The 2010 Schedule for the Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter of KOTESOL
| February 20th, 10:00am | Jeonju-North Jeolla Executive Meeting (All Welcome) Main items for discussion: The 2010 Budget and the May 29th Regional Conference. |
| March 20th, 3:00pm | Teaching Swapshop (Free entry for all) Bring your teaching ideas and share them with the group. Walk away with a whole host of new ideas to use with your classes the following week (and beyond). If you don't have anything to share, come along anyway, there will be plenty of ideas to go around. Join us for an optional dinner after the meeting. |
| April 24th, 3:00pm | Gunsan Outreach (Free entry for all) An 'Outreach' is when we have a workshop or presentation outside our main meeting city of Jeonju. This session will be in Gunsan and will feature KTT presenter Tory Thorkelson and local presenter Ingrid Zwaal. We will be offering free transport options from Jeonju if you would like to attend. |
| May 29th, 11.30am |
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| May 30th, 3:00pm | KOTESOL National Council Meeting (All Welcome) Come along and find out what is happening at the National level of KOTESOL. All are welcome to attend and address the Council. However, only National Council members may vote on decisions. |
| June 19th 3:00pm | 'School's out for summer' social Bring your friends and family and a plate of food to share. We will provide a BBQ. More details here. |
| July-August | Summer Break |
| September 18th, 2:30pm |
Gwen Atkinson, Soongsil University AND 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 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 |
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. |
| November 20th, 2:30pm | The Need for Feedback in Writing Assignments (Free entry for all) Brian Heldenbrand, Jeonju University Students need feedback. Are we as teachers offering them enough feedback regarding their development? Truly, feedback has come to be a vital element in Korean writing classrooms. Whether the feedback received is verbal or written, students are eager to understand how they can improve their English skills in writing. This presentation will look at the importance of feedback in learning and share some practical ways for how teachers can provide feedback on student writing assignments. Also, the presentation will discuss the benefits of providing positive written comments on writing assignments compared to simply offering basic guidance in error correction. Brian Heldenbrand teaches English in the Department of Liberal Arts in Jeonju University. Brian received his MA in TESOL from Saint Michael’s College and has resided in Korea for almost 20 years. He has been active in KOTESOL since coming to teach English in Korea in 1992 and has held various positions on the local and national levels. Brian is becoming highly interested in bilingual education as he watches his seven-year-old son, Malachi, develop in his Korean ability. Join us for an optional dinner after the meeting. |
| December 18th, 2.30pm |
and Chapter Elections (Free entry for all) Rob Dickey Keimyung University A successful English camp is based on a number of key elements. Naturally, there has to be good management, excellent teachers and support staff, and willing students. Much of this comes down to planning sufficiently, executing well, and reviewing what’s been done to improve the remainder of the camp as well as future camps. The primary focus of this session will be the teacher’s role in the camp. Here we include both day-camps and residential camps, whether located within traditional educational facilities (commonly, university campuses and urban hagwons) or at dedicated venues (“English villages”). Issues such as materials selection/development, activities, and instructional policies will be discussed at length, with samples from various camps and contributions from attendees an important part of the workshop. Join us for our annual, end-of-year Christmas dinner after the meeting. |
Investigations into Language & Culture:
The National Drama Festival
Successful English Camps