1/2/2026
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. Engage in an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for getting members involved, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues.
We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 3:30-4:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC Chair to share your information.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair: David O'Leary.
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Members Free. Register to get the Zoom link.
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting
1/16/2026
TBA
Description TBA
Using spoken corpora in pronunciation teaching, and how corpus data can help illustrate the interaction between prominence placement, [...] including a presentation of corpus-based classroom activities for teaching prosodic featuresPresenter
Idée Edalatishams, Applied Linguist and Consultant, Bridging Research & Practice in Multilingual Speech and Communication
Hosts
Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek. Co-coordinators
Donna Brinton, Assistant Coordinator
Moderator
Patryk Mrozek
Date and Time
Friday, January 16, 2026, 12:00 -1:00 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
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Location: CATESOL Zoom room
Registration is Coming Soon for this event
1/16/2026
Using Spoken Corpora to Teach Pronunciation
Exploring Prominence, Pausing, and Information Structure with CoTACS
This webinar explores how spoken corpus data can inform and enhance pronunciation teaching. Using the Corpus of Teaching Assistant Classroom Speech (CoTACS), the session demonstrates how audio excerpts can be used along with transcriptions and visualized annotations to teach prosodic features of English. Participants will be introduced to classroom activities targeting both perception and production, with a focus on prominence, pausing, and information structure. These activities support discussions of how prosodic patterns—such as placing prominence on new information and marking given information as non-prominent—can influence speaker intelligibility and listener comprehension. The session will also provide step-by-step guidelines for designing additional corpus-based tasks, enabling teachers to develop new activities for a range of pronunciation features and instructional goals.By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify key prosodic features (prominence, pausing, information structure) in spoken corpus data.
- Use audio recordings, transcripts, and annotations from CoTACS to design pronunciation lessons.
- Implement perception and production activities that highlight prosodic patterns and their role in intelligibility.
- Explain how new vs. given information affects prominence patterns in classroom discourse.
- Develop customized, corpus-based tasks to target additional pronunciation features aligned with specific teaching goals.
Presenter
Idée Edalatishams works at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pronunciation, focusing on L2 speech and multilingual speakers’ intelligibility. She earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University, where she developed the Corpus of Teaching Assistant Classroom Speech (CoTACS) to examine prosodic features in academic spoken English. Her research has also addressed learner identities, ITA speech, and the use of ASR tools for pronunciation practice. She has supported multilingual learners’ oral and written communication at George Mason University and Iowa State University and has taught composition and ESL/EFL courses in the United States and Iran.
Hosts
Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek. Co-coordinators
Donna Brinton, Assistant Coordinator
Moderator
Patryk Mrozek
Date and Time
Friday, January 16, 2026, 12:00 -1:00 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
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Location: CATESOL Zoom
1/23/2026
Join RC-IG for our first Coffee Talk of the year on January 23 from 2:30 to 3:30. The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among educators who share a common interest in understanding and addressing the needs of learners with refugee backgrounds. Together, we will share experiences, exchange insights, and explore practical ways to enhance our collective support for these students throughout their educational journey.
This session will also include Know Your Rights topics, offering educators guidance and resources to help students and families navigate systems with greater confidence and safety.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Free to Members and Non-members
#catesolrc
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
1/30/2026
This is an official CATESOL Board Meeting. All 2025-2026 Board members (including Voting and non-voting members of Leadership) should be in attendance. Other members of the CATESOL Leadership Team are also welcome to attend.
Date: January 30, 2026
Time: 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Leaders : Free
CATESOL President, Dr. Sedique Popal
CATESOL Past President, Song Hong
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
2/6/2026
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
2/20/2026
Mobile-assisted Pronunciation Training for Children
This session presents a child-centered, technology-enhanced approach to L2 pronunciation instruction grounded in the presenter’s doctoral dissertation. The presentation focuses on how mobile-assisted High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR)-based articulation practice can support elementary-level EFL learners’ L2 perception, L2 production, and L2 phonological working memory. Drawing on mixed-methods research with young Korean learners, the presentation examines how children engage with varied phonetic input in HVPT, the challenges they face when responding to ASR systems, and the pedagogical implications for improving intelligibility in early L2 development. The session concludes with pedagogical implications, training examples, and practical guidance for teachers.
Key Takeaways
- Understand how mobile-assisted HVPT contributes to children’s L2 speech perception and early pronunciation development
- Identify common challenges children face when using ASR-based articulation practice and how task design can mitigate them
- Examine evidence linking mobile pronunciation training to gains in phonological working memory
- Apply research-informed strategies for integrating HVPT and ASR tools into elementary EFL pronunciation instruction
Presenter
Dr. KyungA Lee is an elementary school teacher, pronunciation researcher, and educational technology specialist based in South Korea. She earned her PhD in English Language Education from Seoul National University. Her research focuses on L2 pronunciation, speech technology, child–AI interaction, and instructional design for early language learning. She also serves as a Board Member for Juna Accent Coach, an English pronunciation learning app. In addition, she teaches English phonetics and phonology to TESOL pre-service teachers as an adjunct university lecturer.
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, February 20 2026, 2:00 -3:00 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesoltop
Location: CATESOL Zoom
2/20/2026
Description TBA
Using spoken corpora in pronunciation teaching, and how corpus data can help illustrate the interaction between prominence placement, [...] including a presentation of corpus-based classroom activities for teaching prosodic featuresPresenters
Beth Zielinski and Elizabeth Keenan
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, February 20, 2026, 1:00 -2:00 PM California Time =
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 8:00 AM Melbourne, Australia Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesoltop
Location: CATESOL Zoom room
Registration is Coming Soon for this event
3/13/2026
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. Engage in an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for getting members involved, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues.
We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 3:30-4:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC Chair to share your information.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair: David O'Leary.
#catesoligc
Members Free. Register to get the Zoom link.
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting