CATESOL 2015: Full Schedule

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11:00am PST

Amazing Aurasmas

Aurasma is an augmented reality app that can be used to animate text books, develop interactive bulletin boards, create mini-tutorials, and produce works of English art. Come see one instructor’s array of auras and experience for yourself the potential of this amazing app.

Speakers

Stephanie Thomas

Faculty, San Diego Community College District Continuing Education

Stephanie Thomas is an ESL instructor who enjoys engaging students with technology. As a face-to-face and online instructor, she has taught all levels of ESL from literacy through advanced.

Friday November 13, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, E, S, A, CC, C-U, IEP, ML, NT, PTE, TELL

11:00am PST

Closing the Achievement Gap Through Meaningful Interactions

Presenter will share preliminary results of a current study which examines the learner-content, learner-instructor, and learner-learner experiences of Hispanic, Generation 1.5 English students in first-year college composition courses. Presenter offers suggestions on how to create meaningful interactions that promote effective learning.

Speakers

Esmeralda Vazquez de Diriye

Friday November 13, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, E, S, A, CC, C-U, IEP, NT, NNLEI, PTE

11:00am PST

Connecting Psycholinguistic Principles to the Language Classroom

Psycholinguistics is perhaps the least favorite TESOL teacher training course. Mental lexicon, syntactic parsing, structural processing, priming…these concepts seem far removed from our language lessons. This poster session connects psycholinguistic topics to the teaching and learning that takes place every day in the language classroom.

Speakers

Kenneth Kelch

Alliant International University

Carla Liu

California Baptist University

Friday November 13, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, E, S, A, CC, C-U, IEP, ML

11:00am PST

Differentiating Reading Comprehension Tasks in Adult Mixed-Level Classes

This case study will provide two research-based instructional strategies to differentiate reading comprehension skills in mixed-level adult ESL classes. The presenter will review and discuss factors related to student needs, learning styles, and performance on formative and summative reading comprehension assessments to evaluate the practical implications of these strategies when applied in an adult class.

Speakers

Nicolas Doyle

American Language Institute, CSULB

Friday November 13, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, A, CC, C-U, ML, NT

11:00am PST

MoviesGrowEnglish (MGE): Watch Movies, Learn English

This Poster Session will introduce MGE, a website that supports the use of movies for interactive learning of both communicative and academic ESL skills. The presenter will demonstrate how to navigate the site and discuss an actual whole-movie and short-sequence lesson from MGE.

Speakers

Michael Laib

Lecturer, University of Southern California, International Academy

I have been using whole-movie and short-sequence ESL lessons for more than ten years at USC, UCLA, Caltech, and Santa Monica College. Movies may be the next-best thing to real-life learning because a good movie resonates the realities of life's many possible and impossible journeys... Read More →

Friday November 13, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, A, C-U, IEP, CC

11:00am PST

Rearranging Seat Assignments: Strategy to Build a Sense of Community

In ESL classrooms, students often form cliques with those from the same cultural or linguistic backgrounds, but have little interaction with peers from different backgrounds. This poster presents a study that examined the strategy of changing students’ seat assignments, which promoted diverse student-student interactions while building a sense of community.

Speakers

Inochi Kakitani

2015 CATESOL Handout docx

Friday November 13, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, A, CC, C-U, IC

8:30am PST

Creating A Thematic Website

This poster session presentation demonstrates a thematic website on the First Amendment and free speech which utilizes a content-based instructional approach to English language learning for adult students. This web-based presentation combines dynamic audio-visual content with a variety of engaging listening, reading, and viewing activities.

Speakers

Pablo Garcia

Annmarie Hehir

Saturday November 14, 2015 8:30am - 9:30am PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, A, CC, IEP, TELL, CALL

8:30am PST

Delivering content through dictation in a VESL environment

You may think dictation is passé, but it actually is an effective and fun method for assessing skills and delivering content. This session provides strategies for using dictation in the typically multi-level VESL classroom, including how to make dictation interactive. Examples from workplace areas like childcare and health are displayed.

Speakers

Julaine Rosner

Mission College

Saturday November 14, 2015 8:30am - 9:30am PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, A, CC, ML, TEW

8:30am PST

Seniors and ESL Students, A Win-Win-Win Situation

To provide our ESL students with authentic language and to offer seniors the opportunity to share the American culture, we built a successful conversation exchange. In this session, we will share our experience, describe how students and seniors benefited and will provide practical tips on developing your own customized program.

Speakers

Nathaela Blackburn

Mitra Kholousi

Christine McPeak

Saturday November 14, 2015 8:30am - 9:30am PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, S, A, CC, C-U, IEP, ML, NT, IC, NNLEI, PTE, CALL, TOP

8:30am PST

Teaching Requests: Addressing Form, Function and Pragmatic Awareness

Incorporating pragmatics in the ESL classroom has been shown to benefit English learners, and now many TESOL programs have pragmatic requirements. This poster session shows how one graduate student's pragmatics project was implemented in a real-life classroom, and its success in teaching pragmatic awareness as it relates to requesting in English.

Speakers

Amy Sarver, Foothill College

Saturday November 14, 2015 8:30am - 9:30am PST
Pacific Ballroom CD (Exhibit Hall - 2nd floor)

Poster Session, A, CC, C-U, IEP, ML, NT