Resource Description: Facilitator: Emily Simnitt, University of Oregon
Presenters: Sarah Snyder, Arizona State University; Eunjeong Lee, California State University Monterey Bay; Justin G. Whitney; The University of Utah; and Titcha Kerdsri Ho, State University of New York at Albany

Resource Type: Teaching Tips

Resource Description: It’s important for educators to view English language learners’ cultural differences as “funds of knowledge.” Here, Rossier professors Ferrario and Moore offer three key strategies for reaching ELLs in the classroom.

Resource Type: Teaching Tips

Resource Description: Teaching EFL can be challenging when student engagement is lacking due to high teacher talk, scripted curriculum, or lack of interest. Fortunately, cooperative learning structures give students the engagement they desire while making the classroom student-centered and exciting. 

Resource Type: Teaching Tips

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Kagan cooperative learning can give you better management, engagement and stronger students who are confident in speaking, writing, listening and reading in English. I have used it with primary, secondary and adult learners and have found that it consistently supports students academic achievement as well as social emotional learning. 

Resource Type: Teaching Tips

Resource Description: A diverse panel of TESOL experts, Peter Sakura, Judy Sharkey, Carolyn Lethaby, and Raichle Farrelly, will share international and US-based research and practice to address the integration of social justice topics into pre-service and in-service teacher education. Topics include community-based pedagogies, social justice during the pre-service practicum experience, infusing social justice in teacher preparation for interrupted formal education and refugee-background students, and dispelling gender myths during teacher preparation.

Resource Type: Virtual Seminars

Resource Description: Students are required to read and act out a Chinese history story “Kong Rong Gave Away Bigger Pears”. They are able to learn sharing is a joy from this story. What is more, they are required to figure out the usage of to-infinitive as subject in some simple sentences. They will also make some sentences with to-infinitive as subject through a small game and a story re-telling activity.

Resource Type: Lesson Plans

Resource Description: Knowing when to use the Past Perfect tense instead of Past Simple in a narrative can be confusing for students. This video shows a nice trick to ​getting it right.

Resource Type: Teaching Tips

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This resource is meant to enable teachers to give a 50 minutes session on effective presentation skills for ESL students using cloud voting systems and audio response systems.

The students will work in groups later to create a group presentation and present together.

Resource Type: Lesson Plans

Resource Description: YouTube video describing a lesson plan for future tense.

Resource Type: Lesson Plans

Resource Description: An online interactive video-based lesson uploaded to TEDEd platform.

Resource Type: Lesson Plans

Resource Description: Learners of Chicagoland English confront a set of vowels called the Northern Cities Chain Shift. This shift rotates the positions of vowel pronunciation. Questions remain as to how and when this started and whether the change has stabilized. Based on speakers born between 1875 and 1990, the presenters address these questions.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Increases in anti-immigrant rhetoric necessitate that L2 teachers engage in the methodology of critical pedagogy and multicultural education. This session offers secondary and adult instructors a model for designing pedagogical language tasks which build to a target task that offers students an opportunity to impact their situation of oppression.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: ESL/EFL teachers understand the importance of including culture in the classroom. However, we often lack strategies and ideas to integrate and highlight the deep structures of culture, such as diverse values, beliefs, and ways of thinking and knowing. In this presentation, explore strategies to more fully enact culturally responsive teaching.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: This presentation reports an interview-based study of Chinese Englishlanguage teachers’ knowledge, attitudes, and professional experience concerning plagiarism. Its findings underscore the need to equip EFL teachers with the understanding and stance that enable them to foster legitimate textual borrowing practice and socialize their students into the norms of intertextuality.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

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.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions