online Learning for ELLs

English Language Learners (ELLs) face significant challenges in navigating and adapting to online learning. This presentation will discuss potential strategies of how educators can further support and build resiliency among online learners who are ELLs. Findings from literature reviews, preliminary study results, and potential implications will be shared.

Kimmie Tang

Nirmla Flores

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Using an ESL App to Drive CASAS & TABE Growth

Find out how ESL instructors across the U.S. are blending the new Learning Upgrade app into their classes to achieve gains in reading, writing, and math. See how learners 'binge learn' at home using their own smartphones, and how instructors track progress and motivate learners.

Drew Robinson

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

Browse and shop for the titles and ESL materials you need all in one location. The reps are here to answer your questions and help you!

Start

10:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Exhibitor Hour

Browse and shop for the titles and ESL materials you need all in one location. The reps are here to answer your questions and help you!

Start

10:30 AM

End

11:30 AM

Art Critique in the ESL Classroom

How many times have you heard 'I like it. It's good' when students give feedback? This session will discuss how structured art analysis encourages students to support their opinions, demonstrate empathy, and distinguish evaluation from judgment. In addition, a student-created pecha kucha will be shared to demonstrate the critique process.

Prima Gonzalez

Start

10:35 AM

End

11:45 PM

Fostering Resiliency Through Teacher Collaborative Dialog

During the current coronavirus disruption, collaborative dialog allows teachers to share thoughts, beliefs, and processes about the changed nature of English language instruction, in particular due to the sudden move to the online modality. In this session, attendees will be introduced to collaborative dialog as a form of teacher growth. They will learn what steps are needed to implement a collaborative dialog among colleagues and the benefits that derive from participating in this experience. Attendees will hear a firsthand account of teacher collaborative dialog that arose out of the impact of the coronavirus on an ESL program in Southern California.

Ken Kelch

Seth Cervantes

Start

11:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

Let's Research! Writing a Library Research Paper

Diversity in writing assignments not only challenges writers but also boosts their interest in writing. This presentation will focus on teaching a library research paper to multilingual writers by using a comprehensive step-by-step process of research writing and formatting which takes students through a whole new writing experience.

Aziz Qureshi

Gina Ruggiero

Start

11:00 AM

End

11:45 PM

English Language Fellow Program: Stories from the Field

American TESOL professionals who are alumni of U.S. Department of State's English Language Fellow Program share their experiences on how they supported U.S. foreign policy by strengthening English teaching around the world. They also grew personally and professionally, had adventures, and made a difference. Come hear their stories!

Andrew Shannon

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Flip it: An Exploration on Flipping an Online ESL Classroom

Flipped instruction is popular in STEM courses, but it also fits in an ESL classroom. This presentation will explore the advantages and disadvantages of flipped instruction as well as how to incorporate it in an online classroom. The presenter will offer teachers a variety of online tools they can use such as YouTube and Quizizz.

Alexandra Sacramento

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Helping Newcomers Become Resilient: I Have, I Am, I Can

For newcomers to become resilient, schools must create 'havens of resilience' (Henderson, 2013) helping learners discover their own internal strengths, the 'I Have, I Am, I Can' Newcomers learn to draw on three strategies Presenters model lesson activities for new arrivals to develop the resilience needed to become proficient

Brenda Custodio

Judith O'Loughlin

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

How to Build a Better Financial Future, Whether You're Paid in the Summer or Not!

Jessica Lutu

Kia Perkins

Lori Guilford

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Let's Get Interactive with Dynamic Online Projects Using Google Apps

Looking for ideas to create more interactivity as your class meets or accesses coursework online? Learn several worthwhile, collaborative projects using free Google Apps to spice up synchronous or asynchronous ESL lessons. The presenter will model assignments for participants to experience live and show sample language-building extension activities from results.

Cynthia Wislofsky

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Navigating a Flexible Career and Mobile Lifestyle in TESOL

Educators who move frequently face unique challenges. Panelists will share their varied perspectives and offer a framework focusing on key competencies, growth mindset, and alternative pathways for an ever-changing career in TESOL. Participants will be invited to join the conversation, co-creating a community of educators with a mobile lifestyle.

Amy Pascucci

Anne Crutchfield

Ingrid Bairstow

Lily Lewis

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Navigating the Research Process from Design to Publication, and Everything in Between

The panel session aims to offer insight and support on the road to academic research and/or publication for anyone interested in or doing academic research and writing - MA students, PhD candidates, classroom teachers and beyond. The discussion provides a forum of support to assist authors in finding their voices for a range of purposes from traditional full-length research articles, practice-based articles, book reviews, newsletter columns, to blog posts. Think publication outside your reach? Likely the answer is No. This session is novice and experienced authors.

Kara MacDonald

Kelly Metz-Matthews

Sonia Estima

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Online Materials Development that Saves Time and Boosts Student Engagement

Are your online materials taking twice as long to prepare? This session will demonstrate how to save time and create fun, interactive classes (synchronous or asynchronous) using Padlet, a free, easy platform. Participants will practice developing materials for reading/writing, listening/speaking, grammar, and vocabulary courses. Suitable for secondary, college, and adult education.

Nicole Brun-Mercer

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Online Materials Development: Breakout Room 1

Start

11:30 AM

End

12:15 PM

Online Materials Development: Breakout Room 2

Start

11:30 AM

End

12:15 PM

Online Presence, Embodiment, and Community: Humanizing Remote Learning through Drama

How can we humanize online language learning and build community among students hesitant to participate? This presentation demonstrates drama activities that combine physical embodiment, social interaction and creativity in safe and supportive ways to facilitate online presence and enrich relationships among learners. Starting with drama exercises that can serve as warm-ups for any class, the presenters will move on to engage attendees in reader's theater, role play, and improvisation examples aimed at (1) building small group interaction skills and (2) promoting engagement with literature and academic content. Handouts provide tips for success and additional resources.

Cheryl Eccles

David Olsher

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Student-Centered Teaching of Academic Reading/Vocabulary

Validating the agency of students allows them to learn actively and responsibly. It also enhances students' motivation for reading and participating in class. This session is based on a qualitative study of using authentic and digital reading materials and integrating G Suite into classroom teaching of a student-centered academic Reading/Vocabulary course. The specific lesson plans and activities used will be shared in the presentation, and the discussion of how this approach may be adapted for different teaching contexts will be facilitated.

Neda Sahranavard

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

Teaching Online with ESL Library

Tammy Wik

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

The Art of Canvas: EL Civics as Medium

Implementing meaningful EL Civics lessons into online instruction for adult English language learners can be challenging. Come learn and discuss how the Canvas learning management system can be used to present EL Civics materials to students in authentic, creative, and engaging lessons that also comply with ADA accessibility standards.

Rita Van Dyke-Kao

Sandra Watts

Start

11:30 AM

End

11:45 PM

The Why and How of Using Multicultural Children's Literature

Developing learner literacy and cross-cultural awareness can be achieved by incorporating multicultural children's literature (MCL) in the classroom. MCL 'helps children identify with their own culture [and] exposes children to other cultures' (Coby & Lyon, 2004). To facilitate multicultural experiences, teachers can utilize students' L1 cultures to bridge understanding and develop a framework for examining other cultures. In this poster session, we present our experiences as teacher trainers in South Korea on using multiculturalism children's literature. By exploring nontraditional populations in English literature in our trainings, we observed an increase in teacher understanding of multiculturalism.

Adrienne Seo

Daniel Moonasar

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

The Output Filter or You Can't Turn Off Your Language Acquisition Device

In this presentation I explore the idea that the given optimal input, the language acquisition device will act on this input and language acquisition will take place. It will take place regardless of whether the acquirer is motivated to acquire the language or intends to acquire the language.

Belinda Braunstein

Stephen Krashen

Start

1:00 PM

End

11:45 PM

Club Membership and Second Language Acquisition

Club membership is essential in your growth and development as an educator. The same is true for language acquirers; we improve our language competence by knowing that we are part of a group and feeling accepted and welcomed in the target language group, whether with native speakers and/or non-native speakers. In this presentation we will explore this topic further and see the connection between Club Membership (CM) and SLA including accents from different perspectives in more depth.

Stephen Krashen

Nooshan Ashtari

Start

2:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Diversifying Our Graduate Student Body through an International Dual Degree Program

Learn lessons and strategies for your degree program based on one dual master's international language teacher preparation program that has attracted new pools of talented and racially and linguistically diverse students. Program design (Schneider, 2019) and international collaboration (D'Ascenzo, 2016) strategies to sustain and expand this model will be discussed.

Emmy Min

Jenifer Crawford

Robert Filback

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Educator-Centered Self-Care as an Equity and Pedagogical Issue

We teachers create classrooms focused on our students' social and emotional learning (SEL) while often neglecting our own needs, sometimes risking burnout. This workshop develops SEL frameworks for ESOL educators and proposes practical applications that center teachers' own SEL so they can provide more nurturing, equitable classrooms for their students.

Amanda Simons

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Integrating Oral Components and Collaboration in Academic Writing

This workshop will demonstrate various discussion-based activities that highlight important processes for developing academic writing for university multilingual students. Participants will engage in several of these activities by participating in simulations and reflecting on ways they could adapt and implement them with their own students.

Andreea Corona

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Methods, Materials and Motivation in an Online Pronunciation Class

Participants view a medley of media and motivating methods to enable intermediate and advanced learners to improve their pronunciation in synchronous and asynchronous distance education. Learning materials include print, and video audio files, online software, and mobile apps. Students engage in discussion forums, participate in live conferencing, and submit recordings.

Marsha Chan

Tamara Jones

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Mindfulness-Inspired Strategies for Trauma-Informed ESL Teaching

This workshop provides ready-to-use mindfulness-inspired strategies and activities for effective trauma-informed teaching of adolescents and adults with refugee and immigrant backgrounds. Our thesis is that it is challenging to get to language learning when students are impacted by PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and overcome with current stress in their lives. The workshop will provide: an overview of how trauma impacts language learning; an analysis of a resiliency scale research study performed with the presenter's class; an understanding of what mindfulness means and how mindful activities can positively impact language learning in the classroom.

Sherry MacKay

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Pandemic Pedagogy: Four Cases of Transitioning EAP Teaching from on Ground to Online

The presentation demonstrates differences between in-person and online classes and possible gaps in teaching practices during the pandemic situation. Participants will learn how classrooms struggled with the shift to online based on the four cases and acquire strategies and tools for teaching strategies EAP online during a pandemic situation.

Kathleen Ziqi Li

Minghan Sun

Nevin Durmaz

Wenhao Chen

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

The Art of Persuasion in ESL Teaching

Does your online class engage and motivate the students enough to learn under the circumstances of COVID-19? The audience will discover Conger's art of persuasion procedures in ESL teaching. Participants will leave with effective persuasion ideas and useful resources for future teaching.

Xintian Ji

Yi Lu

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

The Language of Power: Interrogating Cultural Chauvinism in TESOL

Earlier this year, a discussion on the CATESOL list-serve spawned discussion about the act of asking a student to Anglicize a non-English name. The thread from the discussion revealed, among many things, a clear need for interrogation of assumptions that may be widely held in the field of TESOL. Can the teaching of English be divorced from the imperialism and white-centeredness of the language's history? Questions raised about the maintenance and perpetuation of cultural chauvinism in TESOL will be discussed.

Leigh Anne Shaw

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Yes We Can! Transferring F2F Strategies to Remote Instruction

Our effective face-to-face (F2F) instructional strategies are readily transferable to the virtual adult ESL classroom. Presenters discuss student access to virtual instruction, demonstrate ways to provide engaging online language tasks, and model how online tools support learning. Participants explore and discuss the tasks most relevant to their virtual classrooms.

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein

Lori Howard

Sylvia Ramirez

Start

3:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Yes We Can! Workshop: Breakout 1

For attendees of the Yes We Can! workshop starting at 3:30.

Start

3:30 PM

End

4:45 PM

Yes We Can! Workshop: Breakout 2

For attendees of the Yes We Can! workshop starting at 3:30

Start

3:30 PM

End

4:45 PM

Addressing Racial Identities, Privilege, and Social Justice in ESOL

The national conversation about Black lives has finally been amplified to a level that cannot be ignored. Many ESOL practitioners are reflecting on how to approach concepts of racial identity, privilege, and social justice so that ESOL students can participate fully in this dialogue. Join this conversation on how the ESOL field can grapple with the history of white-centeredness and colonialism inherent in the English language. Panelists will address issues such as pedagogical approaches, faculty's own perspectives and identities, and faculty roles in facilitating conversations about racial identities, privilege and social justice in the classroom and in the profession.

Amanda Bent

Gerardo Pacheco Matus

Leigh Anne Shaw

Nancy Kwang Johnson

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4:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Becoming Who You Are: Using Bio Statements to Deepen Resilience

Who are you? What are your main achievements so far? What are your goals? English teachers can help English students write clear, short biographical statements; they can also clarify goals and build resilience. This presentation emphasizes helping ELLs depict a positive biographical story in multiple verb tenses. Reproducible handouts.

Eric Roth

Samantha Jungheim

Start

4:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Beginning ESL Teachers and Students Are Resilient!

We were put into the unknown suddenly and for many of us, blindly. This presentation is about Beginning ESL teachers and students. The presenter will demonstrate online tools and strategies as well as collaborate with participants with successes and challenges. We should not have to go at this alone.

Alisa Takeuchi

Start

4:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Best Ways to Teach Idioms and Slang in the Classroom!

David Burke

Start

4:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

David E. Eskey Award Presentation -- Engaging, Motivating, and Interactive: Transforming Your Online Reading Class

This presentation demonstrates how to make online reading instruction more engaging, motivating, and interactive with easy, accessible technology. Participants will learn to (1) make interactive video lectures on reading-related topics such as strategy use, (2) create collaborative spaces for reading discussions, and (3) guide students in post-reading projects (e-book creation).

Nicole Brun-Mercer

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4:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

The Battle for Inclusion: Won - but Not Over

Including a same-sex couple in an ESL textbook was not an easy battle. Now out of print, Out and About was considered 'ground-breaking' in 2004. Come hear the how and why, and discuss implications for larger issues of diversity and inclusion in our texts and materials.

Rick Kappra

Start

4:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Using Audacity to Enable Visualization and Enhance Intelligibility of Speech

Prosodic elements are difficult for students to hear and understand, and giving clear feedback on these elements of speech can also be challenging. In this presentation, you will learn ways to use Audacity, an easy-to-use, free, cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder, to enhance intelligibility. You will see how the software lets users visualize oral language. Through carefully orchestrated demonstrations, you will learn how to create pronunciation exercises on speaking rate, phrasal stress, pausing, and word stress, and how to give personalized feedback directly in a student's recording. The presenters will offer tips on file management and provide resources.

Lara Wallace

Marsha Chan

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4:30 PM

End

12:25 PM

Online Game Night Sign-up: Lie Swatter (Game Night starts at 7!)

In Lie Swatter, players are given a fact and must quickly decide if it’s True or a Lie. Get it wrong and the bug gets squashed! But get it right…and the bug also gets squashed, but you get points. Up to 100 players can drop in and out at any time, even after the game has already started. In order to play, you need two devices: a phone to use as your game controller (to choose True or Lie), and a laptop or iPad for joining in through Zoom.

How to join in? Register through ZOOM at any time at https://tinyurl.com/CATESOL2020-Game-Registration

Hosted by Belinda Braunstein. Optional donation opportunity to support the CATESOL Education Foundation provided when you register. This is a free event.

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5:00 PM

End

8:00 PM

20+ Poster Sessions

Start

7:30 AM

End

4:00 PM

Eight Technological Tools to Teach Proverbs

OkHee Ahn

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

How to Organize Short Student Presentations in a Virtual Classroom

Sylvia Henel

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Pronunciation Activities: Interactive, Meaningful and 'Zoomable'

Jade Chau Nguyen

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Resilience Against Content-Development Fatigue: FRIEDs to the Rescue

Cristin Boyd

Karen Russikoff

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Riding the Wave of Wakelet: Curate, Organize, and Share Remotely

Suzanne Bardasz

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Spice Up Your Zoom Class with Four Simple Games

Kathy Koupai

V. Angel Pablico-Kobayashi

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Teaching Word Stress with TED Ed Talks

Alyssa Kermad

Joseph Schwaller III

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Translanguaging Math Projects

April Zuniga

Perla Abeldano

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Translanguaging Science Projects

Evelyn Burgos Martinez

Ildeberto Ojeda

Paulina Cortez

Tamara Collins-Parks

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Using Fables to Teach Reading, Writing Sentences and Critical Thinking on Canvas

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

Using Zoom and Canvas to Enhance Warm-Up Conversations

Start

8:00 AM

End

4:00 PM

TESOL Affiliate Resiliency During COVID-19

TESOL Affiliate associations were affected by the pandemic as was every part of the community. Affiliates were asked to provide resources for their members from Day 1 of the pandemic. In this session the Affiliate Network Professional Council (ANPC) Chair and Incoming Chair will showcase some excellent examples of resiliency. The ANPC played a pivotal role in the support of Affiliates around the world, where it held various webinars for affiliates, but also a three-day event with more than 50 presenters. This session will also highlight all this support.

Georgios Kormpas

Jim Papple

Start

8:30 AM

End

12:00 PM

So Many Tools! Simplify and Design Fully Online ESL Lessons

Does your head spin because you are juggling too many new digital tools? Do you and your students feel like Zoom zombies? Come learn how to cherry-pick a handful of tools to design student-centered, multi-week lessons for fully online ESL courses. Experienced ESL educators who participated in the inaugural CATESOL Online Course Design Institute Summer 2020 will share effective practices for fully online oral presentation and writing 3-4 paragraph lessons. Your students will thank you for the tips you'll learn to streamline your instructional design for interactive, student-centered activities. See our Padlet of https://padlet.com/catesol/2020SummerOnlineCourseDesignInstitute.

Anagit Traganza

Bita Bookman

Ingrid Greenberg

Krystie Ritchey

Nairi Issagholian

Raina Levesque

Start

9:30 AM

End

12:00 PM

#ELTClassMakeover: Easy Generational Tricks That Work Wonders

This presentation will narrow the gap between traditional teaching practices and postCovid-19 students' learning requirements. Attendees will be led to work out ways of achieving more learning through less teaching and their concrete take-away will include ten top tips for better reaching Generation Z and Alpha students

Silvia Breiburd

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Language, Emotion and Culture in the Multilingual Family

Language communicates not only words but also emotion. But does it matter what language parents use with their children? Culture, language, and emotions impact multilingual families to a greater extent than for a monolingual family. This presentation explores the connection between culture and emotion-related language use in the multilingual family.

Alinuer Abulikemu

Aliya Abulikemu

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Out-of-School Exposure to English and Productive Lexical Proficiency

What is the role of out-of-school exposure to English in learners' abilities to make accurate and appropriate word choices? This session will bring you up to speed on this important area of research. We will report the results of our own study on a group of Iranian EFL learners and provide opportunities for you to share your strategies for encouraging students to engage with English outside of the classroom and develop their lexical proficiency.

Langdon Holmes

Sarvenaz Hatami

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Resiliency through Mindfulness: From Teachers to Students

Are you or your students experiencing stress, uncertainty, and a lack of focus in the classroom due to current global events and sudden changes in instruction? In this session, we will explore the concept of mindfulness. We will then discuss ways it can assist ESL instructors and students to improve overall well-being and foster attention, memory, and creativity. The presenter will share information relating the science of mindfulness as well as practical techniques instructors can use with themselves and their students to reduce stress and facilitate learning while navigating through current events.

Nairi Issagholian

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Responsive and Responsible Feedback Strategies in L2 Writing Classes

Are you interested in reducing your load of writing comments on your students' papers? Are you seeking alternative ways to respond and comment that are effective and efficient? In this presentation, we discuss classroom-tested, evidence-based instructor feedback strategies that focus on student autonomy, adjustment, and affective needs (AAA).

Brian Bennitt

Undarmaa Maamuujav

V. Angel Pablico-Kobayashi

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Textbook Optional

Coursebooks have long ruled the classroom, but current events demand teachers engage with students in new ways. Presenters--longtime materials writers--walk through example projects, suggest resources, and share a process for developing content-based modules that suit local contexts and promote dynamic collaboration in online environments.

Alice Savage

Colin Ward

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Transitions to Operations and Program Delivery: Resiliency across Accredited IEPs

Accredited postsecondary intensive English programs quickly shifted to make changes to the delivery of their educational programs and student services as a result of the pandemic. This presentation will provide a review of data collected from CEA's nearly 350 accredited sites regarding temporary accommodations in place to meet student needs.

Emily Vandermade

Heidi Vellenga

Start

11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

Using Images, GIFs, Emojis, and Videos for Productive Practice

Memes, TikTok, emojis, and GIFs: Communication in the 21st Century is all about visuals! Incorporating multimedia in online teaching benefits learners and can be used to prompt student production of the target language forms. Successfully-used online activities will be demonstrated and a list of resources and activities will be provided.

Christian Vela Che

Kristi Reyes

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11:00 AM

End

12:00 PM

An Autoethnography on the Impacts of My Positioned/ing Intersections

This autoethnography presents reflections of my racialized experiences and positionalities of my intersections in the U.S. Through the lens of critical race theory (CRT) and AsianCrit, this study aims to identify the racialized discriminations of Asian international students and address its implications to create more inclusive and equitable spaces.

Qinghua Liu

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12:00 PM

End

12:45 PM

Build Your Resiliency for Another Hour Online with Zoom Games!

Are you dead tired from online teaching? Need a resilience infusion? Zap your students out of zombie mood with some Zoom games! Visit this poster to learn some Zoom games that are guaranteed to re-energize you and your zombies, oops, students! Links to game videos, resources, etc.

Cristin Boyd

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Challenges of Online Teaching: Technologically Mindful Critical Teacher Reflection

Online teaching offers several ways to augment critical teacher reflection. On the one hand, online classes provide teachers with regular access to audio/video recordings of their classroom to help them critically reflect on their knowing-in-action and reflection-in-action (Schön, 1992). On the other hand, online teaching has demonstrated the need to expand the scope of this reflection by considering digital and technological equity for students from different backgrounds. This poster session presents a technologically mindful typology to support teachers in improving their critical reflective practice as it relates to creating a more equitable and inclusive online learning environment.

Matthew Dame

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Defeating Cheating in Online Education

The growing prevalence of online education increases the potential for student cheating which can result in undermining the main mission of education and discrediting the degrees earned from educational institutions. This session provides an overview of the popular ways students cheat in online courses and investigates methods of beating cheating under two main categories of cheating inhibition and cheating detection. In the end, some guidelines are provided on how to develop test items that accurately measure different language skills while making it difficult for students to cheat.

Nazila Amrahi Dizai Takieh

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Eight Ways to 'C' Resilience via Technology

This workshop's goal is to present various educational technology tools that can increase resilience in the online classroom through connectedness, curiosity, communication, control, change acceptance, clarity of focus, confidence, and creativity. The participants will get engaged in the hands-on experience and walk away with practical implications for the online classroom.

Olga Sukhanova

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Identifying Word Meanings: What Online Resources Are Students Using?

Students often use online resources to help them understand unknown words. This presentation presents the results of a research project that aimed to identify which online resources students use and their perceptions of them. This presentation also offers strategies on how to teach students on how to use online resources.

Garrett Larson

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Play to Learn: Video Games as an Effective Tool for Language Learning

This presentation will examine the most unexpected way for a learner to learn and for a teacher to teach English in our increasingly virtual world. It will address questions like the effectiveness, administration, and accessibility regarding video games, and furthermore show how they provide language-learning and cognitive benefits.

Jacqueline Vega López

Tianshi Hao

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Sparkle Students' Motivation and Engagement with Empowering Web-Based Pear Deck!

The session will introduce Pear-Deck tool that enables teachers to enhance English learning process online. The presentation demonstrates how this interactive web-based tool encourages students and boosts their engagement during the lessons. The presentation provides examples of interactive language activities for EFL instructors and highlights teacher benefits of using Pear Deck in EFL online classrooms.

Kateryna Lysenko

Viktoriia Lipska

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Teaching Cultural Schemas for Academic Purposes

For academic reading, L2 students need to have higher L2 proficiency as well as understand other cultural schema factors. Therefore, this presentation will explore what cultural schemas are, influences on L2 academic reading, how teachers can apply bottom up and top down approaches, and how effectively teachers can support L2 learners.

Haejin Kim

Start

12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Understanding Digital Equity, Inclusion, and Literacy

COVID-19 has shone a white hot spotlight on a host of digital divide issues in the rapid transition from face-to-face to distance learning, issues that were present before COVID-19 and threaten to persist into the future. This poster session is an introduction to digital equity, digital inclusion, and digital literacy to better understand what these terms encompass and resources to be aware of in each of these areas, with the goal of understanding how we can begin addressing digital divide issues locally for the benefit of students, staff, and communities.

Anthony Burik

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12:00 PM

End

1:00 PM

Advocating for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Critical Race Theory and Praxis

Dr. Nancy Kwang Johnson, CATESOL Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Taskforce Chair, assembled this panel to inspire a participatory culture throughout CATESOL. Panelists explore intersections between Critical Race Theory, English language teaching and learning. From an advocacy perspective, language learners are disempowered linguistic, cultural, and racial minorities. Judith models an interactive/reflective Advocacy Roadmap resolving advocacy/equity issues. Sydney defines linguistic equity and how faculty can ensure equitable access. Jenifer explains strategies for building racial justice into a TESOL masters' program, a four-year equity initiative. Erika describes transformative social and emotional learning that supports ethnic-racial identity development.

Erika Saito

Jenifer Crawford

Judith O'Loughlin

Nancy Kwang Johnson

Sydney Rice

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12:30 PM

End

12:00 PM

Building Resiliency through COIL Communities of Practice

This presentation will showcase the work of an interdisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) at CSU, Monterey Bay, which focused on the potential of integrating Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning (COIL) activities within established curricular Learning Outcomes (LO). Given little curricular space for new courses, our goal was to employ COIL as an activity within existing courses, which provided an opportunity to apply curricular learning outcomes, which build intercultural communication. This presentation will demonstrate our process for project design.

Ondine Gage

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12:30 PM

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12:00 PM

Differentiated Instruction for Diversity and Inclusion in ESL Learners

Differentiated instruction has been defined as 'a continuous decision-making process where teachers look and listen for academic diversity that will either strengthen or impede effective and efficient learning. Then teacher adjusts instruction to increase Clarity, Access, Rigor and Relevance for all students within a learning community.' (Bondie, R, Zusho, A, 2019) This presentation focuses on ways to apply and practice differentiated instruction in ESL classes. Participants will be given a brief overview of the differentiated learning strategy and an insight into various techniques to help motivate and engage learners and apply differentiated instruction easily in their day today teaching.

Rana Khan

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12:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Exploring Identity Enactment of Multilingual Students in Computer Science

This presentation shares an intervention in which a yearlong computer science curriculum, designed to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students, was introduced to seven classrooms serving predominantly Latinx, multilingual students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds. Using a mixed-methods design, this presentation will provide empirical findings on how multilingual students envision themselves in the field of computer science and the factors that contribute to meaningful participation.

Sharin Jacob

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12:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Mining Tools to Minimize Tech Overload: Zoom, Canvas, Google Drive

The presenters argue that it is preferable to rely on fewer tools that students can become comfortable with rather than overwhelming students with a plethora of logins, URLs, and applications. Many students' affective filters can be lowered by using familiar resources such as Zoom, Canvas, and Google Drive. These programs can be mined to create a surprising variety of deeply engaging activities for both synchronous and asynchronous instruction. This presentation will demonstrate how a teacher can take advantage of all of the extensive features of these three technologies to plan interactive grammar activities that can transform the online classroom.

Krystal Suh

Savyonne Steindler

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12:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

Reflective Writing in Statement of Purpose for Community College Students

This presentation describes a Statement of Purpose writing workshop designed for ESL community college students, which was held before the COVID-19 pandemic. Having participants reflect on their Community Service-Learning experiences, this writing workshop aims at raising their awareness toward this writing genre of academic self-promotion. A theory-based workshop framework, worksheets, and sample activities used in the workshop will be shared, and feedback from workshop attendees and their writing samples will also be described to discuss the effectiveness of the workshop. Presentation attendees will share their concerns and issues as well as discussing adaptability of the workshop framework and activities.

Satomi Abe

Start

12:30 PM

End

11:45 PM

CATESOL Business Meeting

CATESOL is a member funded and member run organization, and all members are invited to attend and participate. The meeting will include updates and reports from the 2019-202 board members and installation of newly elected board members for 2020-2021.

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3:00 PM

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4:00 PM

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