Resource Description: Classroom-based events co-created with students, colleagues, and families can powerfully strengthen students’ learning outcomes and family-school partnerships. Participants interactively explore, see the rationale, and be guided in creating events for social purposes, making learning transparent, drawing on the rich resources of families, and building a home-school culture of learning.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: This presentation reports on findings from an investigation into the support that teachers require for them to develop their research literacy. It highlights the views of teacher educators, teacher association leaders, and academics working in a broad range of international contexts. Implications and recommendations for those supporting teacher-researchers are discussed.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: An IELP instructor shares how he incorporates Kolb’s experiential learning theory and Kuh’s high impact educational practices to integrate offcampus trips, service learning, student learning assistantships, intensive written work, team teaching, and student-faculty collaboration to create an enriched learning environment that leaves a lasting memory.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: How can we prepare English language teachers to face the challenges of the 21st-century classroom? Drawing on World Learning’s face-to-face, blended, and online teacher education programs, participants look at effective ways of helping teachers develop knowledge and skills they will need in the digital age.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Many colleges and universities in the United States are incorporating globalization efforts into their strategic plans. In this dialogue session, participants share their organizations’ internationalization initiatives as well as any contributions their English language programs have made to help raise the intercultural competence of their greater educational community.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: This presentation highlights the need for language assessments that measure the ability to use language and curriculum designed to fit these assessments (i.e., reverse design). Recently developed assessments and courses from the University of Chicago will be used to demonstrate examples of putting theory into practice.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: There is a gap in employment-related materials specifically for teaching literacy-level adult ESL learners. This presentation describes the development of a curriculum created to fill this gap focusing on contextualized lessons that target two specific skills: filling out a job application and answering questions in a job interview.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Interactive graded readers with multiple story paths encourage ELLs to build reading fluency through motivating situations wherein they make choices while rereading passages in pursuit of alternative endings. This session guides participants in developing and implementing these readers through exploration of a pilot project in Timor-Leste.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Based on teaching observation data from 21 EFL countries, some teacher practices occur with alarming regularity—practices that are counter to the fundamentals of good EFL teaching. Consequently, returns on time invested are low. Participants learn seven ways avoid these pitfalls and establish a sound foundation for EFL teaching.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: The changes our world has seen since TESOL’s 2014 Research Agenda have created daunting yet exciting challenges for the profession. How has the agenda served us? What’s missing? A panel of leading TESOL scholars and mini-grant awardees share insights, challenges and invitations for input on the 2019 TESOL Research Agenda.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: This presentation reports on the design and implementation of “high challenge/high support” units of study developed for Chicago Public Schools. The work prepares ELs to be community, college, and career ready while growing their autonomy, voice, and agency. Guidelines for the construction of well-supported, stimulating lessons are offered.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Internationalization is a strategic goal for many universities. The presenters describe a campus-wide Global Classroom initiative to support university faculty teaching international students. The project team includes collaborators from the IEP, academic departments, and teaching/learning and technology centers who developed a faculty survey, workshops, centralized teaching resources, and peer consulting.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: This session investigates the individual factors involved in variable L2 learning experience of two Bangladeshi EFL learners currently living in the U.S. Based on two structured interviews, this presentation studies their L2 learning history to compare the varying individual factors affecting their levels of L2 attainment in English.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Though the new 2017 CEFR calls for a shift in language teaching suggesting the inclusion of plurilingual and pluricultural competence in TESOL, practical application is still a challenge. This practice-oriented session invites participants to explore tasks that have proven to be effective by ESL/EAP teachers (N=7) in a Canadian university.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions

Resource Description: Author-illustrator Anne Sibley O’Brien shares her award-winning book about three immigrant children, I’m New Here, followed by a review of recent, recommended fiction titles—picture book through young adult—about contemporary immigrants, and how books can be used to support new arrival students and their mainstream classmates.

Resource Type: Convention General Sessions