TESOL 2009 Annual Convention
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- Please check your program book for updates and changes -
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Wednesday, March 25 |
The Challenges of Mentoring Teachers of ESOL
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Interest Section Steering Meeting 5pm-7pm Room 601 |
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Thursday, March 26 |
Title: "Issues in Student Teacher Supervision" Presenters: Barry Taylor (organizer), John Beaumont, Donna Brinton, Lía Kamhi-Stein, Bob Oprandy Time: 7:00 AM Location: Room 301 at the Colorado Convention Center A panel of experienced teacher educators asks each other and the audience to respond to a series of questions on the topic of how best to design and implement an effective, practical teaching component in a TESOL teacher education program. |
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| Title: "Can Exposure to NNS English Boost Learner Self-Confidence?" Presenter: Tomoyuki Kawashima Time: 7:00 AM Location: Room 704 The presenter reports on research conducted to examine the effects of using non-native speaker (NNS) models of English on learners’ self-confidence in speaking English in the Japanese context. Students were exposed to model readings by Filipino and Indian speakers of English, and recorded interviews with 20 NNSs of English. |
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| Title: "Growing Together: NESTs and NNESTs in EFL Schools" Presenter: Jan Edwards Dormer Time: 1:00 PM Location: Room 111, Colorado Convention Center Based on research in Brazil and Indonesia, the presenter shows four types of relational environments that NNESTs and NESTs may experience as they work together in EFL settings: a) shared competence, b) isolated competence, c) shared frustration, and d) isolated frustration. She then presents six strategies for achieving the optimal environment of shared competence. |
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| Title: "NES- and NNES-Student Teachers’ Identity Development: A Comparison Case Study" Presenter: Li-fen Lin Time: 3:00 pm Location: Room 404 The purpose of this paper is to comparatively exam how native- and nonnative-English-speaking student teachers construct their identities as teachers in a US MATESOL program and how their learning paths and their pedagogy are shaped by various constructs, such as age, race, culture, language, teaching experience, and subject matter knowledge. |
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| Title: " Improving Indonesian English Teachers' Proficiency through Awareness" Presenter: Jan Edwards Dormer Time: 3:00 PM Location: Room 107. Indonesian teachers, as well as teachers in similar parts of the world, often have few opportunities to develop adequate proficiency levels for teaching English. The presenter shares a six-stage model of language awareness which she has used to help Indonesian teachers increase their language proficiency. |
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| Annual Town Hall Meeting (share your concerns) 3/26/09 4pm -5pm Room 605/607 |
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Title: "NNEST Issues in EFL Teacher Education Programs" Presenter: Aya Matsuda Time: 5:00 PM Location: Room 406 Colorado Convention Center Participants explore ways to encourage pre-service teachers in EFL teacher preparation programs to reflect on their strengths and challenges of nonnative-English-speaking teachers. The presenter supplements the discussion with findings from an original survey of teacher educators from over 100 programs in Japan regarding their beliefs and practices around such opportunities. |
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| Title: NNESTs Front and Centre in Educational Reform in the UAE Presenter: Robert Clement Time: 5:00 - 5:45 PM Location: Colorado Convention Center 702 NNESTs are purposely being hired in a new educational development project in the UAE and shattering old "native speaker" biases. This presentation looks at the whys, wherefores, and benefits behind the use of NNESTs in this ongoing project to improve the teaching and learning of English in the UAE. |
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NNEST IS Open Meeting 5pm -7pm Room 404 |
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NNEST Social Dinner: The first ever Social Meeting of the NNEST IS will be on Thursday, March 26th from 7:30 pm-10:00 pm at the Appaloosa Grill at 535 16th Street. The website is at http://www.appaloosagrill.com . We have made reservations for twenty. One check per table is requested, so if you can bring cash to cover your meal and drinks, it will help us all out. The Appaloosa looks like a fun place and we're just a few doors down from Marlowe's Restaurant where the Second Language Writing IS will be having their social event, so those who wish to kibbutz with them can. See you there!
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Friday, March 27 |
| NNEST IS Planning Meeting 7:30am - 8:30am Room 404 |
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| Title: NNEST/SLW Intersection: "Strangers Here Ourselves: How NNESTs Work with Multilingual Writers" Presenters: Lucie Moussu: accentedness in multilingual writing; Jun Liu: NNESTs teaching freshman comp (as one would have predicted); Icy Lee: Pre/in service teachers as writers in EFL contexts; Luciana de Oliveira: NNESTs mentoring multilingual writers; Ryuko Kubota: Hauntedness of nonnative writing. Time: 10:00 AM Location: ? For years NNESTs have taught writing, but how do NNESTs work with multilingual writers? Presenters consider issues of “accent” in multilingual writing, how NNESTs manage teaching composition classes with both native and nonnative speakers, NNESTs mentoring multilingual writers, NNESTs teach writing in EFL contexts, and the “hauntedness” of nonnative writing. |
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Title: "Sociocultural Theory, Identity Development, and Critical Praxis: An NNEST’s Journey" Presenter: Davi S. Reis Time: 11:00 AM Location: Room 712 at the Colorado Convention Center This presentation traces the identity development of a nonnative-speaking instructor of an ESL writing course. It explores his journey from being a 'blind believer' in the native speaker fallacy to then empowering his nonnative-speaking students as expert speakers and users of English. Implications for teacher education are offered. |
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| Title: "Sociocultural Challenges to NNESTs Teaching EAP in English-Dominant Countries" Presenter: Kumiko Akikawa Time: 11:00 AM Location: Room 708 When teaching EAP in English-dominant countries, teachers from other countries are doubly challenged: They need knowledge of academic conventions as well as culturally accepted teaching practices. Based on nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) narratives, this presentation seeks to build awareness of their challenges and how the professional community might better support them. |
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| Title: Uncharted Language Learning Histories, Forging New Pathways Presenter: Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva Time: 1:00 PM Location: Room 304 at the Colorado Convention Center. The presenter aims to show that language learning histories provide enough evidence to support the claim that second language acquisition is a complex adaptive system. She demonstrates that language learning is a process in constant (re)construction, nested in social practices, and that unpredictability can forge new pathways towards acquisition |
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| Title: ITA/NNEST Intersection: "Non-Native English Speaking Teachers: Issues and Considerations" Presenters: Diana Trebing, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan; Kathleen O'Donovan, University of Minnesota; Zohreh Eslami, PhD Texas A&M University-Qatar; Burcu Ates, Texas A&M University-Qatar; Elena Stetsenko, University of Minnesota; Peggy Allen Heidish, Carnegie Mellon University, PA. Time: 3:00 PM Location: ? Nonnative English speaking (NNES) teachers - both of English and other disciplines - bring unique perspectives to the classroom as well as face unique challenges. This intersection will focus on these issues as well as address the expectations of NNES teachers and their students and how NNES teachers can internationalize the curriculum. |
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| Title: "Teaching Behaviour of NESTs and NNESTs: Perceptions and Reality" Presenter: Lai Ping Florence Ma. Time: 4:00 PM Location: Room 504 This paper discusses the differences of teaching behaviour between native English- speaking teachers (NESTs) and non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) derived from student perceptions and compares perceived behaviour with real behaviour from classroom data. Findings suggest differences in teaching approach, methods and styles. This study has implications for teacher education. |
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| Annual Business Meeting 5pm -6:30pm Room 605/607 |
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Saturday, March 28 |
| Title: "Theorizing and Implementing NNEST Advocacy" Presenter: Suhanthie Motha (Colloquium Leader), Joie Austria, Cheng-Chiang (Julian) Chen, Vasantha Dhanapala, Feiruz Kateregga, Jing Wei, Rashi Jain, Ali Fuad Selvi, and Han Suk Suh. Time: 7:00 am Location: Room 105 As a follow-up to our 2008 TESOL Workshop in which this Research Collective brainstormed initial ideas surrounding meanings of NNEST advocacy, this practical, hands-on session, aimed at TESOLers of all linguistic identities who have an interest in NNEST advocacy, will draw on the experiences of nine TESOLers implementing their collaboratively developed year-long NNEST activism action plan. The workshop leaders will walk audience members through explicit strategy-building around meanings of NNEST advocacy in a variety of settings, offering concrete examples from their experience. The session will begin with a 15-minute introduction during which presenters will theorize NNEST advocacy and will explain the session format. The introduction will be followed by four simultaneous and repeating 15-minute small-group sessions, each of which will allow for a brief question-and-answer period. The workshop will conclude with a 20-minute invitation for the audience to participate in deconstructing what they have learned and to collaboratively forge out avenues for future advocacy directions. During the body of the session, audience participants will rotate around the room to participate in discussions of: (1) NNEST advocacy in teacher education, with a focus on preparing monolingual and multilingual in-service ESOL teachers to recognize NNEST identity as a linguistic resource and on fostering NNEST advocacy among teacher candidates (2) NNEST advocacy in public school settings, including attention to practices that subvert monolingual ideologies and establish legitimacy for multilingual ESOL professionals, (3) NNEST advocacy in EFL contexts, and (4) NNEST advocacy in community college contexts, with particular attention to the dialectic between discursive practices and self-perceptions. |
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| Title: Is ELT Good Work? A NEST/NNEST Perspective Presenter: Bill Snyder, Ahmar Mahboob, and Amanda Potts Time: 7:00 am Location: Room 711 The presenters examine NNESTs' perceptions of ELT as'good work' through autobiographical literature. Good work requires a clear mission and goals, as well as support for workers' identities. The analysis suggests that ELT as a field is currently misaligned due to recent changes in the status of NESTs and NNESTs. |
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Title: Desmystifying Conference Presentations: Native and Nonnative Scholars' Perspectives Presenters: Alan Hirvela (Co-Chair), Keiko Samimy (Co-Chair), Ulla Connor, Ryuko Kubota, and Paul Kei Matsuda Time: 7:00 AM Location: Convention Center 503 In academic communities, it is expected of university faculty and researchers to present their research findings at national or international conferences on a regular basis. Increasingly, graduate students are also encouraged to participate in this endeavor as a part of their academic socialization. Yet, little is known about the conference presentation as an academic genre, particularly within the domain of native/nonnative speakers of English issues. In addition, little attention has been paid to how to prepare for conference presentations, and no formal instruction is given to graduate students, despite the growing expectation that they participate in this form of academic discourse (Ventola, 2002, as cited in Connor, 2006). This colloquium aims to tap into a rather uncharted and yet highly relevant topic, the art (or mystery) of conference presentations, by inviting scholars in the field to talk about their own conference presentation experiences, especially within the native/nonnative speaker of English context. Guiding questions addressed by the presenters include: How do you usually prepare for conference presentations? What was your most pleasant or unpleasant experience in the past? What did you learn from it? What are your recommendations for newcomers in the field with regard to preparing for conference presentations? |
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| Title: "How Local Contexts Can Define Nonnative English Teachers" Presenter: Slobodanka Dimova Time: 8:00 AM Location: Room 112 The goal of this report is to define nonnative EFL teachers' identity as a function of the local context. It presents findings related to Macedonian NNESTs' self-awareness, self-perceptions, and empowerment. Using corpus-based methodology, it also provides insights into the Macedonian NNEST classroom discourse. |
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Title: "Strategies for NNES Teachers" |
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Title: "Pathways from Demotivation to Remotivation" Presenters: Joe Falout (Chair), Tim Murphey, Maria Trovela, and Tetsuya Fukuda Time: 1:00 PM Location: Convention Centre Room 107 Over 300 EFL learners in Japan described how they were demotivated, became remotivated, and sustained motivation. Remotivational strategies were reported back to them for analysis and self-reflection. Chronically demotivated learners and those effective at remotivation were interviewed and observed for deeper investigation into their affective states and self-regulating strategies. |
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| Title: " NNEST Academic Session: "NNEST Advocacy and Awareness Raising: Global Perspectives 10 Years On"
Presenters: Ali Fuad Selvi, University of Maryland, College Park; Carmen Chacon, University of Los Andes, Venezuela; Enric Llurda, University of Lleida, Spain; Kyongsook Yeum, Sook Myoung Women's University, Korea; Leketi Makelela,University of Limpopo, South Africa; Mashael Al Hamly, Kuwait . Time: 3:00 PM Location: ? 10 years ago the TESOL NNEST Caucus was founded. This year the NNEST IS begins. How far have we come? How far can we go? In what directions should we go? Affiliate representatives from Korea, S, Africa, Spain, Venezuela, and the U.S. discuss their success in NNEST awareness raising. |
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