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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome 4

TESOL 2021 at a Glance 4

About TESOL 4

Keynote Speakers 5

How to Use This Book . 8

Concurrent Session Descriptions 9

Thursday, 25 March 2021 9

Friday, 26 March 2021 20

Saturday, 27 March 2021 . 35

On-Demand Session Descriptions 46

Sponsors . 81

Exhibitors 82

Exhibitor Session Descriptions...........................................................................................................................................83

Thursday, 25 March 2021 83

Friday, 26 March 2021 86

Saturday, 27 March 2021 89

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 WELCOME

All listed times are in U.S. Eastern Time.

To find the time in your time zone, please click on the time link listed

8:00 am - 12:00 pm Preconvention Institutes*

9:00 am - 5:00 pm Graduate Student Forum*
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Preconvention Institutes*
This week, 8000+ English language 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm SWEL Workshop*
professionals will gather virtually through our
engaging online platform to share expertise and 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Preconvention Institutes*
forge relationships across geographical and
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Preconvention Institutes*
cultural boundaries. Whether this is your first
Convention or your 50th, welcome! Thank you Opening Keynote: Clint Smith
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
**This presentation will not be recorded.**
for bringing your enthusiasm, knowledge, and
experiences to this, our annual reunion.
6:00 am - 8:00 am Concurrent Sessions
James E. Alatis Plenary: Glenn Singleton
8:00 am - 9:00 am
**This presentation will not be recorded.**
9:00 am - 10:00 am Concurrent Sessions
10:00 am - 11:00 am Thursday Keynote: Cindy Mi
For more than 50 years, TESOL International 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Dedicated Expo Time
Association has been bringing together
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Town Meeting
educators, researchers, administrators, and
students to advance the profession of teaching 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
English to speakers of other languages. Interest Section Open Meetings:
Intercultural Communication
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm International Teaching Assistants
With nearly 12,000 members in close to 150 "Nonnative" English Speaker Teachers
countries, and more than 110 affiliate Refugee Concerns
associations worldwide, TESOL offers everyone
involved in English language teaching and
Friday Keynote: Janet Zadina
learning an opportunity to be part of a dynamic 8:00 am - 9:00 am
**This presentation will not be recorded.**
community where professionals connect with 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
and inspire each other to achieve the highest
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Dedicated Expo Time
standards of excellence.
Interest Section Open Meetings:
Bilingual-Multilingual Education
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm English as a Foreign Language
Higher Education
Program Administration
3:00 pm- 7:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Join the conversation! Interest Section Open Meetings:
Applied Linguistics
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Social Responsibility
Supporting Students With Disabilities
Teacher Educator
#TESOL2021
3:00 am - 7:00 am Concurrent Sessions
8:00 am - 11:00 am Dedicated Expo Time
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Presidential Keynote: Deborah J. Short
Interest Section Open Meetings:
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Concurrent and exhibitor sessions are Thursday, Friday,
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm English for Specific Purposes
and Saturday. Second Language Writing
Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening
* Ticketed Event
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm TESOL Annual Business Meeting
2:00 pm- 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions

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 KEYNOTES

OPENING KEYNOTE JAMES E. ALATIS PLENARY

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 | 7:00-8:30 pm US ET Thursday, 25 March 2021 | 8:00-9:00 am US ET

Transformative Classrooms Courageous Conversation™: Building Bridges, Not Borders

Being a teacher has never simply been about pedagogy or lesson plans. Teachers are in a unique position Our humanity comes in an amazing symphony of languages and a glorious kaleidoscope of color and hues. Yet
to help their students understand that the state of the world is not an inevitability, and that we shouldn’t systemic racism continues to be the most devastating factor contributing to the diminished capacity of us
accept it as such. They can help their students understand that the inequality we see across the world all. Let’s explore the boundaries erected by race in our life, and open ourselves to the wholeness of the
was created and constructed—and thus it can be deconstructed and reconstructed to build something humanity we all so desperately seek.
better, something more just. In this talk Clint provides teachers with the framework and the tools to
approach these conversations in their schools—encouraging them to use their classrooms as spaces of Glenn Singleton has devoted over thirty years to constructing racial equity worldwide and developing
transformation to help students dream of building a better world. leaders to do the same. Author, thought leader, and strategist, he is the creator of Courageous
Conversation™ a protocol and framework for sustained, deepened dialogue, and Beyond Diversity™, the
Clint Smith is staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Counting Descent, which won the 2017 curriculum that has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use it. Glenn is the Founder and
Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a President of Courageous ConversationTM, an agency that guides leadership development in education,
finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Clint has received fellowships from New America, the Art For Justice government, corporation, law enforcement, and community organizing. He is the award-winning author of
Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His writing has been published in The New Courageous Conversations About Race; A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, Second Edition; and
Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He currently of MORE Courageous Conversations About Race.
teaches writing and literature at the DC Central Detention Facility. His debut nonfiction book How the
Word Is Passed, which explores how different historical sites reckon with—or fail to reckon with—their Glenn has trained law enforcement leaders with the U.S. Embassy in Western Australia, and established
relationship to the history of slavery, will be published by Little, Brown in June 2021. He received his B.A. the Courageous Conversation South Pacific Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. For eight years, he served
in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. as an adjunct professor of educational leadership at San Jose State University. Glenn has been a guest
lecturer at Harvard University and has instructed faculty, students and administrators at the University of
Minnesota, New York University School of Medicine, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the
University of Texas. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, Glenn Singleton
is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and 100 Black Men. He currently resides in Washington,
D.C.

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THURSDAY KEYNOTE FRIDAY KEYNOTE

Thursday, 25 March 2021 | 10:00-11:00 am US ET Friday, 26 March 2021 | 8:00-9:00 am US ET

The Global Classroom: Past, Present, and Future of Online Learning The Pandemic Brain: Science and Strategies for Optimal Learning
Through the lens of her personal journey as the storytelling vehicle, and by sharing experiences, Stress negatively impacts memory, attention, higher-order thinking, and self-regulation. Build a cycle of
compelling videos, impactful data and heartwarming anecdotes, VIPKid Founder and CEO Cindy Mi will recognition, recovery, renewal, and rewiring into lessons to improve students’ personal and academic well-being.
discuss the past, present, and future of online learning. Learn how she went from a self-taught high Gain an understanding of how stress hijacks the brain and strategies for taking control. Discover the critical nature
school dropout to realizing her dreams of connecting students and teachers all of over the world, even of the “first 5”.
when investors doubted that real-time online learning could lead to learning efficacy. In our present day
world that has been ravaged by COVID-19, hear Cindy’s observations and insights about what is different A determination to better understand learners’ struggles led high school and community college
about online learning now and what teachers have told her about best practices. Finally, find out what teacher Dr. Janet Zadina to an interest in neuroimaging studies of dyslexia. Pursuing that interest, she
Cindy is forecasting for the future of online learning and teaching, including flexible, personalized became a neuroscientist, conducting MRI research into dyslexia in the Department of Neurology at Tulane
learning, blended campus and online learning, AI, and more. University School of Medicine, where she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in cognitive neuroscience.

Recognized for her career as an educator and entrepreneur, Cindy Mi is the Founder and CEO of VIPKid, a Today, Dr. Zadina is an internationally renowned speaker, consultant, and author. She is known for her
global edtech company that connects children in China with online teachers for real-time English language extraordinary ability to debunk popular myths about the brain while keeping educators aware of credible
learning. VIPKid has become China’s market-leading edtech startup. VIPKid’s vision is to build a global brain research. The Society for Neuroscience honored her with the 2011 Science Educator Award for
classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connects cultures across making significant contributions to public education and raising awareness of neuroscience through her
the world and sparks a passion for lifelong learning. There are approximately 200,000 classes every day powerful conference presentations and transformational workshops.
on the VIPKid platform.
She is the author of reading and learning textbooks for students as well as professional development
Cindy has spoken at The New York Times New Work Summit, on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in books for teachers, including Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain, and is co-founder of the Butterfly
San Francisco and the ASU+GSV Summit (2019, 2018 and 2017), among others. In 2020, Cindy was named Project, a project designed to help teachers who have experienced natural disasters. Among her many
EdTech CEO of the Year in the EdTech Breakthrough Awards. In 2019, Cindy was named a Glassdoor Top honors, she has been named as a Distinguished Fellow in the Council of Learning Assistance and
CEO and received the ASU + GSV Summit 2019 Power of Women Award. In 2018, Cindy joined the Whittle Developmental Education Associations.
School & Studios’ Academic Advisory Board. Cindy was also selected to join the World Economic Forum’s
Young Global Leaders Class of 2018.
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PRESIDENTIAL KEYNOTE

Saturday, 27 March 2021 | 12:00-1:00 pm US ET

Our Extraordinary Year: Stories of Resilience and Reinvention

COVID-19 created a genuine crisis for educators. Since March 2020, we have had to adapt to remote
teaching, virtual professional development, and keeping ourselves, students, and loved ones safe. We
have faced job insecurity and restricted budgets. But after the initial shock, English language teachers
stepped up and generated creative alternatives. This talk tells some of the stories—how educators took
action, pivoting to remote teaching, mastering technology, and advocating for their learners’ needs and
their own. Along the way, they re-imagined what English language teaching looks like.

Deborah J. Short, Ph.D. is TESOL International Association president for 2020–2021. She directs
Academic Language Research & Training, LLC and provides professional development on academic
literacy, content-based English, and sheltered instruction worldwide. She led numerous research studies
related to English learner education, co-developed the SIOP Model, published in professional journals, and
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 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

Academic Session: An in-depth session sponsored by a Advocacy, Social Justice, and Community Building
specific interest section.
Applied Linguistics
Dialogue: Peer-to-peer facilitated discussions about a hot
Content-Integrated Approaches
topic in TESOL.
Culture and Intercultural Communication
Exhibitor Session: A session sponsored by an exhibitor.
Digital Learning and Technologies
Intersection: Academic sessions that represent a
collaboration between two or more interest sections or Language Assessment
other entities.
Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation
Invited Speaker: Sessions featuring a speaker selected by
Materials Development and Publishing
the program commit- tee because the speaker has a
message that is important to TESOL members. Personal and Professional Development

Panel Session: Multiple short presentations and Program Administration and Evaluation
discussion of a current ELT issue focusing on practice,
research, and/or advocacy. Reading, Writing, and Literacy

Poster Session: A session that allows participants to Teacher Education

engage in informal discussion. For each poster session,
Vocabulary and Grammar
there is a corresponding 20-minute pre-recorded
presentation, PDF poster document(s), and Q & A
discussion area.

Presentation: Research or practice-oriented adjudicated

sessions that discuss the presenters’ work in relation to Academic English Programs: Programs that prepare students for
and/or support students in undergraduate education
theory and/or practice. They are 30-minute pre-recorded
presentations, which may be followed by a 15-minute live Adult Education: General and workplace English
text Q & A session with presenters. Some presentations
may only be pre-recorded without Q & A. Graduate/Post-Graduate Programs: Academic and professional
programs, including teacher education programs
Teaching Tip: Oral summary that discusses the
presenter’s work in relation to practice. International Teaching Assistantships

TESOL in Focus: Sessions sponsored by TESOL Intensive English/Private Language Programs

highlighting special projects and initiatives to further the
Primary School: Elementary, Pre-K–6, young learners
field, or partnerships with colleague associations.
Secondary School: Grades 7–12, teens
Workshop: A carefully structured, hands-on, PD activity.
The leader helps participants solve a problem or develop a Tutoring: Private, individual instruction
specific teaching or research technique.

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 CONCURRENT SESSIONS as of 15 March 2021

Thursday, 25 March, 6:00 AM

Vocabulary & Grammar
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This session examines the use of materials ranging from single-panel cartoons
to graphic novels in the progressive process of ESL/EFL vocabulary acquisition.
It provides practical pedagogical strategies for increasing learner engagement
as well as examples of scaffolded assignments for maximizing vocabulary
recall.
Presenter(s): Sara Ferguson
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
THURSDAY, 25 MARCH
Thursday, 25 March, 6:00 AM
Culture & Intercultural Communication
6:00 am US ET Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Thursday, 25 March, 6:00 AM How are English language teachers from the Caribbean region viewed around
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building the world? How have cultural perspectives from the Caribbean influenced
Panel Session with Q & A teachers' approach to education? In this session, participants discuss how
English teachers and their students can explore their perceptions of the English
language and those who speak it.
EFL and ESL teaching practices in multilingual settings should draw on learners' Presenter(s): Venice Irving
linguistic repertoires as a valuable resource. Using Norway's increasingly
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, International Teaching Assistantships
diverse student population as an example, the panellists consider how the
acquisition of English can be connected with previous language knowledge to
create culturally and linguistically inclusive classrooms.
Presenter(s): Anna Krulatz, Yesim Sevinc, MaryAnn Christison, Georgios
7:00 am US ET
Neokleous, Yesim Sevinc,, Eivind Torgersen
Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Panel Session with Q & A
Thursday, 25 March, 6:00 AM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy Given the dynamic and expanding nature of literacy in the contemporary world,
Workshop
and the recent shift from the monolingual to multilingual focus in literacy
practices, this panel discussion examines approaches to multiliteracy
instruction in linguistically and culturally diverse settings, focusing on
Encouraging creative writing and creative language use in the ESL classroom
demonstrating theory-practice connections and innovations in pedagogy.
can increase student motivation, help learners develop metalinguistic skills, and
reinforce lexical and grammatical knowledge. In this workshop, participants Presenter(s): Georgios Neokleous, MaryAnn Christison, Denise Murray, Iuliia
explore and design creative writing activities that promote the L2 development Fakhrutdinova, Raichle Farrelly, Koeun Park, Anna Krulatz
of learners of all proficiencies. Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Presenter(s): Megan Connolly Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

The presenters report on a qualitative study of a PD series on translanguaging

pedagogies, and how teachers adapted translanguaging strategies into practice
and perceived challenges and benefits of these approaches. Attendees gain
insight into how teachers navigate local institutional constraints and individual
expertise while transforming their classroom practices.
Presenter(s): Samuel David
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
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Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM

Digital Learning & Technologies
Workshop
9:00 am US ET
Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM
This workshop introduces the eight-step learning cycle of SOFLA: the Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach, a distance learning model that Panel Session with Roundtable
includes structured, interactive, multimodal activities, both asynchronous and
synchronous. Participants learn how to implement SOFLA and receive resources,
including an online space for following up with presenters. English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is a university-based, volunteer
Presenter(s): Helaine Marshall student organization that uses language as a bridge for community building
within the increasingly diverse population of Lexington and Rockbridge County,
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Virginia. This session demonstrates how to use language to build community in
a range of learning environments.
Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM Presenter(s): Ellen Mayock, Curry Sherard, Jackie Tamez, Clara Albacete, Lizzie
Content-Integrated Approaches Figueiras
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education

Durham Tech implemented an EAP program for its culturally linguistically Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM
diverse (CLD) student population, including recent U.S. high school graduates. Vocabulary & Grammar
This program bridges the gap between students' social language to the Recorded Presentation with Q & A
academic language skills needed for college course work. This session explains
implementation, curriculum development, and data related to student success.
Presenter(s): Paula Wilder Have you ever gone down a rabbit hole, moved at warp speed, or spied a glitch
in the Matrix? If so, you've used lexical items taken from pop culture. This
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Tutoring
session examines the linguistic influence of Inner-Circle pop culture and its
implications for teaching and learning both vocabulary and culture.
Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM Presenter(s): Claire Fisher
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Invited Speaker

Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM

As we recognize the compounded impact of events in 2020, particularly for Digital Learning & Technologies
Black and Brown faculty and students, and the collective drain on mental and Recorded Presentation with Q & A
emotional health, it is critical that we reexamine our pedagogy and practices
and incorporate trauma-informed and healing-centered practices that build our This session discusses the use of data-driven learning (DDL), highlights the
collective resilience. perceived value and benefits of engaging in DDL, emphasizes learning that can
Presenter(s): Christina Yanuaria happen with the use of DDL, shares freely available materials which have been
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education developed for DDL, and provides tips for using such activities.
Presenter(s): Gena Bennett, Durdona Pulatova
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
This session illustrates L2 learners' development of their knowledge of the
spatial prepositions "in" and "on" through explicit instruction. The implications
of the study discussed include new insights to enhance the teaching of Although humor is universal, engaging in L2 humor is risky and intimidating.
prepositions through schematic integrations, self-efficacy and to generalize Learners feel the need for humor in their communication with native speakers,
these results to prepositions and adpositions found in other languages. yet ESL classroom pedagogy rarely addresses this issue. This session
Presenter(s): Robert Taferner demystifies humor for ESL practitioners to meet learners' needs through
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic concrete, research-based, pedagogical suggestions.
Programs Presenter(s): Anna O'Neal, Cheri Pierson
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

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 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM

Content-Integrated Approaches Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Dialogue

This session highlights ways that ESL faculty at a university pathway program Though there are many benefits associated with extensive reading (ER), it can
have used various forms of CBI to prepare ELs for academic study in the be a challenge to set up an ER program, particularly one that reflects the
professional health sciences. The discussion of each model covers the process approach's guiding principles. This discussion session explores options and
of identifying learning outcomes, instructional materials, content faculty provides a forum to share best practices when integrating ER in a university
collaboration, and assessments. context.
Presenter(s): Sunnia Davis Presenter(s): Roisin Dewart
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM

Vocabulary & Grammar Culture & Intercultural Communication
Dialogue Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Intentionally engaging multicultural identities in the language classroom

Though there are significant differences in vocabulary knowledge among ELs, positively reinforces intercultural sensitivity and effective L2 usage. Yet, in
sometimes as a result of low socioeconomic statuses and poor literacy places characterized by ethnic and national conflict, such as the Palestinian
environments, the requirements and academic standards continue to increase. Territories, multiculturalism is often downplayed in favor of strong national
This dialogue session provides opportunities for participants to share the issues identity. This session explores the unique challenges that this creates.
their students are facing and meet other professionals to share solutions. Presenter(s): Tamrika Khvtisiashvili
Presenter(s): Salim Sehlaoui Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM
Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM Teacher Education
Personal & Professional Development Dialogue
Academic Session with Roundtable

Fifty Language planning and policy (LPP) proposals are analyzed as evidence of
Language teaching across the world has undergone immense but abrupt teacher agency and advocacy for ELs. A framework for and analysis of LPP
changes after the current unprecedented pandemic. How have these changes proposals is shared to inform how K–12 teachers can become stronger
impacted EFL teaching practices and academic communities across the world? advocates for more effective policies and practices to help ELs with language
This session examines the policies, best practices, and impact of this crisis in proficiency.
different global academic contexts. Presenter(s): DJ Kaiser
Presenter(s): Shahid Abrar-ul-Hassan Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM
Personal & Professional Development
Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Language Assessment
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Ours is a world of information overload, digital bombardment, and change.
Therefore, we need to organize our time in a 21st-century style. The presenter
shares some effective time management strategies for language teachers.
As a global language, English increasingly functions as a lingua franca for Participants take home some tech tools to increase productivity and use time
communication, with characteristics that differ from traditional standard more efficiently.
Englishes (e.g., British or American English). This session shows how teachers Presenter(s): Victoria Dieste
can apply the characteristics of English as a lingua franca to assessments of
oral communication in their classrooms. Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs
Presenter(s): Alan Seaman
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

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 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM

Personal & Professional Development Materials Development & Publishing
TESOL In Focus with Roundtable Academic Session with Q & A

Learn more about providing a continuous learning environment for ELs in every As the world becomes more dependent on digital technology, ELT professionals
classroom with every teacher. This session provides a road map for leveraging find ways to adapt. This academic panel session shows participants in all
your language expertise with tools for PD and peer coaching, as well as gives stages of their career paths ways to adapt, create, and develop materials for
you a peek at Benegas and Stolpestad's new book. digital learning in a variety of contexts for language teaching and teacher
Presenter(s): Michelle Benegas training.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Presenter(s): Justin Shewell, Vance Stevens, Jessica Burchett, Michael Bowen,
Lizabeth England

Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

1:00 pm US ET
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Digital Learning & Technologies Workshop
Panel Session with Q & A

Collaborative assignments and academic discussions place extraordinary

This study introduces a new framework for analyzing digital stories based on demands on an EL's listening faculties. ELs need a toolkit of language strategies
the analysis of visual grammar developed by systemic functional linguistics. The to demonstrate they are actively engaged or experiencing comprehension lapses
framework can help analyze digital stories and allow teachers to more during lesson exchanges. This interactive workshop offers research-informed
effectively use them as pedagogical tools to facilitate learning by ELs and other principles, modeled and explained practices, video exemplars, and practical
students. resources.
Presenter(s): Stanton Wortham Presenter(s): Kate Kinsella
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Programs

Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM

Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Digital Learning & Technologies Invited Speaker
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
This session examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and
deepened the digital divide, particularly for ELs. Panelists explore both the
Dubbing apps as mobile learning tools can enhance ELs' linguistic skills, troubling reality of digital inequity and new opportunities as a framework for
motivation, social interaction, and cultural competence. This session overviews possible solutions that may assist in breaking down barriers to full digital
the benefits of dubbing projects in English language learning, provides best inclusion.
practices of incorporating dubbing apps in ESL education, and demonstrates the Presenter(s): Rita Van Dyke-Kao
working process of two dubbing apps.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Xinyun Wang, Weina Chen
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
This session introduces the new category of singable science books (SSBs),
which creatively integrate science content and language skills for ELs, Pre-K–
Community-linked literacy projects serve as a promising platform for Grade 6. As outcomes, participants gain practical knowledge to use SSBs as
multilingual students to practice exercising power, agency, and voice. Hear teaching resources and receive an annotated bibliography of more than 30
about specific examples from a middle school ESL classroom. Discover how books and 20 YouTube videos.
these hands-on, authentic experiences can be integrated into the prescribed Presenter(s): Betty Ansin Smallwood
curriculum to foster learners' literacy engagement and confidence as writers.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Presenter(s): Anny Case
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

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Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM

Applied Linguistics Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
TESOL In Focus Advocacy and Public Policy

In this session, a panel of the editors of "TESOL Journal" and "TESOL Quarterly" Immigrant students and ELs face barriers in gaining entry to public schools. This
discuss how the journals maintain topical, methodological, and contextual session discusses what public schools can and cannot require of immigrant
diversity in their publications. Examples of specific recent studies that illustrate students and ELs. Topics to be discussed include Social Security numbers,
the journals' breadth are provided. immigration documents, birth certificates, immunization records, and access to
Presenter(s): Charlene Polio school meals.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Presenter(s): Roger Rosenthal
International Teaching Assistantships Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Workshop Advocacy and Public Policy Session with Q & A

The Rule of 3 (RAP) is a revolutionary approach to integrated language and In this session, attendees learn about the Seal of Biliteracy, why it was created,
literacy development for early childhood ELs. This session highlights rehearse, what it means, and what educators can do to promote it.
analyze, produce strategies and interactive creative construction methodology Presenter(s): Paul Sandrock, Miriam E Ebsworth, Arthur Chou, Christel Broady
which is the result of 12 years of school-based research funded by U.S. Office of
Education. The online version of the RULE of 3 will be featured.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Presenter(s): Linda Ventriglia-Navarrette
Settings/Audiences: Early Childhood, Primary School Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation with Q & A How can you empower your community through the use of TESOL's 6
Principles®? In this session, the presenters explore ways to engage colleagues
in school-based ongoing PD oriented toward school-wide implementation of
The presenters share their experience developing three tasks for Hospitality exemplary practices.
English courses while attending to cognitive, linguistic, and cultural concerns in Presenter(s): Gabriel Diaz Maggioli
their context. They also discuss a framework for designing and implementing Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
tasks responsive to diverse professional and linguistic needs within workplace
English curricula.
Presenter(s): Jacob Rieker, Madelyn Diller Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Vocabulary & Grammar
Programs Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Students pursuing advanced degrees often face challenges due to gaps in
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building grammatical awareness. To encourage increased student understanding and
Recorded Presentation with Q & A use of complex grammar, presenters outline four steps for increasing
grammatical accuracy that analyzes grammar in reading and applies this
analysis to student writing. Presenters model the process with detailed
Through exploring challenges teachers and adult lawful permanent residents examples.
encountered when shifting to online learning during COVID-19, this session Presenter(s): Julie Lake, Heather Weger
discusses how limited basic and digital literacy demotivated immigrants from
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
continuing online instruction to prepare for naturalization. Implications for
citizenship instruction and professionalization of civics/ESL teachers post
Academic Programs
COVID-19 are discussed.
Presenter(s): Ally Zhou
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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Teacher Education Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Panel Session with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Though classroom teachers are central to effective ELT PD, their perspectives Based on research on students' use of proofreading services as well as the
are not usually well documented. This colloquium presents findings from a presenter's experience as a writing instructor and proofreader, this session
transnational project which has documented such experiences across three introduces key considerations in the ethical debate surrounding proofreading
countries. The four-paper panel presents lessons learned and raises important and discusses implications for students and instructors. Recommendations for
questions about PD practices and provision. addressing proofreading in the L2 writing classroom are presented.
Presenter(s): Donald Freeman, Dudley Reynolds Presenter(s): Nina Conrad
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Programs Academic Programs

Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM

Language Assessment
2:00 pm US ET
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Applied Linguistics
PBL learning is highly motivating and promotes meaningful language use. It also Recorded Presentation with Q & A
involves extensive student collaboration, difficult to assess by traditional
testing methods. Fortunately, the Mediation scales of the Common European
Framework of Reference Companion Volume, 2018, provide coherent The corpus-based study discussed examined functional differences of phrase-
frameworks for constructing learning outcomes and assessment methods for frames in business emails between native-English-speaking professionals and
collaboration. nonnative-English-speaking students. Four-word phrase-frames were first
Presenter(s): Maria McCormack, Frances Boyd, Carol Numrich, Brittany Ober identified, and classified using functional taxonomy. Results showed that
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private nonnative-English-speaking students overused stance expressions but
Language Programs underused referential expressions, indicating more spoken features in their
emails.
Presenter(s): Detong Xia
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Digital Learning & Technologies
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Video is a powerful material for teacher training and ongoing professional Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
learning, but it is sometimes challenging to design impactful facilitation tasks. Advocacy and Public Policy
In this session, participants review five video analyses of teaching tasks that
are focused on English language teaching and well-suited for trainers, coaches,
and faculty. Postsecondary English language programs must engage in advocacy to support
Presenter(s): Laura Baecher themselves as industry professionals and to promote the value of English
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs language study in the United States. The presenters provide a range of
resources to assist attendees to develop advocacy strategies for use at the
campus, local, state, and national levels.
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Presenter(s): Cheryl Delk-Le Good
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Intersection Session with Q & A
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

What are the ramifications when a power structure employs the use of
particular language? Language can be controlled and also weaponized.
Language forms narratives and narratives are determined by those with the
greatest power. This panel calls to reverse the narrative and dismantle these
systems of oppression which control the language.
Presenter(s): Liana Smith
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Language Assessment
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Lecturers frequently evaluate lecture content, and advanced EAP learners This session covers key concepts in formative speaking assessment with a
should recognize linguistic and paralinguistic forms typically used to emphasize focus on how educators can integrate assessment into instruction. Using
and critique lecture material. Participants learn how to activate prior student sample assessments and scenarios, and drawing from the National Reporting
knowledge, learn about evaluative forms commonly used in lectures, and apply System levels for adult education, presenters discuss principles for practical
understanding by listening to evaluative lecture segments. and effective language assessment.
Presenter(s): Julia Salehzadeh Presenter(s): Katie Beckman-Gotrich
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Program Administration & Evaluation Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Teacher Education
Workshop

This session details a competency-framework methodology to create an ESL

curriculum which implements the TESOL 6 Principles®. The presenters share Peer communication is an important opportunity for learners to develop L2
their experiences and templates to use when building a dedicated ESL competencies in language learning classrooms. However, creating effective and
curriculum. Tips for incorporating language forms and function along with impactful L2 peer interaction opportunities is complex. This session provides
content area concepts are presented. research-based guidance on developing peer interaction opportunities and
Presenter(s): Melanie Wolf-Greenberg, Tracey Hovath, Eugenia Krimmel opportunities to reflect on, critique, and design peer interaction activities.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Presenter(s): Rebecca Adams
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Program Administration & Evaluation
Panel Session with Q & A Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Workshop
Policy changes have significant impact on the development of curriculum,
materials, and teacher training, often without additional support for the
administration of the programs. This panel shares insights into the challenges of How can ESL teachers best support newcomer ELs and the mainstream teachers
expanding EFL instruction into primary grades from the perspective of ministry of these students? This session provides opportunities for attendees to
officials, international consultants, and teachers. participate in hands-on lessons and to create kits including information,
Presenter(s): Gena Rhoades, Jennifer Gonzales, George Chinnery, Abdikarim strategies, supports, and activities that can be readily used with teachers and
Herzi, Mariam Chideh, Djamila Miganeh students.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Presenter(s): Kathleen Cahoon-Newchok , Wendysue Clausson, Christina Ringo
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Applied Linguistics Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Invited Speaker Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
TESOL In Focus

The research-pedagogy relationship can be rich and mutually supportive only

when researchers and teachers collaboratively work for the common goal— Educational equity in multilingual, multicultural classrooms has involved
students learning. In this session, the presenters describe the current teachers' language awareness, an approach that recognizes that all teachers
relationship between pedagogy/teachers and research/researchers. They also use and frame opportunities for students to use language(s). In this sense, all
discuss some evidence-based pedagogy. teachers engage with students' languages. This session presents new research
Presenter(s): Masatoshi Sato in increasingly multilingual and remote classrooms during the pandemic.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs Presenter(s): Jessie Curtis, Lillian Wong, Wayne E. Wright, Chris Chang-Bacon,
Alexis A. Rutt, Meredith McConnochie, Eileen González, Ruth Harman,
Maverick Zhang, Yamileth Aubain, Paul McPherron, Linh M. An, Zhongfeng
Tian, Qianqian Zhang-Wu
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
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Personal & Professional Development Applied Linguistics
Invited Speaker Academic Session with Q & A

Organizations and communities of practice have had to reconceptualize Panelists share their research highlighting how translanguaging has the
traditional PD models for virtual delivery. This session shares caveats and potential to incorporate students' cultures, identities, and bilingualism, as well
considerations one state affiliate gleaned from moving conferences, workshops, as promote metalinguistic knowledge and maximize communicative potential in
institutes, and other events from face-to-face to virtual settings. Participants the classroom. Each presenter also provides specific translanguaging practices
leave with templates/checklists for event planning and implementation. that can be applied to various classroom contexts.
Presenter(s): Susan Gaer, Margi Wald, Amy Pascucci Presenter(s): Anna Dina Joaquin, David Freeman, Yvonne Freeman, Lydiah
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Kiramba, Ann Ebe, Mary Soto
Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education

Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM

Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Program Administration & Evaluation
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Invited Speaker

Curriculum is the core of any educational program and requires continual

This session explores paradigms that have driven literacy development for
improvement to meet changing educational demands. The presenters share a
decades. Session content problematizes outdated approaches that currently
comprehensive process for the review, revision, and implementation of the
benchmark reading and writing instruction in schools. Alternative paradigms
curriculum. Attendees leave with specific guidelines and tools for planning and
grounded in research on literacy development are presented. Participants are
executing a systematic curriculum review process.
guided in ways to maximize these alternatives.
Presenter(s): Eman Elturki, Emily Harmon Presenter(s): Socorro Herrera, Kathy Escamilla, Katherine Barko-Alva, Silvia
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Nogueron-Liu
Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Early Childhood, Primary School

Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM

Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
3:00 pm US ET
TESOL In Focus with Q & A
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Program Administration & Evaluation
Peace Corps posts are being reopened carefully, with extreme attention to Recorded Presentation with Q & A
volunteer health and to prioritizing needs of people of the host-country in lands
where the social-political-economic-educational context are being reconsidered
in a post-COVID-19 world. Interested in learning about corequisite models for ESL? This session provides
Presenter(s): Brock Brady one college's implementation of a corequisite option for academic writing ESL
students to coenroll in English 101. The curriculum utilizes cross-disciplinary,
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs, Tutoring theme-based OERs and authentic materials to provide students with optimal
support and innovation to meet 21st-century needs.
Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM Presenter(s): Danielle Aldawood
Personal & Professional Development Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Advocacy and Public Policy Session with Q & A Language Programs

Presenters from diverse U.S. states each describe one significant, innovative
adult ESOL initiative instituted to address a particular requirement of the Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). These brief practical Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
overviews from each state focus on a program, issue, or product that can be of Academic Session with Q & A
value and benefit to other states.
Presenter(s): Sue Barauski, Patsy Egan This session features different perspectives on theorizing sociolinguistic
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education complexity in today's diverse classroom and shares strategies for leveraging the
linguistic landscape as a field of research as well as a pedagogical tool for
teacher education. In each study, teacher educators integrated a bilingual
component in teacher preparation programs.
Presenter(s): Ching-Ching Lin
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
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Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Teacher Education
Invited Speaker Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This panel brings together experts in language education to critically interrogate

the ways that world language education, bilingual education, and ESL have Virtual learning collaboration can be more challenging than in face-to-face
historically been and continue to be complicit in the maintenance and further settings because of technical, social, and emotional barriers. Informed by online
exacerbation of anti-Blackness. community of inquiry, connected learning, and informal learning theories, this
Presenter(s): Uju Anya, Patriann Smith, Aris Clemons session shares innovative instructional design approaches, rationale, and
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic emerging technology tools to enhance virtual collaboration for TESOL preservice
Programs educators.
Presenter(s): Weina Chen, Jennifer Miyake-Trapp, Elias Saade, Terrance Cao
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Invited Speaker Session with Q & A Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Teacher Education
Workshop
How do we start a diversity conversation at our institutions? What does it mean
to "include" people of diverse races, ethnicities, languages, religions, sexual
orientations, and abilities? A panel of TESOL professionals discusses their This workshop demonstrates strategies that language teachers can apply to
perspectives on these difficult questions and the challenges of teaching English effectively provide PD to mainstream teachers of all grade levels and content
in multicultural contexts. areas on SLA. Using TESOL's 6 Principles® and interactive activities, participants
Presenter(s): Federico Salas-Isnardi build a "toolkit" to help their colleagues gain foundational knowledge for
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education teaching ELs.
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Amaral, Helene Becker
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Panel Session with Q & A
All learners have diverse lived experiences and distinct identities. The presenter
uses the framework of culture as intersectional to inspire collaboration among
participants in a self-reflective process and recognition of power imbalance. What does it mean to humanize research in different contexts, and how might
This will empower individuals to understand and accept cultural limitations by researchers leverage these constructs to move our profession towards a more
asking difficult questions about biases and stereotypes. inclusive, equitable, and antiracist reality? Representing various perspectives,
Presenter(s): Chelsea Lafferty panelists engage the idea of decolonizing research, and offer a vision for a
humane and loving pathway forward.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Anita Bright
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Advocacy and Public Policy
Presenters report findings of a mixed-methods study intended to understand the
extent to which the curriculum, assessment, and instructor teaching presence With the growing diversity in the school population in the United States, it is
and pedagogical strategies contribute to student engagement in online English important for educators to understand the basics of U.S. immigration policy.
language learning in vocational education. They also provide implications for This session provides a brief overview of the complex world of such immigration
curriculum design, instructor professional development, and online learning policy.
policy. Presenter(s): Roger Rosenthal
Presenter(s): Zulay Diaz-Caceres Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

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Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Workshop

Information literacy is crucial for conducting effective research in an academic How can teaching in low-resource contexts be engaging and student-centered?
setting, yet programs rarely include its development in their curricula. This Learn about the presenters' experience of teacher training in rural regions of
session defines information literacy, provides specific topics for the ESL Zambia. Participate in several activities based on this training and explore how
advanced writing classroom, and demonstrates methods to incorporate these they can be utilized in the classroom or for faculty PD.
topics effectively and engagingly into an existing writing curriculum. Presenter(s): Jessica Hurtado
Presenter(s): Janine Carlock Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive
English/Private Language Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Teacher Education
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM Dialogue
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
In this interactive session, the presenters engage language teachers and
teacher educators in considering how intersectional identities (including for
Visual images are frequently used when instructing ELs but may present them, identities as transnationals, parents, and language teacher educators)
barriers for students with disabilities. This session introduces educators to affect teaching. Drawing from their own practice and research, the presenters
various disabilities that may impact students' ability to interpret visual images guide participants in collaboratively exploring their intersectional identities
and graphics. Participants leave with recommendations and resources for using related to their practice.
visuals when working with ELs with disabilities. Presenter(s): April Salerno, Elena Andrei
Presenter(s): Jennifer Voorhees, Laurene Christensen, James Mitchell Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM

Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM Digital Learning & Technologies
Teacher Education Intersection Session with Q & A
Dialogue

Universal design for learning (UDL) instructional approaches aim to meet the
This dialogue session provides teacher-participants with the opportunity to needs of all learners by presenting content in a variety of ways, offering
share and unpack their experiences negotiating their professional identities students multiple options to demonstrate knowledge, and fostering learner
within their local contexts. Collectively, participants are encouraged to compare engagement. This panel examines how to use technology alongside inclusive
similarities and differences of their sociocultural and political contexts to UDL principles to support differently abled ELs.
situate their professional identities at the nexus of global and local forces.
Presenter(s): Marta Halaczkiewicz, Yizhe Jiang, Qian Wang, Zhenjie Weng,
Presenter(s): Doaa Rashed Patricia Rice Doran, Amy Noggle, Jennifer Rice, Sean McClelland, Sarah
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Barnhardt, Nicole King
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

It is challenging to correct students' speaking mistakes and discouraging when

we hear them make these same mistakes again and again, but there are ways This session focuses on the necessity of literacy education for the Rohingya
to make feedback stick. Learn about three speaking activities that get students refugee children. The presenter investigates literacy education policy and
to analyze their mistakes, revisit the speaking task, and retain the corrected practice for children at Cox's Bazar and highlights that the Rohingya refugee
language. crisis is a global challenge. New pedagogical approaches and global education
Presenter(s): Amy Tate, Alice Llanos policy are applied.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Presenter(s): Md. Amir Hossain
Language Programs Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

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4:00 pm US ET Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Workshop
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation with Q & A This workshop explores Project TRANSLATE, an approach for fostering reading
comprehension through translation during collaborative guided reading
instruction. Attendees discuss how to capitalize on students' cultural and
Increasingly among university pathway programs, students do not identify as linguistic strengths to increase use of comprehension strategies, to help
ESL though their instructors see them as such. This interactive presentation students describe translation processes, and to better engage students in
explores the extent of this disconnect and offers best practices for classroom literacy.
and curriculum changes to address gaps between assumptions faculty and Presenter(s): Samuel David, Amanda Swearingen
university stakeholders make and how students self-identify.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Presenter(s): Becky Bonarek, Trischa Duke, and Steph Mielcarek
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
The presenters demonstrate research-based, high-leverage instructional
practices that support achievement of rigorous content standards in high-
This session focuses on creating a culturally responsive curriculum to meet the beginning, vocational, and advanced academic writing ESL curricula. These
specific language and content needs of adult learners in technical contexts. practices serve to scaffold learning, address academic language needed to
Presenters share their conceptualization of this curriculum and, using examples engage in academic conversations and for academic writing, promote
from military settings, illustrate how it promotes engagement for diverse collaborations among learners, and prompt higher order thinking.
learners. Guidelines and suggested resources are provided.
Presenter(s): Betsy Parrish, Gretchen Bitterlin, Donna Price
Presenter(s): Heather Smyser Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education , Intensive English/Private Language
Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM Best of Affiliates with Q & A
Teacher Education
Panel Session with Q & A
Not sure how to discuss current racial, social, political, and/or cultural issues in
the United States and the world? Why not use a novel? Come find out how "The
Carefully designed early field experiences embedded in coursework create Hate U Give" can be combined with world events as tools for investigation using
space for preservice teachers to collaborate with practitioners, reflect on their multiple modalities.
own teaching practices, and develop teacher voice before immersion in student Presenter(s): MaryLynn Patton
teaching. The panelists discuss school-university partnerships for early field
experiences and impact on preservice teachers' self-efficacy and professional Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
growth.
Presenter(s): Doaa Rashed, Lori Edmonds, Polina Vinogradova Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM

Reading, Writing, & Literacy The presenter discusses the results of an 8-month study on MBA transfer
Academic Session with Q & A students from China and Taiwan to the United States who then served as
interns in U.S. businesses. It examines the process of oral academic discourse
socialization and how speaking for academic purposes compares to those in the
Extensive reading can be an effective way for educators to not only improve workplace.
their students' reading skills but also their engagement in class. Instructors can Presenter(s): Denise Mussman
do extensive reading in their classes and reach all their students by providing
exercises for diverse learning styles, which can help increase student Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs,
participation. International Teaching Assistantships
Presenter(s): Maria Ammar
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
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Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Workshop

Reality television shows are the perfect authentic listening materials to provide
ELs with what Krashen calls "optimal input." The presenter details how to This hands-on session focuses on the cognitive and emotional value of using
structure lessons around the series "90 Day Fiancé" to improve students' creative writing genres and techniques as logical and natural tools to
listening and speaking skills, and attendees discuss applications to their own strengthen ELs' academic writing skills. Participants engage in dynamic creative
classrooms. writing activities that will develop and enhance their ELs' comfort, control, and
Presenter(s): Virginia Nicolai confidence in academic writing.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language Presenter(s): Patrick T. Randolph, Dieter Bruhn
Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Advocacy and Public Policy FRIDAY, 26 MARCH
This general session offers a broad overview of the current political landscape
in Washington, DC, as well as the key policies and issues that TESOL
International Association is tracking and supporting. Issues that are covered
9:00 am US ET
include the federal budget process, immigration, the Every Student Succeeds
Act (ESSA), adult English education, and the new Congress. Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Presenter(s): David Cutler
Panel Session with Q & A
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Academic English Programs

Aviation English (AE) teachers—and AE teacher training—are in high demand

Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
worldwide to enable aviation trainees to succeed in training and become
Applied Linguistics
employed to reduce labor shortages. Experts in aviation training and in AE
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
discuss models they need or are delivering/developing, respectively. Audience
input is elicited.
Despite the documented effectiveness of systemic functional linguistics (SFL)– Presenter(s): Anne Lomperis, Amber Scroggs, Patricia Tosqui-Lucks, Neil
informed pedagogy to support language and literacy development of diverse Bullock, Jennifer Meszaros, Jennifer Roberts
students across contexts, SFL is often critiqued as inaccessible for teachers and Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
students. This session illustrates how the presenters have used SFL Programs
successfully with intermediate-level EAP students and with graduate students
in an EAP pedagogy course.
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Presenter(s): Sandra Zappa-Hollman
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Academic Programs

Can you imagine the linguistic landscape of Israel and Palestine serving as a
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
vehicle for peace and not division? Join us to discuss how we may exploit
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
linguistic landscape for TESOL beyond the walls of the classroom to foster
Invited Speaker
cross-cultural understanding in teacher education.
Presenter(s): Anastasia Khawaja
As the online presence in teaching ESL/EFL continues to grow, this session Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
focuses on best practices for approaching the teaching of speaking and Academic Programs
listening. Lynn Henrichsen focuses on L2 pronunciation teaching and learning
resources accessible online via electronic devices. Elizabeth Wittner
demonstrates how limited facetime opportunities can be used most effectively.
Presenter(s): Lynn Henrichsen, Lucy Pickering, Elizabeth Wittner
Settings/Audiences: International Teaching Assistantships, Intensive
English/Private Language Programs

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Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM

Content-Integrated Approaches Content-Integrated Approaches
Dialogue Recorded Presentation with Q & A

The session presents a new taxonomy of skills/competencies for content and This session explores a design for EAP courses that employs content-based
language integrated learning (CLIL) teachers, thereby demythologizing the units to develop critical thinking and language skills students need during their
notion of native-English-speaking teachers (NEST) while providing a framework university studies. Attendees discuss example lesson materials that incorporate
for the skills, competencies, and characteristics required for successful CLIL content-focused and form-focused activities to achieve a balance between
delivery. The discussion focuses on a framework that better describes language and content instruction.
interaction and relationship to/with CLIL teachers. Presenter(s): Michelle Bell
Presenter(s): Jermaine McDougald
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Academic Programs
Programs

Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM

Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM Applied Linguistics
Teacher Education Panel Session with Q & A
Panel Session with Q & A

Panelists explore how the political economy of the English language shapes
Coaching and badging are assessments that allow bilingual educators to language desires and the learning and teaching of English. Across various
showcase their pedagogical skills. Teachers at the Dual Language Graduate geopolitical contexts in the world, panelists consider the construction and
Program at the University of Central Florida practice administering a reading representation of power and identity of individuals and societies and resulting
inventory, teaching science, and using WIDA leveled questioning in Spanish and implications for educational settings.
English. This panel details strategies for developing educator assessments for Presenter(s): Bal Krishna Sharma, Gina Petrie, Ryuko Kubota, Peter De Costa,
dual language programs. Handouts provide steps and lessons learned. Hima Rawal, Wendy Li, Suhanthie Motha
Presenter(s): Marjorie Ceballos, Florin Mihai, Laura Monroe, Yvonne Cadiz, Cyndi
Walters, Leslie Mendez, Kerry Purmensky Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Advocacy and Public Policy Session with Q & A
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Panel Session with Q & A
LINCS (Literacy Information and Communication System) offers online self-
paced PD courses for teachers. Participants attending this session learn about
what's new in LINCS courses and how to access the courses. Participants have
Panelists discuss ways to incorporate writing into adult ESL classes. They show
the opportunity to sample several courses and learn about the new course being
how to set the stage for writing, linking it to course content and skill
developed that will support TESOL members.
development; support writing, relying on particular practices and scaffolds; and
align writing with accountability systems, connecting writing to standards and Presenter(s): Sudie Whalen
high school equivalency tests. Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Kirsten Schaetzel, Joy Peyton, Rebeca Fernandez
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Invited Speaker
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Listening is essential for communication yet is rarely taught as a language skill.
Note-taking approaches presuppose ability to process aural input. In this
session, two challenges are addressed: parsing connected speech and
Edward de Bono's "Six Thinking Hats" model is widely used in business studies
understanding the discourse functions of intonation. Pre- and postinstruction
and in the corporate sector because it improves the overall thinking process.
assessments support a metacognitive strategy approach to improve listening for
This session demonstrates its usability in a language classroom to improve
content and meaning.
critical thinking skills with evidence of its effectiveness in a large classroom
setting. Presenter(s): Marnie Reed
Presenter(s): Kaukab Azhar Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive
English/Private Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
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Content-Integrated Approaches Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Invited Speaker

The presenter demonstrates two interactive research-based strategies which

make the academic English syntax and vocabulary of math accessible to ELs, This session highlights the work of English language specialists who have
especially those stalled at intermediate or with interrupted schooling. Specific promoted social justice in English language teaching worldwide. Specialists and
resources for collaboration with math colleagues, including scaffolding Regional English Language Officers will share their experiences in Jordan,
templates and charts of key syntactical structures and problematic vocabulary, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, and the United States.
are provided. Presenter(s): Joseph Bookbinder
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Hartung-Cole Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Teacher Education Dialogue
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
The purpose of this dialogue session is to engage in a discussion on students
with disabilities in IEPs. The presenters provide suggestions and guidance on
After school closures due to COVID-19, many ESOL interns were pulled out of how to make ESL classrooms more accessible and how to support students.
their face-to-face student teaching internships. This session examines how Special emphasis is placed on implementing Universal Design for Learning.
teacher educators prepared interns for the challenges of student teaching in a Presenter(s): Amanda Brunson, Jacqueline Whitney
virtual environment, underscoring missed opportunities that may be valuable Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
components of preparing interns for (online) instruction. Language Programs
Presenter(s): Carmen Durham , Loren Jones, Amanda Cataneo
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Teacher Education
Intersection Session with Q & A
Should ELs be excluded from science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) classrooms until they acquire enough English? No! Can
The presenters draw on experience from three National Professional ELs succeed in rigorous STEM classes? Yes! This session explores one high
Development grant projects to explore fresh approaches for preparing educators school EL teacher's experience teaching pre-engineering classes to ELs from
to engage with the families of ELs in partnership with their school district and newcomer level to advanced.
the community. Each project contributes a different angle on educator Presenter(s): Katherine Miller
preparation, including paraprofessionals, preservice teachers, and in-service
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
teachers.
Presenter(s): Andrea Hellman
Settings/Audiences: Early Childhood, Primary School Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Personal & Professional Development
TESOL In Focus
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Panel Session with Q & A The Research Fair focuses on emerging trends in published research. New
scholar-practitioners discuss their research in Pre-K–16 environments. Research
Professional Council researchers report on findings from a literature search and
A translanguaging lens constitutes a challenge to the native-speakerism discuss an ongoing survey that aims to identify how TESOL's research priorities
paradigm in TESOL through valuing teachers and learners' full linguistic can respond to the current challenging times.
repertoires. This session offers different perspectives on theorizing, integrating, Presenter(s): Scott Douglas , Lillian Wong, Jessie Curtis, Amira Salama,
and implementing translanguaging in TESOL teacher education and classrooms. Ozgehan Ustuk, Antonella Valeo
Presenter(s): Zhongfeng Tian
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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Program Administration & Evaluation Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Intersection Session with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This InterSection session highlights a variety of approaches program This session reports findings from an ethnographic study that explored the
administrators have pursued during the pandemic to continue serving students perceptions, interaction patterns, and perceived impact of collaborative writing
and demonstrating their value on campus. Panelists represent different ESL on four college ESL students' academic writing. The presenter shares the
contexts in higher education, including IEPs, undergraduate-level academic affordances and challenges of online collaborative writing and steps that L2
English programs, and graduate/postgraduate language-support programs. writing teachers can take to effectively implement collaborative writing.
Presenter(s): Brad Teague, Pamela Smart-Smith, Maria Ammar, Kimberly Presenter(s): Emre Başok
Becker, Kristin Terrill, Rebecca Yoon, Ketty Reppert, Estela Ene, Saskia Van
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Viegen, Jennifer Brondell
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Panel Session with Q & A
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Content-Integrated Approaches This panel highlights the advantages of a nine-credit accelerated theme-
Workshop integrated skills College omposition Learning Community Cluster cotaught by
faculty in the English and ESL Departments. Student linguistic and academic
support through common course design, model logistics, and the benefits of
A troublesome issue for long-term ELs is the challenge of using oral academic coteaching are discussed.
language in the classroom. Using defining as an example, participants engage
Presenter(s): Jennifer Valdez, Ashley Paul, Jennifer Grehan, Naoko Akai-Dennis
in a series of steps designed to support students in thinking and speaking
academically about terms and concepts in the content areas. Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Presenter(s): Andrea DeCapua
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Despite the importance of linking adverbials to build cohesion, L2 learners have
demonstrated difficulties with this particular rhetorical feature. This session
reports findings of a corpus-based analysis of L2 university students'
This session explores a set of interactive online modules created to help general development of linking adverbials in their writing. Pedagogical implications are
education teachers make their classes and tests more accessible for ELs. discussed.
Audience members see a demonstration of the modules, learn how to access
Presenter(s): Sara Swaim
them, and discuss how they could be integrated into professional development
efforts. Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs , Adult Education
Presenter(s): Darrell Peterson
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Workshop

10:00 am US ET
Through demonstration, classroom video, and audience participation, this
Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM workshop showcases how to use biography-driven strategies to engage
Reading, Writing, & Literacy students and maximize assets of the classroom community. Participants learn
Recorded Presentation with Q & A how to elicit background knowledge and advance reading, writing, and literacy
by maximizing students' identity, cognition, and collaboration toward attainment
of lesson goals.
Many teachers want to create customized materials that interest students. A Presenter(s): Melissa Holmes, Socorro Herrera
well-designed worksheet can allow low-level learners to answer complex
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
questions without having to read complex instructions. Presenters share tips
and design tricks that help students learn efficiently by showing before-and-
after worksheets and creating a reading worksheet on-the-spot.
Presenter(s): Nancy Overman
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
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Teacher Education Teacher Education
Best of Affiliates with Q & A Invited Speaker

No two brains are the same, so how can we practically implement

This interactive session examines physical exercise's powerful effects on the
neuroscientific principles to tailor-make learning to needs, without books, but
brain. Language learning benefits are discussed, and participants practice with clear and structured targets and brain-friendly coaching conversations to
effective exercises guaranteed to help strengthen their ELs' cognition, attention,
facilitate potentially faster, more efficient, sustainable results? Coaching and
and memory. One academic-based activity is also offered that focuses on neuroscience are key.
developing student awareness of exercise's robust impact on learning.
Presenter(s): Rachel Paling
Presenter(s): Patrick T. Randolph
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs Programs

Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM

Culture & Intercultural Communication Program Administration & Evaluation
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Advocacy and Public Policy

For newcomers to become resilient, schools must create havens of resilience, The U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) works with
helping learners discover their internal strengths, their "I Have, I Am, I Can." educators to ensure that ELs have meaningful access to quality education. OCR
Newcomers can learn to draw on these three strategies. Presenters model will provide an overview of key issues affecting ELs and insight into how they
activities for new arrivals to develop the resilience needed to become resilient conduct their investigations, and provide an opportunity to ask questions.
and proficient learners.
Presenter(s): Angela Martinez-Gonzalez
Presenter(s): Judith O'Loughlin
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM

Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Culture & Intercultural Communication Advocacy and Public Policy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
The U.S. Office of Citizenship gives an overview of the revised naturalization
test and educational resources for adult citizenship education.
This session introduces participants to the wide world of emotions and
emotional intelligence (EI), an essential component of student learning and Presenter(s): Mary Flores, Jeremy Kelton & Shawn Chakrabarti
lifelong success. Participants learn EI basics and ways to improve the EI of their Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
ELs by incorporating elements of dance and mindful practices in cooperative
learning settings.
Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Presenter(s): Urmimala Das Applied Linguistics
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Language learners have the capacity to optimize conditions for their own
Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM language learning (or not!). Yet SLA theorists have not recognized the agency of
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building learners. This session recommends a way that theorists can do so while also
Recorded Presentation with Q & A suggesting creative ways to allow for and encourage learner agency in the
classroom.
Presenter(s): Diane Larsen-Freeman
This research-oriented session focuses on a mixed-methods study investigating
the effects of EL bullying-victimization on national and oriented L2 identities as Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
well as ELs' otherness, selves, L2 avoidance, resistance, and struggles to Academic Programs
develop oriented identities in L2 culture. Presenters provide opportunities for
audience participation in creating strategies for bullied ELs.
Presenter(s): Hilal Peker
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

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Teacher Education Language Assessment
Workshop Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This is a hands-on practical workshop where TBLT units of study address a gap
in tying classroom instruction to real-world tasks in public. Task sequencing is Want to increase course engagement? Gamify! Spotty attendance, reluctant
demonstrated by workshop leaders, attendees are guided in creating new participation, late work. Sound familiar? Even if video games are a foreign
lesson plans, and a shared digital portfolio is created. language to you, your class can benefit from gamification, the process of
Presenter(s): Charlotte Nolen, Matthew Nolen applying gaming principles to educational contexts, and can do so without
sacrificing academic rigor in the process.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs Presenter(s): Katie Welch
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Affiliate Colloquium with Q & A Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Advocacy and Public Policy Session with Q & A
Teacher associations around the world were hit hard when the pandemic struck
in early 2020. Some swiftly transformed their events online, ensuring that their
members had resources available to start teaching online. Many TESOL Get tips, tools, and free resources to help your students protect themselves,
affiliates organized PD opportunities and other types of events that kept their families, and their communities from scams.
members together during these difficult times. The Affiliate Network Presenter(s): Jennifer Leach
Professional Council supported the Affiliate Network and teacher associations
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
in general by providing many PD opportunities, as well as a 3-day affiliate
Programs
event, that followed TESOL's Virtual Convention. This colloquium features
panelists from different affiliates and showcases the resiliency of the Affiliate
Network to its members.
Presenter(s): Georgios Kormpas
11:00 am US ET
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Program Administration & Evaluation
Panel Session with Q & A
In a pathways program, students are not the only ones facing challenges. Many
non-ESL faculty have found the transition to teaching ESL students more
Postsecondary English programs in the United States face an existential crisis difficult than first imagined. Through workshops, brainstorming sessions, and
following recent years of declining enrollments. A diverse panel of program semester check-ins with IEP faculty, pathways educators are developing a
leaders analyze the challenges facing the industry and discuss solutions for greater skill set to engage their students.
individual programs and the industry as a whole. Attendees are engaged to
Presenter(s): Scott Duarte, Tobias Lemke, R. Scott Partridge
elicit concerns and responses.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Presenter(s): Mark Algren, Alan Broomhead, David Cutler, Cheryl Delk-LeGood, Language Programs
Jeff Hutcheson, Patricia Juza, Joann Ng Hartmann, Beata Schmid, Heidi
Vellenga, Bill Wallace
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Language Programs Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

EL enrollment in rural K–12 settings is increasing. Teachers need effective PD to

meet student needs and connect with one another. One PD consortium takes a
creative approach to bridge logistical (and online/distance) constraints and build
teacher foundational knowledge and instructional techniques. Participants gain
creative, adaptable PD project ideas.
Presenter(s): Gwyneth Dean-Witte
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

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Personal & Professional Development Reading, Writing, & Literacy
TESOL In Focus Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Are you a passionate TESOL leader? If so, TESOL needs you. Join us to learn This session showcases free Microsoft 365 tools, products, and platforms
about the positions of president-elect, director of the board, and member of the (compatible with iPad, Chrome, Mac) for the inclusive classroom and how they
Nominating Committee. Leaders currently serving in these positions identify can be used to support classroom engagement of students with learning
application requirements, roles, and expectations, and share tips and differences and a broad range of unique abilities with reading, writing, math,
experiences with the audience. and communication.
Presenter(s): Veronica G. Sardegna Presenter(s): Rachel Berger
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Applied Linguistics
Academic Session with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Fluency in an additional language is the often unrealized goal of language

learners. This may be because fluency, a central component of proficiency, is so The session presents research on students' writing development and attitudes
often unaddressed in language curricula. This session examines principles of toward an innovative MA Linguistics (TESOL) program offered via partnership
reading fluency and explores pedagogical approaches to it. between a private U.S. university and a public university in Vietnam. This
Presenter(s): Doreen Ewert, Lawrence Zwier, Jihye Shin, Jesse Conway, Ethan program for EFL teachers features a unique scaffolded thesis writing process
Lynn combining content delivery with high-level EAP instruction.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs Presenter(s): Sandra Kies, Olga Lambert
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Teacher Education Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
2021 Teacher of the Year Award Session with Q & A Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

NNEST teachers' English proficiency has often been neglected in teacher

education. Recognizing that English-for-Teaching is a form of ESP, and using Come attend this session and discover how you can empower students in your
examples from a preservice language course, this session focuses on teacher classroom through technology. Participants will leave this session with a clear
language proficiency: its importance in TESOL teacher training programs and understanding of how international collaboration brings PBL and content and
how this can be taught, practiced and assessed. language integrated learning together to create transformative opportunities for
Presenter(s): Khanh-Duc Kuttig students in cross-cultural situations.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Presenter(s): Kristine Adams
International Teaching Assistantships Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM

LIVE Program Administration & Evaluation Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Advocacy and Public Policy Workshop

This session from the U.S. Department of Education provides an update on

federal adult education initiatives. Topics include enrollment, performance, In this workshop, adult ESL practitioners explore how recent listening standards
integrated English language and civics education and IET, appropriations, and support remote and face-to-face focused listening instruction. Participants
technical assistance efforts. Attendees gain an understanding of federal efforts experience a virtual listening lesson and then develop listening materials and
to support ELs in adult education. tasks using a lesson template along with a standards-based checklist of
Presenter(s): Domminick McParland listening strategies. Listening resources provided.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language Presenter(s): Lori Howard, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Sylvia Ramirez
Programs Settings/Audiences: Adult Education

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Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This session explores the identity-as-pedagogy practices of five nonnative

English speaking teachers (NNESTs) in U.S. writing classrooms while also This session shares research on a course designed to improve future teachers'
looking at the institutional ecologies and support system that enable them to attitudes toward linguistic diversity as foundational for advocacy for ELs. The
bring their evolving, contested, and fluid identities into the classroom as mixed-methods study finds most teachers predisposed to positive views of
pedagogical resources, employing a collaborative narrative inquiry. multilingualism, yet limited in their ability to envision advocacy. Attendees
discuss implications for teacher education.
Presenter(s): Mijanur Rahman ,Lisya Seloni, Su Yin Khor, Cristina Sanchez-
Martin, Demet Yigitbilek Presenter(s): Heather Linville
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
International Teaching Assistantships
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Advocacy and Public Policy

The deputy director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English This research session focuses on the affordances of infographics as a
Language Acquisition (OELA) presents a national snapshot of ELs using the multimodal tool to scaffold students' writing development. The presenter's
latest data, including demographics and academic performance on the National results show that infographics, when used as a planning tool, provide cognitive
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). and affective support to writers. Guidance for educators interested in
integrating infographics in their writing courses is provided.
Presenter(s): Supreet Anand
Presenter(s): Undarmaa Maamuujav
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Workshop Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Panel Session with Q & A
This workshop demonstrates a TiP, a guide which briefly explains theory and
shows how theory manifests in practice, to promote equitable practices beyond
ESL classrooms. Participants begin creating a TiP for their own colleagues, New research in bilingualism supports the use of ELs' home languages through
engaging and empowering all educators to provide the best education for our carefully planned translanguaging strategies. The presenters explain
CLD students. translanguaging and use PowerPoint slides of classrooms to show how bilingual
Presenter(s): Chelsea Walter and ESL teachers can draw on their students' full linguistic repertoires to
develop academic language and content knowledge.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Presenter(s): Yvonne Freeman, Mary Soto, Ann Ebe, Vivian Pratts, Sandra
Programs Mercuri, David Freeman
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM Programs
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Intersection Session with Q & A
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Hate-filled language weakens trust, builds barriers, and interferes with Recorded Presentation with Q & A
classroom communication. Drawing from refugee and immigrant experiences in
Palestine, Syria, and the United States, panelists describe how MATESOL
students and educators can integrate cognitive and socioemotional dimensions This session reports on a case study of two college students whose
of peace language into human rights and advocacy work and curriculum participation in developmental literacy classes did not align with instructor
development. expectations. Findings reveal how behavior perceived by instructors as
Presenter(s): Josephine Prado, Shelley Wong problematic can be reinterpreted as resistance to institutional marginalization
through enactment of alternative identities. Pedagogical implications are also
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic addressed.
Programs
Presenter(s): Shawna Shapiro
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

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AM Teacher Education 3:00 pm US ET
Invited Speaker
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Vocabulary & Grammar
This session highlights the complexities of teaching, learning, and living in Recorded Presentation with Q & A
communities where creoles, like Gullah, are spoken alongside "standard"
English and AAVE. Based on their experiences learning and teaching standard Competition can make even the dullest vocabulary lesson exciting for secondary
English as a second dialect, the presenters provide best practices for language ESOL students. However, motivating activities can be time consuming for
teacher preparation and PD. teachers to create. The presenter demonstrates 10 generic vocabulary games
Presenter(s): Kisha Bryan that teachers can adapt to suit almost any review lesson.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Presenter(s): Tamara Jones
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Personal & Professional Development Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This session showcases the experience of more than 1,000 teachers across the
Philippines in using MOOCs and MOOC camps sponsored by the U.S. This session reports on findings from an investigation into key factors that
Department of State through the Regional English Language Office in Manila, reflective practice necessitates in order for practitioners to successfully engage
Philippines, for teacher training. The audience learns proven strategies in in the process of conscious reflection regarding their teaching as well as
facilitating MOOCs with teachers from diverse backgrounds. reflective tools available contingent on particular teacher development needs.
Presenter(s): Romualdo Mabuan, Rebecca Casas-Sagot, Rina Angeles Implications for ongoing teacher development are discussed.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Presenter(s): Jovanna Godinez Martinez
Programs Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM

Language Assessment Program Administration & Evaluation
Invited Speaker Session with Q & A Dialogue

Although language assessment is almost ubiquitous in most English learning This session reviews the literature on ELs' college persistence and completion
situations, many teachers have limited background in language assessment. and provides recommendations (apart from simply eliminating ESL offerings).
This panel identifies obstacles to understanding language assessment and After providing this brief introduction, the presenters invite participants to share
identifies promising approaches to address them for students, teachers, and personal experiences and recommendations from their own professional
administrators in K–12 and adult language settings. practice.
Presenter(s): Meg Montee Presenter(s): Kelsey Daniels
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

2:00 pm US ET Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM

Personal & Professional Development
Friday, 26 March, 2:00 PM Workshop
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Academic Session with Roundtable Participants learn how to create differentiated lessons based on cognitive
demand and contextual support that will increase the potential for ELs to
acquire academic literacy in math, and reduce the linguistic difficulties
What is interculturality and what do we do with it? Complex glocal reality and associated with mathematical discourse while managing to avoid the many
recent research prompt rethinking approaches to understanding dynamics and pitfalls that can occur during instruction.
factors in intercultural communication and language education. This session Presenter(s): Darlyne de Haan
presents relevant conceptual models and evidence-based practices that span Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
different program contexts in L2 (and teacher) education.
Presenter(s): Roxanna Senyshyn, Natalia Balyasnikova, Barbara Lapornik
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs

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Teacher Education Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Advocacy and Public Policy

This panel gives an overview to a research project funded by the U.S. Learn about the latest policy and program updates from representatives of the
Department of Education for enriching ESL teachers' PD experiences. Student Exchange Visitor Program.
Participants learn about creative ways to create a community of practice with Presenter(s): Meredith Duffy
university professors, teachers, ELs, parents, school administrators, and
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
community partners.
Language Programs
Presenter(s): Yin Lam Lee-Johnson
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation with Q & A International students come to U.S. universities with diverse needs and
expectations, resulting in a wide range of challenges for faculty who are not
equipped to deal with them. The presenters discuss research that examined
Flipped classrooms (FCs) have been heralded as an ideal methodology, faculty experiences teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms
especially in contrast to traditional, lecture-based classrooms. This session and offer implications for faculty training and support.
discusses challenges instructors may face when implementing a FC in an Presenter(s): Eman Elturki, Kate Hellmann
English language classroom, best practices for designing and delivering a FC,
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
and realistic expectations for outcomes of a FC.
Presenter(s): Aybolgan Borasheva
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Advocacy and Public Policy Session with Q & A The presenters examine how language teachers' (mis)conceptions of research
may impede their research engagement and present a project which aimed to
reorient teachers' conceptions and lead them to participation in an inquiry-
This hands-on session gives participants tools and guidance for conducting based community of practice (CoP). The presenters also discuss implications for
advocacy that gets results with community members, employers, funders, and contexts that are still developing their own inquiry-based CoPs.
policy makers. Participants practice framing messages, locating relevant data Presenter(s): Gena Bennett, David Chiesa, Ulugbek Azizov
on needs and outcomes, and using stories of individual learners' progress and
successes to create advocacy narratives that resonate.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Presenter(s): Deborah Kennedy
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A What do CBI, ESP, and online language teaching principles have in common?
They all have informed the creation of an aeronautical university's online
aviation English course development process. This session demonstrates how
Although genre-based writing instruction is a popular topic among ESL/EFL course developers took an in-person English-for-flight-training course and made
instructors, many questions need to be answered about the nature of genres it a pedagogically sound and globally accessible online course.
themselves, how curricula and lessons should be designed, and what types of Presenter(s): Alan Orr, Jennifer Roberts
assignments and assessments are appropriate. Fundamental questions are
answered in a dialogue format by expert teacher/researchers.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Presenter(s): Ann Johns
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
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Digital Learning & Technologies Teacher Education
Academic Session with Q & A Panel Session with Q & A

Panelists present a culmination of research, trends, and case studies on mixed, This panel brings together four TESOL practitioners from Michigan to discuss
augmented, and virtual reality. Join the discussion as they demystify these service-learning models for TESOL teacher preparation at their respective
mediums and lay the groundwork for an engaging conversation regarding institutions. Panelists explore the benefits, challenges, and effects of service
technology that has and will continue to be involved in English language learning in the following contexts: a TESOL practicum, a rural community, and a
teaching and learning. study abroad experience.
Presenter(s): Andy Curtis, Dave Dolan, Tom Becskehazy, Mai Minh Tien, Marta Presenter(s): April Burke, Emily Feuerherm, Zuzana Tomas, Amie VanHorn-Gabel
Halaczkiewicz Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Adult Education
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM Personal & Professional Development
Digital Learning & Technologies Panel Session with Q & A
Dialogue

Implementing best practices of EL instructional coaching and coteaching is

Student-generated, online multimodal projects engage students in the authentic crucial for districts' ability to support classroom teachers of ELs. Three panelists
process of analytical and critical thinking. Presenters share projects focusing on share their insights on how research-based models are applied in practice. This
digital learning and technologies: infographics, podcasting, and digital posters. session is of special interest to anyone involved in PD of classroom teachers of
Engaging students' natural interests and assigning assessments with an ELs.
authentic audience to communicate via digital tools will increase language Presenter(s): Diana Bayona-Bland, Tracy Tabor, Svetlana Nuss
learning success.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Presenter(s): Mari Bodensteiner
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM Panel Session with Roundtable
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
TESOL In Focus with Q & A
This session addresses the challenges ELs with interrupted education face as a
result of Latin American socioeconomic migration, Arab and African refugee
migration, and internal political/economic disruptions. Attendees gain insight
This session reports a classroom-based qualitative study of the use of a reader- into the issues students with interrupted formal education face to understand
oriented approach for teaching academic reading/vocabulary to multilingual their needs and inform teaching and advocacy.
students. Findings show that a reader-oriented approach promotes critical Presenter(s): Jose Franco, Judith O’Loughlin, Brenda Custodio, Orangel Abreu,
thinking, agency, and increased interactivity in multilingual readers as they
Ahmed Kadhum Fahad, Kara McDonald
develop academic reading skills and vocabulary.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Neda Sahranavard
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Personal & Professional Development
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM TESOL In Focus with Q & A
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Academic Session with Q & A
CEA, the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation, is a
specialized accreditor promoting excellence in the field of English language
What misunderstandings may some mainstream teachers and administrators teaching and administration for postsecondary IEPs. Various operational
bring to working with refugee-background learners? What does research say changes have been undertaken for meetings, training events and site visits.
about how we can respond effectively? Panelists discuss and problematize Survey results of site pandemic-related changes and agency adaptations are
efforts to dismantle deficit discourses, counter resistance to teaching refugees, presented.
and raise awareness surrounding refugee concerns more generally in schools. Presenter(s): Heidi Vellenga
Presenter(s): Kristin Kibler Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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Applied Linguistics Teacher Education
Invited Speaker Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This session explores how cognitive linguistics, sociocultural theory, and corpus This session presents the results of a mixed-methods study aimed at exploring
linguistics contribute to usage-based approaches to language teaching. Their how a service learning project can help future EFL teachers understand social
shared focus on meaning as the basis of human communication is particularly justice in a context of unequal and inequitable educational disparities.
relevant for L2 teaching. Following a brief discussion of each approach, the Presenter(s): Michel Riquelme Sanderson
panel concludes with a Q&A.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Presenter(s): Natalia Dolgova, Andrea Tyler, Benjamin White, Jack Hardy Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Teacher Education
4:00 pm US ET Panel Session with Q & A

Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM

Personal & Professional Development Following rapid worldwide shifts in education in response to global events,
Recorded Presentation with Q & A what pedagogical and practical needs now inform ESL/EFL teacher training
program design? Guided by TESOL's 6 Principles®, participants explore new
This interactive session introduces a web-based archive of pedagogical insights into how PD can empower and inspire English teachers in the post-
materials and student texts from university-level L2 composition courses. The COVID-19 world.
session focuses on how the pedagogical materials are collected and accessed, Presenter(s): Kathleen Copeland, Nicole Servais, Jennifer Johnston, Ketty
as well as implications for teaching and research. The presenters invite the Reppert
audience to consider this repository as both a model and resource.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Presenter(s): Emily Palese
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Workshop
Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Reading fluency is defined as reading at an appropriate rate with adequate
comprehension. This session provides tools for teachers to measure reading
fluency progress. We present research on measuring fluency growth and
This session, for K–12 English language teachers, outlines a set of principles demonstrate how to use the tools with a practice data set. Participants are
and practices for engaging in genre-based literacy instruction that is invited to bring a laptop.
fundamentally and actively antiracist. Attendees leave with a five-point Presenter(s): Steven Carter, Neil J. Anderson
framework for designing their own antiracist genre-based curriculum,
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
instruction, and assessment.
Presenter(s): Kathryn Accurso
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Intersection Session with Q & A
Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A This session revisits intercultural rhetoric, including positioning it as a link
between L2 writing and the translingual approach. Focusing on complexities in
how L2 writers negotiate linguistic and cultural differences, panelists discuss
The presenters describe a coaching model for in-service teachers. Specifically, and explore writing research and practice in a variety of contexts and academic
they detail how and why the coaching model evolved in response to teachers' levels (from secondary to postgraduate).
reactions, how the model was integrated into academic coursework, and ways Presenter(s): Estela Ene, Kyle McIntosh, Nancy Ann Overman, Andrea Lypka,
this coaching resulted in teachers' increased use of effective differentiation Kazuyuki Kawano, Ulla Connor
strategies and cognitive learning strategies.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Presenter(s): Jill Swavely Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

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Content-Integrated Approaches Digital Learning & Technologies
Workshop Recorded Presentation with Q & A

What are the language and presentation strategies used by today's successful This session discusses research on faculty experiences teaching large online
global leaders? Explore proven techniques for teaching executive presence to EFL courses. After providing a brief overview of the study, the presenters focus
international professionals in the ESP context. Participants examine techniques on challenges instructors face, pedagogical implications in the areas of online
for effective leadership and presentation skills. Gain resources for teaching course development and implementation, and institutional support options and
students how to motivate stakeholders and create new opportunities. opportunities. Concrete examples are provided.
Presenter(s): Daniel Bullock Presenter(s): Dawn Bikowski
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Programs Language Programs

Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM

Applied Linguistics Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Invited Speaker

Linguistic funds of knowledge are the language, literacy, and cultural practices A content-rich genre-based approach allows classroom participants to draw
that families have accumulated in order to survive and thrive. The presenter from subject area texts as a guide to writing. Along with providing focus and
explains the concept, gives examples as they relate to ELs, and provides structure, such texts also reveal lexical chunks that can be used to frame ideas
participants some tools for applying the approach in their own teaching. and embed information. Presenters discuss how this can work at multiple
Presenter(s): Peter Sayer levels.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Presenter(s): Colin Ward, Alice Savage
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Materials Development & Publishing
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
5:00 pm US ET
Language learners' perception and comprehension of information in teacher-
made classroom materials is influenced, among other things, by the visual Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM
language employed in these documents. This session takes participants step-by- Materials Development & Publishing
step through the design process of a sample material and provides them with Recorded Presentation with Q & A
tips for designing visually successful materials.
Presenter(s): Gabriela Kleckova Many ESL textbooks play it safe in terms of content, which limit their ability to
interest and motivate learners. This session focuses on adapting and
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education supplementing textbooks with original, motivating teacher-created materials.
The presenter also demonstrates how original materials can help review old
Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM learning points and preview upcoming ones.
Content-Integrated Approaches Presenter(s): Gregory Mizera
Workshop Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs

Common Core requires rigorous texts in language arts. This workshop focuses Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM
on selecting, pairing, and teaching seminal literature—from mythology and Applied Linguistics
Shakespeare to historic documents and speeches—that supports academic Invited Speaker
needs of ELs. Participants practice strategies and techniques to implement
rigorous, high-impact lessons for optimal language development.
Presenter(s): Barbara Ihns, Christine Pierce Data-driven learning (DDL) involves direct learner engagement with language
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School corpus data, working as "language detectives," with "every student a Sherlock
Holmes." This session discusses the affordances of DDL for younger (pretertiary)
learners, introduces some useful DDL tools, and outlines challenges in
implementing DDL in the pretertiary TESOL classroom.
Presenter(s): Peter Crosthwaite
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs

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Reading, Writing, & Literacy Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Demonstrating critical reading skills through class discussion are part and What can an ESOL teacher do when mainstream teachers do not connect with
parcel to academic success. For international students entering graduate-level or show empathy for newcomer refugee students? This session discusses how
studies, it is crucial to understand how new literacy skills form the basis for an urban elementary school worked to build a more inclusive community by
contributions to discussion. The presenters examine online reading course reading fiction centered on the refugee and resettlement experience.
materials and effective pedagogical practices promoting stance-taking. Presenter(s): Kelly Bull
Presenter(s): Natalya Watson Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Programs
Academic Programs
Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM
Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM Personal & Professional Development
Content-Integrated Approaches Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

The mixed-method netnographic social network analysis study discussed

What happens when social science professors and ESL instructors coteach examines PD in Twitter's ELT community, ELT Twitter chat topics, the
university-level general-education prerequisites? Emerging bilingual students mechanisms reproducing patterns of response, and Twitter's influence on
not only master content, expanding their intercultural competencies, but also teachers' interests and practice. The study provides support of Twitter's
develop literacy skills to communicate more effectively in academic contexts. benefits and teachers' self-directed PD as a valid form of PD.
This session explores practices that allow specialist educators to collaborate Presenter(s): Anna Bartosik
productively throughout a course.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Presenter(s): William C. Cole-French
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM Workshop
Teacher Education
Panel Session with Q & A
In this workshop, participants learn why students should "read" the visual
language in a graphic novel for increased comprehension, emotional impact,
Drawing on notions of White complicity and vigilance, a panel of White female and motivation. Participants explore equity-oriented graphic novels and
teacher educators share insights and ongoing dilemmas from their research on resources to collaborate and create a sample unit plan that addresses social
efforts to disrupt racist language pedagogies and curriculum in TESOL teacher justice issues in their own classroom.
education. Critical Whiteness studies, raciolinguistics, and critical self- Presenter(s): Tamara Wik
reflexivity frame the overall session and individual presentations.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Presenter(s): Judy Sharkey Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM Workshop
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation with Q & A What does "be more specific" mean? How much should I say? Why do I need to
write all that? This session presents a memorable, task-based exercise that
engages students across a variety of levels in determining which details are
With travel restrictions imposed by COVID-19, international virtual exchange necessary, helping them answer "how much is enough?" for themselves.
can become an alternative to foster cross-cultural dialogue and English learning
Presenter(s): R. Scott Partridge, Monica Farling
in secondary and higher education. The presenters share findings from
synchronous and asynchronous exchange opportunities that engaged domestic
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
and international students in sharing cultural experiences, creating a virtual art
Language Programs
festival, and promoting multilingualism.
Presenter(s): Clara Bauler
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs

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Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM Friday, 26 March, 6:00 PM

Teacher Education Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Workshop

This session examines how recent neuroscientific research regarding learning Empower ELs by supporting higher order thinking and offering choice and voice
can dispel myths, and shows how neuroscience, together with psychology and in virtual settings. Participants explore digital learning tools as a catalyst for
other educational research, can provide an evidence base that informs and language development, content achievement, and engaged learning. Bring your
validates what we do in the English language classroom. Practical teaching own device to this interactive session.
examples are given. Presenter(s): Maria Cieslak
Presenter(s): Patricia Harries, Carol Lethaby Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive
English/Private Language Programs
Friday, 26 March, 6:00 PM
Teacher Education
Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM Workshop
Program Administration & Evaluation
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
This high-energy workshop is led by two visionaries who offer research in
This session demonstrates how two Title lll Consortia support districts to neuroscience and cognitive psychology that shows the crucial importance of
improve outcomes for ELs. Each consortium takes a different approach to classroom brain energizers. Eight fun and easy brain energizers for the mind,
providing resources, professional learning opportunities, guidance, and body, and soul are demonstrated through innovative mindfulness techniques,
technical assistance while increasing the capacity of the districts and staff to creative dance, yoga practices, and physical exercises.
support ELs. Presenter(s): Patrick T. Randolph, Laura Giacomini
Presenter(s): Jill Kramer, Dana Weber Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Programs

Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM Friday, 26 March, 6:00 PM

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Workshop

This session investigates some of the theory, practices, and benefits of using a Reconsideration of how we design online instruction to motivate ELs is
mentor text as a springboard for students to generate their own academic essay imperative. This session focuses on demonstration and hands-on experience
outline. The presenter shares tips and best practices to guide students as well with digital tools, such as Flipgrid, Google Expeditions, and Seek by iNaturalist,
as some ideas that will motivate student engagement. in order to create generative environments that meaningfully engage ELs in
Presenter(s): Amanda Simons content-based language lessons.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs Presenter(s): Robin Schell, Betty Thomason, Natalia Ward, Clara Lee Brown
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School

6:00 pm US ET Friday, 26 March, 6:00 PM

Vocabulary & Grammar
Friday, 26 March, 6:00 PM
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
The careful use of visual arts, such as calligraphy and painting, can help ELs
process and retain new vocabulary. Drawing from both East Asian and Western
This session reports on research conducted on international students in the
cultural traditions, this session illustrates several visual arts techniques that
United States and France. Students reflected on their experience living abroad
stimulate the memory by engaging the learner's senses and emotions.
through a guided reflection approach. Findings report that reflection helps
transform dialogue from "solid" to "liquid." Recommendations for study abroad Presenter(s): Alan Seaman
training programs as well as in-classroom activities are provided. Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Presenter(s): Judith White
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

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SATURDAY, 27 MARCH 6:00 am US ET

Saturday, 27 March, 6:00 AM
Vocabulary & Grammar
5:00 am US ET Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 AM

Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Teachers interested in referencing front-line vocabulary research can now
2021 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research Session with Q & A choose from a multitude of studies as such reports are now commonplace.
What is missing is a set of accessible checks teachers can use to gauge the
trustworthiness and quality of these reports. Such a checklist is provided in this
The session reports on using Activity Theory as a framework for understanding session.
the role played by learners' motives for second language learning, writing and Presenter(s): Joseph Vitta
peer interaction. The findings are discussed in terms of how an array of
individual-related and context-related factors shape learners' approaches
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
towards peer feedback activities.
Academic Programs
Presenter(s): Azar Tajabadi
Settings/Audiences: Early Childhood, Primary School Saturday, 27 March, 6:00 AM
Digital Learning & Technologies
TESOL In Focus
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 AM
Vocabulary & Grammar Presenters introduce a ground-breaking new book on language gaming that
Recorded Presentation with Q & A contains a variety of board, dice, card, and online games for different levels and
learning objectives. A YouTube video was developed for each game to illustrate
The presenter, who teaches in an EFL tertiary setting, introduces a collection of how each should be played to maximize language learning opportunities.
50+ word cloud activities useful for teachers and students of English to expand
Presenter(s): Randall Sadler, Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov
and use vocabulary in academic reading and writing courses.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Suzan Stamper
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs Saturday, 27 March, 6:00 AM
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 AM
Applied Linguistics This session shares a success story of high school ELs who were motivated to
Recorded Presentation with Q & A write immigration stories. Participants gain insight into the necessity of having
a meaningful topic and procedural knowledge for using an authentic writing
prompt for essays that satisfy the literacy goals of the striving school district.
Balochistan is a multilingual and multiethnic province of Pakistan. In this Presenter(s): Jane Ward
underprivileged region, various languages are spoken, so English is taught as a
third language. The presenter explores the challenges faced by the female Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
English language teachers in their multilingual classrooms and suggests
solutions to overcome such challenges.
Presenter(s): Shumaila Butt
11:00 am US ET
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
Programs Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Despite advances in L2 pronunciation teaching, students may still be unable to

apply what they learned in the classroom in their daily communication because
pronunciation features were taught in isolation. A complexity system view of
pronunciation, along with the integration of technology, offers a much needed
and promising new approach.
Presenter(s): Di Liu
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs

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Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM

Digital Learning & Technologies Program Administration & Evaluation
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Academic Session with Q & A

When COVID-19 forced adult education to move online, many ELs were unable This session features multiple panelists presenting best practices for leadership
to participate in video lessons. In this session, discover how one rural-area of remotely delivered language programs with a particular focus on how to
program used WhatsApp to keep students engaged before, during, and after address common complications found in this environment, such as staying
stay-at-home orders disrupted the traditional classroom. student centered, mentoring teachers, conducting virtual classroom
Presenter(s): Glenda Rose observations, advising students, managing resources, and navigating time
differences.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Presenter(s): Rosario Giraldez, Kateryna Forynna, Lleij Schwartz, Kirti Kapur
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
Personal & Professional Development
Dialogue Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
Vocabulary & Grammar
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Coteaching has become the expectation for K–12 content and EL teachers.
Teachers operating under this initiative have experienced some successes, but
many continue to encounter challenges that seem counterintuitive to serving This session offers teachers a student-centered approach that encourages
students. Attendees participate in an asynchronous collaborative activity to participation while teaching the rules of grammar. Students find this fresh
brainstorm implementable solutions to incorporate in their institutions. method interesting and effective in allowing them to identify and produce
Presenter(s): Elise Brittain certain grammatical structures that they have previously found to be
overwhelmingly complex.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Presenter(s): Caitlin Capone
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM Language Programs
Personal & Professional Development
Panel Session with Q & A
Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
Teacher Education
Educators from Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States Panel Session with Q & A
discuss the disruptive pivot to online teaching during the pandemic and the role
of critical friending and peer coaching as a move away from master narratives.
They share how meaning making included exploratory, self-critical, and Advocacy is an important tenet within the K–12 EL teacher profession, yet EL
reflective discourses, as well as multimodality. teacher education often operates within a frame of comfort and accessibility,
Presenter(s): Arieh Sherris, Diana Gonzalez, Dot McElhone, Anita Bright, Jessica limiting opportunities to examine complex and disruptive topics. Teacher
Bradley, Susan Acosta, Brad Parker, Dulce Nino, Valerie Jakar, Sabine Little, educator panelists address how they foster disruption to model teacher
Hina Agarwalla leadership among pre- and in-service teachers.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Presenter(s): Trish Morita-Mullaney, Michelle Benegas, Karla Stone, Michelle
Greene, Amy Stolpestad, Lynne Stallings, Jenna Cushing-Leubner
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM Programs
Digital Learning & Technologies
Intersection Session with Q & A
Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
This English as a Foreign Language and Computer-Assisted Language Learning Teacher Education
Interest Section InterSection panel examines how teaching speaking online has Dialogue
been approached in EFL settings around the world. The panelists share their
experiences, ranging from the use of innovative digital resources and websites
or applications to in-class experiences in relation to effective speaking teaching The standards set by monolingual English native practitioners in the TESOL
online. world have neglected the experiences of those practitioners' multilingual
Presenter(s): Olenka Villavicencio, Jane Chien, Belinda Braunstein, Fuad Abdul English nonnative counterparts. This dialogue session provides opportunities for
Hamied, Araceli Salas participants to understand how art-based approaches in teacher education help
preservice teachers reconstruct identities and main cultures and raise
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education awareness of multilingual voices.
Presenter(s): Yixuan Wang
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

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Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM

Personal & Professional Development Digital Learning & Technologies
Panel Session with Q & A Invited Speaker Session with Q & A

Teaching language in an asynchronous environment is vastly different from

typical intensive English environments. Adjusting requires finessing skills and The presenters consider six fundamental elements of remote learning, which
adapting teaching aptitude to fit a modality not designed for traditional they call the 6 "As": Availability, Access, Awareness, Application, Assistance,
language approaches. In this session, panelists discuss strategic and responsive Affiliation. Each element is considered in terms of the technology
teacher training to meet the needs of online teaching. considerations educators need to grapple with to ensure the academic and
Presenter(s): Emily Clark, Summer Peixoto, Elizabeth Gould social-emotional growth of their ELs.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Presenter(s): Cristiane Vicentini, Ashlee Cappucci, Tony Erben
Language Programs Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM

Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Teacher Education
Intersection Session with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This panel of TESOL educators, researchers, and teacher trainers showcase

current work on the topic of social justice. Presenters explore how TESOL The National Dual Language Education Teacher Preparation Standards provide a
professionals can expose and address inequalities, what practices and tools can theoretically based framework for preservice and in-service teachers working
be used to empower others, and what efforts are being made to bring about with multilingual learners in dual language education. This session provides an
social change. overview of the standards and their utility with teacher preparation and with
Presenter(s): Benjamin White, Ryuko Kubota, Raichle Farrelly, Melisa state education agencies who are developing dual language education
Cahnmann-Taylor, Kathleen McGovern guidance.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Presenter(s): Joan Lachance
Programs Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
Culture & Intercultural Communication Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This session demonstrates one tool for teacher educators to employ to engage Sarcasm is very common in English, but learners often struggle to detect it,
preservice teachers in critical self-analysis of their intercultural beliefs, leading to confusion, hurt feelings, and demotivation. This session overviews a
knowledges, and communicative practices. The presenter expands on the study that examined the effect of strategy training to improve learners' ability to
traditionally superficial cultural artifact sharing activity through active silent detect sarcasm in conversation. Motivating and research-tested activities are
listening, discourse analysis, and postinteraction critical reflection. modeled.
Presenter(s): Amanda Swearingen Presenter(s): Caleb Prichard
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM

Teacher Education
2:00 pm US ET
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM
Language Assessment
This session for K–12 teacher educators and teachers of multilingual learners Recorded Presentation with Q & A
shares promising practices and lessons learned from "REAL Talk," an
international, intergenerational racial literacy book club. Attendees leave with a
framework for creating community and accountability around issues of racial Equity for multilingual learners in K–12 settings stems from teaching and
and linguistic justice in their own contexts. assessment practices that are inclusive of multilingualism. In that way,
multilingual learners can negotiate meaning and engage in deep learning in the
Presenter(s): Brenda Muzeta
languages of their choice. Using a five-step cycle, this session highlights
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs classroom assessment strategies in multiple languages.
Presenter(s): Margo Gottlieb
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Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Teacher Education
Workshop Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Considering the wide variety of L2 high school, adult education, and higher This pedagogy-based session models Technological Pedagogical Content
education students, instructors must be strategic in implementing research- Knowledge (TPACK) to engage EFL school teachers in intensive, formal CALL
based approaches to engage and motivate L2 reading for learner success. Using teacher training in rural schools who have to follow a prescribed curriculum and
a variety of hands-on tasks, participants gain knowledge, experience, and work in underresourced classrooms. Enacting the TPACK-in-Action framework,
materials for including extensive reading in their reading curriculum. the presenter initiates contextualized, TPACK-driven tasks to prepare teachers
Presenter(s): Doreen Ewert for change.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Presenter(s): Tien Minh Mai
Language Programs Settings/Audiences: Adult Education

Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM

Personal & Professional Development Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Panel Session with Q & A

This research-based session explores how female teachers and researchers in

the ELT field become leaders in Latin America. The study found that Despite much research on teaching L2 writing in the past decade, classroom
collaboration and trust from other women are significant in the development of practices may still be based more in mythology than research-informed practice.
female leaders in the region. The session will hopefully raise awareness on Each presenter highlights a writing myth (from process to development to
female leadership emergence. language use), related research, and tested practices to reorient teaching
Presenter(s): Araceli Salas toward more effective practice.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education Presenter(s): Jan Frodesen, Gena Bennett, Diane Schmitt, Margi Wald
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
TESOL In Focus with Q & A
This session introduces a project-based language course, Language Learning
Through Leadership and Service, which provides a platform for both language
development and student success. Through this interactive presentation, The presenters describe five new, engaging lesson plan activities published in
participants consider ways to create relevance in the language classroom as "New Ways in Teaching Speaking, Second Edition," from TESOL Press.
they gain a richer understanding of PBL. Attendees receive a link providing each ready-to-use activity's step-by-step
Presenter(s): Ikuko Fujiwara instructions. This session focuses on "speaking and technology" or "spoken EAP"
activities; the book includes many activities from several categories.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Presenter(s): Julie Vorholt
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM Language Programs
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
This session shows the results of more than 10 years of research and Invited Speaker Session with Q & A
development of an English training program for Bolivian software engineers to
enable them to join the global software development industry. The presenter
discusses intercultural communication challenges in multicultural teams, and For nearly three decades, scholars problematized dominant approaches in
the methodology and tools applied in the program. TESOL and offered novel ways to reconceptualize the notions of standards,
Presenter(s): Maria Gutierrez legitimacy, ownership, identity, instruction, use, and interaction. In this session,
panelists offer their vision for the future of this line of scholarship and discuss
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education its implications for TESOL profession(als).
Presenter(s): Aya Matsuda, Nathanael Rudolph, Bedrettin Yazan
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
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Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM

Teacher Education Program Administration & Evaluation
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Norming of placement writing exams and term writing tests is essential in an

This session revolves around findings from research on current continuous PD IEP. Successful norming ensures interrater reliability and increases instructor
approaches, results from a quantitative survey carried out in the Brazilian confidence. This session presents a solid model of norming writing assignments
English language teaching context, and qualitative data gathered from through training, follow-up, and consistent application that is proven to work.
interviews with ELT professionals: teachers, teacher educators, and managers. Presenter(s): Michelle Snead
It involves discussion on future perspectives regarding observation.
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs
Presenter(s): Marcela Cintra
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM
Programs
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Dialogue
Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM
Culture & Intercultural Communication Have you ever received papers that do not seem to have been written by your
Recorded Presentation with Q & A students? This session offers participants an opportunity to discuss problems
regarding contract cheating and ways for educators to deal with it. Participants
leave with concrete strategies for preventing, deterring, and responding to
Advanced multilingual learners need to build capacity to pursue personal and contract cheating.
professional goals across cultures, and a flexibility and agility in dealing with Presenter(s): Thu Tran
human difference. Presenters share a cross-cultural communication
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
instructional module developed to address these needs.
Presenter(s): Jim Tierney
Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Personal & Professional Development
Workshop
Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM
Teacher Education
Workshop Changing times demand continued reflection on practice. The teaching
philosophy statement (TPS), rarely used outside of the hiring process, is
underutilized and disliked by teachers. This workshop introduces new
This session suggests activities to explore aspects of the pedagogy of approaches to the TPS as a reflective tool. Explore five effective strategies to
multiliteracies in English teacher education programs both as a teaching create, edit, and reflect on teaching philosophy statements.
approach and as a resource for PD. The activities include an adaptation of a Presenter(s): Kelly Donovan, Terra Nicoll
children's storybook, multimodal teachers' journals, and the design process of
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
digital teaching materials.
Language Programs
Presenter(s): Jailine Farias, Angelica Maia
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs,
Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM
International Teaching Assistantships
Teacher Education
Workshop
3:00 pm US ET Is your teacher education program looking to go online? In this workshop,
participants coconstruct a framework for online language teacher education
Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM (OLTE) and explore guiding principles for designing OLTE. Presenters provide
Culture & Intercultural Communication examples from their context and participants have time to workshop their
Intersection Session with Q & A materials in light of the framework and guidelines.
Presenter(s): Julia Reimer
In this session, the presenters view multilingual learners as emerging Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
cosmopolitan intellectuals who have the capacities to draw from a range of
cultural resources and legacies in their literacy practices. From this perspective,
they share strategies for bridging local and global academic experiences, thus
intertwining cultural, social, and academic knowledge realms.
Presenter(s): Laura Blythe Liu
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs

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Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM

Content-Integrated Approaches Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Advocacy and Public Policy Session with Q & A

This session considers a five-pronged strategy for designing EAP assignments In this session, attendees learn how educators and ministries of education can
within a content-based humanities course. The presenters reflect on the utility use the Seal of Biliteracy to promote the study of English as a foreign language.
of the strategy, especially for closing academic literacy gaps (e.g., negotiating Presenter(s): Christel Brody, Paul Sandrock
academic discourse, finding academic voice, and projecting academic persona) Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
when bringing IEP and U.S. students together for joint assignments.
Presenter(s): Lynne Rankin-Clark, Maya Shastri
Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Language Programs
Panel Session with Q & A

Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM

Culture & Intercultural Communication The presenters discuss two teacher education programs' continuous
Recorded Presentation with Q & A improvement to guide candidates with acquiring and demonstrating cultural
competence. The session features self-study of two assignments: a
sociolinguistics autobiography and a culture study project. Attendees receive
This session critically analyses the traditional approaches to teaching the guidelines and assessment tools for both assignments.
interculturality in the context of ESL/EFL and exemplifies some ways to teach Presenter(s): Gisela Ernst-Slavit, Andrea Hellman, Alexis Gonzalez
interculturality using a critical discourse analytic approach. It is suggested that Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
the critical discourse analytic approach should be integral to language teacher
training programs.
Presenter(s): Sadia Shad Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Programs

Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM Discover how conversation partners trained on a service-learning model go into
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation ESL classrooms for developing conversation skills and fostering a positive
Intersection Session with Q & A campus culture. The program removes social barriers to interactions and
relationship development between confident English speakers and international
ESL students, building intercultural communication skills to foster mutual
A panel of experts shares assessment procedures, guidelines, and rubrics used cultural understanding.
at two U.S. universities to assess the English oral proficiency of prospective Presenter(s): Amy Chastain
ITAs. They also discuss the features that seem to impact ITAs' Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
comprehensibility, ITAs' perceptions of the testing experience, and program
services to assist ITAs.
Presenter(s): Veronica Sardegna Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, International Teaching
Dialogue
Assistantships

Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM Attendees explore possibilities for incorporating students' L1s in EFL
Teacher Education classrooms. Guiding questions include: How does translanguaging provide a
Academic Session with Q & A voice to emergent multilingual students? What are the consequences of denying
students' home languages? What changes need to occur for translanguaging to
be embraced? How can translanguaging make learning more accessible?
Practice informs research and research informs practice. This panel explores Presenter(s): Amanda Swearingen
this symbiotic relationship, beginning with an overview of online research Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
trends, and continues with specific research: affordances and limitations in
Programs
online language teacher education, conversation analysis methods in online
talk, building an online community of inquiry, and reconceptualizing PD.
Presenter(s): Deborah Healey, Mary Ann Christison, Amber Warren, Joan Kang
Shin, Faridah Pawan
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs,
International Teaching Assistantships

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Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM

Vocabulary & Grammar Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Multiword phrases are highly frequent in all language uses. Teaching and Language curriculum design can be challenging and time-consuming. By
learning recurrent multiword phrases is important in listening, speaking, suggesting clear steps for teachers and curriculum designers, this session
reading, and writing, and their uses can be highlighted in practically any focuses on how to integrate design thinking, a collaborative and creative
context. This session offers teaching strategies and activities that are practical problem-solving approach, into the curriculum/course/syllabus design process in
and effective in various instructional settings. order to make it more efficient, effective, and human-centered.
Presenter(s): Brent Green Presenter(s): Kelley Crites
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs

4:00 pm US ET Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM

Program Administration & Evaluation
Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM
Academic Session with Q & A
Materials Development & Publishing
Intersection Session with Q & A
The panelists discuss policy issues regarding internationalization efforts, the
role of ITA programs, and the benefits of a linguistic asset perspective in which
Those who teach adolescents or adults who are emergent readers struggle to
ITAs are a transformative resource for intercultural learning. Concrete ways in
find materials that are representative and age-appropriate. This session
which ITA programs can amplify opportunities for domestic students to develop
discusses the unique literacy needs of this population and how materials can be
global-cultural competence are addressed.
better developed to meet their needs.
Presenter(s): Linda Harklau, James Coda, Roxana Senyshyn, Elizabeth Wittner,
Presenter(s): Sarah Daniels-Larson, Andrea Echelberger
Maria Mendoza
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School , Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: International Teaching Assistantships

Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM

Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM
Applied Linguistics
Personal & Professional Development
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Workshop

This session reports on motivational strategy use in the college-level L2 Teaching is challenging, and dealing with frustrating and demotivating factors
classroom. Attendees are provided with a motivational teaching diagnosis can directly impact both student and teacher performance in the classroom. This
questionnaire for self-evaluation and walk away with classroom-tested vision- workshop explores factors of motivation and strategies to effectively maintain
building motivational strategies and tasks that are easily adaptable to any motivation. Leave this workshop with a self-made motivational keepsake and a
ESL/EFL teaching context and curriculum. renewed sense of motivation.
Presenter(s): Zeynep Erdil-Moody Presenter(s): Terra Nicoll, Kelly Donovan
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Language Programs

Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM

Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Content-Integrated Approaches
Invited Speaker
Panel Session with Q & A

Adult ELs need support to realize their career goals. Integrated EL civics (IELCE)
This session explores how educators can use comparative data to meet the
curriculum enhances integrated education and training (IET) in order to prepare
needs of EL students in making informed decisions about referrals to special
learners for the workforce. Presenters describe their exemplary program
education (SpEd), thereby reducing disproportionality, and identify collaborative
models, challenges, and successes to assist participants in evaluating the
practices in the multitiered system of support process that meet ELs' language
models for their own program use.
needs in supporting appropriate referrals/services of ELs to SpEd.
Presenter(s): Lori Howard, Evelyn Jackson, Paige Endo
Presenter(s): Lynda Idle
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

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Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM

Teacher Education Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This session describes a research project that explores preservice ESL teacher
candidates' awareness of and attitudes toward undocumented students in U.S. This session reports on findings from interviews with 10 primary and secondary
schools. Findings indicate that most teacher candidates are unaware of school ELT teachers in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings
undocumented students and the issues they face, and that teacher education address the primary challenge of engaging learners in a new language through
courses can raise awareness of these issues. digital environments and present new ways of implementing and thinking about
Presenter(s): Gregory Cramer digital learning and technologies.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School Presenter(s): Kevin Wong
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM
Digital Learning & Technologies Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

Though using corpus tools for language learning has been proven effective,
there is still a need to support corpus-novice instructors in implementing This session discusses the use of photo-narrative frames, an innovation that
context-specific corpus work. This session addresses this need by sharing integrates participant photographs with narratives, to explore the professional
strategies of ongoing scaffolding and training of corpus tools successfully identity of expatriate EFL teachers. A case study is used to exemplify how
adopted by a graduate EAP program. photo-narrative frames support participants in constructing and understanding
Presenter(s): Rebekah Callari-Kaczmarczyk their own experiences and conveying their stories to others.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Presenter(s): Vincent Greenier
Academic Programs Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM

Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Personal & Professional Development
Workshop Recorded Presentation with Q & A

This workshop begins with issues related to notetaking in ELT, focusing on the This session compares the limitations of the working memory with the limitless
evaluation and use of commercial and authentic materials for notetaking nature of long-term memory. In practice, this means that teaching can't overload
instruction. Participants are invited to consider their current teaching practices working memory with new information and has to take advantage of what
for notetaking and jointly analyze commercial materials for notetaking learners already know. Find out what all this means for English language
instruction. teachers.
Presenter(s): Joseph Siegel Presenter(s): Carol Lethaby
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
Saturday, 27 March, 4:00 PM
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
5:00 pm US ET
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM
Teacher Education
With COVID-19, opportunities to practice face-to-face teaching have greatly
Recorded Presentation with Q & A
diminished. The study discussed, designed to tackle this problem, describes the
integration of mixed-reality classrooms—involving the teaching of simulated
Emergent bilingual students (EBSs) of all proficiency levels participate in
classes on TV, in which the students' role is played by avatars—into Zoom-
mainstream classrooms. Some incorporate EBSs dynamically. Others are sink-
based practicum courses.
or-swim! How do we know? The presenter created an observation lens to
Presenter(s): Lia Kamhi-Stein, Ravy S. Lao, Nairi Issagholian predict the degree EBSs are guaranteed access to mainstream material,
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, presents the lens, and discusses initial research implementing it.
International Teaching Assistantships Presenter(s): Eric Dwyer
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School

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Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM

Program Administration & Evaluation Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Recorded Presentation with Q & A

The COVID-19 emergency forced education to move to online contexts

practically overnight. While some schools struggled to redesign their programs, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is all about curriculum that provides a
others took this as an opportunity and were successful in making learning pathway for all learners. Come to this session to brush up on the basics of UDL
happen. The presenters share their experience adapting face-to-face and and then walk away with easy-to-implement and student-approved tips and
blended programs to the fully online context. tools to integrate UDL into your own online classroom.
Presenter(s): Rosario Giraldez Presenter(s): Dana Saito-Stehberger, Rachel Fernandez, Gail Schwartz
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs Language Programs

Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM

Language Assessment Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Advocacy and Public Policy Session with Q & A

Redesigning a placement exam is challenging, especially when the Have you ever heard of the Literacy Information and Communication System
responsibility falls on instructors already balancing a full-time workload. In this (LINCS)? LINCS delivers high-quality, on-demand educational opportunities to
session, a process is presented for enabling instructors to successfully share adult education practitioners. Join this session to learn the basics about what
the workload of designing and piloting a new English oral placement exam for a LINCS offers, what's new with LINCS, and how to access it to use for ongoing
graduate EAP program. PD.
Presenter(s): Andrew Davis Presenter(s): Cherise Moore
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Language Programs
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM Personal & Professional Development
Teacher Education Workshop
Workshop

This workshop explores transitions shock, including culture shock and trauma,
Become inspired by two experienced social justice educators as they empower with a particular lens on newcomer/recent arrival student populations.
you with a racial equity lens to jumpstart your pedagogy and self-reflection, Participants analyze how significant stress can impact learning and gain tools to
which will ultimately benefit your students. The presenters provide strategies, mitigate the influences of trauma in the school setting, especially in the context
frameworks, and resources to further the necessary work of becoming your best of limited English classrooms.
selves for your learners. Presenter(s): Louise El Yaafouri
Presenter(s): Lavette Coney, Elisabeth Chan Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM
Personal & Professional Development
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM Recorded Presentation with Q & A
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation with Q & A Time, money, and resources are common obstacles in creating PD opportunities.
The presenters discuss three educator-led activities they created to overcome
these barriers within their institutions. Participants learn how to replicate these
Readers use a variety of strategies for coping with unknown vocabulary: ideas to create similar projects in their own EFL or ESL contexts.
guessing the meaning from context, ignoring the word, and using a dictionary. Presenter(s): Katrina Schmidt
This study utilizes eye tracking and comprehension scores to examine which
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs , Adult Education
strategies proved best. Implications, including activities aiming to improve
strategic competency, are overviewed.
Presenter(s): Caleb Prichard
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

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Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 PM
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation with Q & A

The research project discussed explores planning for a paired-speaking task.

This study identified the content and interaction features of learners planning
phase speech and how these are related to speaking scores. The presenter
discusses the pedagogical and research implications of the findings.
Presenter(s): Garrett Larson
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs

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Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building

Recorded Presentation
ON-DEMAND SESSIONS
This session reviews literature on the under- and overrepresentation of ELs
ADVOCACY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, & identified as having dis/abilities and then presents ways ESL, bilingual, special
COMMUNITY BUILDING education, and general education teachers can collaborate to create and
advocate for productive and culturally sustaining learning environments for all
students.
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation Presenter(s): Nicole King
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
Asking someone to speak only English is seen as racism in the present-day
United States, and yet American EAP classrooms tend to be English-only
spaces. A pedagogy that's responsive to students' translingualism helps Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
navigate these tricky spaces by constructively challenging linguicism while Intersection Session
successfully facilitating academic English language acquisition in the
classroom. ELT professionals identify themselves and are identified by others in many
ways: "nonnative," bilingual, multilingual, translingual, among others. In this
Presenter(s): Rashi Jain
session, the panelists examine the distinctions among these terms and share
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education their professional experiences navigating and affirming their and/or their
students' multifaceted identities in educational contexts.
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Presenter(s): Doaa Rashed, Ching-Ching Lin, Aylin Atilgan Relyea, Lawrence
Poster Session Zhang, Rashi Jain
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
In this session, presenters share the goals (development of language skills and
family school communication) for a parent/caretaker ESL class at an urban
elementary school. Data from weekly observation notes and an end-of-semester Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
focus group with parents are used to analyze progress toward goals and create Poster Session
program modifications.
Presenter(s): Emily Spitzman
To date, little research on learning disability training in EFL contexts has been
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic carried out. The purpose of the research discussed in this session was to find
Programs out about EFL teachers' experience with learning disability training. Results
indicated that the majority of participants did not feel confident identifying and
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building accommodating students with learning disabilities.
Recorded Presentation Presenter(s): Jimalee Sowell, Larry Sugisaki
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs

This session highlights research regarding the bias, discrimination, and

stereotypes that EL students often encounter in academia and their negative Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
impact. Participants engage in training to help identify and address implicit Recorded Presentation
biases and mitigate their effect in a supportive environment by reflecting on
their own positionality.
Nonprofit ESL education is a growing field in the United States, but many
Presenter(s): Danielle Aldawood
members of underserved communities often have trouble accessing even free
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private language programs due to work, childcare, or legal issues. In this session, the
Language Programs presenters share concrete steps one can take to best serve individuals in these
communities.
Presenter(s): Noga Laor
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education

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Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Panel Session Recorded Presentation

This session documents experiences of college-bound ELs and counselors to

Over the past decade, the TESOL field has been more concerned with identify successful strategies used and barriers faced in college applications.
representation and diversity in leadership in language teacher associations. The session finds challenges despite educators' best efforts to help. It provides
TESOL past presidents who represent linguistic, cultural, geographic, and racial suggestions for how TESOL educators can serve as advocates, facilitators, and
diversity describe their leadership trajectories from their first leadership mentors to college-bound ELs.
experience to the TESOL presidency. Presenter(s): Lei Jiang
Presenter(s): Luciana de Oliveira Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Poster Session
Academic Session
This poster aims to discuss challenges that parents face in preserving and
developing their twins' first language while their U.S. school enforces an
Research consistently indicates family engagement as a factor for educational English-only policy and to present home translanguaging activities and
success, especially for dual language learners. The panelists share research and strategies to encourage 6-year-old twins to use their first language and develop
theory that can improve family engagement practices. Perspectives of families, positive translingual dispositions.
schools, and teachers are shared. Educators leave the session with practical Presenter(s): Islam M. Farag
ideas to increase family engagement.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Pamela Rose
Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation
As conflict continues to escalate surrounding American identity, citizenship
classes provide an important place for immigrants to construct this
This qualitative study of bilingual Indian women examines the ways in which understanding. A multimodal discourse analysis was conducted of two popular
English serves as a form of gendered symbolic power inside patriarchies. Seen citizenship textbooks to examine definitions of American social identity. Results
through a critical lens and taken up from a feminist standpoint epistomology, of the analysis and implications for instructors are discussed.
early findings suggest that the relationship between English, gender, and power Presenter(s): Debby Adams
is indeed salient.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Presenter(s): Kelly Metz-Matthews
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation

Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building

Academic Session This session discusses the principles and practices adopted in a project that
aimed to increase the capacity of English language teachers to integrate social
justice issues into their classes. After reflecting on various critical issues, the
This panel looks at the power of self-studying or self-researching, which participants created lesson plans and materials and carried out their own social
enables English teachers to (re)think pedagogical practices, with the vision of responsibility projects.
achieving emotional well-being. Three interest sections in TESOL share Presenter(s): DENIZ Ortactepe-Hart
perspectives and experiences on exploring "self" to transform actions in
workplaces/classrooms. Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Presenter(s): Ethan Trinh
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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Panel Session Poster Session

The presenter shares her experience in her doctoral journey as she investigates
Panelists present findings from investigations, observations, and interviews of the intersection of language learning and peace education. Audience leave
immigrants, refugees, and U.S.-born Black ELs in the United States. Case away with a better understanding of how providing students with effective
studies address challenges and resilience of students who are both linguistic conflict resolution and peacebuilding skills can improve intercultural
and racial minorities. Presenters' conclusions seek to increase participants' communication.
awareness of and advocacy for traditionally marginalized students. Presenter(s): Nichole McVeigh
Presenter(s): Ayanna Cooper Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Teaching Tip
Recorded Presentation

This session presents a teaching tip introducing practical ways to incorporate

Secondary students from low-resource rural areas in Tanzania participate in a social justice principles in lesson plans and enact them in day-to-day teaching in
specialized English language program providing engaging input to improve K–12 ESL classes. This tip is based on a document analysis research study
language skills while developing life and leadership skills along with plenty of examining the integration of social justice principles into ESL teachers' lesson
laughter. Learn how twice weekly classes, community projects, and immersion plans.
camps can build creative-thinking leaders from unlikely backgrounds. Presenter(s): Alexandra Balconi
Presenter(s): Jane Petring Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation
This session shares findings from a case study that sought to understand the
support system for ELs at a secondary school in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Incorporating picturebooks reflecting students' languages and cultures opens Findings suggest that consistency in practice and ideology across the system
spaces for educators to draw on diverse students' funds of knowledge to were important for producing specific positive outcomes. Implications for
facilitate academic success. Presenters highlight practical implications for K–12 system improvement are discussed.
educators related to (a) leveraging multimodal texts to create spaces for Presenter(s): Olivia Obeso
translanguaging and (b) analyzing texts to plan for their implementation.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Presenter(s): Sharon Smith
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Recorded Presentation
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building
Academic Session In this time of COVID-19, the voices of youth challenged by loss and isolation
can be shared through digital stories—recorded narrative, images, and music
What is the role of accent(s) in ELT? The presenters in this session problematize combined into short multimedia artifacts. Digital stories created by young Tajik
the relationship between identity and accent(s), interrogating monolingual women in an ACCESS program in southwestern Tajikistan are showcased.
biases that permeate the teaching and learning of English in classrooms around Presenter(s): Jode Brexa
the world. Presenters discuss implications for teaching practice and advocacy.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Presenter(s): Doaa Rashed, Sunyung Song, Lilia Savova, Gabriela Kleckova, Mai
Mowafy
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs

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Recorded Presentation APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Applied Linguistics
An L2 writing pedagogy based on social justice enables writers to reframe and Panel Session
write about disability as a socially and politically constructed phenomenon and
recognize people with disabilities beyond stereotypical perceptions. This
session introduces to L2 writing instructors an inclusive writing pedagogy and For language teachers, solid knowledge of the linguistic systems their students
are acquiring is a must. This colloquium highlights that linguistic knowledge
instructional materials containing the core concepts of disability studies.
base, sharing some applications of knowledge of morphology, syntax, morpho-
Presenter(s): Negin Hosseini Goodrich syntax, pragmatics, and phonology to different pedagogical contexts and
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate domains of English language teaching and learning.
Academic Programs Presenter(s): Nabat Erdogan, Nikki Ashcraft, Howard Williams, Gulsat Aygen,
Anna Krulatz, Solange Lopes-Murphy
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Poster Session
Applied Linguistics
This session showcases an English language program that provides community Recorded Presentation
conversation classes to immigrant adult learners using visual literacy. It
highlights curricula developed to represent immigrant stories, build community,
Based on the notion that students from all linguistic backgrounds benefit from
and promote civic engagement. Classes, centered on a video series, engage
peer relationships within and across EL and non-EL classified groups,
learners in English conversation and introduce essential civic topics.
researchers used social network analysis and qualitative analysis of fieldnotes
Presenter(s): David Rowley to identify how teachers' instructional practices relate to differences in their
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education classroom peer networks' linguistic integration.
Presenter(s): Amanda Kibler
Advocacy, Social Justice, & Community Building Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Recorded Presentation

This session demonstrates how TESOL frames Whiteness as both a prize and a Applied Linguistics
goal, explains the deleterious impact whiteness has on racialized students and Teaching Tip
teachers, argues for the necessity of decentering Whiteness, and provides
suggestions for ways we can push our field toward a future where Whiteness
Can your learners sustain motivation during challenging times? Teach them!
no longer reigns supreme.
Using the "Decoding the Disciplines" approach, this talk reports a series of
Presenter(s): J.P.B. Gerald successful activities and assessment tools designed to address the motivational
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic bottleneck of L2 learning in a college-level Academic Listening class during
Programs COVID-19. Ideas can be readily implemented.
Presenter(s): Beatrix Burghardt
Applied Linguistics Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Poster Session Language Programs

This session explores the genre conventions and politeness strategies in Applied Linguistics
admission decision letters, showing how letters of acceptance serve to Poster Session
interpellate or hail the recipients while those of rejection dehail them by
different gatekeepers of academic discourse communities. Attendees should
expect theorization of business communication along with close textual This session discusses how teachers of English use first-person pronouns and
analysis. possessive determiners to express their identities in teaching philosophy
statements, with a focus on types, frequencies, and functions. Participants
Presenter(s): Mijanur Rahman
leave this session with a greater understanding of how these powerful linguistic
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, devices are used to communicate teaching identities.
International Teaching Assistantships
Presenter(s): Ella Alhudithi
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

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Applied Linguistics Applied Linguistics

Teaching Tip Recorded Presentation

Corpus-based activities are becoming influential in research and pedagogy. The Discussing SLA research findings with language learners can empower them to
presenter shares how mining techniques and developing corpus-based activities become more intentional, consistent, and independent. The presenters share a
greatly impact EFL students' (in our example, engineering students) research simple infographic that describes essential elements of successful language
writing performance while they face field-related lexical choices. learning, as well as materials that can be used to help students set achievable
Presenter(s): Guzal Nurmatova goals to maximize their learning.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs Presenter(s): Bridget Green
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation
Mastering the English tense-aspect system is challenging for adult university
ESL learners, namely given writing needs. The presenters developed eight
shortcuts that reflect the shared conceptualizations of tense-aspect prescriptive This session reports on a diachronic analysis (change over time) of the field of
rules, based on ontological structures of time and happenings. These allow language learning strategies, synthesizing 45 years of evolution. Empirically
students to efficiently understand the main workings of the entire system. driven by in-depth analyses of explicit definitions and implicit
Presenter(s): Daniele Allard conceptualizations of strategies, developments are reported and a new
theoretical framework is introduced for innovative research and practice.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs Presenter(s): Nathan Thomas
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation

This session provides authors with advice on how to get published in academic
journals. Editors from a number of journals discuss what they are looking for in This session reports a meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of
submissions to their journals and answer audience questions. interventions aiming to improve the intelligibility and comprehensibility of
Presenter(s): Charlene Polio nonnative English speakers (NNESs), either from the aspect of NNESs'
productions or native English speakers' perceptions. The results identified
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
measures of intelligibility and comprehensibility, and the speech task type as
Academic Programs significant moderators.
Presenter(s): Xueyan Hu
Applied Linguistics Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Recorded Presentation

Applied Linguistics
This session reports findings from a study examining word meanings in the U.S. Recorded Presentation
hyperpartisan political context. Findings reveal patterns of racial coding,
reclaiming, political projection, and values attribution, creating sharply different
meanings for the same word/phrase, pushing ELT to enrich vocabulary teaching In this session, attendees (1) learn to recognize signs of anxiety in their
beyond text-level context. Audience participation is encouraged. students' body language and behaviors, (2) learn about the physiological and
Presenter(s): Shondel Nero psychological underpinnings of anxiety, and (3) learn which tools are at their
disposal to minimize their students' language anxiety and foster their growth,
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
learning, and development.
Programs
Presenter(s): Bahiyyih Hardacre
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs

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Applied Linguistics Applied Linguistics

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

The qualitative study discussed explores the linguistic functioning and first- This session reports on findings from an investigation into the negative transfer
semester experiences of 12 Chinese freshmen. The findings problematize of refusals among 60 students studying in Japan and the USA. Findings
participants' unproblematic TOEFL scores and draws attention to the revealed that occurrences, content, and patterning of refusals differed according
mismatches between their perceived English proficiency and their actual to the L1 and L2 settings. Implications for pragmatic research comparing L1 and
linguistic functioning. Implications have shed light on American higher L2 environments are offered.
education's language support for international students. Presenter(s): Rod Case
Presenter(s): Qianqian Zhang-Wu Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Applied Linguistics
Poster Session
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation
Using songs is an effective way to help children learn lexical patterns that will
The presenter explores how one of the South Asian varieties of English (i.e., be stored in their minds and applied in conversation naturally. This session
Nepali English) is perceived by K–12 Nepali English teachers in Nepal and how discusses how the words learned with the help of songs can be remembered for
Nepali English teachers use/perceive the concept of multilingual teaching in longer periods, which results in vocabulary acquisition.
their teaching of English. Presenter(s): Dilnoza Ruzmatova
Presenter(s): Binod Dhami Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation
Applied Linguistics
Recorded Presentation
This session discusses findings of a study on the attitude of Vietnamese
working adults toward "standard" English. The results show a general
The authenticity of language in learning is cause for much debate. This session preference toward native speakers' norms; however, participants' perspectives
details an exploration of the ways in which authentic texts assisted the are somehow affected by their English proficiency and frequency of using
speaking abilities of students in an EFL context. Discussion will share the most English. Implications on whose English to teach are discussed.
significant findings in response to the data and the classroom materials used. Presenter(s): Nguyen Khanh
Presenter(s): Simon Wilkins Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation

Using theoretical underpinnings of GenSLA—the Feature Reassembly

This session critically examines and refines the concept of translingual Hypothesis and the Bottleneck Hypothesis—this study seeks to create a
dispositions. Based on a synthesis of prior research and interviews with English linguistically informed environment for the ESL classroom. Preliminary results
as a lingua franca speakers working in international business, the presenters show immediate positive effects of instruction at posttest.
propose that translingual awareness is a more suitable concept for Presenter(s): Dakota J. Thomas-Wilhelm
understanding many EFL speakers' perspectives on English.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Presenter(s): Jiadi Zhang Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education

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Content-Integrated Approaches
CONTENT-INTEGRATED APPROACHES Intersection Session

Content-Integrated Approaches In an ever-globalizing world, communication across academic disciplines and

Teaching Tip contexts is inherently strategic. Effective communication arguably demands not
only linguistic proficiency in specialized genres but also other competencies,
including intercultural competence. This session foregrounds how ESP programs
A test preparation course should provide more than memorization of speech can address the communication needs of learners in today's globalized world.
acts. Helping students develop and practice the language in authentic Presenter(s): Elizabeth Wagenheim, Tariq Elyas, Iftikhar Haider, Zohreh Eslami,
meaningful contexts should develop the underlying test-taking skills in a more Ismaeil Fazel
meaningful way. Presenters demonstrate an activity that combines language
instruction to enhance proficiency and test success. Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Beata Keller
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Content-Integrated Approaches
Language Programs Recorded Presentation

The presenter suggests strategies for designing curricula based on the four
Content-Integrated Approaches pillars of ESP. She showcases materials that she has developed for students
Poster Session enrolled in U.S. professional schools (e.g., schools of law, urban design, and
enterprise risk management) and highlights teaching techniques that are
transferable to other EAP contexts.
This session introduces a communicative IEP/Bridge course designed Presenter(s): Shelley Saltzman
specifically to educate international students on how to access campus
resources and become more involved in social activities, which can help Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
students feel like a part of the campus social fabric and better prepare them to
start their academic programs. Content-Integrated Approaches
Presenter(s): Lily Lewis Recorded Presentation
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Writing-to-learn is a low-stakes strategy that can be used to promote
conceptual learning and content-specific academic language development.
Content-Integrated Approaches Participants learn about the possible uses of writing-to-learn activities and
Panel Session participate in the demonstration of writing-to-learn activities adapted
specifically to strengthen ELs' content-specific academic language across the
curriculum.
Experiential and project-based learning are increasingly popular curriculum Presenter(s): Wei Zhang
approaches that can be challenging to implement in an ESL program. The
presenters share their experience, advice, and success using these approaches Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
for over 3 years with students from a wide range of English proficiency.
Presenter(s): Silvia Kozlovska, Lisa Boosey, Chirstin Stephens, Jason Sander, Content-Integrated Approaches
Mark Makino Recorded Presentation
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs

In service-learning (SL) EAP courses, do students who operate more

Content-Integrated Approaches autonomously in SL activities benefit from the experience more than instructor-
Recorded Presentation directed students? In this session, the evolution of a SL course and eight
semesters of data are discussed by the program director, the SL-course
A coherent approach to curriculum design is essential for a course that seeks to instructor, and the graduate assistant.
meaningfully combine language and content. This session details an approach
Presenter(s): Honnor Orlando, Estela Ene, Laura Colantonio
for developing content-based curriculum for implementation in a
college/university setting. Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Presenter(s): Sherise Lee
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

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Content-Integrated Approaches Content-Integrated Approaches

Recorded Presentation Poster Session

This session offers a practical approach to blending language-learning and

This session discusses the creation of university language policies, challenges, academic skills acquisition in content-course context to empower and prepare
and strategies needed to implement English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at international students for success in their high school programs. Gain a clear
a university in Brazil, and benefits and risks of offering courses in English at understanding of the skills needed along with relevant ideas to make those
undergraduate and graduate levels. Participants discuss issues related to EMI skills immediately useful for students.
implementation. Presenter(s): Victoria Navarrete
Presenter(s): Camila Hofling Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation
Prepare international high school students for success, whether starting the
year virtually or in person, through practical lessons blending language-learning
EAP classrooms need to build students' global competencies and prepare them and academic skills acquisition in a content course context. Achieve an
for global citizenship by integrating interdisciplinary content that spans current understanding of the necessary skills and learn to leverage that knowledge for
international trends and issues. The presentation explores in depth one such immediate applicability in both environments.
advanced-integrated-skills course through the unique course design and Presenter(s): Victoria Navarrete
assessment procedures that the instructor created in a Z-course format.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Presenter(s): Rashi Jain
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation
This session highlights features about coteaching and how to integrate the
language tools for complex content-area tasks while fully utilizing language for
In the United States, it is imperative for ESL students to become self-directed success. Educators identify academic practices and language functions to best
learners to achieve academic success, but critical thinking can be difficult for align curriculum while promoting language across the four domains: reading,
students from collectivist cultures. This workshop showcases strategies and writing, listening, and speaking.
outcomes from Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute adapted from the Presenter(s): Aline Lima
DC National Gallery of Art.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Presenter(s): Andrea Todd
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs Content-Integrated Approaches
Poster Session

Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation The presenters share lessons learned about integrating literacy and content
from a 2-year project designed to support upper elementary students, including
ELs, learning content while developing literacy skills in the United States. The
This session highlights task-based language teaching (TBLT) by presenting supporting research as well as concrete examples are shared to illustrate each
specific examples of U.S. K–12 teachers integrating tasks in their content-area lesson learned.
classes to promote ELs' classroom communication. Tasks for a variety of grade Presenter(s): Katya Koubek
levels (elementary, middle, high school) and content areas (math, science, social
Settings/Audiences: Primary School
science, business) are presented.
Presenter(s): Virginia David, Selena Protacio, Amira Eldemerdash
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

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Recorded Presentation Teaching Tip

Interdisciplinary collaboration is vital to the success of English pathway This session explores the use of teaching proficiency through reading and
programs. The presenters introduce how one independently developed pathway storytelling (TPRS), a method commonly used in foreign language classrooms,
program has evolved over 3 years to support students' linguistic development and how to adapt it and use it as a quick, low-lift, highly engaging method for
and cultural transition, build an interdisciplinary professional community of preteaching vocabulary to both ELs and other students in the classroom.
practice, and integrate content and language instruction while maintaining Presenter(s): Lauren MacLean
academic rigor. Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Presenter(s): Karen Asenavage, Julie Lopez, Scott Duarte
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation
This interactive session explores how ESL and content teachers' collaboration
afforded or constrained opportunities for ESL students' participation in four
In this interactive session, the presenter shares data from a 1-year study of collaboratively taught eighth-grade classrooms. The participants' outcomes
plurilingual students' practices across the disciplines at a Canadian university. include practical strategies for increasing ESL students' learning outcomes and
Findings showed that students struggled with different academic Englishes and examples of relevant secondary content-based activities in cotaught
employed their plurilingual competence in ways that allowed them to mediate classrooms.
disciplinary knowledge in multiple languages.
Presenter(s): Amanda Giles
Presenter(s): Steve Marshall
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Content-Integrated Approaches
Content-Integrated Approaches Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation
Effective content-language integration and coteaching require CBI instructors to
enhance their instructional expertise. In this session, the presenters discuss the
This session describes the curriculum development and implementation process study of content and language instructor beliefs and practices in a North
of an English as a medium of instruction (EMI) support course for professors at a American university's cotaught CBI program and invite participants to consider
Brazilian university. Key questions concerning the potential interconnection implications for CBI program design and faculty learning in their own settings.
between EMI and TESOL are discussed, and practical suggestions for EMI
Presenter(s): Colleen Gallagher
teacher training and course design are provided.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Presenter(s): Kerry Pusey, Márcia Del Corona and Cristiane Maria Schnack
Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
CULTURE & INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION
Content-Integrated Approaches
Recorded Presentation
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Do you want to stimulate students' interest in peace, social justice, and global Recorded Presentation
affairs? Would you like to inspire them with stories of people who have worked
for a better world? Then why not teach a unit on the Nobel Peace Prize? Come
This session proposes a framework built on research-validated learner-centered
and join this session to learn how.
psychological principles (LCPs) for fostering ESL college students' conception of
Presenter(s): Kip Cates diversity and cultural competence. It also recommends developing sensitivity
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs toward diversity and cultural competence based on the broad definitions of
learner-centeredness and cultural competence, and the research-validated LCPs.
Presenter(s): Mahjabeen Hussain
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

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Poster Session Recorded Presentation

ELs can be prepared for the increasing global demand for elder care by
The presenters describe an innovative after-school program built on an online investigating stakeholder perceptions of successful interaction and authentic
intercultural exchange between K3-4-5 ESL learners in a high-needs school in language in the workplace within ESP. This session presents preliminary
Southeast Michigan and K5-6 EFL learners in Slovakia. Learners in both contexts qualitative results of stakeholder perceptions, observations, and stimulated
were guided to draw upon their assets as they provided feedback on recall to identify key language components of cross-cultural communication.
international peers' multimodal writing projects. Presenter(s): Kendi Ho
Presenter(s): Zuzana Tomaš Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Culture & Intercultural Communication Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation

There is a dearth of research exploring international student participation in

The use of images in educational contexts is inescapable, and the way we use seminar-type courses. The multiple case study discussed in this session works
and explore them will determine the strength of the connections we want to with students speaking English as an additional language and their instructors
establish in our students' minds. This session intends to show how the use of in four seminar courses to examine their culturally influenced expectations for
artistic resources may widen the learning possibilities beyond language. class participation and critically appraise the meaning of participation.
Presenter(s): Ana Luisa Branco Presenter(s): Jade Kim
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation

With the increase of the EL population, the need for effective family
engagement becomes even more critical. This session showcases initiatives Drama, dance, music, and storytelling are culturally sustaining pedagogies that
that teachers implemented at their schools. Participants will take away develop students' linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism. This session
knowledge of current best practices, gaining recommended resources and new showcases three performing arts projects by ELs in Tanzania and provides a
ideas for helping educators connect with families of ELs. framework for teachers working with limited resources to implement similar
Presenter(s): Angela Bell culturally sustaining arts activities in their own contexts.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Presenter(s): Riah Werner
Programs Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

Culture & Intercultural Communication Culture & Intercultural Communication

Poster Session Poster Session

Experiential learning is based on the ideals of active and reflective learning.

Do ELs feel confident and comfortable as part of your campus community? Do Learn about Culture Capsule Project in which ELs work together to develop the
they understand the skills and attitudes necessary for college success? This target language skills through the experience of creating a website with
session shares materials, curriculum, and outcomes from a presemester descriptions of different aspects of their own culture and traditions.
program to help ELs transition to college. It also addresses the transition to an Presenter(s): Marietta Bradinova
asynchronous online format.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Presenter(s): Elinor Westfold Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

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Recorded Presentation Panel Session

Reporting on mini-ethnographies conducted within two multilingual families,

this session views literacy development as a creative, performative act of Teaching L2 first-year composition is challenging given various intercultural
language socialization and considers how games can foster translingual differences among students who matriculate as international or New American
practices among family members. Presenters provide suggestions for ESL students, as well as intra-cultural differences within the same student
teachers and curriculum designers to encourage translingual interactions within population. This colloquium presents critical observations on such multifaceted
families. challenges and effective pedagogical ideas that may help to overcome them.
Presenter(s): Jason Litzenberg Presenter(s): Jasper Sachsenmeier, Ashley Yochim, Yuanheng Wang
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Culture & Intercultural Communication Culture & Intercultural Communication

Recorded Presentation Intersection Session

This research session discusses how language knowledge, especially English, When nonnative-English speaker teacher (NNEST) students pursue higher
affects the self-identities of immigrant students in Iceland. Multilingualism is education opportunities in inner circle countries, they may encounter linguistic
integral to their lives, has practical benefits, and increases their self-esteem. and cultural misunderstandings. How can educators in sending and receiving
Their identities often shift between languages and some use languages to countries prepare students to name, understand, and confront these issues?
"mask" their identity and avoid being judged by origin. Experiences and advice for navigating the transnational and translinguistic
Presenter(s): Samuel Lefever landscapes of higher education are shared.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education Presenter(s): Maria Rossana Ramirez, Saurabh Anand, Teresa X. Nguyen,
Udambor Bumandalai
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Culture & Intercultural Communication Academic Programs
Recorded Presentation

Culture & Intercultural Communication

Selecting certain key strategies from components of strategic competence, the Teaching Tip
presenters lead the participants through a series of activities that can help their
learners prevent or repair a conversation breakdown. Recorded examples of
repair strategies in an EAP classroom are shown and discussed. Why is teaching pragmalinguistic competence so challenging? This interactive
Presenter(s): Alison Turner session focuses on the case for explicit instruction in a graduate business
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education course using authentic materials, a task-based curriculum, and a to-do list for
instructors aiming to help their students reach their goals and position
themselves in the global community.
Culture & Intercultural Communication Presenter(s): Kayla Landers, Mary Newbegin
Recorded Presentation Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
This session reports on how Chinese tertiary-level ELs negotiate native
linguistic ideology and cultural identity during English learning. Questionnaire Culture & Intercultural Communication
and interview data revealed how students' multiple identities align and conflict Poster Session
with each other. Implications for culture adjustment and identity reconstruction
during English study are discussed. Growing numbers of students from East Asia arrive in the United States,
Presenter(s): Fang Gao seeking educational opportunity, with just their mothers; their fathers stay in
their home country. What characteristics do these "fatherless" children have,
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
and how do we address their English acquisition needs in secondary/higher
education? The presenters discuss interview data.
Presenter(s): Stefan Frazier
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs

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Culture & Intercultural Communication Digital Learning & Technologies

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

This interactive session presents three activities for socializing international University students must exhibit adaptability and a willingness to take at least
students to cultural practices surrounding the use of email in a U.S. higher some control of their learning. This session highlights how ELs at a Pakistani
education context. These activities—designed for use in the beginning, middle, university exercised their agency by engaging with digital technologies to take
and end of an academic term—are based on real life situations and authentic, better control of their own learning both on and off campus.
student-written emails. Presenter(s): Abida Ayesha
Presenter(s): Marta Baffy Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation
Culture & Intercultural Communication
Recorded Presentation
This session shares the experiences of Syrian women refugees studying English
online. Through stories, they indicate how online learning positively impacted
Multicultural education has developed over the last several years in Albania. their performance, their communication, and their lifestyle. Implications for
This is a new approach through which teachers are working to increase English creating conducive language learning environments are discussed.
language skills and students' awareness toward the target culture and other Presenter(s): Alia Hadid
cultural backgrounds. Presenters share their pedagogical strategies in their
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
multicultural classes to help students become global citizens.
Presenter(s): Elona Mehilli Kolaj
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation

Culture & Intercultural Communication

Recorded Presentation In this session, participants explore a framework that allows instructors to
analyze the learning potential of various online activities. The framework can
Culture dictates certain behaviors and actions, which may affect refugees' lives act as a useful heuristic to guide instructors in designing online organic
in their new environment, including their education. This session shares mediational tools that promote deep learning.
narratives from four women refugees about their culture and how it is affecting Presenter(s): Gabriel Diaz Maggioli
their learning in the United States, which places emphasis on the need for
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive
culturally competent educators.
English/Private Language Programs
Presenter(s): Alia Hadid
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Digital Learning & Technologies
Teaching Tip
DIGITAL LEARNING & TECHNOLOGIES
Have you ever used multimodal texts? What are they? How can you help
students to successfully create them? This session provides an overview of the
Digital Learning & Technologies multimodal composition research. It outlines the five essential modes used to
Recorded Presentation create multimodal texts successfully. Teaching tips and activities are shared.
Presenter(s): Rashad Ahmed
This session proposes a theoretical framework of digital-game based L2 use Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
that offers guidelines for pedagogy and research. The speaker conceptualizes Academic Programs
different forms of digital game-based L2 use, discusses their implications for L2
learning and teaching, and showcases examples of digital game-based L2 Digital Learning & Technologies
practice activities. Recorded Presentation
Presenter(s): Karim Ibrahim
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
The increasing interest, and recent need, to teach online has left many teachers
looking for guidance on which digital tools to use and how to use them. This
session provides an overview of how to design instruction strategically with
various free digital tools to enhance instruction and language development.
Presenter(s): Caroline Torres
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

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Digital Learning & Technologies Digital Learning & Technologies

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

In the climate of COVID-19, social distancing creates a challenge for providing The Kahoot! app makes most "best apps for teachers" lists because it gamifies
classroom teachers with feedback. Meeting through a Zoom platform and classroom quizzes. This session explores vocabulary acquisition via Kahoot in
applying a teacher-driven observation protocol encourages the teacher being Korean university EFL classrooms. Participants receive a tutorial for Kahoot,
observed to take authority in directing the observation, and video data gathered review the results of the presenters' major project, and learn to better
on targeted observation areas support teacher development. implement gamification that works.
Presenter(s): Aisulu Aibat Presenter(s): Eric Reynolds
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Academic Programs

Digital Learning & Technologies

Digital Learning & Technologies Teaching Tip
Poster Session

Come be inspired to incorporate ePortfolios in your curriculum and learn about Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) as the emerging technology have a lot to
technical aspects of using ePortfolios for diverse English program purposes: offer. In this session, the presenters share how in-class use of the IPA Google
assessment, sharing features, self-reflection, and more! Home Mini among language learners can be used to bolster vocabulary
Presenter(s): Katie Subra knowledge and several tips on the effective use of IPAs for improving language
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive development.
English/Private Language Programs Presenter(s): Ali Dincer
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs
Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation
The burgeoning field of idiomatics has yet to pursue meaningful augmented If you've ever thought about making videos for students, now's the time! The
reality (AR) constructs for idiomatic-figurative language learning. Addressing presenter shows you how a total novice like her learned to record videos, post
this gap, the presenter shares the theoretical-pragmatic frameworks them, flip a class, start a YouTube channel, and publish classes online—and
undergirding AR, followed by data highlighting their research-driven efficacy. how you can jump in and do it, too.
Pedagogical implications connect theory-practice-theory conventions with
Presenter(s): Jean Lundbom
practice-theory-practice scenarios to spearhead innovation and idiomatics
learning. Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Presenter(s): John Liontas
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive Digital Learning & Technologies
English/Private Language Programs Recorded Presentation

Digital Learning & Technologies This session reports the results of a mixed-methods study of instructors
Recorded Presentation teaching writing online to diverse student populations, focusing on instructor
preparation and suggesting teaching strategies instructors can employ to ensure
their students' success in online writing courses.
Technology is used in flipped learning classrooms to teach EFL as well as other
Presenter(s): Mariya Tseptsura
subjects. During this workshop, teachers learn how to plan, organise, design,
and create flipped activities to use in class when teaching English and getting Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
students to practice writing, reading, listening, and speaking.
Presenter(s): Alfredo Villalba
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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Digital Learning & Technologies Digital Learning & Technologies

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

Do you want your students to really learn vocabulary? Word knowledge is a Recently, English e-learning programs provided for rural young learners in China
strong predictor of academic success, and through effective vocabulary have increased. Drawing on evidence from a qualitative case study of rural
instruction, students can develop literacy, retain what they learn, and use new Chinese schools, this session provides pedagogical suggestions on teaching
vocabulary effectively. Participants learn a process for teaching vocabulary that, synchronous, video-conference-based e-learning classes to young EFL students
when infused with technology, enhances students' engagement as well as within and beyond the Chinese context.
vocabulary production and retention. Presenter(s): Chaoran Wang
Presenter(s): Kristi Reyes, Susan Gaer Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation
Language Assessment
Teaching Tip
In this session, the presenters share their exploratory research on teacher
candidates' experiences using a mixed-reality simulation technology tool to
conduct parent-teacher conferences in sheltered English immersion classes. This session explores teachers' assessment practices in teaching academic
This tool allows teacher educators to create "almost" real-life experiences for writing for the freshmen attending a U.S. university. The classroom data reveal
teachers to practice communication skills with parents during simulated that integrating assessments into the writing process and product enhances
conferences. student-teacher collaboration, contributing to students' achievements of
Presenter(s): Andrea Cayson academic writing. Pedagogical implications are generated for classroom
practices.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs Presenter(s): Ling He
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation Language Assessment
Recorded Presentation

The presenters share their approach to helping students focus less on format,
organization, and language constraints of writing assignments and more on This session highlights how diagnostic assessments can be used to enhance
generating critical ideas. They demonstrate a process evolving from short vocabulary learning and instruction in ESP courses. Using an engineering ESP
fluency-focused writing in Canvas Discussion forums to longer, more complex, course as an example, guidelines for developing and interpreting the results of
independent, and collaborative assignments composed in Google Docs. diagnostic assessments are reviewed, focusing on the implications of the
Presenter(s): Donette Brantner-Artenie results for L2 classroom instruction.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Presenter(s): Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker
Language Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Digital Learning & Technologies
Recorded Presentation Language Assessment
Panel Session
This session compares online TESOL students' perceptions of two types of
instructor feedback: screencast video feedback and text-only feedback. It also
reports the ways in which students incorporated these two types of feedback in Data indicate that ELs are overidentified for learning disabilities and speech
revisions. Tips on how to provide quality technology-enhanced feedback in impairments, and underidentified in other categories. Why is this happening?
online programs are shared. How can professionals distinguish language learning from disability? What is
Presenter(s): Dongmei Cheng the impact of culture and language load during standardized evaluations?
Together, the presenters and participants examine EL and special education
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs issues.
Presenter(s): Emily Day, Amber Hipps, Matthias Maunsell, Stephanie Corcoran
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

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Language Assessment Language Assessment

Teaching Tip Recorded Presentation

Come learn about how to develop language skill–focused surveys that help Participants learn about classroom assessment practices that reflect the
students set goals, develop self-awareness, and overcome their language increased rigor of the National Reporting System levels for adult education.
plateaus. Participants leave with tips for developing and implementing surveys Through scenarios, sample assessments, and discussion, participants learn
in their classrooms and examples that can be adapted to different skills and about best practices and consider implications for their own contexts, including
levels. work with lower proficiency learners.
Presenter(s): Barbara Flocke Presenter(s): Elyssa Sun
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Language Programs
Language Assessment
Language Assessment Panel Session
Teaching Tip

To properly assess the source(s) of an EL's academic struggles, it is critical that

The presenter demonstrates three engaging games and simulation activities teachers employ a multifaceted process and consider a variety of outputs to
that teachers can use to maximize language learning or cross-cultural examine progress over time. This panel presents an assessment framework
understanding in their face-to-face or online classrooms. This is supported with along with instructional practices to more accurately separate a language
a basic model on how to integrate them into the content of any classroom. struggle from a disability.
Presenter(s): Randall Davis, Rus Wilson, Riadh Koubaa Presenter(s): Solange Murphy
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Programs
Language Assessment
Language Assessment Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation

This session shares ways to support teachers in understanding and using

This session reports on the findings of a case study investigating the information from standardized English language proficiency measures, such as
affordances that genre pedagogy (GP) could offer to ESL classroom-based ELPA21. A classroom mapping tool is shared along with associated activities.
writing assessment. Findings reveal that GP promotes learner involvement in The presenters discuss using these in the professional development of
assessment. The presenter shares examples of genre analysis tasks that enable preservice and in-service teachers.
self- and peer assessment. Presenter(s): Lisa Wymore
Presenter(s): Ahmet Serdar Acar Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Language Assessment
Language Assessment Poster Session
Panel Session
This poster session describes a research project in which 18 European nations
compared their national test results to a benchmark test. The analysis of the
Learning-oriented assessment argues for a systemic and ecological approach data, lessons learned, and implications for other test comparability studies are
that sees classroom assessment and large-scale assessment as having presented.
complementary roles to play in the service of learning. Practitioners from a Presenter(s): Peggy Garza
variety of contexts share how they apply this conceptualization in their
programs.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Presenter(s): Gad Lim, Rosario Giraldez, Isabela Villas Boas, Nick Saville,
Fernando Fleurquin
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

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Language Assessment
Recorded Presentation LISTENING, SPEAKING & PRONUNCIATION

Should ESL/EFL academic listening tests include visuals, such as graphs and Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
diagrams? What might a good video-based listening question look like? To shed Recorded Presentation
new light on these questions, the study discussed proposes an innovative way
to design high-stakes video-enhanced academic English listening tests and
validates it with an evidence-based argument. This teaching-oriented session focuses on how an oral academic communication
class at a U.S. university was reconceived to engage students more fully in
Presenter(s): Roman Lesnov
promoting internationalization-at-home. Participants come away with a set of
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private understandings and strategies that enable them to infuse global and
Language Programs intercultural content into their oral communication curricula.
Presenter(s): Megan Siczek
Language Assessment Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Teaching Tip

Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation

Intersection Session
Explore the secrets of your class through an informal assessment tool, Secret
Diary Page, and learn a great deal about the interpretive, cognitive, and creative
abilities of ELs for effective instruction and State Education Department's
Do you hold one-on-one consultations as a complement to a course for ITAS?
promotion. This potent tool is easy to implement, enjoyable, requires minimal
This panel discusses research on consultation efficacy and provides suggestions
time, and produces valuable discussion and results.
for assessing, teaching, and guiding pronunciation improvement in one-on-one
Presenter(s): Samina Rana, Sadia Anwar, Samina Rana, M.Attique Ur Rehman instruction. Presenters also share online formative assessment tools with a
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive comparison chart aligning online tools with targeted skills.
English/Private Language Programs Presenter(s): Susan Gaer, Veronica Sardegna, Marsha Chan, Belinda Braunstein
Settings/Audiences: International Teaching Assistantships
Language Assessment
Recorded Presentation
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
EL shadowing provides educators with an important data source for making Teaching Tip
instructional changes. Participants practice coding students' linguistic
engagement using a student shadowing tool that tracks students' use of
language in all four domains. Participants then analyze that data to determine Listening to English music has numerous benefits for ELs, but teachers struggle
next steps for instruction and professional learning. with how to make it a consistent component of the curriculum. Letting students
vote on preferred versions of the same song can add a fun element to the class
Presenter(s): Beth Skelton
and, more important, encourage extensive listening to English music.
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School Presenter(s): John Rucynski
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Language Assessment Programs
Recorded Presentation

Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation

Participants are introduced to the new Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA) Recorded Presentation
English, a free web-based formative language assessment that gives ESL/EFL
learners a tool to evaluate and manage their own learning. ODA English
provides users with immediate individualized feedback describing their Intentional warm-up and brain-break activities help support the social and
strengths and weaknesses comprehending authentic reading and listening emotional needs of students, which are essential for learning. As part of this
passages. active and music-centered presentation, participants learn how to meaningfully
integrate activities into any classroom and try out a few of the presenter's
Presenter(s): Donald Harootian
classroom-tested activities.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Presenter(s): Ami Christensen
Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs

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Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation

Poster Session Academic Session

What are some student-centered task-based projects that provide opportunity Intonation plays a critical role in successful interaction. Yet, it is often
for oral practice and create classroom community? This poster session presents neglected in instruction due to lack of materials or knowledge of pedagogical
two task-based projects that aim to develop students' productive skills through approaches. This session equips teachers with information about effective
individual and small group presentations. Participants gain new ideas and teaching models, research-based materials, and pronunciation learning
materials for improving fluency and confidence in students. strategies for teaching intonation successfully in the ESL/EFL classroom.
Presenter(s): Elka Kristonagy Presenter(s): Veronica Sardegna, Lucy Pickering, John Levis
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
International Teaching Assistantships Programs

Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation

Recorded Presentation Poster Session

Textbooks are a vital part of teaching ESL/EFL, but they suffer from limitations. Power posing in the ESL classroom has much potential to help learners reduce
Mass appeal and publishing costs limit the communicative scope of textbook stress from oral presentations in class. In the research discussed, the students
activities. This session explores limitations of textbooks and offers practical, who did a 2-minute power posing before their extemporaneous speeches felt
research-backed ideas for expanding textbook activities to provide more oral and were perceived by the audience as more present, engaging, and confident.
production practice. Presenter(s): Svetlana Vikhnevich
Presenter(s): Bradley Knieriem Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Recorded Presentation
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Poster Session
Delayed corrective feedback gives learners correction on their oral production
without interrupting communicative flow, holds them accountable for uptake
The presenter examines international students' understanding of and learning, and facilitates the tracking of evolving complexity, accuracy, and
announcements and directions at airports. The researcher highlights fluency. This session examines the theory behind this approach and introduces a
international students' struggles and obstacles when encountering different free, web-based platform for providing delayed corrective feedback.
dialects, stress, noise, and new experiences that influence their listening Presenter(s): James Hunter
comprehension. Missing flights, getting lost, and losing luggage are the
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
negative results of that misunderstanding.
Language Programs
Presenter(s): Ahmed Alshammari
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Recorded Presentation

Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation

Poster Session How can you teach public speaking in EFL classes in a fun and effective way?
The presenter explains learners' difficulties and classroom practices to
overcome them. Audience sees demo tasks to develop public speaking skills.
Applied improvisation is a fun way to develop students' active listening, Participants walk away with a set of activities applicable to any EFL class.
impromptu speaking, and critical thinking. You need not be an actor to add Presenter(s): Anastasia Khodakova
improv to your repertoire. This session demonstrates how you can adapt improv
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
content for your classroom. Teachers will see a sample syllabus, timeline,
Language Programs
assignments, and video.
Presenter(s): Michael Garnett
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs

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Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation

Teaching Tip Poster Session

Help students improve their pronunciation with tools for self-directed practice. This session introduces information relating to the effectiveness of explicit
The Google Docs voice tool improves general comprehensibility. The Google pronunciation instruction on Chinese EFL learners' production of function words.
App for pronunciation allows practice with visual feedback. On Flipgrid's An in-class research investigating the vowel duration of function words
platform, learners can easily compare their self-recorded speech to instructor- produced before and after training shows a significant improvement in the
provided models. Lesson templates plus student samples are provided. vowel reduction of function words.
Presenter(s): Gail Schwartz Presenter(s): Xinting Zhang
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

The unforeseen shift to remote learning, as a result of the coronavirus How do students become better active listeners? This session reviews factors
pandemic, brought about drastic changes to the delivery of an MS TEFL that make listening difficult for language learners and demonstrates interactive
Pronunciation course. This session explores the demands placed upon and realistic activities for both high- and low-resource environments that teach,
pronunciation teaching and learning and reveals approaches for achieving not just test, effective listening skills. Ideas for both face-to-face and online
favorable and encouraging results. classes are addressed.
Presenter(s): Rita Naughton Presenter(s): Randall Davis, Mona Bouhlel, Pragya Adhikari, Keilor Vargas
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Poster Session Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Recorded Presentation

The presenters explore students' perceptions of their pronunciation needs as

well as teachers' pronunciation cognitions and practices in an ESL context. When paired up with a language partner, it can be frustrating to think of things
Analyses of ESL textbooks of varying proficiency levels are also presented. to talk about beyond greetings and getting to know each other. Using a tool full
Presenter(s): Victoria Millard of tips and level-guided discussions, language learners can fast track their
communicative skills productively and efficiently. Problem? See the solution.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Presenter(s): Judy James
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Recorded Presentation
Listening, Speaking & Pronunciation
Teaching Tip
International students face numerous speaking and communication challenges
living in the United States, including difficulty being understood while ordering Chinese ESL/EFL students are rarely exposed to English outside the classroom
at Starbucks. The presenter shares true Starbucks student stories, highlighting setting. Podcasts can bridge this gap by giving students practice with authentic,
six pronunciation skill areas, with specific accompanying lessons. Attendees diverse voices. This session provides attendees with techniques to incorporate
engage in interactive activities gaining strategies for improving students' podcasts into their lessons and data on feedback from Chinese ELs.
pronunciation everywhere. Presenter(s): Laura Schlichting
Presenter(s): Catherine Moore Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

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Materials Development & Publishing

MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT & PUBLISHING Recorded Presentation

Materials Development & Publishing

This session examines how open educational resources (OER) can be
Recorded Presentation
incorporated in academic ESL writing classes to alleviate students' financial
burden. The presenters discuss the purpose of using OER, the process involved
in incorporating OER materials, the challenges faced, and the reactions of both
In this session, the presenters discuss their use of open educational resources
faculty and students.
(OER) in supporting EAP courses in a STEM university. They share how they
adapted materials and the challenges and benefits of using OER for academic Presenter(s): Lin Cui
success. Presenters offer list of tips and resources for beginner adopters of Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
OER. Language Programs
Presenter(s): Esther Boucher-Yip
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs Materials Development & Publishing
Poster Session
Materials Development & Publishing
As teachers prepare lessons for their 21st-century learners, it is important to
Recorded Presentation
know how these nonlinear learners view the classroom activities. The research
discussed explores how engaging teenagers and young adults find classroom
activities as well as what things they need more and less of in a lesson.
Innovative projects in East Africa empower youth and adults to protect
themselves against gender discrimination, abuse, and now COVID-19 through Presenter(s): Andres Paredes
drama, poetry, and art. One addresses girls directly and another family and Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
community. Participants come away with ideas for creating meaningful
materials and lessons that tackle challenging social issues.
Materials Development & Publishing
Presenter(s): Jane Petring
Recorded Presentation
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

Based on a qualitative study of teachers' perceptions, this session discusses the

Materials Development & Publishing
selectional and organizational flaws in the contents of the higher secondary
Recorded Presentation
English textbook in Bangladesh. Reflecting on the findings, the presenter draws
pedagogical implications for teachers, researchers, and textbook designers
Participants receive advice and caveats for designing asynchronous online
working in EFL settings.
courses so that they have a realistic view of the complexity of course
development. They also view sequences of a recently-developed course in Presenter(s): Md Tahamid Ar Rabbi
Canvas for UN peacekeepers that includes photos and animation. Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Presenter(s): Carol Pineiro Programs
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Materials Development & Publishing
Recorded Presentation
Materials Development & Publishing
Poster Session
What would a writing pedagogy based on translanguaging and process writing
look like in an EFL context? This session reports on an innovative project that is
To motivate and inspire entry-level adolescent and adult ELs, curricula need to
currently developing English writing instructional materials for Chinese K–12
be designed around high-interest topics with engaging tasks and materials.
contexts. Findings and implications from a recent pilot study in Shanghai are
With this in mind, this poster session describes an original predriver education
discussed.
class developed for entry-level high school ELs from Latin America, showcasing
original lesson plans and materials. Presenter(s): Nathaniel Murray
Presenter(s): Tana Huyck Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education

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Materials Development & Publishing Personal & Professional Development

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

In this panel, presenters leap from the whys to focus on the hows of using This session reports on outcomes of a research practice partnership in which
visual and performing arts in ELT. Participants gain creative ideas for using three mainstream elementary school teachers, informed by the design thinking
poetry, drama, design, painting, and sculpture to create lessons that also meet process and research-based workshops facilitated by the local university,
language outcomes. developed and implemented supports for students designated as ELs. Teacher
Presenter(s): Alice Savage learnings and implications for PD are discussed.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education Presenter(s): Annie Kuo
Settings/Audiences: Primary School

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT Personal & Professional Development
Panel Session
Personal & Professional Development
Intersection Session
The panelists share their story of participating in an online peer writing group
for publication. The panel covers forming a group, determining purpose and
When teachers are willing to share ideas and thoughts with each other, they schedule, using technology tools, and giving constructive feedback. Participants
are able to "move past fear or shame" to teach students critically. What are the learn how to form online writing groups and give peer feedback.
lessons learned in teaching and learning English language that transformed our Presenter(s): Nancy Tarawhiti, Bicho Azevedo, Junice Acosta
pedagogical practices? Come and share.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Presenter(s): Ethan Trinh Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Personal & Professional Development
Personal & Professional Development Academic Session
Teaching Tip

Gain insights from ESP practitioners who work as administrators, entrepreneurs,

Presenters share activities to differentiate instruction that they have found to be and intrapreneurs across the globe. Learn about their professional journeys,
especially successful to address learners' varied needs in an EFL setting. how they set up and run programs and get new business opportunities, and how
Presenters also provide insights for implementing the activities based on results they handle change and challenges. Q&A and networking time follow the
of a study which investigated the challenges and benefits of teachers utilizing session.
these activities. Presenter(s): Gerlinde Koppitsch, Hong Yan Zhang, Tarana Patel, Kevin Knight
Presenter(s): Nilufar Jamoliddinova Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Language Programs
Programs
Personal & Professional Development
Personal & Professional Development Recorded Presentation
Teaching Tip

This session reports on findings from an investigation into faculty and

Collaborative group work and cooperative learning are integral in higher multilingual students' beliefs about teaching and learning. Findings revealed
education for creating an effective future workforce. This session highlights that there is a mismatch in beliefs about pedagogical techniques and practices
how to overcome the biggest challenge of free riders in groups and how to cope between faculty and multilingual students. Implications for institutional
with them effectively by using a few tricks and tips. collaboration and PD are discussed.
Presenter(s): Renuka Karunaratne Presenter(s): Nino Jakhaia
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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This session examines how ESL and content teachers shifted their instructional Did you know that TESOL has developed several sets of Standards for the field?
practices to coplan for and coteach ESL students in an eighth grade The Standards Professional Council (SPC) will guide you through an overview of
collaboratively taught language arts classroom. The participants' outcomes the Standards. You can share your ideas and ask questions. Learn about the SPC
include strategies for adopting a culturally responsive framework, practical and what we can do for you!
steps for sustaining collaboration, and examples from the lesson activities. Presenter(s): Standards Professional Council Members
Presenter(s): Amanda Giles Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Personal & Professional Development
Personal & Professional Development Poster Session
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This poster features a study that examined the intersections of teacher identity,
Have you faced the question of how to help international students in a course cultural responsiveness, and equitable education. Findings show that
designed for U.S.-born undergrads? This session posits that course design itself communities of practice provide a beneficial and compelling forum for teachers
can be changed to help both domestic and international students thrive, using to reflect critically on how their assumptions, beliefs, and cultures influence
insights from two pedagogical frameworks: culturally responsive teaching and pedagogical practice with culturally and linguistically diverse students.
universal design for learning. Presenter(s): Janet Turner
Presenter(s): Renata Kantaruk Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Programs
Academic Programs
Personal & Professional Development
Personal & Professional Development Poster Session
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Faced with a significant decrease in enrollment, many English language

In this session, presenters provide tips on teaching mindfulness to students, programs choose to combine levels in order to remain operational. The
share their observations of how these practices impact overall student presenters share the practices of their CEA accredited IEP and reflect on what
performance and classroom environment, and relay feedback from students they have learned from responses to an inter-institutional survey about this new
following a prolonged mindfulness practice. Participants experience a guided trend.
meditation and take home a list of references for further learning. Presenter(s): Renata Phelps
Presenter(s): Monica Hatch Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Language Programs
Language Programs
Personal & Professional Development
Personal & Professional Development Poster Session
Poster Session

Besides academic challenges, ESL learners come across peculiar problems that
This session first presents a context of mentoring support program implemented may hinder their learning process. This poster illustrates some potential
by the British Council Nepal to enable Nepali teachers to resolve their strategies for ESL teachers to help learners beyond the classroom to give them
classroom problems through exploratory action research (EAR). Then, it confidence and overcome some of the learning barriers.
discloses experiences of both mentees and mentors on how this program Presenter(s): Aziz Qureshi
contributed them to enhance their professionalism.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Presenter(s): Tirtha Karki Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

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Personal & Professional Development PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION &

Intersection Session EVALUATION

Program Administration & Evaluation

Teacher educators must prepare ESOL teachers for classrooms of students with
Recorded Presentation
diverse abilities. However, many struggle to incorporate instruction on working
with learners with high incidence exceptionalities, such as dyslexia, dysgraphia,
and autism. The panelists describe the implementation of such inclusive
This session highlights the new 2018 Standards for Initial TESOL Pre-K–12
instruction in preservice and in-service teacher education programs.
Teacher Preparation Programs. Participants learn more about each of the five
Presenter(s): Ying Hui-Michael, Solange Lopes Murphy, Gilda Martinez-Alba, standards and the 22 components, and explore the "preponderance of evidence"
Tyler Hill, Ann Rohrbraugh model required for national recognition.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Presenter(s): Anita Bright
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs
Personal & Professional Development
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Program Administration & Evaluation
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This session reports on the findings from a trans-disciplinary faculty learning
community of international instructors. Findings revealed that reflective
This session describes a conversation-partner program that provides
practices in a professional community led to improving teaching effectiveness,
opportunities for L2 learners to work together with learners of other languages
strengthening professional legitimacy, and promoting diversity and inclusion.
to improve their skills in the language they are learning. It details the aims,
Implications for effective teacher training and reflective pedagogical models are
procedures, and results from a case study and concludes with recommendations
discussed.
for and insights about the program.
Presenter(s): Galina Shleykina
Presenter(s): Judy James
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs,
Settings/Audiences: Intensive English/Private Language Programs
International Teaching Assistantships

Program Administration & Evaluation

Personal & Professional Development
Poster Session
Academic Session

When a language program does not "graduate" its cohort, how can it effectively
Disabilities affect approximately 15% of the world's population, and yet
honor student achievements? This poster shows how a final ceremony goes
ESL/EFL teachers are often unequipped with effective strategies for supporting
hand in hand with orientation as part of a ritual of entering and exiting and
them. This interactive panel session examines how various evidence-based
shares ways to facilitate a time of collective reflection.
strategies utilized in special education can be adapted to the ESL and EFL
contexts. Presenter(s): Jana Quigley
Presenter(s): Rosa Dene David Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School

Program Administration & Evaluation

Program Administration & Evaluation
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Presenters describe steps one university took to consolidate its first-year

Drawing from a multiyear study of an L2 writing program's assessment and
composition (FYC) and ESL departments. Through discussion of one university's
outcomes of cross-cultural composition as a placement option, this practice-
integration of sheltered ESL and mainstream FYC classes, participants gain an
orientated session offers participants strategies and materials for curriculum
enriched understanding of the intersection of composition and ESL. Participants
design and development, implementation, and assessment.
are asked to share their experiences with FYC.
Presenter(s): Tanita Saenkhum
Presenter(s): Ashley Murphy
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
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Program Administration & Evaluation Program Administration & Evaluation

Poster Session Poster Session

This session presents the results of a qualitative case study identifying the
Imagine a better way to gauge international students' English language impact of EAP on students' linguistic, academic, and social experiences. Results
proficiency for admission to a university while teaching them necessary skills point to language skills development, mixed effects on other courses, and the
for college success. This poster poses challenges of using high stakes testing importance of sociocultural needs. Implications for program validity and
for university admission and offers the solution of an online course currently curriculum content are discussed.
being used for university admission. Presenter(s): Scott Douglas
Presenter(s): Dianna Lippincott Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Language Programs
Language Programs

READING, WRITING, & LITERACY

Program Administration & Evaluation
Poster Session
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation
This session describes the gap between current language programs for
international engineering graduate students and what is needed. When giving written corrective feedback, teachers and researchers can choose
Achievements, challenges, and future directions for language instruction for to either focus on all (unfocused) or a few errors (focused). By critically
engineering students are discussed. Presenters characterize the language needs examining the arguments put forward for and against each method, the
of engineering students and suggest pedagogical implications for curriculum presenters make a case for unfocused feedback to be employed by teachers and
design and instructional strategies. researchers alike.
Presenter(s): Jenny Mak Presenter(s): Mohammad Falhasiri
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

Program Administration & Evaluation Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

TEFL training programs ideally evaluate how professional learning experiences Given that feedback from different sources is combined to ripple through the
empower EFL teachers to be effective change agents in their field. A mixed- revision process, it is crucial to create a space where students can engage with
methods study examined the impact of one U.S. university teacher training rich feedback. This session discusses research-based principles of effective
program; the findings inspire new directions for program design and offer key feedback, suggests a communal model of feedback, and provides a feedback
insights into program evaluation. cycle example.
Presenter(s): Adil Bentahar Presenter(s): Kyung Min Kim
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Program Administration & Evaluation Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

The study discussed examines the academic and social adjustment issues Though the "learning to argue" approach to argumentative writing, on which the
experienced by international students attending a predominantly White traditional argumentative essay is based, is used in many EAP classrooms, the
university in the United States. Survey data from both international students "arguing to learn" approach may help students develop more complex
and faculty were collected. Findings indicate that sociocultural integration arguments and content knowledge, and transfer skills. This session provides
presents a major challenge for academic retention. Implications are discussed. practical activities to teach this approach.
Presenter(s): Peter Parker Presenter(s): Susanne Rizzo
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

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Reading, Writing, & Literacy Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

Task-based learning teaching (TBLT) focuses on the use of meaning-based, Research indicates that applying strong academic reading skills can lead to
communicative tasks. The study discussed analyzes abstract writing specifically adult EL success in college and careers. In this session, participants explore
for ESL graduate students and researchers. Identifying seven subtasks from 200 explicit strategies to teach analysis of text structure and citation of evidence
abstracts has shown a pattern for a specific ordering of rhetorical moves that with ESL literacy through advanced level students in both online and face-to-
can be taught in advanced level writing courses. face learning environments.
Presenter(s): Vashti Lee Presenter(s): Lisa Gonzalves, Ronna Magy
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Academic Programs
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Reading, Writing, & Literacy Panel Session
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Community colleges offer resident and international EL students opportunities

The task of helping beginning ELs acquire English is challenging, but attainable to learn core writing skills and gain access to U.S. higher education. Presenters
when supported by appropriate and practical teaching theory and methodology. on this panel share research on and pedagogy for community college ELs, of
This session provides a litany of strategies to bolster ELs' language skills interest to teachers and administrators in first-year composition.
through appropriately scaffolded lessons and thoughtful language goals based Presenter(s): Betsy Gilliland
on student need.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Presenter(s): Carmen Rowe
Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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This session reconceptualizes data commentary pedagogy not only from a
multilingual, multimodal perspective but also according to disciplinary context
Activities that support skills in the writing process often rely on students' drafts. of culture. Attendees explore how to analyze visual and verbal semantic
What if a student doesn't have a draft? Participants experience four relations within data commentaries and how such an analysis can be adapted to
collaborative activities that engage students, with or without drafts ready, at develop multilingual learners' multimodal communicative competence.
different points in the writing process. Participants leave with ready-to-use, Presenter(s): Kate Batson
adaptable activities.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Presenter(s): Danica Messerli Academic Programs
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Programs
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Intersection Session
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Poster Session ELs develop two languages simultaneously; however, due to the focus on
reading and writing, oral language is often overlooked. Underdeveloped oral
language has negative implications for literacy success. Guiding research
When engaging in peer review activities, ESL writers often struggle with their informing instruction and connected to strategies and techniques to address
confidence level and their ability to provide meaningful feedback. Scaffolding assessment, instruction, and intervention in oral language is shared.
peer review tasks through Google Docs moves ESL writers beyond editing to Presenter(s): Pamela Rose
focus on higher order concerns, increasing understanding of feedback and
improving critical reading and writing skills.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Presenter(s): Trischa Duke
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

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Reading, Writing, & Literacy Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Panel Session Recorded Presentation

This panel compares and contrasts the effects of college completion reforms Literature circles have long been a staple in the classroom. With remote
(e.g., corequisite and acceleration initiatives, cohort pathways, 15 to Finish) on learning on the rise, educators need to take literature circles to the next level.
ESL programs and EL learning support in four different states. Panelists assess This session proposes a framework for this activity that adapts key elements of
benefits, challenges, and ethical and equity issues for multilingual students, literature circles while giving useful tips on incorporating effective digital tools.
faculty, and ESL and composition programs. Presenter(s): Marilena Draganescu
Presenter(s): Kate Batson, Lubie G. Alatriste, Melissa Reeve, Christina Ortmeier- Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Hooper, Todd Ruecker, Linda Harklau Language Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Reading, Writing, & Literacy Recorded Presentation
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Every day, teenagers are exposed to a large number of media. These media
sources influence teenagers' choices and, therefore, their lives. That is why
"Graded Readers," as their name implies, are supposedly "graded" according to having media literacy skills is essential for young people. This session discusses
the difficulty of the content. While they may be internally consistent for a the ways media literacy skills can be developed in EFL classrooms at different
specific series, comparisons across publishers reveal numerous inconsistencies levels.
in their complexity, CEFR level, headword count and other criteria. Participants Presenter(s): Iryna Roubel
explore and compare those criteria.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School
Presenter(s): Thomas Robb
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Teaching Tip
The presenters report findings from a study on multimodal and translingual
practices of young ELs in the United States. The findings offer valuable insights
Transfer of learning is at the heart of education, and the ESL composition into a pedagogical model for literacy instruction and showcase how theories
classroom operates on the very notion of preparing students to transfer writing from different disciplines (multimodality, translingualism) can inform
skills to future and varied contexts. Learn how instructors can intentionally multilingual literacy research and pedagogy.
teach for transfer by engaging with sample class activities that employ various Presenter(s): Youngjoo Yi
transfer techniques.
Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Presenter(s): Tamara Roose
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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This session reports on a study examining how two L2 writers and one tutor
negotiate their diverse literacies in writing tutorials. Findings highlight the
Responding to scholarly debates about how to engage with language ideology extent to which different negotiation strategies afford/deny learning
when supporting multilingual writers, the presenters show findings of an opportunities and may affect the rhetorical repertoire of multilingual writers.
empirical study examining multilingual students' attitudes, beliefs, and feelings Implications for effective teacher/tutor training are discussed.
about English writing in the American academy. They discuss study trends and Presenter(s): Rima Elabdali
pedagogical implications for writing tutors, instructors, and program
administrators.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Tutoring
Presenter(s): Tetyana Bychkovska, Courtney Massie, Sarah Johnson
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Tutoring

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Academic Session Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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This panel provides new insights into how online writing assessment literacy
can support L2 online writing instruction. Panelists discuss alternative ways to L2 students' success in writing-intensive environments at U.S. universities can
enhance building more effective curricula; share online integrated reading- depend upon their familiarity with formalist approaches to rhetorical analysis.
writing assessments and rubrics; and inform best practices in developing online This session, arguing that such familiarity grows primarily from the texts we
placement tests, validation, and use. teach with, will propose revised criteria for selecting texts that promote
Presenter(s): Aylin Atilgan Relyea, Paul Kei Matsuda, Deborah Crusan, Lia students' understanding of sound analytical writing.
Plakans, Sara Cushing and Xun Yan Presenter(s): Megan Connolly, Joseph Connolly
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Academic Programs Language Programs

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Intersection Session Recorded Presentation

This panel explores classroom-tested techniques for using technology to support ESL learners from religious minority groups in North America and Europe
writing skills development in ELT contexts. Panelists demonstrate tech tools for experience literacy practices in public education systems that may marginalize
L2 writing instruction, share implementation and scaffolding strategies for a them in various ways. This session provides thoughts for English language
variety proficiency levels and writing genres, and discuss the learning and teachers to design curricula incorporating religious texts for ESL learners to
affective outcomes associated with technology use. promote religious pluralism and interreligious dialogues.
Presenter(s): Marta Halaczkiewicz, Jennifer Meyer Francois, Nicky Hockly, M Presenter(s): Sanjoy Banerjee
Sidury Christiansen, Undraa Maamuujav Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Adult Education
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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The presenters share an integrated, interactive model that includes balanced
literacy processes; meaningful vocabulary instruction; and contextualized
In recent years, a number of newer directions in understanding reading and spelling, writing, word study, and phonological awareness through one lesson
reading development, and the role of vocabulary in language development, have of pre-/during-/postreading activities with enhancements at each stage of
taken on a greater prominence. Five well-known scholars present on these instruction. Activities and outlines to apply this model are provided.
expanded directions in reading research and their implications for L2 reading Presenter(s): Kate Reynolds, Sharryn Walker
curricula and instruction. Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Presenter(s): William Grabe, Marlise Horst, Charles Browne, Fredricka Stoller
and Alice Savage
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Panel Session

Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Poster Session The presenters draw on interviews with international students and disciplinary
faculty and lessons learned from collaborations between language specialists
and disciplinary faculty to discuss L2 students' challenges in transitioning to
This research-oriented session reports on the efficacy of reading strategy disciplinary writing and strategies for improving EAP and first-year writing
instruction among adult ELs in Canada. The presenter describes the research courses to better prepare students for disciplinary writing.
procedure and, using data from reading comprehension tests, interviews, and Presenter(s): Thomas Mitchell, Jan Frodesen, Maria Gomez Laich, Silvia
reflections, presents the results. Implications for reading strategy instruction Pessoa, Amy Joy Lashmet, Judy Gough
and opportunities for PD are discussed.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Presenter(s): Raj Khatri
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

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Reading, Writing, & Literacy Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

Literacy today implies competence with both print and digital texts. Yet many The study discussed implements and explores technology-mediated
learners are not taught online reading strategies or given sufficient practice to collaborative writing tasks as an instructional strategy in first-year composition
become fluent, accurate digital readers. This session offers four research- for multilingual students. Preliminary findings suggest that the tasks create
informed strategy training activities for online reading suitable for multiple various layers of scaffolding that are accomplished through interactions
levels and educational contexts. between peers and with the technology and better prepare the students for
Presenter(s): Nicole Brun-Mercer subsequent individual writing.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs Presenter(s): Jui-Hsin Renee Hung
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation Reading, Writing, & Literacy
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This session presents an analysis of a survey of writing assignment genres

across graduate programs at a university with a focus on science, technology, Successful reading activities motivate readers and can provide deeper, more
engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) fields. Findings reveal that some meaningful connections to text. Presenters share fun, interactive reading
of the most frequently assigned genres across disciplines are often overlooked activities that can be immediately implemented in the reading classroom.
in published EAP materials. Handout includes methods for creating books about books, suitable for
Presenter(s): Erin Karl elementary to adult school, IEP, and EFL settings.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate Presenter(s): Nicole Brun-Mercer, Catherine Moore
Academic Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

This session focuses on how to teach advanced reading and writing students The study discussed examines EAP students' multimodal writing performances
inference and making persuasive claims. Going beyond the advice to "support from the perspectives of TBLT and the cognitive process of writing. Thirty-one
one's claim with textual evidence," it reveals how claims have varying levels of EAP students completed a timed multimodal writing task and an essay task. The
certainty and introduces language to distinguish the levels. presenter discusses multimodal composing processes and their relationships
Presenter(s): Jennifer Mott-Smith with the quality of task performance.
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Presenter(s): Jungmin Lim
Language Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Reading, Writing, & Literacy Reading, Writing, & Literacy

Poster Session Teaching Tip

Information literacy and media literacy are increasingly important 21st-century

The presenters share findings from a year-long study focused on the skills. The presenters demonstrate a classroom-tested technique for helping ELs
instructional activities senior multilingual learners were engaged in during their improve their ability to detect satirical news. Participants are also invited to
English Language Arts class at a U.S. newcomer school. The poster illustrates take a sample test, and the presenters summarize research-based tips for
hands-on activities and student work samples from before and after state recognizing English satirical news.
testing concluded. Presenter(s): John Rucynski
Presenter(s): Elena Andrei, Rebekah Harper Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School

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Recorded Presentation TEACHER EDUCATION

Teacher Education
This session examines how ESL and content teachers drew on their professional
Teaching Tip
expertise and their students' language backgrounds to coplan and coteach
classes for emergent bilinguals in a seventh grade language arts classroom. The
participants' outcomes include translanguaging pedagogical strategies and
Homework correction presents challenges for teacher's time and creativity. By
practical steps to sustain teacher collaboration in secondary schools.
planning communicative, student-centered methods, teachers involve students
Presenter(s): Amanda Giles in error correction and discussions of homework exercises. This teaching tips
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School session demonstrates a communication cycle, providing options for three
activities to engage students in group error correction, discussions, or a game.
Presenter(s): Parmelee Welsh
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Recorded Presentation Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs

In this session, presenters describe a collaboration between their ESOL program

Teacher Education
and the University Writing Center to provide tutor-mediated peer reviews for
Poster Session
both graduate and undergraduate credit-bearing ESOL writing classes. The
presenters share the challenges and benefits of this approach and
recommendations for implementing on-location tutoring in ESOL contexts.
This poster addresses three areas needed in preservice teacher preparation: the
Presenter(s): Anastasiia Kryzhanivska how, what, and who in regards to teaching ELs. The researcher considers
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Tutoring current preparation and analyzes what type of training would be beneficial for
preservice teachers working with ELs in general education classrooms.
Presenter(s): Katrina Reinhardt
Reading, Writing, & Literacy
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Recorded Presentation

Teacher Education
Writing is one of the more challenging issues in the learning process. We know Recorded Presentation
our students belong to the technology era, and they are completely intertwined
with their cell phones, iPads, or laptops. With the help of Google Docs, we can
provide our students a new method of teaching in writing classes. This session reports on findings from research into four bilingual teacher
Presenter(s): Hanieh Baradaran education programs in implementing social justice education. Findings revealed
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education coherence and gaps between participants' beliefs and practice of social justice
education and between different programs. Recommendations for assessing
social justice education in curriculum are discussed.
Reading, Writing, & Literacy Presenter(s): Julien Ekiaka Oblazamengo
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Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

Drawing on 4 years of qualitative case study research with international college Teacher Education
students in the United States (n = 7), this session reports on those students' Recorded Presentation
writing strategies. Attendees discover students self-reported writing strategies;
how strategy uses reflected unique academic, professional, and personal goals;
and how strategic practices evolved during college. This session describes perspectives of international students in a U.S. K–12
Presenter(s): Jason Schneider language teacher-education program. Narrative data analysis revealed that
participants articulated understandings of teaching that varied as they
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Language Programs positioned themselves as language learners, graduate students, and novice
teachers. Implications are discussed for teacher education programs that enroll
international students.
Presenter(s): Lottie Baker, Xuewei He
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

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Teacher Education Teacher Education

Poster Session Recorded Presentation

Students often find it difficult to understand teacher comments. In this poster This session reviews the literature on the application of critical incident
session, examples of feedback from academic writing courses and the IEP reflection in preservice teacher education targeting culturally and linguistically
classroom are provided that illustrate positive feedback techniques teachers can diverse settings. Gaps in research are addressed regarding the potential for
make using a more mindful approach to enable the feedback to positively using critical incidents written by students and analyzed by preservice teachers
impact student learning. to surface tensions around instruction.
Presenter(s): Janine Carlock Presenter(s): Tierney Hinman
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs, Intensive Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
English/Private Language Programs
Teacher Education
Teacher Education Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation

A team from the English Speaking Nation: Secondary Teacher Training Program This session reports a study that explored effects of multimodal projects
highlights a contextualized and collaborative PD program to elevate both English implemented in graduate TESOL courses. The presenter shows how students
language proficiency and English teaching practice across Uzbekistan, from orchestrated multimodal resources to represent knowledge, construct meaning,
context analysis to cascading teacher PD with teacher leaders and regional peer and engage audience. The presenter also discusses benefits of integrating
mentors. multimodal practices into TESOL curriculum and provides recommendations on
Presenter(s): Heidi Faust digital pedagogy.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Presenter(s): Mimi Li
Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation Teacher Education
Poster Session

Addressing diversity in even seemingly homogenous EFL classroom can be Newcomer populations are growing rapidly in Eastern Canada. Many initiatives
challenging, but differentiated instruction can help teachers meet students' have been put in place in schools and communities to support the educational
varied needs. This session shares results of a study that investigated teachers' needs of children, youth, and families. This session addresses both curricular
challenges to and benefits of implementing differentiated instruction and and extracurricular initiatives aimed at supporting language and culture in New
discusses implications for increasing teacher efficacy and enhancing PD. Brunswick schools.
Presenter(s): Yana Kuchkarova Presenter(s): Paula Kristmanson
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs Programs

Teacher Education Teacher Education

Teaching Tip Panel Session

Have you ever faced a class full of blank stares? Have you ever felt frustrated by
your students' lack of interest? Have you ever used the "circle of motivation" or This panel examines EFL writing instruction and teacher PD in several non-
"motivational game frames"? The presenters share these successful strategies, English-dominant contexts in which teacher education has been
which increase students' motivation as active participants in their learning underresearched, including Chile, China, Nepal, Romania, Thailand, and Turkey.
process. Presenters share individual research findings and compare and contrast across
contexts to highlight strengths and needs in writing teacher preparation.
Presenter(s): Catherine Moore, Lily Roh
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language Presenter(s): Betsy Gilliland
Programs Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs

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Teacher Education Teacher Education

Recorded Presentation Panel Session

This session shares findings of a narrative inquiry that investigated teacher

identity of elementary teachers of ELs in the U.S. rural South. Stories from two In addition to instruction, teachers of ESP also are called on to conduct needs
veteran teachers reveal their emotional experiences when they faced ethical assessments, design curriculum, and develop or adapt materials. This session
dilemmas in teaching ELs. Participants engage in mutual storytelling and critical discusses the effective preparation of ESP teachers for these varied demands.
reflection. The presenters draw from their experiences supporting teachers in diverse
Presenter(s): Shuzhan Li settings worldwide.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School Presenter(s): Dawn Bikowski, Tabitha Kidwell
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Teacher Education
Teaching Tip Teacher Education
Poster Session

This session discusses the implementation of digital storytelling (DST)

conducted in an EL Methods course for preservice elementary and early The qualitative multiple case study discussed reports the findings of graduate
childhood teachers. Attendees are presented with guidelines for utilizing DST to students' reflective practices as a result of working with migrant education
integrate oracy, multiliteracies, and cultural competence for ELs and see students and families in a supervised field experience. Implications for future
samples of preservice teacher-generated DST. research are shared to promote opportunities for TESOL professionals to engage
Presenter(s): Sunyung Song in transformative learning in various contexts.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Presenter(s): Katya Koubek, Stephanie Wasta
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation

This session reports findings from a study of graduate-level ESL preservice

teachers' reading of digital texts. The findings include the participants' The extended study discussed was conducted in two correlated stages: initially,
experiences of reading culturally and linguistically diverse digital stories and to design highly demanded ESP programs for international business majors;
their learning in online discussions. The presenter discusses pedagogical secondly, to determine the representations about ESP pedagogy from upcoming
implications and the potential of digital literacy in teacher education. teachers. Curriculum was implemented. Implications on effective ESP programs
Presenter(s): Ho-Ryong Park and teacher training are discussed.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Presenter(s): Jose Espino
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation
In this policy-oriented session, presenters offer an in-depth look at current K–12
ESL teacher certification trends in the United States. Data collected from
publicly available state certification policies highlight the need for evidence- This session reports on a qualitative study of in-service STEM teachers working
based policy decision-making to better serve the needs of ESL teachers and ELs. with ELs in urban areas while completing an ESL certification. The study
Presenter(s): Christopher Gras revealed significant changes in not only the teachers' instructional strategies as
they incorporated language development practices, but also their professional
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs identity as they crossed disciplinary boundaries.
Presenter(s): Gladys Vega
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

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Teacher Education Teacher Education

Recorded Presentation Poster Session

This session examines the language learner/teacher identity of native English This session provides a glimpse into how one teacher inquiry team developed a
speakers who self-rated moderate or higher proficiency in another language as focus on language demands in elementary math through instructional leadership
they pursued an ESL or bilingual endorsement. Through a language survey and and the use of guidelines for math instructional materials for ELs. Examples of
testimonials, researchers categorized experiences of the teacher candidates to how teachers led this inquiry, the tools used to support this process, and
examine their identification as language learners and teachers. implications are shared.
Presenter(s): James Cohen Presenter(s): Felice Russell
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Settings/Audiences: Primary and Secondary School
Programs
Teacher Education
Teacher Education Poster Session
Recorded Presentation

This poster depicts the findings from an investigation of the process of mentor-
Expand your scaffolding strategies for developing skills learners need to mentee interactional topics during planning meetings with a master's TESOL
succeed in employment and education. The presenter describes and provides practicum student teaching in an ITA course. Findings reveal major shifts in the
examples of two scaffolding types, social and materials supports, from the "Six frequency of topics discussed. Suggestions for mentor interactional
Principles for Exemplary Teaching of ELLs in Adult Education and Workforce development are presented.
Development." Participants share their own effective supports. Presenter(s): Stacy Suhadolc
Presenter(s): Donna Price Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs,
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education International Teaching Assistantships

Teacher Education Teacher Education

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

How can adult ESL teachers increase instructional rigor to prepare ELs for the This session focuses on teaching strategies and activities to motivate and
demands of college and careers? In this session, the presenter shares strategies engage online ESL/EFL learners. The strategies and activities are situated
for teaching adult EL students important academic vocabulary, language, and within teaching, cognitive, social, and learning online presences that are
critical thinking skills in both online and face-to-face ESL learning environments. aligned with language learner motivation principles. The session provides
Presenter(s): Ronna Magy practical suggestions for language teachers, teacher educators, and
instructional designers.
Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Presenter(s): Faridah Pawan, Sharon Daley, Xiaojing Kou
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Teacher Education Academic Programs
Recorded Presentation

The study discussed investigates K–12 teachers growth in implementing the Teacher Education
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model after PD. Findings Recorded Presentation
revealed 11 high, 11 moderate, and six low implementers before PD, which
increased to 18 high and 10 moderate implementers. Statistically significant
improvements were observed for all SIOP subscales except "interaction." Learn how to redesign your syllabi and/or training workshops to ensure you are
delivering teacher prep content via strong modeling of communicative,
Presenter(s): Maria Selena Protacio, Virginia David
cooperative, and content-based pedagogies. This session gives practical tips for
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs using "modeling + naming," a teacher training format that will transform how
you make theory-practice connections for ESL instructors.
Presenter(s): Katie Welch
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

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Teacher Education Teacher Education

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

This session discusses the redesign and outcome of PD that was incorporated Digital portfolios are useful tools for showcasing artifacts using multimedia
into an EL methods course to prepare preservice teachers to teach ELs in a formats and sharing reflections in teacher education. However, writing
culturally and linguistically responsive way. The session discusses key features reflections for a public audience and professional context can be a challenge.
of the PD's success and persistent challenges. Attendees leave with practical This session provides tasks and guidelines for facilitating reflective writing in
recommendations. digital portfolios.
Presenter(s): Sunyung Song Presenter(s): Kaitlin Decker
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

Teacher Education Teacher Education

Panel Session Recorded Presentation

This panel focuses on the preparation of teachers and leaders to work with K–- This session reports on a study of an intervention to reduce student anxiety in
12 ELs. Presenters highlight teacher preparation for advocacy; the skills and EFL classrooms at a Japanese University. The majority of students had positive
knowledge that specialist ESOL teachers, content area teachers, and perceptions of the intervention. The nature of those perceptions is explored and
multilingual teachers need; collaboration and coteaching; and a whole-school details of the intervention, along with pedagogical suggestions, are discussed.
approach for preparing school leaders. Presenter(s): Jay Tanaka
Presenter(s): Heather Linville, Luciana de Oliveira, Andrea Honigsfeld, Lia Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs
Kamhi-Stein, Kristen Lindahl, Heather Linville, Trish Morita-Mullaney, Kara
Mitchell Viesca
Teacher Education
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Recorded Presentation
Programs

Teacher Education Researchers and practitioners are still working to find effective, sustainable,
Poster Session and meaningful ways to help community-based ESL volunteers develop
pedagogically sound language teaching practices. This session shares a
Vygotskyan concept-based approach to volunteer training that aims to reorient
We ask, "How do we build on sociohistorical foundations to support culturally and improve the ways in which teacher educators support volunteers in
sustaining and revitalizing communities of practice for teachers of Diné community-based settings.
language?" This question serves as a call to action to reverse oppressive Presenter(s): Nicolas Doyle
language policy and to learn from our students. Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Presenter(s): Louise Lockard
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Teacher Education
Programs Poster Session

Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation This poster session aims to offer an overview of autobiographical narrative as a
tool for teacher educators in TESOL graduate programs. Potential takeaways
from this poster include discussions about how autobiographical narratives can
The presenter adopts a narrative approach and interviews six teacher trainees be embedded into a process of teacher education.
who did their practicum in the context of lockdown easing and schools Presenter(s): Jun Akiyoshi
reopening in Vietnam. The findings indicate numerous factors influencing their Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs
resilience, from which implications for teacher training can be drawn.
Presenter(s): Thu Dao
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs

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Teacher Education Teacher Education

Recorded Presentation Poster Session

Drawing on interactional scaffolding moves provides teachers with Effective supervisors tailor support to teachers' needs. Published literature on
opportunities to engage diverse learners in didactic conversations, encouraging teacher traits can help supervisors recognize how these needs may differ, but
academic growth and development. Presenters identify several interactional collaboratively developed profiles of teacher types pool supervisors' expertise
scaffolding moves with which a first-grade teacher implemented purposeful regarding characteristics unique to their context. Through this process,
repetition, providing educators with a discursive tool they can utilize with supervisors in Peru expanded their views of their own roles.
diverse student populations. Presenter(s): Christopher Stillwell, Moises Alcantara Ayre
Presenter(s): Luciana de Oliveira Settings/Audiences: Adult Education, Intensive English/Private Language
Settings/Audiences: Primary School Programs

Teacher Education Teacher Education

Poster Session Recorded Presentation

This session covers reasons for the continued underrepresentation of ELs in This session reports findings from a longitudinal mixed-methods study of
gifted and talented programs and also analyzes the effectiveness of the preservice teachers who participated in a short-term study abroad in Mexico as
Hispanic Bilingual Gifted Screening Instrument (HBGSI) in identifying these part of their teacher preparation. In particular, researchers were interested in
students. This session statistically analyzes the HBGSI and ways it can be the ways that experience impacted their work supporting emerging bilinguals in
redesigned for other ELs. their K–12 classrooms in subsequent years.
Presenter(s): Alma Contreras-Vanegas Presenter(s): Kelly Metz-Matthews
Settings/Audiences: Primary School Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs

Teacher Education Teacher Education

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

This session reports on findings from a study of how a preservice ESOL This session reports on findings from a 3-year study of 26 preservice elementary
teacher's positioning of herself and her EL students shifted over her practicum teachers learning to teach mathematics and science to ELs. Findings indicate
experience. Findings also include how her university supervisors facilitated that there was significant improvement in the implementation of instructional
those shifts. Implications for ESOL teacher education are discussed. strategies, understanding of mathematics and science content, and attitudes
Presenter(s): Wyatt Hall about teaching science to ELs.
Settings/Audiences: Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic Programs Presenter(s): Elizabeth Franklin
Settings/Audiences: Primary School
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation

In this workshop, the presenter introduces the complex issues educators must
address in seeking to identify and serve ELs with disabilities, particularly within Explore with us how teachers around the world are applying TESOL's "The 6
inclusive settings. Participants address inclusive supports and accommodations Principles for the Exemplary Teaching of English Learners®" to engage young
in general education settings, problem-solving and strategies for support, and children at the preprimary and primary school levels in innovative,
assessment and identification of ELs with disabilities. developmentally and linguistically appropriate, meaning-focused language
Presenter(s): Patricia Rice Doran education to set a path for them to become multilinguals.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School Presenter(s): Joan Kang Shin
Settings/Audiences: Early Childhood, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs

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Teacher Education Vocabulary & Grammar

2018 Ruth Crymes TESOL Fellowship for Graduate Study Presentation Recorded Presentation

This study investigates how L2 vocabulary instruction can be embedded into This session examines ways a two-pronged approach to teaching grammar can
writing, and the impact that this has on L2 vocabulary development. Situated develop ELs' writing across contexts: a rhetorical approach coupled with
within a larger intervention for struggling second grade ELLs, preliminary metacognitive exercises. This session engages the audience by asking about
findings showed that including vocabulary instruction in shared writing, their experiences. Then, the presenter shares personal successes as well as
conferencing, and revising increased L2 vocabulary knowledge. teaching materials.
Presenter(s): Stephanie Moody Presenter(s): Soha Youssef
Settings/Audiences: Early Childhood, Primary School Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Teacher Education Vocabulary & Grammar

Recorded Presentation Recorded Presentation

The presenters share findings from a study that demonstrates how coaching A systematic approach to vocabulary instruction to support reading skills
preservice teachers in their final year resulted in improved instructional includes assessing learner vocabulary knowledge, selecting proficiency-
practices for ELs. A case study of one preservice teacher highlights how the appropriate texts, modifying texts to facilitate acquisition, and integrating
coaching model works to support ELs. ongoing review. The presenter shares his experience implementing this
Presenter(s): Leslie Grant approach in an EAP setting and discusses how it might be implemented in other
contexts.
Settings/Audiences: Primary School, Graduate/Post-Graduate Academic
Programs Presenter(s): Christopher W. Collins
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
Academic Programs
Teacher Education
Recorded Presentation
Vocabulary & Grammar
Teaching Tip
This session shares engaging strategies to teach more effective Zoom classes
after the survival phase of online teaching. Socioaffective, pedagogical, and
multimodal strategies are presented with numerous examples and techniques. The presenter demonstrates how newspaper advice columns can be used as
Examples of surprising teacher behaviors with video-episodes are also authentic sources to teach grammar, vocabulary, and especially culture. He
introduced to engage participants conducting self-confrontational reflections in shows how teachers can effectively use such columns in any ESL class.
group activities. Presenter(s): John Stasinopoulos
Presenter(s): Saihua Xia Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Academic English Programs Language Programs

VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR Vocabulary & Grammar

Recorded Presentation

Vocabulary & Grammar

Recorded Presentation Word list creation is well researched. Less is known about how those lists
should be used. This session focuses on needs analysis for teaching and
learning technical vocabulary in ESP contexts. It explores methods and purposes
The advent of The 6 Principles® has sparked creativity among educators in the for assessing learners' prior technical vocabulary knowledge to inform course
field of SLA. The presenters demonstrate how four versatile vocabulary and design.
grammar board games incorporate curriculum to stimulate learners, assess their Presenter(s): Sandra Bancroft-Billings
language development, and broaden community outreach, thereby utilizing The
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Graduate/Post-Graduate
6 Principles.
Academic Programs
Presenter(s): Rita Naughton
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

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Vocabulary & Grammar Vocabulary & Grammar

Recorded Presentation Teaching Tip

Tasks are often used to activate prior knowledge, but rarely used to construct
This session addresses the debate regarding output practice and reading in new grammar knowledge. This session showcases how focused tasks, if
teaching academic vocabulary. Attendees learn different views about output designed appropriately, can draw beginners' attention to the target structure
practice, review research demonstrating the value of output practice, and learn and encourage them to negotiate its meaning/function in its use without the
about a proposed eclectic approach to academic word list instruction in IEPs. teacher's explicit explanation.
Presenter(s): Alan Juffs Presenter(s): Shaoyan Qi
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Settings/Audiences: Adult Education
Language Programs
Vocabulary & Grammar
Vocabulary & Grammar Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation

Vocabulary assessment is a powerful tool to measure learner progress, but it This workshop teaches how to use online resources for materials development
can also frustrate students and teachers alike. In this session, review best (e.g., AntWordProfiler, Lextutor, The Word Family Framework, SkELL, FLAX) and
practices in assessment and enhance your instruction with summative and engages in completing classroom-tested exercises using technology (e.g.,
formative vocabulary assessments. Assessments can be easily implemented in Socrative, Kahoot!). Participants walk away with classroom-tested tasks easily
your class next week. adaptable for use in any context and proficiency level.
Presenter(s): Jennifer Majorana Presenter(s): Valeria Bogorevich
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Intensive English/Private Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs, Adult Education
Language Programs
Vocabulary & Grammar
Vocabulary & Grammar Best of Affiliates
Recorded Presentation
Using the popular format of memes, grammar students can engage with
targeted grammar structures by creating authentic language. The ever-changing
This session discusses findings from a study that investigated the relationship nature of internet memes provides excellent opportunities to observe authentic
between level of academic vocabulary and beliefs about its importance to use of grammar and discuss culture. This session explains the process of
learners' university studies, explores trends from the findings, and raises expanding grammar understanding using popular meme culture.
awareness for EAP teachers concerning assumptions about students' needs for Presenter(s): Karina Jackson
vocabulary development based on learners' perceptions and knowledge.
Settings/Audiences: Secondary School, Intensive English/Private Language
Presenter(s): Ijobat Juraeva Programs
Settings/Audiences: Academic English Programs

Vocabulary & Grammar

Teaching Tip

In this teaching tip, the presenters share a teacher action research on stations
and/or games to support emergent bilinguals' vocabulary. The participants were
a teacher's sixth graders at a newcomers' school in the United States. Students'
weekly posttests showed successful scores during weeks when stations and/or
games were used.
Presenter(s): Elena Andrei, Stephanie Gabel
Settings/Audiences: Primary School

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TESOL 2021
LIVE Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM
Live
Online Professional English Network (OPEN) Alumni:

EXHIBITOR
Staying Actively Involved
The Online Professional English Network (OPEN) program offers virtual
learning opportunities to foreign English language educators,
professionals, and learners worldwide. This session is for all OPEN

SESSIONS
alumni! Learn how you can stay actively involved in the program and
connect with your colleagues from around the world.
Presenter(s): Dawn Rogier, Katherine Bain, Amy Nunamaker, Kara
Howard

THURSDAY, 25 MARCH Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM

Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Pandemic Challenges: Accessibility, Inclusion and
Engagement
On-Demand COVID-19 has played havoc with the learning opportunities for millions
of people around the world. It added another dimension to the
challenges of engagement, accessibility, and inclusion. This session
On-demand Prerecorded Presentation
explores what remote learning, testing, and assessment means to
Teach Abroad With the English Language Fellow
stakeholders from diverse contexts.
Program
Learn how you can enhance English language teaching capacity abroad Presenter(s): John Shackleton, Gemma Bellhouse, Paul Muir
through paid teaching fellowships designed by U.S. Embassies. In-
person and virtual exchange opportunities are available for
experienced U.S. TESOL professionals to provide English language Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM
instruction, conduct teacher training, and develop resources. Join us to Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
hear from program staff and alumni. Writing Test Questions: From Design to Administration
The presenter describes the steps and processes followed to design,
Presenter(s): Maggie Steingraeber
develop, and administer new question types aimed at assessing
different language proficiency skills for different purposes using
concrete examples from the TOEFL® Family of Assessments (the TOEFL
7:00 am ET iBT®, TOEFL ITP®, TOEFL Junior®, and TOEFL Primary® tests).
Presenter(s): Pablo Garcia Gomez
LIVE Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM
Live
Connect, Manage, and Engage: Best Practices for the
Online Classroom
9:00 am ET
Creating connections in a virtual classroom is challenging but essential
for effective online teaching. Connecting with learners helps us Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM
understand their progress, and lively interactions among students can Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
result in more meaningful learning. Join this session to learn practical Connect: Building Literacy for Academic Success!
tips for managing communicative interactions and creating engaging This session features a brand new, standards-based core program
online lessons. designed specifically for ELs. This print and digital solution builds ELs'
Presenter(s): Chia Suan Chong , Sean Bermingham , Caitlin Thomas academic success by developing their communication and literacy
skills, as well as academic knowledge in the content areas of math,
science, social studies, music, and art.
Thursday, 25 March, 7:00 AM Presenter(s): Patricia Acosta
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
English Language Specialist Program Impact in East
Asia/Pacific Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM
To commemorate the Specialist Program's 30th Anniversary, this Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
session showcases specialists' impact in East Asia/Pacific over the last Creating Inclusive Classrooms and Fostering
30 years. Three specialists who have worked in-person or virtually in Accessibility With Free Microsoft Tools
the region share their experiences and how their projects have Did you know Microsoft has created free, accessible assistive
impacted their professional lives and home communities. technology to support students who struggle with reading, writing,
Presenter(s): Donna Brinton, Tony Newman, Betsy Parrish, Abigail math, and communication? This session showcases how these free
Williamson, Catur Wahyudi learning tools can be used to support classroom engagement of
students with learning differences, such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, ELL,
ADHD, and more.
Presenter(s): Rachel Berger
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LIVE Thursday, 25 March, 9:00 AM Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM

Live Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
"World Link" Helps Learners and Teachers Track Teach the Rhythm of English With Color Vowel®
Progress Towards Confident Communication Learners can spend years learning grammar and building vocabulary,
The new, fourth edition of "World Link" provides the print and digital yet still feel helpless when it comes to actually speaking English. What's
solutions needed to track learner progress in all classrooms. Through often missing is rhythm, a vital synthesis of pronunciation, grammar,
formative assessment opportunities in the Student's Books to adaptive and vocabulary that supports speaking confidence. In this session,
online practice, "World Link" has what you need to get students participants learn to create powerful, practical Color Vowel Chants.
speaking confidently in their world. Presenter(s): Karen Taylor
Presenter(s): John Hughes, Caitlin Thomas
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
1:00 pm ET The Grammar You Need for Academic Writing:
Beginning Through Advanced
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM Creators of the new Grammar You Need series of fold-out cards, free
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A workbooks, and free web apps with student progress tracking
A New Digital Formative and Summative EFL demonstrate methods of teaching core grammar structures for
Assessment for Teenagers academic writing at multiple levels. The approach is visual, corpus
Assessment better supports teaching and learning when personalized based, and flexible. Participants leave with practical techniques and
feedback is provided to test takers and teachers. Join us as we explore plug-and-play materials.
how MET Go!, a recently developed multilevel EFL exam for teenagers Presenter(s): Michael Berman
and now available in digital format for remote administration, can
serve formative and summative purposes to foster learning.
Presenter(s): Fernando Fleurquin, Rita Simpson-Vlach Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Using Images to Elicit, Teach, and Reinforce Target
Structures
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM ESL Library has one of the most comprehensive online image banks
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A designed specifically for language teaching. Learn how to use images to
Developing Successful Writers Through Task-Based elicit and teach vocabulary, reinforce grammar structures, and create
Writing lively discussion with your language learners.
Join Randi Reppen as she examines how understanding different
Presenter(s): Ben Buckwold
writing tasks can help students become more successful writers. A
variety of typical, school-based writing tasks are broken down to
address the vocabulary, grammar, and discourse demands. The process
results in successful writing products for all students. LIVE Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM
Presenter(s): Randi Reppen Live
What Have We Learned About Teaching During the
Pandemic?
COVID-19 closed schools worldwide, moving English language
Thursday, 25 March, 1:00 PM educators online. Using data from polls, surveys, and samples of
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A teaching practice, the presenters share perspectives on English
English Language Specialist Program Impact in teachers' perceived challenges and successes related to teaching
Europe/Eurasia remotely during COVID-19 and the changing landscape of ELT toward
To commemorate the Specialist Program's 30th Anniversary, this more online and blended models.
session showcases specialists' impact in Europe/Eurasia over the last
Presenter(s): Joan Kang Shin, Jered Borup, Emily Casey
30 years. Three specialists who have worked in-person or virtually in
the region share their experiences and how their projects have
impacted their professional lives and home communities.
Presenter(s): Veronica Alvarez, John D. Bunting, Christine Coombe,
2:00 pm ET
Tony Newman
Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Digital Engagement: Practical Tips to Keep Students
Involved During Class
As the rapid evolution of teaching over the past year drove classrooms
online, teachers were forced to develop new techniques to keep
students interested in, and engaged with, class material. In this session,
participants discuss practical ways to encourage students to interact
with the topics they're learning and their classmates.
Presenter(s): Katherine Akey
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Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM

Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Engage Reluctant Writers With Story Prompts Teaching Strategies for Successful Academic Speech
Students often say they can't write. Typical writing prompts are short Events
and intimidatingly unstructured. By contrast, story prompts— EAP speaking courses often teach low-frequency phrases, scripted
unfinished stories—give more support, with a setting, with characters, dialogues, and unrealistic role-plays, describing what we want English
and with a plot. But there's room for creativity as students add plot to be, not what English actually is. Instead, they should prepare
twists and an end. Learn how to use story prompts to get students students for authentic situations. This session shares speech event
writing! "moves" that office hours, discussions, and presentations follow,
equipping students for English-speaking interactions.
Presenter(s): Walton Burns
Presenter(s): Kelly Sippell, Robyn Brinks Lockwood

Thursday, 25 March, 2:00 PM Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM

Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A LIVE
Live
Peace Corps: Education Volunteer Assignments for U.S. The Experiences of BIPOC Educators and Allies While
Citizens Teaching Abroad
Join us to learn how you can use your TESOL skills in volunteer What is it like to be BIPOC educators representing the United States
assignments around the world! Peace Corps provides two volunteer abroad? What can allyship look like overseas? Our diverse panel of
programs for U.S. citizens to gain experience working abroad. English Language Fellows and Specialists who have taught around the
Volunteers frequently design curricula, train teachers, and share world share their stories, challenges, and insights on diversity and
modern and innovative teaching techniques at all levels of instruction. inclusion in the global TESOL context.
Presenter(s): Natalie Borrego, Sakeena Ali Presenter(s): Jenny Hodgson, Anna Ciriani Dean, Peter Edwards, Rachel
Wang, Ramin Yazdanpanah

3:00 pm ET
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM
The Ubiquitous No. 3
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Many things in the history of TESOL have come in threes: The
Empowered to Engage: Keeping Students and Families
Presentation-Practice-Production paradigm, the Pre-, While- and Post-
Connected During COVID-19
phases of skills development, and many others.
Distance learning for non-native English-language speakers poses
significant challenges during COVID-19, especially in communication. Presenter(s): Dr. Gabriel Diaz Maggioli
Learn best practices and innovative approaches to reach students,
teachers and families that help keep them connected and achieving
through the pandemic and beyond.
4:00 pm ET
Presenter(s): Jami Herbst, Lizza Bowen
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM Encouraging Meaningful Interaction in Every Young
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Learner's and Teen's Classroom
Ensuring young and teenage ELs maximize language development in all
Engagement, Interactivity, and Grammar! It Can Happen!
The new Modular Grammar Course Powered by Nearpod transforms a four domains, meet academic achievement standards, and engage with
traditional grammar class by creating an engaging and learner- both in-person and online lessons can be tough! Let's explore ways to
centered experience. Delivered on a powerful student engagement engage learners through flexible learning materials with linguistically
platform, it delivers compelling grammar lessons and allows programs diverse content, academic language contexts, and globally inclusive
to customize the content. See for yourself how you can enhance photos, video, and readings.
students' learning experiences. Presenter(s): Kate Norton, Joy MacFarland
Presenter(s): Christina Cavage
Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM
Thursday, 25 March, 3:00 PM Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A English Language Specialist Program Impact in the
Make Reluctant Writers Confident Writers Western Hemisphere
Writing class can be a challenge for students, especially when they lack To commemorate the Specialist Program's 30th Anniversary, this
session showcases specialists' impact in the Western Hemisphere over
confidence in their skills. Giving your students a reason to write,
the last 30 years. Three specialists who have worked in-person or
explicit steps to follow, and clear models can help. Reflect, a new series
from National Geographic Learning, takes the mystery out of writing virtually in the region share their experiences and how their projects
and creates confident writers. have impacted their professional lives and home communities.
Presenter(s): Laura Le Drean, Tracy Bailie Presenter(s): Efrain Diaz, Tony Newman, Robert Wyss, Natalie A.
Kuhlman
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Thursday, 25 March, 4:00 PM LIVE Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM

Live Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Maximize Student Success Using ESL Library Content Pandemic Challenges: Pedagogical Skills, Technological
and Courseware Awareness, and Student Interaction
ESL Library is one of the world's leading resource sites for language The pandemic has forced teachers to find new ways to operate and
teachers. Used in more than 10,000 schools around the world, ESL sustain the learning of their students. Using evidence gathered by the
Library allows English teachers to access exceptional content and British Council, participants discuss insights into the challenges
courseware every day. This session focuses on how to make the most teachers have faced, including issues of pedagogical skills,
of the ESL Library platform. technological awareness, student interaction, and engagement.
Presenter(s): Ben Buckwold Presenter(s): Graham Stanley, Ruth Horsfall

Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM

FRIDAY, 26 MARCH Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Standard Setting With the TOEFL ITP® Test
Every IEP program is unique in its educational mission and available
resources—which can make it challenging to set score requirements
9:00 am ET for placement purposes. This session reviews the goals and steps of a
well-designed standard-setting process using the TOEFL ITP Test to
LIVE Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM illustrate core concepts.
Live Presenter(s): Enrique Pilleux
Exploring the Shifting Literacy Needs in English Medium
Instruction
Many students all over the world share the same goal: academic Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
success in English. However, these students may not share the same Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
background or experiences. This session explores how a shift to a The Right Synonym for the Right Context With Kory
content-based approach to English instruction and curriculum can Stamper
better meet the needs of tomorrow's global leaders. More than just lists of synonyms, the all-new, corpus-based Cambridge
Presenter(s): Nonie K. Lesaux , Anders Bylund Learner's Thesaurus gives extensive real-world examples and articles
that explain how words with similar meanings are used differently. Get
tips for using this unique, free online resource to help your students
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM pick the right synonym for the right context.
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Presenter(s): Kory Stamper
Hands-On Reading Comprehension Strategies for ELs
Many ELs in Grades 4–12 are emerging readers and struggle to
comprehend texts. This workshop focuses on evidence-based, hands- Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM
on strategies to improve comprehension. Participants learn strategies Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
to use with students before, during, and after reading. Activities for What's New in Microsoft Windows 10 Accessibility
fiction and nonfiction are included. Learn about accessibility features in Windows 10, including
Presenter(s): Jill Haney experiences to make your computer easier to see, hear, and interact
with! Come learn about the Windows Accessibility team's journey and
how we want you to partner with us as we continue to empower every
Friday, 26 March, 9:00 AM person on the planet to achieve more.
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Presenter(s): Mariah Moon
Immersive Virtual Reality for All: Getting Started Step-
by-Step
Being immersed in virtual reality (VR) encourages language use and 10:00 am ET
improves learner confidence. Launching a VR program is a fairly simple
process. In this session, the presenters introduce you to the Immerse Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Virtual Language Experience Platform and provide step-by-step details Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
to help you bring your English program to life in virtual reality. A Smart, Effective Pronunciation App: Blue Canoe® With
Presenter(s): Sara Davila, Sarah Towler Color Vowel®
Learn about Blue Canoe, an effective mobile app that lets students
practice pronunciation every day and get immediate, targeted
feedback using the Color Vowel System. With rich content and a
teacher's dashboard, you can integrate Blue Canoe into your
curriculum, assign it as homework, and watch students' pronunciation
confidence skyrocket.
Presenter(s): Karen Taylor

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LIVE Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM

Live 11:00 am ET
Demystifying Virtual Reality: How to Teach English in VR
Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful medium for creating meaningful, Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
interactive task-based learning experiences that allow for deeply Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
immersive, real-time synchronous learning. In this session, the Assessing Your Students Online With Testing and
presenters review how we have merged research and best practices to Evaluation
create a robust platform for facilitating synchronous English classes. Distractions, cheating, time limits, technical capacities: Assessment in
Presenter(s): Sarah Towler, Sara Davila online and blended classes can be difficult. However, they don't need
to hold you back. With a focus on ongoing assessment and structures
for testing, which we'll discuss in this session, you can effectively assess
Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM your students in any type of class.
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Presenter(s): Katherine Akey
English Language Specialist Program Impact in Near
East/North Africa
To commemorate the Specialist Program's 30th Anniversary, this
Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
session showcases specialists' impact in Near East/North Africa over
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
the last 30 years. Three specialists who have worked in-person or
Calling Students In vs. Out: Dealing With "Hot Moments"
virtually in the region share their experiences and how their projects
Linguistic (and cultural) miscommunications have always been an
have impacted their professional lives and home communities.
inherent part of the ESL classroom. What's new is our (justified)
Presenter(s): Bob Schoenfeld, Janine J. Darragh, Joan Kang Shin, Tony heightened awareness toward inclusive language and our collective
Newman worries surrounding what is currently "politically correct."
Presenter(s): Emily Sabo
Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
How to Get Students Online and Charge What You're Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Worth Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
James Liu is a business coach for ESL teachers. In this training, he English Language Specialist Program Impact in Africa
explains niche teaching—the only solution for teachers to charge a To commemorate the Specialist Program's 30th Anniversary, this
higher rate, two marketing models available for online teachers, and session showcases specialists' impact in Africa over the last 30 years.
three steps to get students online and succeed in an online teaching Three specialists who have worked in-person or virtually in the region
business. share their experiences and how their projects have impacted their
Presenter(s): James Liu professional lives and home communities.
Presenter(s): David Bohlke, Lea Gabay, Tony Newman, Janet Raskin

Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM

Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
Remote Learning and Equity for Emergent Bilinguals Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
While remote teaching presents a number of challenges, one that Five Ways to Effectively Serve ELs as Schools Reopen
needs particular attention is educational equity. How can educators With students learning at home, in school or a combination of both,
ensure that all students are set up for success? Join José Viana as he educators must remain flexible to meet evolving student needs. So
gives you strategies to help you better address the needs of emergent how do EL educators remain focused despite unpredictable
bilingual students during this time. circumstances, and what practices remain evergreen to accelerate
Presenter(s): José Viana learning?
Presenter(s): Julie Robinson, Michele Kimball, Lizza Bowen

LIVE Friday, 26 March, 10:00 AM

Live Friday, 26 March, 11:00 AM
U.S. Department of State Opportunities for Online Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Course Development How "Time Zones," Third Edition, Supports All
Learn how the U.S. Department of State partners with U.S. universities Secondary Classrooms
to develop online PD and ESP courses for ELs and teachers around the In this session, participants explore how "Time Zones," Third Edition,
world. An overview of the American English E-Teacher program and supports teenage learners at all levels and in any learning
information on potential partnership opportunities are shared. environment. Using case studies from classrooms all around the world,
Presenter(s): Joyce Catsimpiris, Dawn Rogier, Amy Nunamaker, the presenters demonstrate how "Time Zones'" authentic content,
Katherine Bain carefully sequenced lessons, and digital resources help bring all
classrooms to life.
Presenter(s): Anders Bylund

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Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM

3:00 pm ET Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
\
Upholding the Standards and Teaching Low-Level
Students Remotely
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM In this session, participants explore ways you can engage, support, and
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A challenge your low-level learners in a distance or blended learning
New Ways to Teach Idioms and Slang in the (Online) setting by leveraging "Future's" considerable digital and print resources
Classroom and scaffolding instruction so students can learn the higher order skills.
"Slangman" David Burke (international TV show host and author of the
Street Speak, -Spanish, -French and -Italian slang/idioms series) gives Presenter(s): Sarah Lynn
an informative and hilarious presentation on the importance of
teaching slang and idioms.
Presenter(s): David Burke 4:00 pm ET
Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
LIVE Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
"The ELT Grammar Book": New Edition of This Essential
Live
Resource
Supporting Your Textbook With an LMS: Canvas and
This session debuts the second edition of "The ELT Grammar Book," an
Stand Out
indispensable guide for new and experienced English language
Establishing clear lesson goals, a logical progression of tasks, helpful
scaffolds, and meaningful tasks while teaching online can be teachers and curriculum writers. Come away with fresh tips on
common grammatical head scratchers, instant access to free online
challenging. Join "Stand Out" authors, educators, and content
bonus material, and a 40% discount for this new second edition.
developers Rob Jenkins and Staci Johnson as they discuss how these
objectives are met with the Canvas shells they created specifically for Presenter(s): Richard Firsten
"Stand Out."
Presenter(s): Rob Jenkins, Staci Johnson, Joy MacFarland
Friday, 26 March, 4:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Get Ready! And Get Reading!
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
This session examines ways to engage newcomer ELs as they develop
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
language and academic skills in English. The "Get Ready!" and "Get
Take the Express to the New TOEFL iBT® Test
Reading!" texts combine language, literacy, and content in fully
Get on board with testing experts to learn about important changes to
articulated materials that serve newcomers with comprehensive print
the TOEFL iBT. Discover how using a skills-based short course can give
AND digital materials.
your students the knowledge and practice needed to perform at their
best on the TOEFL. Special emphasis on speaking and writing. Presenter(s): Martin Smith
Presenter(s): Tammy LeRoi Gilbert

5:00 pm ET
Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM
Teaching Social Justice Topics Online With ESL Library Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
ESL Library strives to empower teachers to address challenging issues A New Way of Testing: The First-Ever Adaptive
in the classroom by providing them with thoughtfully designed Speaking Test
materials. Learn how to use ESL Library's digital lesson plans, Researchers highlight their journey to build an automated, adaptive
flashcards, and resources focused on social justice issues to engage test of spoken English. They describe the methodology and technology
with students in a meaningful way. used to enable adaptivity, including the challenges they overcame.
Presenter(s): Tammy Wik They discuss the adaptive test's impact using examples from academia
and business, including implications for the language-learning industry.
Presenter(s): Judson Hart
LIVE Friday, 26 March, 3:00 PM
Live
The Power of Storytelling to Build Cross-Cultural Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM
Connections Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Discover how you can use storytelling to unlock deeper connections in Engage and Excel: Best Practices for Remote Learning
the classroom and in your daily life. Four English Language Fellow Cambridge University Press brings together a panel of adult educators
Programs alumni share intriguing tales from their experiences abroad. to share their experience with remote learning. Find out about their
Attendees gain insights on how to craft engaging stories through lessons learned, favorite technology tools, and strategies for learner
reflection and Q&A. engagement. Get answers to your questions and brainstorm solutions
Presenter(s): Maggie Steingraeber, Natasha Agrawal, Richard Silberg, to problems you've experienced.
Beth Trudell, Joe Voigts Presenter(s): Donna Price
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Friday, 26 March, 5:00 PM

Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A 7:00 am ET
Teaching Vocabulary Online: Of Course
Teaching speaking or writing online may be relatively new, but Saturday, 27 March, 7:00 AM
vocabulary learning has occurred online for many years. The presenter Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
explains seven ideas for online vocabulary instruction, including English Language Specialist Program Impact in
teaching and practicing new vocabulary, along with training learners to South/Central Asia
become more aggressive and skilled in improving their own English To commemorate the Specialist Program's 30th Anniversary, this
vocabulary. session showcases specialists' impact in South/Central Asia over the
Presenter(s): Keith Folse last 30 years. Three specialists who have worked in-person or virtually
in the region share their experiences and how their projects have
impacted their professional lives and home communities.
Presenter(s): Gena Bennett, Chris Hastings, Vivian Leskes, Tony
SATURDAY, 27 MARCH Newman

5:00 am ET 11:00 am ET
Saturday, 27 March, 5:00 AM Saturday, 27 March, 7:00 AM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Effective Digital Tools for Remote Teaching and Testing Creative Activities to Teach Speaking Skills
of EAP Too often, textbook speaking activities are really grammar practice.
Remote teaching has become the norm for EAP educators. Though How often do we have the chance to teach students to use a broad
teaching online isn't more difficult than teaching face-to-face, it's a range of communication skills, such as rhetorical strategies, gesture,
different process and requires unique tools to keep students engaged and intonation? Learn about engaging activities that actually teach
and to monitor their learning. The New Interactions program employs speaking skills!
adaptive learning and remote proctoring to make remote teaching
Presenter(s): Walton Burns
effective.
Presenter(s): Alan R. Davis
Saturday, 27 March, 11:00 AM
6:00 am ET Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Nonfiction and Fiction Book Pairs for Newcomers in
Grades 4–12
Saturday, 27 March, 6:00 AM Newcomers face a number of challenges as they navigate their new
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A schools and communities. This session reviews books that address
The Forum Experience: Tips for Publishing in "English critical topics for newcomers through nonfiction/fiction book pairs. Key
Teaching Forum" supports to look for in books for newcomers are highlighted, including
How do you draft an article for publication? What happens after you survival vocabulary and visual cues.
submit an article? What have published authors learned from their Presenter(s): Jill Haney
experiences? Find out about the writing, submission, and review
process with tips and insights from authors of "English Teaching
Forum" articles and the journal's editor. 2:00 pm ET
Presenter(s): Tom Glass, Jimalee Sowell, Laura Loder Buechel, Xiuqing
Wang, Kelly Donovan
Saturday, 27 March, 2:00 PM
Prerecorded Presentation with Q & A
Integrating Oxford University Press Course Materials
LIVE Saturday, 27 March, 6:00 AM
Into Your Digital Class
Live
When you're preparing for the first days of class, some of the first steps
The Pandemic Challenge: From Crisis Response to New include identifying how you'll deliver course material and choosing
Normality?
how you'll structure your lessons, especially when teaching online.
What have we learned during the COVID-19 crisis, and how will this
We'll walk you through some ways you can use Oxford University Press
play out as we gradually enter the postpandemic ELT world? Join this
materials in your online class.
live panel, with voices from different perspectives, reflecting on the
experiences of educators, trainers, academics, and leaders from Presenter(s): Harcourt Settle
around the world.
Presenter(s): Richard Spiby, Hala Ahmed, Jenny Simms

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3:00 pm ET LIVE Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM

Live
Maximize Student Success Using ESL Library Content
LIVE Saturday, 27 March, 3:00 PM and Courseware
Live ESL Library is one of the world's leading resource sites for language
Five Key Factors that Will Influence the Direction of teachers. Used in more than 10,000 schools around the world, ESL
Teaching Language Learners, including English Learners Library allows English teachers to access exceptional content and
in the Coming Year courseware every day. This session focuses on how to make the most
Join this discussion with educators across professional backgrounds as of the ESL Library platform.
they share their insights to the everchanging landscape of education
Presenter(s): Ben Buckwold, Tammy Wik
and what factors will inform and influence the future of teaching
language learners.
Presenter(s): Jami Herbst, Lizza Bowen
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