TESOL 2010 - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
March 23- March 27
This year the 44th Annual TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Convention is taking place in Boston, Massachusetts.
Re-Imagining TESOL
My colleague, mentor, and friend (who happens to be my first ESL teacher) Doctor Laurie Moody, my friend, Diane Ogden (past Chair of the TESOL Video Interest Section) and I made the following presentations:
Music and Language: Enhancing Memory, Eliciting Emotions, Capturing the Imagination
Recent research shows that music plays an important role in language. Similar areas of the brain are activated when listening to or playing music and speaking or processing language. Presenters will show effective language lessons that incorporate songs with a focus on teaching grammar. Step-by-step lesson plan will be provided.
Music and Language Handouts:
Teacher's Lesson Plan
Student Handout #1
Student Handout #2
Student Handout #3
Student Handout #4
Student Handout #5
For more example of using songs for grammar, go to my SONGS page.
Re-Imagining Grammar Instruction Through Film
Short film clips provide the framework for re-imagined grammar
lessons. The presenters demonstrate lessons that include previewing,
viewing, and postviewing activities that move students from
comprehension to controlled use to active production of grammar
patterns.
Grammar Through Film HandoutIF YOU ATTENDED EITHER OF OUR WORKSHOPS, I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK!!!
TESOL 2009 - DENVER, COLORADOMarch 26- March 29
The 43rd Annual TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of
Other Languages) Convention is took place in the Mile High City:
Denver, Colorado.
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/convention2009/
These are our presentations:
Learning Contextualized Vocabulary with Internet Tools
While reading novels; students cannot possibly look up all the words that are new to them. This presentation demonstrates how Google images and online learner's dictionaries help students understand new vocabulary items on their own. Then following class discussion of student-selected items in context; practice exercises in Quia or Hot Potatoes help students consolidate their understanding of target vocabulary in the context of the story and give them opportunities for incidental learning of other vocabulary; collocations and idioms. Handout and website provided.
http://www.quia.com/pages/dmoody/page23
Constructing Language-experience Books with PowerPoint
Students’ shared experiences, from class trips to media events, can easily be made into student-authored books that can serve as readers for beginning-level ESL readers. This collaborative effort can also be shared electronically on school websites and/or at parent meetings. The presenter will demonstrate the process, present examples and provide participants with a handout detailing the procedure.