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Full-Text Articles in Education
Transforming Language: Nonviolent Communication In Educational Settings, Aurora Lucas, Shanna Syme
Transforming Language: Nonviolent Communication In Educational Settings, Aurora Lucas, Shanna Syme
Sandanona
Non-violent communication is a four-step process that consistently yields incredible results. This useful tool can benefit every individual, especially educators. This presentation and workshop will help you transform the way you communicate with your students, as well as how you teach your students to communicate with the English language.
Using Feedback To Critically Evaluate And Develop As Teachers, Eliza J. Mandel
Using Feedback To Critically Evaluate And Develop As Teachers, Eliza J. Mandel
Sandanona
This lecture discusses the importance of being critical of one’s own teaching and using feedback in the classroom, and teaching context as a whole, to assess one's teaching. Participants will explore some techniques of asking for feedback in ways to ensure the most relevant and useful feedback.
Marginality: Non Native English Speakers In Academia, Jean-Pierre Hugo Vargas
Marginality: Non Native English Speakers In Academia, Jean-Pierre Hugo Vargas
Sandanona
Jean-Pierre Vargas will present a paper exploring the challenges and issues of marginality that non-native English speakers experience while studying abroad or in Academia. He will present the material by comparing the current extant research while comparing it to his own personal narrative.
Expression Through Drama: Linking Prosody, Embodiment And Emotional Awareness, Riah Werner
Expression Through Drama: Linking Prosody, Embodiment And Emotional Awareness, Riah Werner
Sandanona
Drama activities give students opportunities to practice expressing embodied emotions in a safe space. Focusing on emotional expression helps students make connections between the suprasegmental components of pronunciation and the meanings they carry. Participants will experience these exercises and learn strategies for implementing them in their own classrooms.
Identity And Language Learning In Multilingualism, Seullee Talia Lee
Identity And Language Learning In Multilingualism, Seullee Talia Lee
Sandanona
Why does a language learner learn a new language? How is one’s identity negotiated in certain language learning contexts? One’s identity has a tremendous impact on his/her language learning trajectory. This presentation describes key concepts of identity research in the Second Language Acquisition field. Also, the presenter suggests an imagined identity option for an English language learner as a legitimate multilingual citizen, not as a deficient non-native speaking second-class citizen.
Gamifying Social Justice In The English Classroom, Yoshimi Ochiai
Gamifying Social Justice In The English Classroom, Yoshimi Ochiai
Sandanona
English has a power to build a peaceful world. In this workshop, participant will experience the dynamics of trade between developed and developing countries through a game. The presenter will provide examples of pre- and post-stage activities to introduce the game in English classroom, too.
How To Incorporate Short Films To Activate 4 Skills, Junko Kinomura
How To Incorporate Short Films To Activate 4 Skills, Junko Kinomura
Sandanona
Just a few minutes might change someone’s life. There are a great number of heartwarming short films on the Internet. These films are waiting for your students to watch them. The presenter will guide participants on how to incorporate films into English lessons to enhance the learner’s intercultural communicative competence.
Hidden And Expressed Instructor Power In The Adult Classroom, Meg Loomis
Hidden And Expressed Instructor Power In The Adult Classroom, Meg Loomis
Sandanona
How does an adult student know when their instructor is acting as an authority figure, a colleague or a friend? The presenter will examine this question and explore the differences between hidden and expressed power.
L1-Influenced Pronunciation: Identity And Discrimination, Ruth Williams
L1-Influenced Pronunciation: Identity And Discrimination, Ruth Williams
Sandanona
How should we treat students' accents in the classroom? The presenter interviewed non-native English speakers in regards to their feelings toward their accent and whether it is a part of their identity. The participants will discuss accent discrimination and its relationship with racism.
I’M No Therapist: Tesol And Mental Health, Stacy Walsh
I’M No Therapist: Tesol And Mental Health, Stacy Walsh
Sandanona
TESOL and mental health are inextricably linked. The presenter will use her experience in both fields to explore the who, what, why and how of creating a safe and healthy classroom community. She’s no therapist, but she will also consider approaches that have the potential to empower students and teachers.
‘Maximizing Learning Opportunities’ In Practice: A Retrospective, Xavier Muñoz
‘Maximizing Learning Opportunities’ In Practice: A Retrospective, Xavier Muñoz
Sandanona
What can ‘maximizing learning opportunities’ look like in the classroom? The presenter will share their journey of coming to recognize and intentionally plan for this strategy in practice. Along the way, attendees will stop for photo ops (i.e., specific instances of the strategy in action) using multiple lenses (i.e., frameworks).
Language As A Marker Of Cultural Identity For Tcks, Nick Cooper
Language As A Marker Of Cultural Identity For Tcks, Nick Cooper
Sandanona
The presenter will make conference participants aware of the linguistic and cultural conflicts that Adult Third Culture Kids experience in educational systems. Together we will come to understand the self-identity conflicts experienced by ATCKs, the hybrid identification process of blended accent, and mode of pronunciation as an adaptive strategy.
Beyond The 4 Skills: Looking At 21st Century Skills, Sarah Morse
Beyond The 4 Skills: Looking At 21st Century Skills, Sarah Morse
Sandanona
The advent of internet and digital media has significantly added to the types of skills that students need to acquire in the ESL classroom to be successful in communication. The digital skills of viewing and representing should be added to the traditional four skills to prepare students for experiencing and creating multimodal texts.
Issues In Mainstream Assessment Guidelines In A Tefl Context, Amy Puett
Issues In Mainstream Assessment Guidelines In A Tefl Context, Amy Puett
Sandanona
While mainstream assessment guidelines, such as the ACTFL, are the main source of assessing students in a TEFL context, issues arise when using these guidelines in some non-Western cultures. My presentation will focus on spoken assessment guidelines and ways in which we can expand their scope.
Reconciling The Conflicting Agendas In The Second Language Classroom, Vinicius Souza
Reconciling The Conflicting Agendas In The Second Language Classroom, Vinicius Souza
Sandanona
How many times has your lesson plan failed? Why can't students pay more attention? The presenter will lead participants on an investigation of the main causes for the usual disconnect arising from the clash of interests and expectations between institution, teacher, and students, and its impact on course design.
We Hold These Truths: Teaching American History In China, Matthew Ingalls
We Hold These Truths: Teaching American History In China, Matthew Ingalls
Sandanona
Once insular, China is now allowing an increasing number of international schools, many of which require the potentially provocative study of American history. This demonstration will present strategies for teaching this subject to English learners. The presenter will also discuss moral and political issues with American history instruction in China.
Extensive Reading: Methods And Motives Behind Reading For Pleasure, Matt Peel
Extensive Reading: Methods And Motives Behind Reading For Pleasure, Matt Peel
Sandanona
Extensive reading is often not utilized in the ESL classroom in favor of intensive reading. In this workshop participants will explore the reading skills and learner benefits gained through extensive reading, and participate in fun, practical classroom activities that can be incorporated into an existing intensive reading program.
Family English Learning: A Workshop On Using English At Home, James Johnston
Family English Learning: A Workshop On Using English At Home, James Johnston
Sandanona
Mothers play an integral role in language acquisition—we do refer to our native languages as “mother tongues,” after all. In South Korea, mothers play an especially important role, pushing Korea to be the largest education market in the world.
This paper examines how EFL teachers can integrate mothers in their students’ learning process using a family-oriented approach.
Advanced Eal Class, Relative Clauses, Jihyun Sung
Advanced Eal Class, Relative Clauses, Jihyun Sung
Sandanona
Participants will have a chance to think about what are the core(s) of relative clauses for learners along the form, meaning, and use dimensions by exploring some relative clause activities and analyzing students’ grammatical errors.
Chatterbox Teachers: Learning How To Zip It, Giovanna Alessio
Chatterbox Teachers: Learning How To Zip It, Giovanna Alessio
Sandanona
This workshop examines techniques for reducing teacher talk time in the classroom to increase student participation
Creating Imagined And Real Communities Through Classroom Activities, Bruna Tadross Ferrari
Creating Imagined And Real Communities Through Classroom Activities, Bruna Tadross Ferrari
Sandanona
Young learners have strong negative associations with formal learning and uninteresting content. Furthermore, it is challenging for students to speak English outside the classroom in a TL removed context. To rectify this situation, the presenter will demonstrate some engaging and interesting activities to encourage student participation and make learning fun!
Transform Your Teaching Through Student Feedback, Patrick Rousseau
Transform Your Teaching Through Student Feedback, Patrick Rousseau
Sandanona
No abstract provided.
Conversation Strategies: Preparing Learners For Real-World Interaction, Angela Richardson
Conversation Strategies: Preparing Learners For Real-World Interaction, Angela Richardson
Sandanona
Workshop/Demonstration
Conversation strategies play an important role in successful communication and socialization, yet they are not often explicitly taught in language classrooms. In this workshop/demonstration we will explore how to use conversation strategies as a means for building both confidence and fluency, while also preparing students for real-world interactions.
Hands-On Or On-Hands: An Approach To Fine Arts Learning In The Senegalese Context, Souleye Diallo Ma, Academic Director
Hands-On Or On-Hands: An Approach To Fine Arts Learning In The Senegalese Context, Souleye Diallo Ma, Academic Director
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
Everything in Arts is communal and participatory as the stage in the African context is different. There is always an exchange between performers and the audience. Our students during their hands-on workshop on Batik, Visual arts and music and dance share those wonderful moment s with their families the community of artists working with them. As stated by one British artist John Ruskin “Fine Art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart of man goes together”. Most of our students during these workshops find Fine arts as integrating and a liberating tool to culture learning. During …
Service Placements And Reciprocity On The Bridge Year Program In Serbia, Svetlana Kijevcanin Ma, Bridge Year Program Director In Serbia
Service Placements And Reciprocity On The Bridge Year Program In Serbia, Svetlana Kijevcanin Ma, Bridge Year Program Director In Serbia
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
The Bridge Year Program is a 9-month program that enables newly admitted undergraduate students from Princeton University to spend a year of public service in Serbia, with Princeton University support, before they begin their studies. The program in Serbia, implemented by SIT/WL, includes individualized community service placements in youth organizations in Novi Sad (September to December 2009) and Roma organizations in Niš (January to May 2010) as well as group activities including orientation, intensive language training, weekly debriefings, local educational excursions and enrichment programs. Students live with families in the community they are serving, and they receive on-site language training. …
International Education And International Organization Relations: Challenges Of Obtaining Practicum Opportunities, Charlotte Karungi Mafumbo Phd, Academic Director
International Education And International Organization Relations: Challenges Of Obtaining Practicum Opportunities, Charlotte Karungi Mafumbo Phd, Academic Director
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
This paper examines the challenges that are being faced by the School for International Training (SIT) program in operating in a country that has experienced a plethora of international organizations in most of its districts. The paper locates the challenges in the wider framework of the operations of international education and draws on the current situation in Uganda’s selected districts to demonstrate how the competition between other international organizations (this includes educational institutions such as Universities and training wings of International Non Governmental Organizations) has narrowed the practicum catchment area for the SIT program. Divided into three sections, the first …
Teaching And Learning Process On Renewable Energy And Sustainable Development, Caitlin Brotzmann Ba, Academic Director
Teaching And Learning Process On Renewable Energy And Sustainable Development, Caitlin Brotzmann Ba, Academic Director
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
Though the global situation is complex and daunting, education for sustainable development attempts to empower students with the knowledge, values, and ability not only to understand but also to act upon that understanding so that they might create a world in harmony with the environment. In summer 2009, 19 university students from North America came to Iceland to study renewable energy on the SIT Study Abroad (a program of World Learning) program ―Iceland: Renewable Energy, Technology, and Resource Economics.‖ The students traveled around the country, stayed with host families, underwent intensive coursework, visited power plants and policy firms, and conducted …
Toward An Action-Oriented Approach To Global Citizenship: Tools For The Young Global Citizen, Siena Fleischer Ma, Manager Of Administration – Latin America And Europe, Vikas Budakoti Ma, Manager Of Administration – Asia & The Pacific
Toward An Action-Oriented Approach To Global Citizenship: Tools For The Young Global Citizen, Siena Fleischer Ma, Manager Of Administration – Latin America And Europe, Vikas Budakoti Ma, Manager Of Administration – Asia & The Pacific
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
We have reached a point in the evolution of global citizenship where the call to action is no longer critical, it is imperative. Sustainable change is the cornerstone of the effort to bring communities together to prioritize needs and implement intelligent growth. Development must be transformative, not palliative. Those who engage in education abroad have the unique and promising opportunity to address global issues and become active participants in the development process. Younger citizens often choose to pursue opportunities both small and large that contribute to safeguarding dignity while advancing growth. Students are often better positioned and more effective than …
Comparative Experiential Education In Global Health For Undergraduates: A Platform For Careers And Lifelong Learning In Public Health, Lois Mccloskey Drph, Mph, Onsultant, Founding Program Director, Health And Community, Christopher J. Colvin Phd, Mph, Program Director, Faculty And Country Coordinator, South Africa, Health And Community
Comparative Experiential Education In Global Health For Undergraduates: A Platform For Careers And Lifelong Learning In Public Health, Lois Mccloskey Drph, Mph, Onsultant, Founding Program Director, Health And Community, Christopher J. Colvin Phd, Mph, Program Director, Faculty And Country Coordinator, South Africa, Health And Community
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
In 2005, the International Honors Program, a longstanding organization that runs comparative study abroad programs, launched its “Health and Community” (HC) Program. The program is offered to upper-level undergraduates from across the US and from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. It travels to four countries in one semester and uses lectures, site visits, case study research and homestay experiences to engage students in critical and comparative thinking about health and illness at both the global and community levels. The interdisciplinary curriculum combines the perspectives of political economy, medical anthropology, and public health and each country program focuses learning around …
Environmental Sustainability: Challenges And Opportunities Of Greening Your Study Abroad Program, Sylvia M. Seger Mim, Academic Director
Environmental Sustainability: Challenges And Opportunities Of Greening Your Study Abroad Program, Sylvia M. Seger Mim, Academic Director
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
World Learning’s mission to “… create a more peaceful and just world” by necessity encompasses environmental dynamics, considering that the root causes of most social justice issues and violent conflicts can be traced to environmental degradation and disproportional access to shrinking natural resources. Thus our mission mandates that we employ an ethic of environmental stewardship in all our pursuits and put in place mechanisms to mitigate our environmental impacts.
“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but …