May 21, 2011 Yongin-Gyeonggi Chapter Meeting
   (Shallom Kwan, Room 202: 샬롬관 202호) (click here for directions to venue)

Presentation Title: Spring into Action:  Motivating and Managing the Second Language Classroom

This workshop teaches you how to spring into action!! Change your class to the class you deserve. Bring an open-mind. Get rid of negative thinking and habitual negative teaching habits. You will walk away from this workshop with new ideas you can immediately put into use in your classroom.

In line with reflective teaching, humanistic psychology, and a holistic teaching approach, the presenter focuses on improving your classroom through the understanding of student's individual needs, emotions, and feelings. Theories regarding the important role of affect in learning are prevalent. The workshop uses research ideas and quotes from the likes of Maslow, Krashen, Stevick, Gardner, Young, and Price, as well as the speaker's teaching and teacher training experiences.

About the Presenter

Ralph Cousins, is in the Department of Tourism Event Management at Pai Chai University in Daejeon. For the past 15 years, in the field of English teaching, he has done TESOL Certification instruction, editing, writing, corporate Business English, and teacher training. He has extensive experience in teaching and teacher training in all grade levels from kindergarten to university. Aside from English teaching, he has held various positions in the tourism industry for 24 years. In Korea, he specializes in festival and event management and is a leisure tourism consultant for a global firm. His Master degrees are in English and Convention and Event Management.

April 16, 2011 Yongin-Gyeonggi Chapter Meeting

Presentation Title: Strategies for Motivating Literacy and Learning

In the book titled Content Literacy for Today’s Adolescents, Brozo and Simpsondiscuss some strategies which both motivate our students and improve their literacy. In this presentation, I will briefly outline these strategies, provide some examples, and then go into more detail on a couple of the strategies that have been particularly effective for me. Participants will then be grouped and brainstorm about some possible activities using these strategies that can be used in their contexts.

About the Presenter

John Steele (MS Language Education, Indiana University) has been living in working in Korea for nearly a decade. He has worked in a variety of situations, including language academies, public schools, and universities. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Chung-ang University in Seoul, where he teaches classes such as Interview Skills and Academic Writing. His research interests include student motivation, task based learning, CALL, and second language acquisition. Contact information: steele@cau.ac.kr.