Join the CATESOL San Diego Chapter for an in-person regional conference, We welcome all the TESOL instructors, administrators, and scholars from the San Diego area and beyond! We’ll feature concurrent sessions on various topics, from theoretical to practical, and everything in-between. There will also be opportunities to network and connect with fellow attendees and organizers. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to grow and learn together, as we build and foster our own TESOL Community.
Members : $10
Non-members : $20
All students (members & non-members) : $5
8:30-9:30: Registration, Refreshments, and Welcome Messages
9:30-10:15: Plenary Session
10:15-11:00: Session 1
11:15-12:00: Session 2
12:15-1:00: Session 3
1:00-1:30: Networking, Refreshments, Drawings, and Closing Remarks
We need your help to make this conference come together! Please consider volunteering. By volunteering, you'll connect with other passionate TESOL professionals, build your San Diego network, add additional lines to your CV, and develop your leadership skills.
As the event draws closer, the FAQ document will be updated with detailed parking & transportation information. Please plan accordingly: all on-campus parking requires payment (through an app, creating an account on the SDSU parking portal, or paying one of the few machines on campus).
Reach out to conference chair Amanda Simons.
In this panel presentation, AI users and experts will present various AI technologies, and examine how we, as teachers, must continue to evolve if we want to engage our students, and, maybe, if we want to keep our jobs.
Hosted by TELL-IG Coordinator Johanna Gleason
Assistant Coordinator Jennie Kim
Following up on Marsha Chan’s webinar of April 19th, Embodied Pronunciation Part 1: Harnessing Your Inner Power, in this session Dr. William Acton will focus specifically on a core set of embodied pronunciation techniques which use both gesture and touch.
“Hacks” are techniques which are used to indirectly impact speaking accuracy and fluency, such as “fixing” a vowel or consonant, or drills relating to intonation, rhythm and stress.
“Widgets” are techniques which, in principle, can impact the learner’s fluency and intelligibility almost immediately such as moving a “body part” or the entire body--plus touch, to the rhythm of one’s voice as one is speaking, especially in describing a scene in one’s visual field or a highly defined and easily recalled past-experience. (Actors, politicians, voice trainers—and accomplished liars-- often use a range of such “widgets” in their practice.)
Friday, May 17 2024, 12:00-1:00 California Time
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
Bill Acton is Director of the MATESOL at Trinity Western University. His research, publications and teaching have centered on the role of the body in second language learning and, specifically, pronunciation. He and his students, for the last 40 years, have been developing Haptic Pronunciation Teaching, now in version 7.0, The KINTEK Method. Pedagogically, the focus has shifted from gesture to the centrality of touch in (haptic) pronunciation work.
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