5 Free Recorded Sessions From the TESOL Convention
Here are five free recorded sessions from the TESOL 2019 International Convention & English Language Expo.
1. Digital Book Trailer Projects: Transforming ESL Story-Readers Into Storytellers Presenters: Shizhong Zhang, Ying Xiong, and Devin Ferreira
In this session, the presenters explain how video technologies (VT) enable learners to present stories in a video format. They show that when L2 reading is combined with VT, students can be motivated to practice English with a meaningful task. The presenters demonstrate a step-by-step tutorial on how to blend reading with a VT project to transform story-readers into storytellers.
2. Endangered Languages
Opening Keynote Presenter: K. David Harrison
Half the world’s languages are endangered and may go extinct in this century. Their loss will have dire consequences not only for their speakers, but also for culture, science, and the environment. This presentation demonstrates how indigenous speakers and linguists are working to sustain languages through technology and digital activism.
3. Developing Expertise in TESOL: Local-Global Considerations
Presidential Keynote Presenter: Luciana C. de Oliveira
As language teachers and teacher educators, we are constantly going back and forth between the local and the global with regards to the English language. What expertise do English teachers need to develop to teach English as a global language while considering the diverse forms, norms, functions, and uses defined by local dynamics and necessities?
4. Everyday Teaching, Everyday Liberation: Building the Beloved Community as Educators
James E. Alatis Plenary Presenter: Anneliese A. Singh
Now more than ever, educators are faced with opportunities to challenge everyday injustice both within and outside of their classrooms. Dr. Singh shares how to make words like diversity, equity, and inclusion really matter in our teaching and connect these efforts to larger liberation movements around the world.
5. The Power of Language, the Language of Power: Preparing Our Students for the Uncertainties of the 21st Century
Friday Keynote Presenter: Pedro Noguera
This presentation examines the ways immigrant students and ELLs are being affected by the current political climate, and it explores what educators can do to promote peace and pluralism as we attempt to prepare our students for the uncertainties of life in the 21st century.
Augmented reality (AR) presents us with so many opportunities for language teaching and learning. If you are not familiar with this concept, perhaps the best example is Pokémon Go! This cultural phenomenon continues to be so compelling that it has inspired news events such as this one, just yesterday: “After causing mayhem, Pokemon Go shut down at Minnesota State Fair.”
This viral AR game captured the world’s imagination a few years ago, and I believe the engagement that this technology promotes can be harnessed for similar effect in the language classroom. AR allows us to interact with the physical world around us while our understanding is enhanced through the addition of digital content that is layered on that physical world. This additional content can include any information that might be helpful for a particular experience, such as video, directional guidance, historical content, or a virtual personal guide. Read more.
English learners (ELs) offer a rich resource from which mainstream teachers and students can learn about other languages and cultures. If teachers support the diversity in their classrooms, all students will begin to understand and value the many distinct cultures of the world. Teachers should take advantage of this natural resource that is in their classrooms and support ELs from diverse backgrounds to develop pride in their heritage. Following are some classroom practices that you and your colleagues can adopt to help the ELs in your school develop pride. Read more.
Hi all, welcome to another edition of the TESOL Games and Learning blog! This month I wanted to highlight Reinhardt and Sykes’ (2012) framework for incorporating games into classroom practice in response to Mary McDonnell who, on my initial blog post, asked for some games and learning research.
Reinhardt and Sykes (2012) have outlined a four-part framework for games in the language classroom that considers best practices for the use of games for second language (L2) learning. It’s a fantastic entry point for understanding the ways educators can view games and their role in the classroom. Read more.
This second book in The 6 Principles series is aimed at teachers of adult English learners who have general educational goals at their current life stage. These students need English for a job or for career training opportunities; they may be immigrants, migrants, guest workers, or refugees. Most likely, they are at the beginning and intermediate stages of building their functional language skills in English. The teaching applications featured apply to teaching adult learners worldwide.
This ebook is designed to help meet the needs of TESOL professionals in the areas of visual literacy and communication inside and outside ESOL classrooms. It includes practical ideas for writers and teachers and shows how TESOL practitioners can make their own materials more accessible and appealing to their learners and other audiences.
Educators working with English learners face challenges beyond teaching academic content in languages new to the students. This book provides a discussion of strengths-based and deficit-based mindsets, collaborative problem-solving, and universal supports for curriculum access.
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Augmented reality (AR) presents us with so many opportunities for language teaching and learning. If you are not familiar with this concept, perhaps the best example is Pokémon Go! This cultural phenomenon continues to be so compelling that it has inspired news events such as this one, just yesterday: “
English learners (ELs) offer a rich resource from which mainstream teachers and students can learn about other languages and cultures. If teachers support the diversity in their classrooms, all students will begin to understand and value the many distinct cultures of the world. Teachers should take advantage of this natural resource that is in their classrooms and support ELs from diverse backgrounds to develop pride in their heritage. Following are some classroom practices that you and your colleagues can adopt to help the ELs in your school develop pride. 
Hi all, welcome to another edition of the TESOL Games and Learning blog! This month I wanted to highlight Reinhardt and Sykes’ (2012) framework for incorporating games into classroom practice in response to Mary McDonnell who, on my initial blog post, asked for some games and learning research.
Supporting English Learners with Exceptional Needs
