Resource Description: This presentation reports on findings from a study that investigated five ESL undergraduates’ concerns with plagiarism as they engaged in sourcebased writing assignments. Findings revealed that students struggled with both discipline-specific paraphrasing and a lack of clarity in assignment guidelines. Implications for source-based writing assignments are discussed.

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Resource Description: The presenters (1) report on a poetic inquiry about a Korean-American scholar’s experiences from early childhood to K–12; (2) share her Sijo, Korean poetry, and the translanguaged dialogue for the poems; (3) highlight the possibility of teaching translingual poetry in classrooms. The session concludes by introducing a Sijo instructional unit.

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Resource Description: Students with limited or interrupted formal education struggle greatly in school, making culturally responsive teaching essential. This requires that educators develop deep awareness of their own and their students’ culturally derived learning priorities. The presenter examines key contrasting priorities and presents a culturally responsive instructional approach to promote learning.

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Resource Description: The act of plagiarizing can destroy the student-teacher bond of trust. How can this perennial problem be permanently solved? The answer lies in four simple steps. This interactive session guides participants through a humanistic, useful, and effective process that guarantees to reduce plagiarism and cheating in the ELL classroom.

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Resource Description: The TESOL 2017 draft standards include an objective to prepare future ESL/ELL educators as Resource Teachers. This interactive session will share the knowledge and skill sets needed by ESL/ELL Resource Teachers based upon surveys and interviews. Participants develop their abilities to meet the standard and needs of TESOL students.

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Resource Description: From the elimination of Spanish websites to California’s passage of Proposition 58, the United States has come to a critical crossroads in language education. Drawing on the NIDALS sociocultural framework and semiotic data visualization of Twitter use, the presenter examines the challenges and possibilities for language learning and policy in the age of Trump.

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Resource Description: Explore The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners: Grades K–12, a new book from TESOL Press that describes effective instructional and assessment practices and optimal conditions for L2 learning. Join the writing team for an overview of these six core principles and their applications for Grades K–12.

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Resource Description: Want to write a book? Move your idea from proposal to publication with TESOL Press. Learn tips and tricks from experienced authors as they share their publishing stories. Get advice and consultation in this workshop-style session, and take advantage of the rare opportunity to receive one-on-one feedback from TESOL Press representatives.

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Resource Description: This colloquium addresses the role of research in shaping educational policies related to English learners. More specifically, panelists share their perspectives on how research impacts the decision making processes of both macro-level policymakers and micro-level educators and provide examples and suggestions of how researchers can be more involved in language policy and planning for English learners.

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Resource Description: Materials writers have much to learn—not just a publisher’s intent with each project but, (especially with EAP or ESP), the arcana of many pursuits. But unlearning is necessary too, lest books be dull and error persist.

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Resource Description: Secondary ELLs often struggle with reading and writing. Drawing on students’ home languages and cultures helps students build literacy and affirms their identities. The presenters demonstrate ways secondary teachers can use translanguaging strategies, including cultural graffiti boards, cultural Venn diagrams, bilingual texts, and I Am From poems to motivate students.

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Resource Description: Using artificial intelligence in English language teaching and learning is the future of TESOL. This session, jointly presented by experts in artificial intelligence and TESOL, shares the results of a longitudinal study among 14 million students in 13,000 schools in China. Technological guidance and pedagogical suggestions are discussed.

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Resource Description: Have you ever felt as if the activities in listening textbooks include only listening tests with little guidance on teaching students how to listen? This session is for anyone interested in improving students’ listening comprehension. Learn the listening process, listening activities, and pronunciation activities surprisingly useful for listening comprehension.

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Resource Description: What makes a person look up a word? Looking up a word in the dictionary is an intimate act for each of us, but the words looked up by millions of users tell a surprising story about English. Online searches of words show the intersection of vocabulary and culture.

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