Jeonju-North Jeolla

North Jeolla — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:48:36 +0900

Welcome to the Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter of KOTESOL

KOTESOL aims to provide professional development opportunities for teachers of English as a foreign or second language in Korea. The Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter meets at various times during the year.

Click here for our calendar of upcoming events.

Upcoming Meetings:

September 18th, 2:30pm

Investigations into Language & Culture: ‘Over the Rainbow’ YouTube Lesson

Gwen Atkinson, Soongsil University

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Goal-setting: how to get students to want to work
Kristin Dalby, Jeonju University
(Free entry for all)
This workshop will be held at Geun Young High School
Directions

Investigations into Language & Culture: ‘Over the Rainbow’ YouTube Lesson: For a wide range of learner ages and levels. This is a walk-through demo lesson showing how I've been using song, lyrics and YouTube video for investigations into language and culture. I will use Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World and Judy Garland’s original Wizard of Oz version of Over the Rainbow.

The aim is to help learners notice the fundamental patterns of English and encourage using the English they already know, in combination with listening, enjoyment and an exploratory, not-speed-driven, not-transmission-driven approach. The demo lesson is backed by theory, including text-based and content-based teaching, Extensive Reading principles as applied to other text types, language as a social activity, and corpora linguistics for teachers. Corpora data shows that song lyrics often share commonalities with spoken English, making them ideal texts for many language classrooms. Two of my MA courses influenced the development of this material: Language Analysis with Scott Thornbury and Materials Development with Steve Cornwell & Deryn Verity.

This is not a death-by-power-point presentation. The material is fun, useful and applicable across many teaching situations.

Gwen Atkinson is from the U.S. and has been living in Seoul for six years. She earned a Master’s in TESOL (curriculum development concentration), with an award of outstanding achievement, from The New School, and currently teaches at Soongsil University in Seoul. She has been KoTESOL Seoul Chapter Hospitality Chair. In her free time she writes and is a (somewhat lazy) yoga student. She is also interested in materials development informed by corpora linguistics and extensive reading principles.

Goal-setting: how to get students to want to work: How many times have you walked into your classroom a few minutes early, only to find your students copying their (workbook) homework from each other? Are they really getting anything from this homework? Is it worth the (often limited) class time to go through it? Instead of traditional teacher-directed homework, why not encourage students to do self-directed homework? This can be done by helping students set SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timed) goals for themselves. Although learners often need some training in how to make SMART goals, once they understand the technique there is little stopping them from setting personal, meaningful goals that they will want to work towards achieving outside the classroom. To assist the less motivated learners, requiring students to show you an agreed upon form of 'proof' that they are indeed working towards their goals can be helpful. This workshop will be a practical guide to assisting your students in making SMART goals, and monitoring their progress towards achieving them. The benefit to your class will be happier, better-motivated students who are actually spending time outside the class working on English language learning, instead of copying their friend's workbook pages.

Kristin Dalby holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Leicester in the UK. She has been teaching English since the summer of 2000 and has taught in Korea, New Zealand and the Czech Republic in a variety of contexts including business English, general English, EAP, FCE, CAE and IELTS. She has been a head teacher as well as a teacher trainer. Her professional interests include motivating students in mandatory classes, curriculum development, syllabus design and teaching spoken English. She currently teaches at Jeonju University and is available on email at kristin_dalby@yahoo.com.

Join us for an optional dinner after the meeting

November 13th, 2:30pm

The National Drama Festival

Come and see a variety of dramatic performances by teams from across the nation. More details here.

Contact Shawn DeLong for more details. Email. Call 010-9223-0730

Join us for an optional dinner after the meeting.

Previous Meetings:

June 19th, 2010. 'School's out for summer' social

May 29th, 2010. Jeonju-North Jeolla Regional Conference

April 24th, 2010. Gunsan Outreach

March 20th, 2010. Swapshop and Chapter Executive Meeting

February 20th, 2010. Chapter Executive Meeting.

What happened at the annual Leadership Retreat.

Click here for our 2009 Calendar

For our final meeting of the year on December 12th, we featured local speaker, Nancy Jo Marcet. We also held elections for 2010 and went out for dinner together. For more details and photos, click here.

On November 14th, we once again held a National Drama Festival. Click here for more details.

On October 24th-25th, the annual KOTESOL International Conference was held in Seoul. There was no local meeting.

On September 12th, we had a workshop by our very own Tim Dalby. 'I hate my coursebook!' was for any teacher who uses a coursebook and wants to learn how to get more from it. Click here for photos and a link to the presentation.

On June 13th, we had a presentation by Dr. Andrew Finch, a KOTESOL Teacher Trainer (KTT). The presentation was on Classroom-Based Assessment. Also joining us was Marla Wolfe to talk about Connecting with Students. For more details and links, click here.

On May 16th, we organised a bus to the KOTESOL National Conference. A fun time was had by all. Click here for some photos.

On April 11th, we were joined by Phil Owen, Immediate Past President of KOTESOL, and Jess Semararo of Jeonbuk National University. Phil's presentation was entitled, "Student-Made Videos: a Report of Successes and Problems from a Real Classroom". Jess presented a short activity for increasing adjective use. For more details, click here.

At our first meeting of 2009, on March 14th, we held a swap shop event. About 30 people came and shared their teaching ideas. For more details click here.

Our last meeting of 2008 was held on December 13th and some photos of the workshop and the dinner can be seen here. During this meeting we elected our executive officers for 2009. If you are interested in being more active in local professional development events, please contact Shawn DeLong on 010-9223-0730 or email. Click here for a list of possible roles that you could undertake.

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