Kentucky Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 2019 Conference: Full Schedule

7:30am EDT

Registration

Friday October 4, 2019 7:30am - 9:00am EDT
Entrance 4

9:00am EDT

Boosting Achievement of SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education)

This training demonstrates user-friendly techniques that close achievement gaps for unschooled or under-schooled learners. Come explore how to leverage English learners’ unique backgrounds with authentic learning experiences that transcend language barriers and promote academic achievement. Learn targeted strategies that empower teachers to support these students in their language development, literacy and content area learning.

Speakers

Carol Salva

Author & Educational Consultant, Seidlitz Education

Carol Salva is a Seidlitz Education consultant and the co-author of Boosting Achievement, Reaching Students with Interrupted or Minimal Education. Carol holds a Masters degree in Education Administration with a principal certification and has taught elementary, middle and high school... Read More →

Friday October 4, 2019 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Cafeteria

Keynote Speaker, Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Lunch

Friday October 4, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Cafeteria

1:00pm EDT

Boosting Achievement of SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education)

Speakers

Carol Salva

Author & Educational Consultant, Seidlitz Education

Friday October 4, 2019 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Cafeteria

Keynote Speaker, Workshop

9:00am EDT

The World Around Me: Engaging Elementary EL's

The presentation will attempt to provide elementary teachers with practical strategies and techniques to engage younger learners. It will also include ideas for content themes, lesson samples, and modeled teaching strategies by the presenter.

Speakers

Vanessa Durfee

Teacher, Hendron Lone Oak Elementary

Saturday October 5, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Room 106B

Teaching Demonstration

9:00am EDT

Beyond Translanguaging: Incorporating Native Literacy Practices into the Classroom

This session will discuss examples of how students' native forms of literacy practices can be leveraged to improve motivation and engagement.

Speakers

Katherine Hardin

Catholic Charities of Louisville Migration and Refugee Services

Jared Zarantonello

Saturday October 5, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Room 120

Workshop

9:00am EDT

Project-Based Learning with ELL Students

Project-based learning is one of the avenues for students to acquire 21st century skills. This presentation will demonstrate how to make PBL accessible to ELL students of various English proficiency levels.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1atpxOHv5wKlJUNskCTtzOTuwDkNaz69pbyxeuv4ZlM8/edit?usp=sharing

Speakers

Hicham Roida

ESL Resource Teacher, Newcomer Academy

Staci Kottkamp

Librarian, Newcomer Academy

Saturday October 5, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Library

Workshop

10:00am EDT

What Works and What Doesn't? Networking Session with K-12 Teachers

Be ready to interact with other teachers and share some best practices and learn from the experts in the field. Engage in conversation about K-12 issues.

Speakers

Katalin McChesney

ESL Teacher, Danville Public Schools

Saturday October 5, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Room 118

Networking

10:00am EDT

The Refugee Experience: Syria, Palestine, and Myanmar

This presentation will share knowledge about the experiences that refugees have in their home countries, refugee camps, and in US schools. It will focus on refugees from Syria, Palestine, and Myanmar.

Speakers

Lamia Hasan Mohammad Abudaoud

Graduate Student, Fulbright Scholar, Murray State University

Latricia Trites

Professor of TESOL & English, Murray State University

Sam Yung

Graduate Student, Fulbright Scholar, Murray State University

Saturday October 5, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Room 106B

Panel Discussion

10:00am EDT

Motivational Strategies Used by English Language Teachers in Hazara Division Pakistan

A questionnaire was used to investigate use and frequency of use of 45 motivational strategies to collect data from 65 English language teachers serving in Hazara Pakistan. The gender.academic background and institution types were different variables. The data was interpreted statistically and it was concluded that all teachers showed agreement on the use but with different frequencies.

Speakers

Rakhshanda Sartaj

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Saturday October 5, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Room 120

Research Paper

10:00am EDT

Using Technology to Enhance Instruction for Multilingual Students

Technology is not the only way to innovate, but it is a powerful tool that we should absolutely embrace because it offers ways for learners to acquire knowledge and utilize it in a meaningful way. Technology also offers numerous interaction opportunities that engage 21st Century learners while providing multimodal graphic, sensory, and interactive supports. This workshop will be hands-on as participants explore a variety of digital tools such as captions in Google Slides, supports in YouTube, various translation tools in Google Sheets, and more as a way to scaffold, engage and amplify language acquisition and content learning.

Speakers

Michelle Shory

District ESL Resource Teacher, JCPS

Irina McGrath

District ESL Resource Teacher, JCPS

Saturday October 5, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Library

Workshop

11:00am EDT

A New Level of Teaching Through a Corpus Linguistics Tool

This presentation empowers teachers with a free corpus tool AntConc to take teaching to a new level. It demonstrates the process of applying the tool to analyze students’163 reflective writing samples, forming pedagogical assumptions and interventions. It concludes with teachers’ step-by-step practice of using the tool to analyze writing examples.

Speakers

Saihua Xia

Associate Professor of English & TESOL, Murray State University

Saturday October 5, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Room 120

Research Paper, Workshop

11:00am EDT

Examining Language and Ethnic-Identity of 1.5 and Second-Generation Newcomers to the United States

This presentation is about the choices that 1.5 and second-generation Americans have to make both culturally and linguistically. They are growing up and going to school in the US which may have different values, customs, and language from their parents. This presentation seeks to understand the choices that 1.5 and second generations Americans have to make and how they culturally identify themselves

Speakers

Anna Schreiner

Teacher, Southside Elementary

Saturday October 5, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Room 118

Research Paper

11:00am EDT

Exploring Refugee Students’ Past-, Present- and Future-Selves Through Visual Representations

The study adopts Markus and Nurius's (1986) possible selves to explore how three refugee students portray their past-, present- and future-selves through drawings. Discoveries from collected data (i.e., students’ visual representations, their written and oral descriptions) illuminate the inner perceptions of this group's personal and schooling experiences.

Speakers

Nhu Le

Doctoral Candidate, University of South Florida

I'm currently a doctoral candidate in TESLA (Technology in Education/Second Language Acquisition) at University of South Florida (USF). I'm also a volunteer tutor for a group of refugee students (ages 11 to 18) in an after-school program in Tampa Bay Area. My dissertation focuses... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Room 112

Research Paper

11:00am EDT

Exploring Culturally Relevant Texts that Promote ELL Students’ Learning

When students are exposed to texts that relate to their own cultural background, they tend to become more engaged and motivated to learn. This presentation will explore the means to incorporate culturally relevant texts into the curriculum with the objective to promote ELL students learning.

Speakers

Gera Nelson

Assistant Professor, Asbury University

Saturday October 5, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Room 106B

Teaching Demonstration, Workshop

11:00am EDT

Teaching ELs to Organize Their Writing Without Using Formulaic Structures

In order for English learners to discover the full power of their voices, they must have support in developing authentic structure in their writing. This hands-on session will provide tools for teaching English learners to write with unique voice and organization without adhering to a predetermined format.

Speakers

Jennifer Miescke

ESL Instructional Coach, Jefferson County Public Schools

Saturday October 5, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Library

Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Lunch

Saturday October 5, 2019 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Cafeteria

12:30pm EDT

Author Talk: No Single Sparrow Makes a Summer

Speakers

Mehwish Zaminkhan

Author, No Single Sparrow Makes a Summer

Saturday October 5, 2019 12:30pm - 1:00pm EDT
Cafeteria

Presentation, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Introduction and Discussion about Diverse EFL Curricula in Asian Countries

For this panel discussion session, four or five panelists from different Asian countries (Korea, China, Vietnam, Jordan, and/or Saudi Arabia) will introduce the English as a foreign language curriculum and educational contexts in each country. In addition, the panelists will discuss the effective learning and teaching in each country.

Speakers

Nhu Le

Doctoral Candidate, University of South Florida

Yiding Zhao

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Lamia Hasan Mohammad Abudaoud

Graduate Student, Fulbright Scholar, Murray State University

Rakhshanda Sartaj

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Norah Saad M Alshehri

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Ho Ryong Park

Associate Professor of English/TESOL, Murray State University

Saturday October 5, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Library

Panel Discussion

2:00pm EDT

Teach Abroad with the English Language Fellow Program

Learn how you can enhance English language teaching capacity abroad through 10-month paid teaching fellowships designed by U.S. Embassies for experienced U.S. TESOL professionals. As an English Language Fellow, you can provide English language instruction, conduct teacher training, and develop resources. Join us to hear from program alumni.

Speakers

Ollie B. Rashid

ESL Instructor, Bluegrass Community and Technical College

Ollie B. Rashid is an English as a Second Language instructor at Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington, Kentucky, where she currently teaches intermediate reading, writing, speaking and listening skills to students from around the globe. She recently completed a two-year... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Room 118

Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Meaningful Literacy Instruction in an EL setting

This presentation will explore how EL instructors can facilitate meaningful literacy instruction for their students by focusing on phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and academic language. We will explore example lesson plans and student activities targeting each of these strategies, all while connecting the lessons to the four WIDA language domains, the common core ELA reading standards, and the PGES Framework for Teaching.

Link to presentation: http://bit.ly/garnertesol

Speakers

Ginny Furches Garner

K-4 EL Teacher, Mayfield Elementary School

I am a certified K-12 English Learners and Spanish teacher from Paducah, KY. I have taught English Learners at Mayfield Elementary School for 5 years, and taught high school Spanish before that. I attended Murray State University for both my B.A. in Spanish and M.A. in Education... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Room 106B

Teaching Demonstration, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Mental Lexicon: A Language User's Knowledge Of Words

Do you want to enhance vocabulary instruction? Do you want to learn how to assess your student's vocabulary knowledge? This is the session to attend. Learn how to make connections between reading and the other language arts by integrating speaking, listening, writing, and viewing into vocabulary instruction. Participants will learn about Words Their Way, spelling inventories, Flocabulary, PBS Word Girl and Graphic Organizers

Speakers

Laquetta Carter

Academic Instructional Coach, JCPS

Currently, I support schools with tiered student support. I support schools with implementation and refinement of academic multi-tiered systems and structures. As well as assist with data based instructional decision making. I believe we can get beyond intervening, but actually... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Room 120

Teaching Demonstration

3:00pm EDT

A Passport to the World

Presenting a poster about a curriculum designed by four international MA TESOL students studying at Murray State University. The poster includes all needed sections and samples from the curriculum. The curriculum spots the light on Vietnamese, Arabic and Islamic culture in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan beside the American Culture

Speakers

Norah Saad M Alshehri

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Rakhshanda Sartaj

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Lamia Hasan Mohammad Abudaoud

Graduate Student, Fulbright Scholar, Murray State University

Saturday October 5, 2019 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Room 118

Poster Session, Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Next Level ESL Readers: Learning L2 in a Multimodal Context

This presentation reports ESL learners’ language learning process in a multimodal reading environment. ESL learners from two different language backgrounds (Chinese and Korean) are involved in a quantitative integrated-study. The presentation discusses the changes in L2 reading context and the future direction of teaching L2 reading.

Speakers

Bogyeong Kim

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Yiding Zhao

Graduate Student, Murray State University

Saturday October 5, 2019 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Room 120

Research Paper, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Students' Attitude Toward Using Facebook for Enhancing Writing Skills

The majority of ESL students prefer using technology, mainly Facebook for writing communication for its convenience and time commitment factors. Students are interested to learn writing accurately, meaningfully, and quickly which Facebook can be a useful tool for educators to help learners for enhancing their writing skill.

Speakers

Naser Maliar

Graduate Student, Murray State University

I’m MA TESOL Fulbrighter from Afghanistan at Murray State University. I carry experience of seven years teaching ESP at university level plus working with international literacy projects. My research interests are using of technology in education and translanguaging.

Saturday October 5, 2019 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Room 106B

Research Paper

3:00pm EDT

Techniques to Enhance Learning of Suprasegmetal Features

This presentation sheds light on major pronunciation problems with a dogged focus on suprasegments (words stress, sentence stress, pauses, and intonation) that many learners of English generally fail to master. The presentation recommends the use of shadowing technique as an effective tool to teach pronunciation.

Speakers

Muhammad Alasmari

The University of Memphis

Abdu Alkadi

Assistant Prof, Ibb University

Abdu M. Talib Al-kadi obtained his PhD (Applied Linguistics) from ISLT, Carthage University, Tunisia. He has contributed to undergraduate courses in linguistics, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in Yemen. He has authored, co-authored, and... Read More →

Rashad Ahmed

Miami University

Saturday October 5, 2019 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Library

Teaching Demonstration, Research Paper

3:00pm EDT

Is ESL Pedagogy “Just Good Teaching?”: Exploring Our Knowledge Base

ESL teachers bring to educational institutions valuable knowledge and skills in how languages are learned, the diverse structures and functions of language and the role of culture in learning. In this interactive session, participants explore this knowledge base and its unique contributions to education.

Speakers

Francis Bailey

Director of the TESL MA program, University of Kentucky

Saturday October 5, 2019 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Room 112

Workshop

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony

Raffle Winners & Board Candidates Announced

Saturday October 5, 2019 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Library