Resource Description: Today, images of migrants seem to be everywhere, but how can we create a climate where our students can tell their own stories? In this session, participants explore a framework and strategies that will encourage students to recognize their own power as civic actors within the public conversation around immigration.

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Resource Description: Are you interested in gaining more insight into giving oral corrective feedback? This study reveals different kinds of oral corrective feedback that students like and dislike. After the session, attendees can take home a tool to determine types of feedback that best suit their students’ preferences.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: This session presents the results of an investigation into the various discourse practices of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. The presenters discuss the impact of social media on TESOL and the issues and challenges it presents, including the way it complicates the accepted expectations of the English classroom.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Language teachers’ associations (LTAs) provide important platforms for engaging in and sustaining dialogue across the TESOL community. However, a vexed question remains unanswered: Are LTAs successful in facilitating and sustaining such dialogue? This moderated dialogue attempts to answer this question by highlighting the experiences of LTAs from around the globe.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Imagine a side hustle that not only provides extra income, but also allows language teachers to develop professionally by learning basic marketing skills and interacting digitally with students worldwide. This presentation describes three side hustles enabling teachers to earn money while continuing to do what they love and developing professionally.

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Resource Description: This presentation explores feasibility and efficacy of using corpus linguistic tools for instructed L2 writing. Specifically, the study aimed to gain insight into learners’ corpus-assisted error correction in written production, and the results provide implications regarding error types that are most compatible with the use of corpus tools.

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Resource Description: This presentation covers several different tips and tricks from the 50 Ways to Teach series by Wayzgoose Press, including teaching reading; teaching with technology; teaching online; and teaching grammar, reading, speaking, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Join us to learn how to improve your teaching and have a little fun along the way.

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Resource Description: The presenters provide research data and results from a corpus of synchronous telecollaborative interactions in English and other languages between secondary school students from five European countries. They posit that a task-based approach provides for student-centred exchanges and show that this, in turn, leads to more autonomous and meaningful interactions.

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Resource Description: This presentation reports on findings from a study comparing two approaches in a university EAP program: monolingual and plurilingual. Results suggest that, compared to a monolingual approach, a plurilingual approach offers several benefits, such as enhancement of plurilingual and pluricultural competence, agency, and motivation. Implications for teacher training are discussed.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Second language (L2) pronunciation, once a language teaching mainstay, had a long Cinderella crisis in which its role in TESOL and foreign language teaching was relegated to the sidelines. This presentation describes changes promising a bright future both in influencing language teaching and in increasing integration into the language teaching mainstream.

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Resource Description: This research-oriented session recognizes the value of teacher narrative inquiry in fostering teacher agency and teacher/teaching expertise. The presenters argue for the attention to the pivotal role that expert mediation, by skilled teacher educators acting intentionally and systematically, also plays in supporting teacher professional development through narrative inquiry.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: How do we know that professional development (PD), an integral aspect of TESOL’s mission and activities, impacts teacher and student learning? In this session, TESOL’s Professional Development and Research Professional Councils bring together researchers, practitioners, and PD providers to share their perspectives on this critical question.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: TESOL International Association led a strategic conversation with respected and innovative thought leaders from a variety of international context regarding the future of the TESOL Profession. In the coming months, TESOL will release a Call to Action with 5 strategic priorities and multiple recommendations for action. This session not only summarizes our process, but what happens next.

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Resource Description: This session provides guidelines for incorporating extensive reading into existing intensive reading classes drawn from the findings of the presenter’s research, which investigated the effects of extensive reading in a Korean EFL university setting. The presenter shares instructional techniques and insightful tips for promoting extensive reading.

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Resource Description: How can L2 writing teachers design curricula, courses, and assignments that best support multilingual students writing across and within the disciplines? The presenters discuss possibilities from a variety of perspectives, including interviews with students and faculty, corpus-based and genre models, and their own experience with materials and course design.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions