CATESOL 2025 State Conference - Exhibitors, Advertisers, Sponsors10/16/2025 - 10/18/2025
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Location: Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
Note to Exhibitors:
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Set up time:
Thursday, October 16, 2-5 PM Pacific time
CATESOL 2025 State Conference - Attendee Registration10/17/2025 - 10/18/2025
CATESOL25 - Attendee Registration
CATESOL's Annual State Conference
October 17-18 at Chabot College in Hayward, CA
Theme: Stronger Together
Please note: In order to register for this year's conference, you must be or become a CATESOL member.
If you are not already a CATESOL member, you will need to add a membership during the registration process. You will be prompted with directions.
This $30 membership will also grant you access to many online and in-person professional development activities throughout the year!
Location: Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd
Hayward, CA 94545
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Remember: If you are not yet a CATESOL member, please click on "Yes, I would like to join" when prompted during the registration process.
10/18/2025
CATESOL 2025 State Conference: Stronger Together: Community, Empowerment, Collective Action
The CATESOL Town Hall and Business Meeting at Chabot College, Hayward, California
Saturday, October 18, 2025: 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. (In-person & online)
All CATESOL leaders and members are welcome to join the Town Hall and Business Meeting. (CATESOL Zoom room has up to 100 virtual seats.)
The CATESOL voting board members: 2025 CATESOL Education Foundation (CEF) election is scheduled from 6 to 6:30 p.m., following the CATESOL Business Meeting.
Members: Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/1/2025
Congratulations on being elected to the 2025-2026 CATESOL Board of Directors!
Come and get onboarded by your CATESOL President, Dr. Popal, and your Past President, Song Hong, to learn more about CATESOL and how to start your year as an elected board member at CATESOL.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, November 1, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am.
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/7/2025
CIRT-IG: Assessing videogames for CALL classrooms using corpora
Applied linguistics research within the domain of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has given much attention to videogames and assessing their efficacy as tools for second language (L2) learning and development. This efficacy is synthesized in Dixon et al.’s (2022) meta-analysis reporting that videogames tended to have a medium-sized positive effect (d=0.65) on L2 development compared to learners receiving traditional instruction. Although encouraging, Reinhardt (2021) reminds us that not all games “are created equal” in terms of their affordances for L2 learning (p. 69). That is, the linguistic richness of videogames can vary wildly from games like Tetris that present virtually no language to the linguistically rich virtual worlds of games like Baldur’s Gate 3 which engage players with hundreds of hours of recorded speech and thousands of texts including millions of words. With millions of words in a single game, L2 educators taking a CALL-informed pedagogic approach may struggle assessing or identifying an appropriate title for their specific population of learners. In making this assessment, corpus linguistics tools and methods can yield valuable insight into the linguistic environments of videogames.
With a focus on corpus design and representativeness, in this talk, Dr. Dixon discusses the compilation of the Single Player Offline Game Corpus (SPOC; see Dixon, 2024). SPOC is a 3.7-million-word corpus compiled through a process that began by extracting the language files from the directories of four popular single player role-playing games: Divinity Original Sin II, Fallout 4, the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Following Biber and Conrad’s (2019) Register Analysis Framework as well as methods outlined by Egbert, Biber, and Gray (2022), the language files were parsed into meaningful units of observations and placed into one of seven registers identified from a situational analysis. Findings from empirical research investigating the linguistic similarity of the SPOC to real-world registers will be discussed along with implications for CALL classrooms and direction for future research outlined.
Presenter:
Dr. Daniel Dixon (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL at Georgia State University (GSU). Broadly, his research focuses on language and technology and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in which he has investigated the characteristics of language use in technologies like Generative AI and videogames. Drawing on natural language processing as well as corpus linguistics tools and methods, he has compared linguistic variation across a number of digital and real-world domains while also exploring the effectiveness of targeted technologies for promoting second language development. He uses the programming language Python extensively in his work and has developed a number of digital tools for applied linguistics teaching and research. At GSU, he teaches Python programming for linguistic analysis to graduate (M.A., Ph.D.) and undergraduate students. He also teaches graduate courses related to research methods, language and technology, corpus linguistics, among other topics in applied linguistics.
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/danielhdixon/home
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sMLKjksAAAAJ&hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ALESLatGSU
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/danielhdixon.bsky.social
Date & Time:
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm PT (3:00-4:00 pm ET)
Hosted by CIRT-IG:
Elizaveta (Ellie) Kuznetsova & Margi Wald
#catesolcirt
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/7/2025
Every Friday 7:30:00 AM - 8:15:00 AM
Song Hong and Sedique Popal
This weekly meeting will serve the President and the President-Elect to collaborate and train for 2024-2025
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/8/2025
Join the San Gabriel Valley (SGV) Chapter for a professional development session on Citizenship instruction, featuring Jennifer Gagliardi and Song Hong. This workshop will highlight the latest updates to the N-400, civics test pedagogy, and effective classroom practices. Participants will learn strategies for teaching pronunciation, vocabulary, and interview preparation, along with practical resources and equity-minded approaches to support students on their path to citizenship.
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/8/2025
The purpose of this event is to connect, decompress, and enjoy one another's company for a couple hours. This is an informal, brown bag lunch in Balboa Park.
FREE event to members and nonmembers!
Date:
November 8, 2025
Time:
11AM - 1PM
Location:
Balboa Park, Veterans Memorial Garden Air Section
Location: Balboa Park, Veterans Memorial Garden Air Section
Curl Rd
San Diego, CA 92134
11/14/2025
Teaching Pronunciation to Young Learners Using Emopron
Description
Pronunciation is a key pillar of second language acquisition, yet literature on teaching this skill to young learners is sorely lacking. This lack of a solid teaching approach is a challenge to both teachers and learners alike. We do know that optimal teaching environments for these learners involve highly interactive, visually appealing, multisensory activities. While many learners thrive under these conditions, others continue to struggle—often due to unaddressed learning differences. Indeed, traditional pronunciation-teaching methods have often failed to include learners who process language differently, including those with ADHD, dyslexia, or autism.
This webinar will draw on the speaker’s Emopron approach, which is an inclusive, multisensory, story-based method that builds phonological awareness through narrative, movement, visual support, and emotion. Participants will:
- Reflect on the challenges of teaching pronunciation and literacy to young learners.
- Explore sensory-rich activities that foster phonological awareness.
- Experience pronunciation instruction for all young learners (including those who are neurodiverse) through Emopron stories.
- Discover low-prep strategies to integrate pronunciation, speech, and literacy into playful, accessible English language lessons.
Presenter
Prof. & Lic. Stella Palavecino, Master in TEFL, is a graduate teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer, and author based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds postgraduate degrees in Phonetics and Phonology, Higher Education, and Information and Communications Technology. She has published extensively and presented at international conferences on topics including phonology, pronunciation, phonics, tools for pronunciation teaching, language laboratories, and phonetics pedagogy. Prof. Palavecino runs EmoPron Stories, a teacher training and resource hub where she shares her approach to teaching pronunciation to young learners through phonics storybooks. https://emopronstories.com.ar/
Hosts
Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek. Co-coordinators
Donna Brinton, Assistant Coordinator
Moderator
Marsha Chan
Date and Time
Friday, September 19, 2025, 12:00 -1:00 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesoltop
Location: CATESOL Zoom room
11/15/2025
Exploring NNEST Lived Experience through Narrative Inquiry
Description
Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (NNESTs) often face challenges related to linguistic legitimacy, professional identity, and hiring biases, often being compared against native-speaker norms. However, NNESTs bring unique strengths as multilingual role models, highlighting the need to reframe professional value beyond native-speaker status. This panel session hosts three NNESTs to explore Non-Native Language Educators’ Issues (NNLEIs) and how they navigate their careers and classrooms. Additionally, the panel consists of journal editors and published authors to discuss the importance of personal narratives as a research method, grounded in the idea that lived experience is a legitimate source of knowledge (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). The panel as a whole explores how people construct meaning, identity, and agency through storytelling, often revealing insights that traditional data collection methods might miss, while challenging dominant discourses (Riessman, 2008).Date and Time
Saturday, November 15, 2025, 2:30-4:30 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesolrw
#catesolnnlei
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/21/2025
Hot Topics from CATESOL Conference 2025
Come join us for our first meeting post CATESOL Conference 2025. Whether you were at the conference or not, come and learn about hot topics in ESL, specifically for Intensive English Programs.Join RC-IG for our monthly Coffee Talks
The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among educators who share a common interest in ESL, whether it is about technology, advocacy, learning or teaching strategies. By coming together, we hope to share our experiences and exchange insights from the conference.
We aim to hold our IEP level meeting on the last Friday from 12:00-1:00pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so please check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
Free to Members
Non-members $5
IEP Level Chair & Asst. Chair: Sean Saly and Edgar Zardaryan
#catesoliep
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/21/2025
Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:
Join the Interest Group Council for our bimonthly online meeting via Zoom. The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for engagement, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues. We look forward to seeing you every month. (If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC coordinator and provide an update.)We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 1:30-2:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair pending.
#catesoligc
Members Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting
12/5/2025
Every Friday 7:30:00 AM - 8:15:00 AM
Song Hong and Sedique Popal
This weekly meeting will serve the President and the President-Elect to collaborate and train for 2024-2025
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
1/16/2026
Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:
Join the Interest Group Council for our bimonthly online meeting via Zoom. The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for engagement, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues. We look forward to seeing you every month. (If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC coordinator and provide an update.)We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 1:30-2:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair pending.
#catesoligc
Members Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting
3/20/2026
Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:
Join the Interest Group Council for our bimonthly online meeting via Zoom. The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for engagement, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues. We look forward to seeing you every month. (If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC coordinator and provide an update.)We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 1:30-2:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair pending.
#catesoligc
Members Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting
9/26/2026
Hi, Backyard Gardeners. In this meeting, we will share tips on planting, nurturing, pruning, and harvesting tomatoes in your garden. Novices and pros welcome. Bring your questions and answers, and be wiling ot share your experiences.
November 15, 2025
6-7 AM
Members: Free
Non-members: $5
Hosted by Great Gardening IG #catesolgg
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room