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38th Annual TESL Ontario Conference

CONFERENCE PROGRAM Research and Teaching: A Collaborative Process

A CONFERENCE FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

October 28-30, 2010 Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ............................................................................................... 4

Advertiser’s Index ................................................................................................ 4

Message from the Chair of the TESL Ontario Board of Directors........................................ 5

Message from the Conference Chair .......................................................................... 5

Program Flow...................................................................................................... 6

Thursday at a Glance............................................................................................. 7

Friday at a Glance ................................................................................................ 9

Saturday at a Glance ............................................................................................11

An Orientation for Participants ...............................................................................13

Registration Instructions And Fees...........................................................................15

Session Selection Form .........................................................................................16

Floorplan-Mezzanine Level ....................................................................................17

Floorplan-Second Floor.........................................................................................18

Floorplan-Exhibits ...............................................................................................19

TESL Ontario 2010 Exhibitor List .............................................................................20

Plenary Speaker-Ken Beatty...................................................................................21

Thank you Sponsors! ............................................................................................23

Plenary Speaker-Bonny Norton ...............................................................................24

Plenary Speaker-Ron Carter ...................................................................................25

11th ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM.........................................................................27

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES ..................................................................................30

Technology Fair ..................................................................................................31

Panel Discussion..................................................................................................33

Welcome Reception ................................................................................................35

Presentations by Teaching Sector ............................................................................37

Thursday Presentation Descriptions .........................................................................45

Friday Presentation Descriptions.............................................................................57

Saturday Presentation Descriptions..........................................................................70

Presenter Biographies ..........................................................................................80

Hotel Information................................................................................................91

Directions and Maps .............................................................................................92

English As A Second Language Week.........................................................................96

Membership Benefits............................................................................................97


Acknowledgements

TESL Ontario gratefully acknowledges the support of:

Special thanks go to: Research Symposium Chairs - Bob Courchêne and Hedy McGarrell

Technology Fair Chair - Sharon Rajabi and Assistant Chair - Kevin O’Brien Conference Chair - Barbara Krukowski

Conference Presenters Panel Discussion Presenters

Research Symposium Presenters TESL Ontario Conference Committee TESL Ontario Conference Volunteers

TESL Ontario Research Committee – Paper/Poster Submission Review

Advertiser’s Index

Grass Roots Press ................................................................................................. 2

Toronto Catholic District School Board......................................................................12

Oxford Seminars .................................................................................................14

Pearson Longman ESL...........................................................................................22

Cambridge University Press....................................................................................26

Royal Ontario Museum ..........................................................................................95


Message from the Chair of the TESL Ontario Board of Directors The annual TESL Ontario Conference is one of the highlights of the year for me. I appreciate the opportunity the conference provides to exchange ideas with friends and colleagues from the province and across Canada.

The workshops, plenary presentations, the technology fair and the research symposium provide an unparalleled learning opportunity for both the new ESL professional as well as the very experienced one. Added this year are poster sessions in which you can review a number of presentations on a variety of topics. We are pleased to have distinguished guests from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities participating in our fifth annual panel discussion entitled “The Future is Now: The New Era of Language Training” on Friday morning. This is your opportunity to hear from program funders regarding changes in language training in the province.

I would like to take this opportunity to extend, on behalf of TESL Ontario’s Board of Directors and TESL Ontario members, our sincerest thanks to Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration (Ontario) for their financial support of the conference and its participants. Their commitment to support the professional development of those teaching in LINC, adult non-credit ESL, ELT, OSSLT and SLT programs is in recognition of the importance of the work we do as ESL professionals.

A conference of this size only comes to fruition as a result of the work of many hands. I would like to thank Barb Krukowski and the Conference Committee and the staff of TESL Ontario for their contribution to making this year’s conference a reality.

Welcome to the 2010 TESL Ontario Conference. Enjoy!

Sheila Nicholas

Message from the Conference Chair “Research and Teaching” A Collaborative Process”, our 38th annual conference, promises to be an exciting one! As ESL professionals we don’t always have the opportunity to connect the dots between what we do in the classroom and why we should, or shouldn’t do it. Our highly regarded plenary speakers, who will also be part of the research symposia, will help us see and understand the connections between research and teaching. In line with our theme for this year's conference, you will see more research papers and, for the first time, we have introduced poster sessions for all three days of the conference. This alternative form of presentation allows presenters and participants a chance to discuss teaching ideas, methods, and research in a more informal environment. Be sure to visit our poster sessions during the conference and then let us know what you think.

I’m excited to report that we have the largest number of workshops and presentations ever; definitely a statement that says you are a knowledgeable group of professionals who are eager to share your experience and expertise with your peers. I truly value your commitment to the work you do and to our learners.

I want to acknowledge the funders who support our conference. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) provides conference assistance to 850 LINC instructors, 80 ELT instructors and also funds the Research Symposia. Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration further contributes conference assistance to 200 ESL practitioners. Their generosity demonstrates their acknowledgement of the importance of professional development to our programs. Be sure to join our funders and other ministry guests at our fifth annual plenary on Friday morning.

It’s hard to adequately express my sincere appreciation to the conference committee members who have been working since January to bring this conference to you. Our Research Symposia are capably organized by Dr. Bob Courchêne and Dr. Hedy McGarrell while Sharon Rajabi chairs the Technology Fair with the assistance of Kevin O’Brien. As always the TESL Ontario office contributes greatly and our dedicated conference planners ensure that no details have been overlooked. Thank you all!

Enjoy your conference!

Barb Krukowski


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Thursday at a Glance 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM REGISTRATION/INFORMATION DESK OPEN 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EXHIBITS OPEN – Second Floor – Churchill Foyer, City Hall Room, Dominion Foyer 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM POSTERS OPEN – Second Floor – Churchill Room 8:30 – 9:30 AM TAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules TAB Going Online with Azar Grammar! TAD Development Of A Standardized CLB Based Milestone Test TAE Key Factors in ESL College Student Success TAF Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Building on Teacher Expertise TAI Embedding Essential Skills in Adult EAL TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation TAK English Pronunciation for Chinese Speakers TAL Citizenship Resource – A Classroom Resource For Teaching Citizenship Topics To Adult

ESL Learners CLB 1-8 TAP A Support and Supervision Model for LINC/ESL Instructors TAQ Success with English for Specific Academic Studies 8:30 – 11:00 AM TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play TAN The CLARS Initiative – An Update and Look Ahead 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM TAR Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop 9:30 – 10:00 AM COFFEE BREAK 10:00 – 11:00 AM TAS PLENARY: Breaking Barriers to CALL in the Classroom TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? TAU Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) TAW Towards Standardization: Developing Exit Tests for All Levels TAX Library Volunteerism: Learn How to Create a Student Lending Library TAZ Canadian Language Basics Level 2 Oxford Picture Dictionary Companion

TBA Pedagogical Approach to Clickers in the Classroom TBB A Day in the Life of a Language Assessor

TBC Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication TBD TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training TBE Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities TBF Bridges for Rural Immigrants: Inspiring Voices through Video Conferencing 10:00 – 11:30 AM TBH Online Resources for TESL 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AGM Annual General Meeting 1:00 – 2:00 PM TPC Achieving Success with ESL Software TPE CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update TPG Lights! Camera! English! TPO Enhancing Assessment and Building Communities of Practice: Priority Projects at CIC TPP Integrating Research into ESL Teaching: The CIEL Method POSTER Declines and Strengths of Older Learners: Classroom Implications POSTER Getting on Track POSTER Opening New Worlds Through Pleasure Reading POSTER Personalized Vocabulary Testing in Large Classroom Settings POSTER Culturemania: Building Student Ability With Games About Culture POSTER The Great Divide: The Literacies of Mennonite Children


1:00 – 2:30 PM TPB Technology Tools that Support Vocabulary Instruction TPF Humour and ESL: Building a Humour Module TPH Emergency Situation Lesson Plans for the Understanding of “Threats to School and Fire

Safety Procedures” TPJ You're Hired...Now What? Memory and Classroom Application TPK I Can't Believe I Learned Grammar! TPL Mind Your Manners…Please… TPM Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! TPN My Own Little Dictionary & 10 Vocabulary Games 1:00 – 3:00 PM TPA LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) TPI Interactive Environmental Learning Enhancing ESL Vocabulary And Curricula 1:00 – 4:00 PM TPD RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CLASSROOM TEACHING Teaching As Listening Identity, Language Learning, and Sociocultural Theory The Significance Of Investing In Sociocultural Approaches For Language Learning And

Policy In A Globalized World 2:30 – 3:30 PM TPR Pre-service Education: Preparing All Teachers for English-Language Learners TPS Impact of ‘Mission Creep’ Using Mixed Methods Methodology 2:30 – 4:00 PM TPQ Ideas and Materials for a Fun Environment Unit 2:30 – 4:30 PM TPT Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies TPU Why Doncha Juspea Kinglish 4:00 – 5:00 PM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students TPW Teaching Using a Computer and a Projector TPY Rubrics and Feedback in a Diverse Classroom TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers TQB The Value of Project-based Learning in ESL Classrooms TQC The Revisions to the Canadian Language Benchmarks TQD The CAEL Assessment and the Canadian Language Benchmarks: A concordance study TQE Games in the Classroom TQF Learning for LIFE: Tools for ESL Literacy Instruction TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan TQH Who Is NOBODY?: A Program Celebrating EVERYBODY’s Strengths 5:00 PM EXHIBITS/POSERS CLOSE 5:00 – 6:30 PM PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION – Sheraton Hall, Lower Concourse Level

TESL Ontario does not endorse or support products and services represented in conference presentations. TESL Ontario cannot guarantee

the accuracy of the information contained in each presentation. The comments/opinions expressed by the presenters are entirely their own.


Friday at a Glance 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM REGISTRATION/INFORMATION DESK OPEN 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EXHIBITS OPEN – Second Floor – Churchill Foyer, City Hall Room, Dominion Foyer 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM POSTERS OPEN – Second Floor – Churchill Room 8:30 – 9:30 AM FAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules FAB Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) FAC What Do Soft Skills Have To Do With Language? FAD Thank You for Speaking English! FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? FAF Top 10 TOEFL Tips (You’ve Never Heard Of) FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a

Thousand Hills FAH Lessons We Learned: GBC/GLIT Partnership in Guilin, China FAI Laughter Yoga Ice Breaking in ESL Classroom FAJ Using Short Stories to Develop Critical ESL Reading FAK Cultural Implications of EFL Textbooks: Teaching for Equality

FAL Innovation in today’s Adult Classes with Ventures FAN Improving Communication and Comprehension with Have Your Say 8:30 – 11:00 AM FAM Using Models to Develop Competent Writers 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM FAO Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop 9:30 – 10:00 AM COFFEE BREAK 9:30 – 11:45 AM FAQ PANEL DISCUSSION: The Future is Now: The New Era of Language Training 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM FAP RESEARCH SYMSPOSIUM: HOW RESEARCH INFORMS LANGUAGE LEARNING

AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT Worthwhile Language Research with Computers

Intersections among Research, Theory, Policy, and Classroom Practice in the Education of English Language Learners

Second Language Socialization For Language Learning And Classroom Management 10:00 – 11:00 AM FAU Quick and Dirty Lesson Planning FAV Literature Circles: Read, Think, Discuss, Collaborate FAW Digital Word Power FBB LINC Volunteer Tutor Program FBD English Through Film Adaptation Across Cultures FBL Literacy and Essential Skills Tools 10:00 – 11:30 AM FAT International Academic Credential Recognition in Canada: Innovative Online Tools

FAX Sustainability & Literacy: Teach to Save Our Planet FAZ Culture Shock - Strategies to Recognize & Overcome It FBA My Own Little Dictionary & 10 Vocabulary Games 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM FAR LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) FAS Language Education at a Distance: LINC Home Study FAY The Literacy Project….a Work in Progress!


11:30 AM – 12:30 PM FBG The Revisions to the Canadian Language Benchmarks FBI Vocabulary Acquisition and Dictionary Use FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique POSTER Declines and Strengths of Older Learners: Classroom Implications POSTER Opening New Worlds Through Pleasure Reading POSTER Culturemania: Building Student Ability With Games About Culture POSTER Teaching English Abroad: Goals, Attitudes and Motivation POSTER The Great Divide: The Literacies of Mennonite Children POSTER Researching Teachers’ and Students’ Learning POSTER Teaching Mapping, Orientating and Direction Skills

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM FBF Teaching about and Appreciating Nature

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM FBE Solving Two Big Challenges for TESL Students FBH The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! FBJ TESL Ontario Accreditation

1:00 – 2:00 PM FPB Symbols in ESL Teaching — Beyond Snapshots of Nouns FPC Employer Reactions to Non-Native Speaker High-Stakes Requests FPD Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices FPJ PLENARY: Identity and Digital Literacy Across Time and Space

1:00 – 2:30 PM FPA Interactive ESL Tasks For Your Students’ Mobile Devices FPE Publishing ESL Materials FPF Music for ESL Neurons FPG Placement Testing in ESL Programs FPH Maximizing the Team in Team Presentations

2:30 – 3:30 PM FPN Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication FPP Reducing Learners’ Language Anxiety: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview FPR Introduction to TESL Canada’s Teacher Resource Centre FPT Games To Liven Up The Grammar Lesson FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio

2:30 – 4:00 PM FPK Online Resources for TESL FPL What’s New at the CCLB? FPO Link LINC Software to Classroom FPS Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs!

2:30 – 5:30 PM FPM RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: THE INFLUENCE OF RESEARCH AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORY ON TEACHING AND TEACHING MATERIALS The Effects of Theory and Research on Grammar Course Book Activities Describing Spoken English: From Research to Classroom Materials Improving the Effectiveness of Grammar Instruction: Ideas from SLA Research

4:00 – 5:00 PM FPZ Genre Analysis Of Research Article Introductions Across ESP, Psycholinguistics And Sociolinguistics

4:00 – 5:30 PM FPV Computers In ESL: Tools/Approaches You Can Use Today FPW Increasing Motivation Through Incorporating Coaching In The Classroom FPX Special Needs Students in ESL Classrooms FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning FQA Teacher Performance Evaluation FQB “What’s that word…?”: Strategic Oral Communication FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication FQD Your Student CAN Achieve ESL Fluency with AIM FQE Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! FQF Crucial Lessons Learned In Corporate ESL

5:00 PM EXHIBITS/POSTERS CLOSE

6:00 – 9:00 PM FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENT – Grand Ballroom, Lower Concourse Level


Saturday at a Glance 7:30 AM – 2:00 PM REGISTRATION/INFORMATION DESK OPEN 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM EXHIBITS OPEN – Second Floor – Churchill Foyer, City Hall Room, Dominion Foyer 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM POSTERS OPEN – Second Floor – Churchill Room 8:30 – 9:30 AM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration

SAB The Oxford Picture Dictionary: A Multi-Level Program SAC Step Forward Canada: Towards Canadian Content & CLB SAD Teaching Vocabulary Strategies Using the Academic Word List SAE Picture That! Great Writing Prompts for Students SAF English Collocations in an ESL Classroom SAG Specialized Vocabulary: To Teach Or Not To Teach? SAH ESL Classics - Songs for Learning English SAI Dictionary Activities for the ESL Classroom SAJ Using Choral Repitition to Enhance Memory of Language Chunks SAK Two Sheets and a Rubber Band – Classroom Exercises 9:30 – 10:00 AM COFFEE BREAK 10:00 – 11:00 AM SAM Second Language Learner's Perceptions of English Email Communication SAN Increasing Post-Secondary Preparedness Using the Academic Word List SAT How Pronunciation Works: What Every Teacher Should Know SAU Curriculum Evaluation as a Research Strategy SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation SAZ PLENARY: What is Fluency? From Corpus to Classroom POSTER Opening New Worlds Through Pleasure Reading POSTER Personalized Vocabulary Testing in Large Classroom Settings POSTER Culturemania: Building Student Ability With Games About Culture POSTER Student Teachers’ Comments on ESL Compositions POSTER ESL Writers’ Revisions Following Teacher Commentary POSTER Effect of Language Differences on Arab Learners’ ESL Writing POSTER A Comparative Study of Phrasal Verb Use 10:00 – 11:30 AM SAQ TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training SAX Special Needs Students in ESL Classrooms SAY Teacher Performance Evaluation 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM SAL LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students SAP ATESL Best Practices for ESL & LINC Programming SAR How do you teach Pedagogical Grammar in a TESL program? SAS Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies SAV Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM SBB Culture in the ESL Classroom: A Collaborative Approach SBC The University Library’s Role in Recreational Reading SBD CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM SBA Utilizing Social Networking & Other Internet Sites in TESL 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM SBE Teaching Intonation SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People


1:00 – 2:00 PM SPB Are we multicultural? Teacher training for cultural diversity! 1:00 – 2:30 PM SPA Integrated Solution: HARTs - History of Assessments, Referrals, Training System SPD Best Practices in the Literacy Classroom 1:00 – 3:00 PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora SPE Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Building on Teacher Expertise SPF Hit the Ground Running: Tips for New Teachers SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play SPI ESL Play Day Activities for Enrichment and Review SPJ Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist SPK Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! SPL The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! SPM A More Collaborative Approach to Serving Immigrant Professionals - Let's Talk 2:30 – 3:30 PM SPN Multiliteracies and Cultural Diversity Through Collaborative Wiki Creation SPQ Citizenship Resource – A Classroom Resource For Teaching Citizenship Topics To Adult

ESL Learners CLB 1-8 SPR Cohesion in Writing and the Role of Culture


An Orientation for Participants The registration desk will be on the Second Floor near the escalators. Registration hours: Thursday from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, Friday from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm and Saturday from 7:30 am to 2:00 pm.

Included in your registration fee: • Education (Technology Fair, Research Symposium, Plenary Presentations and Concurrent Sessions) as outlined in

the Conference Program. Admittance is restricted to maximum capacity per session; pre-registered attendees will be given priority access.

• Access to Exhibit Areas on the Second Floor (Thursday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm)

• Coffee break (coffee/tea/juice) at 9:30-10:00 am daily in the stations on Mezzanine Level/Second Floor. • Welcome Reception on Thursday from 5:00 to 6:30 pm in Sheraton Hall on the Lower Concourse Level. • Friday Night Dinner and Entertainment from 6:00 to 9:00 pm in Grand Ballroom on the Lower Concourse Level.

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TESL ONTARIO CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE

Whether you are a first time or veteran attendee at TESL Ontario, here are some tips that will ensure you get the most out of your time with us: • Read this brochure completely and familiarize yourself with the numerous selections from which you can choose. • Be prepared when you register online - register with an email address we can use to contact you, know your session

selections (use the chart on page 16) AND have your credit card or Interact information handy. • REMEMBER: After you process your payment on InternetSecure, click on the button to return to your registration to

get your registration confirmation, session selections and receipt. • You will receive a registration confirmation when you register, confirming your session selections and your payment.

The information you provide in your online registration will be used to create your name badge. • You will be sent an email before the conference packed with important information. Please read the information that

we send you and print any information you will need to make your conference experience more enjoyable. • When you receive your conference materials at registration, review the material immediately; you’ll be provided with

important information that will save you time and frustration. • Volunteer at the registration desk! Volunteers will have a “Volunteer” ribbon on their name badge, be provided with a

Certificate of Appreciation and will be entered into a draw for each completed shift (e.g. each session you are a door monitor). You’ll also meet new people and give back to your profession at the same time.

• The Sheraton has extended the conference hotel room rate of $209 plus taxes per night to 3 nights pre- and post- conference, so you may want to consider arriving early or staying late to experience more of Toronto life.

• If you are arriving by car, allow extra time for the volume of commuter traffic. Coming from Hamilton, for example, might normally be a one hour drive during non-peak hours. On a weekday morning the volume of traffic might increase that to 2 hours or more.

• Session evaluations will be conducted online, after the conference. Please take time to complete the online evaluation when you return home from the conference. We value your feedback and take your suggestions into consideration when planning the next conference

EVERYONE WHO COMPLETES THE ONLINE EVALUATION AFTER THE CONFERENCE WILL BE ENTERED INTO A DRAW TO WIN: A GIFT CERTIFICATE OR A 1 YEAR TESL

ONTARIO MEMBERSHIP OR A 3 DAY PASS TO NEXT YEAR’S CONFERENCE.


Conference Registration Information

• Online registration opens on September 29 and closes on October 19. • All registrations must be processed online; mailed or faxed registrations will not be accepted. • All registrations must be paid by credit card or Interact; cheques or cash will not be accepted. • Sessions fill up quickly; complete your session choices (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) on the grid provided on page 16 and

register online starting September 29th. • REMEMBER: After you process your payment on InternetSecure, click on the button to return to your registration to

get your registration confirmation, session selections and receipt. • Changes/updates to the conference program will be posted on our web site www.teslontario.org. Security Features Used by InternetSecure to Keep Your Credit Card Safe: • Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode - Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode are programs that use

a simple password verification process that protects your credit card from fraudulent use. • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) - In the age of identity theft, the Payment Card Industry (PCI)

Data Security Standard is a stringent measure designed to protect customer data. Visa and MasterCard, along with other payment card companies, have collaborated to create this single set of worldwide requirements for consumer data protection across the entire industry.

• Visa CVV2, MasterCard CVC2, Amex CID - This is a 3 or 4 digit value that appears on the signature stripe on the back of credit cards. It is intended to confirm that the buyer has the physical card in their possession at the time they are completing the purchase.

• Address Verification Service-Your billing address is compared to that which your bank has on file. CONTACT YOUR CREDIT CARD COMPANY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT PASSWORDS / SECURITY.


Registration Instructions And Fees

How do I register? Register online at www.teslontario.org from September 29 to October 19 using any credit card or Interact card; complete instructions are included online. If you do not have access to the internet, use a computer at work or at the library. Be sure to complete your session selection form (page 16) before accessing online registration. After October 19 you must register on-site.

Cancellation Policy: Requests for refunds must be received in writing by TESL Ontario by October 20 and will be subject to a $50.00 administration fee. All refunds will be issued following the conference.

Presenters: If you are planning only to give a presentation, registration for the conference is not necessary. If you are planning to attend the conference, you should register as a regular attendee.

Members: Must be a current member of TESL Ontario or another TESL Canada Provincial Affiliate. If you are unsure whether your membership is up to date, please contact the TESL Ontario office at: [email protected] or 416-593-4243 ext. 1 or (within Ontario only) 1-800-327-4827 ext. 1.

Students: Must be in full-time attendance at a post-secondary institution and in possession of a valid student card.

Non-members: May pay the member rate if a membership form and accompanying fee (page 98) has been submitted to TESL Ontario.

How do I select my sessions? Sessions fill up quickly; complete your session choices (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) on the grid provided on page 16 and register online starting September 29.

Can I register after October 19? Registrations will be accepted on-site, but no sessions can be reserved.

Will I receive confirmation of my registration and a receipt for my fee? When you complete an online registration, a receipt and confirmation of sessions will be emailed to you immediately. Please be sure to keep a copy of your receipt as proof of registration, for renewal of certification and income tax purposes. Other important conference information will be sent to you by email, so please register with an email address which we can use to contact you,

What do I do if I did not make some or all of my session selections? You can add or delete sessions by clicking on the link sent to you in your registration confirmation and editing your registration.

How do I know what sessions have space for me to attend at the conference? You will be provided with a list of sessions that have limited space available. You may line up outside the door of the room where the session will take place. Door monitors will give pre-registered attendees priority access. At the scheduled start time of the session, the door monitor will allow any empty seats to be filled, to the maximum capacity of the room.

How do I get my badge and conference materials? The registration desk will be on the Second Floor near the

escalators, Thursday through Saturday.

TESL Ontario 2010 Conference Registration Fees

Member Student Non- member

On of Before October 19, 2010 One Day $150 $130 $260 Two Day $220 $180 $300

Three Day $250 $215 $330 After October 20, 2010

One Day $180 $145 $270 Two Day $245 $200 $340

Three Day $270 $240 $370 HST Included #R126198043


Session Selection Form

Registration is available online at www.teslontario.org; all registrations and session selections must be processed online. Many of the sessions overlap in time; the registration system will not allow you to register for sessions that conflict with each other. PLEASE INSERT THE SESSION CODE (eg TAA, FAZ, SPD ) THAT YOU WISH TO REGISTER FOR IN THE APPROPRIATE BOX. Completing this form before registering online will speed up the online registration process.

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SATURDAY 8:30-9:30 AM 10:00-11:00 AM 11:30 AM-12:30 PM 1:00-2:00 PM 2:30-3:30 PM

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Floorplan-Mezzanine Level

MEZZANINE LEVEL

HALF LEVEL ABOVE LOBBY From the Lobby- Take the escalators up to the Second Floor. Turn right, walk 10 steps and you’ll see the stair down to the Mezzanine Level on your left. Alternately, take the stairs or Richmond Tower elevators (when you’re facing Traders, walk to your left until you see the sign) up to the Mezzanine Level. From the Second Floor- Take the stairs or the Richmond Tower elevators down to the Mezzanine Level.

MEETING ROOMS

RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM TECHNOLOGY FAIR


Floorplan-Second Floor

SECOND FLOOR

ONE FLOOR ABOVE LOBBY

From the Lobby- Take the escalators up to the Second Floor. Alternately, take the stairs or Richmond Tower elevators (when you’re facing Traders, walk to your left until you see the sign) up to the Second Floor. From the Mezzanine Level- Take the stairs or the Richmond Tower elevators up to the Second Floor.

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TESL Ontario 2010 Exhibitor List Alphabetical by Exhibitor as at August 30, 2010 Access Copyright ...................................................................................T74 Advance Consulting for Education, Inc. .................................................T62 AIM Language Learning.........................................................................T58 Bridges..............................................................................................T04-05 CAEL Assessment .................................................................................T24 Cambridge University Press ........................................T46-47-48-49-50-51 Canada Revenue Agency ......................................................................T69 Canadian Resources for ESL ...........................................................T01-02 Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks....................................T21-22 Chestnut Publishing Group Inc. .............................................................T76 Citizenship and Immigration Canada ...........................Second Level Foyer Conestoga College ................................................................................T56 Educational Testing Service .............................................................T06-07 English Central..................................................................................T25-26 ESL Jigsaws ..........................................................................................T70 ESL Transcend Publishing Inc...............................................................T18 Frontier College New Readers Bookstore .............................................T08 Global Experience Ontario (Ministry of Citizenship & Immigration) .......T23 Grass Roots Press...................................................................... T43-44-45 Les Editions CEC...................................................................................T10 McGraw-Hill Ryerson .............................................................................T20 NAS Software Inc...................................................................................T09 Nelson Education........................................................................ T71-72-73 OCASI (settlement.org)..........................................................................T59 Ontario Institute of Agrologists...............................................................T55 Owen and Associates Inc. ...........................................Second Level Foyer Oxford University Press ...............................................T37-38-39-40-41-42 Pearson Longman ESL..................................... T27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34 Premier Fitness............................................................Second Level Foyer Royal Ontario Museum – Education & Programs ..................................T63 The Centre for Education & Training .....................................................T75 The Personal Insurance...............................................Second Level Foyer The Resource Centre.................................................................. T52-53-54 Toronto Catholic District School Board ..................................................T19 Turning Technologies Canada..........................................................T66-67 UTP Guidance Centre............................................................................T68 World Education Services......................................................................T03

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Plenary Speaker-Ken Beatty

Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has been in use in the classroom in one form or another since the 1950s. During this time, a dominant model for its use in teaching and learning has failed to emerge. This is partly because of the lack of a research agenda that could identify measurable gains in learning based on empirical evidence; we simply have not found the perfect way or ways to learn language with computers and integrate it with classroom teaching and learning practices. Instead, a series of approaches, based on disparate technologies and software, have been introduced, often dependent on the interest and dedication of the individual teacher. Beyond these problems, there is a wide range of reasons why CALL has not been more widely adopted, including: • teachers’ reluctance to adopt new approaches, particularly considering the cognitive overhead of learning new (and

frequently undependable) hardware and software • a lack of support at the administrative level, both in training and funding; funding is often provided for hardware without

commitment to maintenance or software upgrades • evolving and incompatible platforms for CALL, from various generations of desktop and laptop computers to personal

digital assistants, mobile telephones, iPods and iPads and web-based applications The focus of this talk is identifying and examining some of these barriers and imagining how they can be addressed to make better use of computers in the classroom for language teaching and learning. Approaches include: • making teachers more aware of a spectrum of CALL solutions to problems in teaching and learning • identifying ways in which the computer can be used both as a teacher and a tool • tailoring CALL to locally-relevant materials that appeal to teachers and learners • building an awareness of what is already available from textbook publishers as peripheral teaching and learning materials • working with software publishers in feedback loops to create improved materials, making them aware of holes in the

curriculum and any shortcomings in materials • involving teachers and learners in research • using Web 2.0 to break down barriers between producers and consumers This presentation addresses these issues and suggests ways in which CALL in the classroom can be more effective and efficient for both teachers and learners.

Dr. Ken Beatty is the author/co-author of 128 textbooks used worldwide from the primary to tertiary

levels. Although most of his publications focus on various aspects of English as a Second Language, he

also writes and reviews on the topic of computer-assisted language learning; his Graduate Level textbook, Teaching and Researching Computer

Assisted Language Learning is now in its second edition. It is sold worldwide, including a special edition published in the People’s Republic of China. He has given more than 100 teacher training presentations

throughout Asia and was the recipient of a 2007 Canadian Association of Community Educators Award.

Dr. Beatty has worked at colleges and universities in China, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates.

Breaking Barriers to CALL in the

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Plenary Speaker-Bonny Norton

Dr. Bonny Norton is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her award-winning research addresses identity and language learning, education and international development, and critical literacy. Recent publications include Identity and Language Learning (Longman/Pearson, 2000); Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2004, w. K. Toohey); Gender and English Language Learners (TESOL, 2004, w. A. Pavlenko); and Language and HIV/AIDS (Multilingual Matters, 2010, w. C. Higgins). Her website can be found at http://lerc.educ.ubc.ca/fac/norton/.

This presentation explores how, and to what extent, digital literacy impacts the identities of language teachers and students in diverse sites of learning. In previous work, I have made the case that the conditions under which language learners speak, read, or write is best explained with reference to the multiple identities they negotiate in classrooms and communities. Developments in digital technology and research on multiliteracies have now reframed debates on what it means to be literate in the 21st Century. With reference to my prior work on identity and investment, I draw on my ongoing digital research in the African context to make the case that digital literacy offers unique opportunities for language teachers and students in poorly resourced communities to claim identities as global citizens.

Identity and Digital Literacy Across Time and Space


Plenary Speaker-Ron Carter

This paper reviews a range of recent work defining and

exemplifying the notion of fluency and explores insights from corpus linguistic research into

some major differences and distinctions between speech and writing for what it means to be a

fluent speaker of another language. Using corpus data on lexical and phraseological frequency

I then work towards a definition of fluency based on the metaphor of confluence -‐ which

suggests a consideration of fluency as co-‐created interaction. Confluence embraces the roles

of speakers and listeners in everyday conversational exchanges, the part played by

listenership, the central importance of small words, formulaic language and gestures and has

relevance for the ways in which such insights might be embedded in classroom language

teaching and learning. In terms of relevance to the language classroom among the topics

considered are: drills and automaticity, the part played by fixedness and creativity in language

learning, the political issues involved in modelling on native speaker fluent performance and

the complexities inherent in developing appropriate tests for fluent speaking.

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham. He has written and edited more than 50 books and has published over 100 academic papers in the fields of literary-linguistics, language and education, applied linguistics and the teaching of English. He has taught, lectured and given consultancies to government agencies and ministries in the field of language education, in over thirty countries world-wide. In the UK he has worked as linguistic advisor to the UK Ministry of Education and to QCA on English in the National Curriculum and the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum. Recent books include: The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ed with David Nunan) (CUP) Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk (Routledge), From Corpus to Classroom (CUP) and Cambridge Grammar of English: A Comprehensive Guide to Spoken and Written Grammar and Usage (with Michael McCarthy) (CUP) which won the 2007 British Council International English Language Innovation Award. He is currently working on English Grammar Today: An A-Z of Spoken and Written English Grammar (CUP, 2011) Professor Carter is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a fellow of the British Academy for Social Sciences and was chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (2003-2006).

What is Fluency? From Corpus to Classroom



11th ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:00-4:00 PM

TPD - SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CLASSROOM TEACHING

Teaching As Listening Barbara Graves - University of Ottawa Sociocultural theory is theory of mind mediated by language and cultural artifacts that disrupts the binary oppositions such as mind-body, theory-practice, and cognition-emotion that have long structured educational practices. It is a perspective that emphasizes the mutual constitutions of persons and the experienced world. Since knowledge and learning arise out of the interaction of people and activity contexts, rational processes are understood as social activities. The very language, topics, and research questions found within sociocultural approaches differ from those of more traditional L2 research. Among the recurring themes are ideology, social justice, equity, literacies, discourses, culture, community, identities, co-construction, and narrative. In this presentation I propose that teaching and learning from a sociocultural perspective is an ethical practice whereby teachers and learners are transformed as they interact together. At the heart of these interactions is a listening attitude. Drawing on data from multilingual children and international graduate students, I consider what we as teachers and researchers can learn by listening attentively. The Significance of Investing in Sociocultural Approaches for Language Learning and Policy in a Globalized World Julie Byrd Clark, University of Western Ontario What is the meaning of multilingualism and multiculturalism for young people in today’s globalized world? This presentation elucidates the importance of social approaches to language learning and to the development of linguistic repertoires by examining the complex significance of multilingualism for Canadian youth participating in language learning and language teacher education programs. Drawing from a unique ethnographic study and an innovative sociocultural approach, this presentation highlights the investments and experiences of Canadian youth as they navigate what it means to be and become officially bi/multilingual while trying to integrate the social and professional world. The goals and objectives of this presentation will demonstrate how our ideas (as educators and policymakers) about languages and language learning and the ways in which we invest in certain representations of languages and identities have definite outcomes for both our students and our citizens. In order to create more equitable learning spaces and conditions for successful integration, social approaches and practices to language learning demand serious recognition. This presentation will be of particular interest to language educators and policy makers and for all those concerned with fostering more opportunities for reflective engagement within our classrooms as well as within the social world. Identity, Language Learning, and Sociocultural Theory Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia In this presentation, I draw on a wide range of work in second language research to make three arguments: The first argument is that sociocultural relationships must be understood with respect to larger institutional practices in schools, homes, and workplaces (the social) as well as more grounded practices associated with particular groups (the cultural). The second argument is that much contemporary research on identity and language learning shares an interest in the complex and dynamic nature of identity, co-constructed in a wide variety of sociocultural relationships, and framed within particular relations of power. The third argument makes the case that this broad range of theory can enhance our understanding of the relationship between identity and language learning, and to the extent that the theory addresses both institutional and group practices, it can be considered “sociocultural theory”. I then draw on research in diverse international contexts to highlight the relationship between sociocultural theory, research and teaching in the English language classroom.


11TH ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Friday, October 29, 2010 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

FAP – HOW RESEARCH INFORMS LANGUAGE LEARNING AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT Worthwhile Language Research with Computers Ken Beatty, Anaheim University

In the language-learning classroom, computers have long been both a tool for research and a subject of research. The changing nature of computers and software has made research in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) a rich source of studies as teachers and researchers evaluate how new hardware and software can help teachers teach and help students learn.

However, the nature of much of this research has often been questionable, particularly in studies by program developers investigating their own creations. Beyond this, Hubbard (2005) reviewed CALL research and identified disturbing trends such as the use of few participants, the use of mostly subjective methods, and studies of limited duration of often untrained novices’ experiencing an initial and limited exposure to a new CALL program with little or no intervention by the teacher/researcher.

This presentation explains why it is necessary for teachers to undertake research in CALL, outlines the pitfalls of some kinds of research, and explores ways in which teachers and language learners can address key issues in language teaching and learning with computer-mediated technology.

Intersections among Research, Theory, Policy, and Classroom Practice in the Education of English Language Learners Jim Cummins, The University of Toronto

The presentation will propose a framework for considering the impact of research and theory on educational policy and classroom practice focusing on the achievement of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the Canadian context. The stage will be set for this discussion by reviewing assumptions about what kinds of research are legitimate and relevant to policy that have been articulated in two comprehensive reports on ELL student achievement that have been published in the United States and Europe in recent years. The first of these is the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth (August & Shanahan, 2006, 2008) that synthesized a large amount of research on the achievement of ELLs in the United States and elsewhere. The second is the report published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) entitled Where immigrant students succeed - A comparative review of performance and engagement in PISA 2003 (Stanat & Christensen, 2006) which focused on the academic achievement of first and second generation immigrant students in 17 countries with significant immigrant student populations. In both cases, the policy recommendations and implications for classroom practice are limited by virtue of problematic assumptions made by the researchers with respect to the role of theory in knowledge generation and the relative legitimacy of different types of research.

The proposed framework will examine the logical relationships between research findings and knowledge generation (theoretical understanding) in three broad types of research: (a) experimental and quasi-experimental studies which attempt to identify the effects of particular variables on achievement, (b) descriptive and interpretive studies that describe patterns of ELL student achievement and explore relationships among predictor variables, and (c) qualitative studies that describe particular cases or situations taking into account the perspectives and experiences of participants as well as the interpretations of researchers. I will argue that each of these forms of research endeavour is legitimate and each embodies a different logic with respect to how it contributes (a) to knowledge generation (theoretical understanding) and (b) to educational policy and classroom practice. I will illustrate these relationships with specific reference to research involving ELL student academic achievement carried out in the Canadian context.

Second Language Socialization for Language Learning and Classroom Management Jeremie Seror, University of Ottawa

Rooted in anthropology and discourse studies, second language socialization research seeks to understand the processes through which newcomers negotiate membership and competency through extended participation in language mediated activities of target communities (Duff, 2007). In recent years, this framework has increasingly become a useful tool to explore the expected as well as unexpected outcomes of second language development in a variety of contexts (Garrett & Baquedano-López, 2002). This presentation provides a brief summary of the key tenants of this field of research and reviews some of the illustrative studies stemming from this work and their contributions to language learning and classroom management. Particular emphasis is placed on the power of second language socialization research to situate language learning within its social context and highlight the power of seemingly “mundane” interactions as carriers of explicit and implicit norms which can strengthen or weaken language learners’ sense of belonging within a target community in “micro moments” of teaching with significant cumulative effect over time. The presentation ends with concrete examples of the impact such insights have had on my own teaching and work with second language writers in the exploration of feedback practices as a critical force that contributes to students’ understanding of what it means to be an L2 writer in academic communities.


11TH ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Friday, October 29, 2010 2:30-5:30 PM

FPM - THE INFLUENCE OF RESEARCH AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORY ON TEACHING AND TEACHING MATERIALS

The Effects of Theory and Research on Grammar Course Book Activities Philippa Bell, Concordia University This research investigated whether research-based views on grammar activities are reflected in current English as a second language (ESL) course books. The impetuses for this research project were the enormous market that course books have in the world of ESL teaching and the attention in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) literature that is devoted to identifying types of grammar activities and evaluating their relative effectiveness. To investigate the issue, I examined grammar activities in 6 widely-used intermediate level course books (e.g. Headway) to understand whether important research trends in the SLA literature (e.g. interaction, input processing) are reflected in current course books. The findings show that certain research findings are absent in course book grammar activities, and others, despite being evident, are not being used to their full potential. The discussion of the findings will concentrate on explaining why research findings may not always be integrated into grammar course book activities. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of the pedagogical context; grammar learning does not take place in a vacuum so certain research findings may be difficult to implement in practice. Research findings that could and should be integrated will also be discussed. Describing Spoken English: From Research to Classroom Materials Name: Ronald Carter, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham This presentation reports on research over the past ten years which has advanced our understanding of spoken language and how it is different from written discourse. Insights from the fields of discourse analysis, Contrastive Analysis (CA) and spoken corpus linguistics are drawn on to underline how key features of grammar, vocabulary and turn construction are now better understood. Such research has implications for the teaching and learning of spoken English and this presentation also reviews recent classroom materials which exploit these research findings and raises questions about how such materials might need to be developed for different learners in different ESOL/EFL learning environments. The presentation also includes a brief look at the need for more corpora, especially video and multimodal corpora that underline the significance of gesture as well as corpora involving the spoken English of successful (non-native) users. The presentation concludes with a consideration of the ways in which new technologies are facilitating greater access for learners to naturally-occurring and authentic spoken discourse, for example, in delivering spoken material to go with dictionaries and grammars on handheld devices and in mobile learning environments. Improving the Effectiveness of Grammar Instruction: Ideas from SLA Research Leila Ranta, University of Alberta The issue that will be addressed in this presentation is the place of grammar in task-based adult ESL instruction based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks. The CLB framework provides descriptions of outcomes for learners' communicative ability. In addition to the emphasis on communication, CLB documents also maintain the importance of including a focus on grammar. However, rather than defining how and when teachers should teach grammar, such decisions are left up to the instructor. Given the constraints on teachers' time, we would expect many practitioners to rely on commercially produced material. In a recent small-scale survey of adult ESL teachers in Alberta (Waugh & Ranta, 2009), we found that the majority of teachers reported using the highly decontextualized grammar materials written by Azar and a smaller proportion used the highly contextualized books from the Focus on Grammar series. Paradoxically, neither set of materials is necessarily suitable for adult ESL in Canada since they do not contain Canadian content and are not explicitly related to the CLB framework. In addition, the practice activities mostly consist of traditional fill-in-the-blank exercises. In this presentation I will outline how SLA research can offer some innovative ideas for improving the effectiveness of ESL grammar materials.


VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

We Need Your Help!

Show your support and be part of the action! Over 1500 ESL Professionals will gather in Toronto this October for the TESL Ontario 2010 Conference.

Lend your expertise and be a part of the Volunteer Team … sign up today!

When: October 25-30, 2010

Where: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West

Volunteer as little or as much time as you like. We require many conference volunteers who are willing to donate a small portion of their time to assist with the smooth running of our very large conference. You will need to register and pay the conference fee if you would like to participate in the education sessions or networking events. You will not miss any session time by volunteering!

TO BECOME A CONFERENCE VOLUNTEER • When registering online, check the box to be a volunteer • Download an information/application form from www.teslontario.org • Send an email to [email protected]

Prepare Conference Registration Materials (before the conference) – October 25, 26, 27 Collate attendee name badges, registration kits and delegate bags.

Registration Desk Volunteer (at the conference)* - October 28, 29, 30 Welcome attendees to the conference, distribute name badges, registration materials and delegate bags.

The Benefits? • Certificate of Appreciation • Volunteer ribbon on your name badge to recognize your contribution among all attendees • Working in a team environment, alongside other ESL Professionals • Networking, Networking, and more Networking! • A draw for a gift certificate for each completed shift (e.g. each time you work at the registration

desk).

For more information or to sign up, please contact [email protected].


Technology Fair

Thursday 8:30-9:30 TAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules 9:30-10:00 BREAK (Coffee/Tea/Juice stations on Mezzanine Level/Second Floor) 10:00-11:30 TBH Online Resources for TESL 1:00-3:00 TPA LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) 4:00-5:00 TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Friday 8:30-9:30 FAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules 9:30-10:00 BREAK (Coffee/Tea/Juice stations on Mezzanine Level/Second Floor) 10:00-12:00 FAR LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) 1:00-2:30 FPA Interactive ESL Tasks For Your Students’ Mobile Devices 4:00-5:30 FPV Computers In ESL: Tools/Approaches You Can Use Today Saturday 8:30-9:30 SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration 9:30-10:00 BREAK (Coffee/Tea/Juice stations on Mezzanine Level/Second Floor) 10:00-12:00 SAL LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) 1:00-2:30 SPA Integrated Solution: HARTs - History of Assessments, Referrals, Training System

Essex Ballroom, Mezzanine Level

TECHNOLOGY LAB


Thursday 8:30-9:30 TAB Going Online with Azar Grammar! 9:30-10:00 BREAK (Coffee/Tea/Juice stations on Mezzanine Level/Second Floor) 10:00-11:00 TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? 1:00-2:30 TPB Technology Tools that Support Vocabulary Instruction 4:00-5:00 TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teaches Friday 8:30-9:30 FAB Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) 9:30-10:00 BREAK (Coffee/Tea/Juice stations on Mezzanine Level/Second Floor) 10:00-12:00 FAS Language Education at a Distance: LINC Home Study 1:00-2:00 FPB Symbols in ESL Teaching — Beyond Snapshots of Nouns 2:30-4:00 FPK Online Resources for TESL Saturday 8:30-9:30 SAB The Oxford Picture Dictionary: A Multi-Level Program 9:30-10:00 BREAK (Coffee/Tea/Juice stations on Mezzanine Level/Second Floor) 10:00-11:00 SAM Second Language Learner's Perceptions of English Email Communication 11:30-1:00 SBA Utilizing Social Networking & Other Internet Sites in TESL 2:30-3:30 SPN Multiliteracies and Cultural Diversity Through Collaborative Wiki Creation

TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATION ROOM Windsor East, Mezzanine Level


Panel Discussion TESL Ontario will be hosting our fifth annual Panel Discussion to be held at our

38th TESL Ontario Conference. The aim of this panel discussion is to identify

current trends, updating of initiatives, sharing of recommendations, and it is

designed to bring stakeholders together. The panel discussion presentations have

proven to be very successful and continue to be fully booked each year. This

year’s theme is The Future is Now: The New Era of Language Training.

The panel members represent the following Ministries: Citizenship and

Immigration Canada, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, the Ontario

Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, and the Ministry of Education.

Moderator: Renate Tilson, Executive Director - TESL Ontario.

TESL ONTARIO’S FIFTH ANNUAL

PANEL DISCUSSION Friday, October 29, 2010

9:30-11:45 AM

FAQ – The Future is Now: The New Era of Language Training

Dominion Ballroom North, Second Floor


Panel Participants Darlyn Mentor - Director, Settlement Programs - Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ontario Region Darlyn Mentor started her career over 15 years ago, working in the settlement sector, as a multicultural liaison officer in the well known SWIS Program. Her career path has involved her working in a number of organizations over the years, including community based not for profit agencies, foundations and government. Her experience, before joining Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), includes working in the development and management of programs at the local, national and international levels. She has spent several years working at the establishment of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and next, as a Program Manager at the Ontario Trillium Foundation. She has extensive experience as a funder, community developer and in program management. Darlyn began working at CIC at a Regional Program Advisor capacity, leading the Francophone Minority Community Initiative at a regional level and is currently the Director, Settlement Programs, CIC Ontario Region. Catherine Finlay - Director of Immigration Programs - Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Catherine Finlay is currently the Director of Immigration Programs at the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration. Her responsibilities include Opportunities Ontario: Provincial Nominee Program - a provincial immigration selection program, Global Experience Ontario serving internationally trained individuals, Adult Non-Credit English and French as a Second Language training services, and newcomer settlement and bridge to work programs. Catherine has had an extensive and diverse career in the Ministries of Health, Consumer and Business Services, Government Services, and Citizenship and Immigration in operations, policy, strategic planning, corporate support and finance, and communications. A senior executive with a strong customer service orientation, Catherine has, throughout her career, taken the lead in transforming business and services to make it easier for individuals, business and stakeholders to interact with government. A service excellence highlight was the introduction of the first ever government money-back guarantee for new online certificate services. Catherine and her team are currently working with service partners on the redesign of the Adult Non-credit ESL/FSL language training program to ensure it is more learner-focused and results oriented. Patti Redmond - Director of the Programs Branch - Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities Currently Patti holds the position of Director of the Programs Branch with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Programs Branch brings combined employment and training and postsecondary expertise to the practical work of program design, program development, program standards, and program evaluation. It will help link policy directions with operations and service delivery. Previously she was the Director of the Skills Investment Branch at MTCU where she had responsibility for adult literacy programs and employment programs for youth and adults including the internationally trained. Prior to this, Patti worked for several years at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing in the area of social housing development and administration. Richard Franz - Director of the Student Success/Learning - Ontario Ministry of Education Richard Franz is the Director of the Student Success / Learning to 18 Strategic Policy Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Education. This branch is responsible for developing policies, programs and legislation to support the government’s Student Success / Learning to 18 strategy. The work includes reviewing and updating the requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma, guidance and career education and cooperative education. The branch, in consultation with external and internal stakeholders, develops policies, programs and resources for the Specialist High Skills Major programs, secondary school-college dual credits, and adult education. Mr. Franz has been with the Ministry of Education for nine years. Previously he has held senior policy advisor positions at the Ministry of Community and Social Services and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. In each capacity, he has worked at the intersection of policy development and program implementation. Prior to working in government, he was a program developer for a non-profit housing corporation and the Executive Director of a community organization. Mr. Franz holds a Bachelors of Arts with distinction and a Masters of Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.


Welcome Reception

Thursday, October 28 5:00-6:30 PM

Sheraton Hall, Lower Concourse Level

It is my sincere pleasure to invite you to attend the Welcome Reception on Thursday, October 28th from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., immediately following the last session of the day. The event will be held in Sheraton Hall on the Lower Concourse Level at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. It is an opportunity for you to view the numerous submissions for our ESL week poster contest and recognize the grand prize winner and the runners up, who will be present to share in the celebration. Punch and appetizers will be served; a cash bar will be available. Please RSVP on your conference registration form to reserve your ticket. Please come and celebrate ESL Week with the TESL Ontario Board of Directors. Sheila Nicholas TESL Ontario Chair


Friday Night Dinner and Entertainment

Friday, October 29 6:00-9:00 PM

Grand Ballroom, Lower Concourse Level We are going to bring back the disco craze, so wind the clock back twenty-‐five years to the age of Disco and you’re standing in front of the doors of Studio 54. Dance the night away to KC and the Sunshine Band, Donna Summer, the Village People and the Bee Gees, to name a few.

Influenced by their love of disco music and the 70’s era, Disco Inferno presents an energetic and fun disco music.

Disco Inferno has performed for thousands of people all across North America, have made various television appearances, and have become the Hottest Disco Band on the Canadian corporate circuit. From the very minute they hit the stage for their first song, the dance floor will be packed and the music enthusiastically received by the audience!

Strap on your best and the night away!


Presentations by Teaching Sector ALL TEACHING SECTORS TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBH Online Resources for TESL Thursday 10:00AM-11:30AM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQE Games in the Classroom Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a Thousand Hills Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBJ TESL Ontario Accreditation Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPE Publishing ESL Materials Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPK Online Resources for TESL Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM ADULT ESL/LINC TAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAB Going Online with Azar Grammar! Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAD Development Of A Standardized CLB Based Milestone Test Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAE Key Factors in ESL College Student Success Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAF Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Building on Teacher Expertise Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAI Embedding Essential Skills in Adult EAL Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAK English Pronunciation for Chinese Speakers Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAL Citizenship Resource – A Classroom Resource For Teaching Citizenship Topics To Adult ESL Learners CLB 1-8 Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAN The CLARS Initiative – An Update and Look Ahead Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAP A Support and Supervision Model for LINC/ESL Instructors Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAR Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop Thursday 8:30AM-4:30PM TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TAU Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TAX Library Volunteerism: Learn How to Create a Student Lending Library Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TAZ Canadian Language Basics Level 2 Oxford Picture Dictionary Companion Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBA Pedagogical Approach to Clickers in the Classroom Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBB A Day in the Life of a Language Assessor Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBC Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBE Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBF Bridges for Rural Immigrants: Inspiring Voices through Video Conferencing Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBH Online Resources for TESL Thursday 10:00AM-11:30AM TPA LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) Thursday 1:00PM-3:00PM TPB Technology Tools that Support Vocabulary Instruction Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPC Achieving Success with ESL Software Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPE CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPF Humour and ESL: Building a Humour Module Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPG Lights! Camera! English! Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM


TPH Emergency Situation Lesson Plans for the Understanding of “Threats to School and Fire Safety Procedures” Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPI Interactive Environmental Learning Enhancing ESL Vocabulary And Curricula Thursday 1:00PM-3:00PM TPJ You're Hired...Now What? Memory and Classroom Application Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPK I Can't Believe I Learned Grammar! Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPL Mind Your Manners…Please… Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPM Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPN My Own Little Dictionary & 10 Vocabulary Games Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPO Enhancing Assessment and Building Communities of Practice: Priority Projects at CIC Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPS Impact of ‘Mission Creep’ Using Mixed Methods Methodology Thursday 2:30PM-3:30PM TPQ Ideas and Materials for a Fun Environment Unit Thursday 2:30PM-4:00PM TPT Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies Thursday 2:30PM-4:30PM TPU Why Doncha Juspea Kinglish Thursday 2:30PM-4:30PM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPW Teaching Using a Computer and a Projector Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQC The Revisions to the Canadian Language Benchmarks Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQD The CAEL Assessment and the Canadian Language Benchmarks: A concordance study Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQE Games in the Classroom Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQF Learning for LIFE: Tools for ESL Literacy Instruction Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM FAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAB Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAD Thank You for Speaking English! Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAF Top 10 TOEFL Tips (You’ve Never Heard Of) Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a Thousand Hills Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAI Laughter Yoga Ice Breaking in ESL Classroom Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAJ Using Short Stories to Develop Critical ESL Reading Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAL Innovation in today’s Adult Classes with Ventures Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAM Using Models to Develop Competent Writers Friday 8:30AM-11:00AM FAN Improving Communication and Comprehension with Have Your Say Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAO Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop Friday 8:30AM-4:30PM FAR LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) Friday 10:00AM-12:00PM FAS Language Education at a Distance: LINC Home Study Friday 10:00AM-12:00PM FAT International Academic Credential Recognition in Canada: Innovative Online Tools Friday 10:00AM-11:30AM FAU Quick and Dirty Lesson Planning Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FAV Literature Circles: Read, Think, Discuss, Collaborate Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FAW Digital Word Power Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FAX Sustainability & Literacy: Teach to Save Our Planet Friday 10:00AM-11:30AM FAY The Literacy Project….a Work in Progress! Friday 10:00AM-12:00PM FAZ Culture Shock - Strategies to Recognize & Overcome It Friday 10:00AM-11:30AM FBA My Own Little Dictionary & 10 Vocabulary Games Friday 10:00AM-11:30AM FBB LINC Volunteer Tutor Program Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FBD English Through Film Adaptation Across Cultures Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FBE Solving Two Big Challenges for TESL Students Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBF Teaching about and Appreciating Nature Friday 11:30AM-1:00PM FBG The Revisions to the Canadian Language Benchmarks Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBH The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBI Vocabulary Acquisition and Dictionary Use Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBJ TESL Ontario Accreditation Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBL Literacy and Essential Skills Tools Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FPA Interactive ESL Tasks For Your Students’ Mobile Devices Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPB Symbols in ESL Teaching — Beyond Snapshots of Nouns Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPC Employer Reactions to Non-Native Speaker High-Stakes Requests Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPD Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPE Publishing ESL Materials Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPF Music for ESL Neurons Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPG Placement Testing in ESL Programs Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPH Maximizing the Team in Team Presentations Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM


FPK Online Resources for TESL Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPL What’s New at the CCLB? Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPN Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPO Link LINC Software to Classroom Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPP Reducing Learners’ Language Anxiety: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPR Introduction to TESL Canada’s Teacher Resource Centre Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPS Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPT Games To Liven Up The Grammar Lesson Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPV Computers In ESL: Tools/Approaches You Can Use Today Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPW Increasing Motivation Through Incorporating Coaching In The Classroom Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPX Special Needs Students in ESL Classrooms Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQA Teacher Performance Evaluation Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQB “What’s that word…?”: Strategic Oral Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQD Your Student CAN Achieve ESL Fluency with AIM Friday 4:00PM-5:00PM FQE Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQF Crucial Lessons Learned In Corporate ESL Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAB The Oxford Picture Dictionary: A Multi-Level Program Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAC Step Forward Canada: Towards Canadian Content & CLB Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAD Teaching Vocabulary Strategies Using the Academic Word List Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAF English Collocations in an ESL Classroom Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAG Specialized Vocabulary: To Teach Or Not To Teach? Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAH ESL Classics - Songs for Learning English Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAI Dictionary Activities for the ESL Classroom Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAJ Using Choral Repitition to Enhance Memory of Language Chunks Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAK Two Sheets and a Rubber Band – Classroom Exercises Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAL LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAM Second Language Learner's Perceptions of English Email Communication Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAP Special Needs Students in ESL Classrooms Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAQ TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training Saturday 10:00AM-11:30AM SAR How do you teach Pedagogical Grammar in a TESL program? Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAS Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAT How Pronunciation Works: What Every Teacher Should Know Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAX Special Needs Students in ESL Classrooms Saturday 10:00AM-11:30AM SAY Teacher Performance Evaluation Saturday 10:00AM-11:30AM SBA Utilizing Social Networking & Other Internet Sites in TESL Saturday 11:30AM-1:00PM SBB Culture in the ESL Classroom: A Collaborative Approach Saturday 11:30AM-12:30PM SBD CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update Saturday 11:30AM-12:30PM SBE Teaching Intonation Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SPA Integrated Solution: HARTs - History of Assessments, Referrals, Training System Saturday 1:00PM-2:30PM SPB Are we multicultural? Teacher training for cultural diversity! Saturday 1:00PM-2:00PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPD Best Practices in the Literacy Classroom Saturday 1:00PM-2:30PM SPE Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Building on Teacher Expertise Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPF Hit the Ground Running: Tips for New Teachers Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPI ESL Play Day Activities for Enrichment and Review Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPK Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPL The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPM A More Collaborative Approach to Serving Immigrant Professionals - Let's Talk Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPN Multiliteracies and Cultural Diversity Through Collaborative Wiki Creation Saturday 2:30PM-3:30PM SPQ Citizenship Resource – A Classroom Resource For Teaching Citizenship Topics To Adult ESL Learners CLB 1-8 Saturday 2:30PM-3:30PM SPR Cohesion in Writing and the Role of Culture Saturday 2:30PM-3:30PM


COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY TAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAB Going Online with Azar Grammar! Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAD Development Of A Standardized CLB Based Milestone Test Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAE Key Factors in ESL College Student Success Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAQ Success with English for Specific Academic Studies Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAR Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop Thursday 8:30AM-4:30PM TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TAW Towards Standardization: Developing Exit Tests for All Levels Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBC Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBE Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBH Online Resources for TESL Thursday 10:00AM-11:30AM TPB Technology Tools that Support Vocabulary Instruction Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPC Achieving Success with ESL Software Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPE CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPF Humour and ESL: Building a Humour Module Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPM Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPO Enhancing Assessment and Building Communities of Practice: Priority Projects at CIC Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPP Integrating Research into ESL Teaching: The CIEL Method Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPR Pre-service Education: Preparing All Teachers for English-Language Learners Thursday 2:30PM-3:30PM TPS Impact of ‘Mission Creep’ Using Mixed Methods Methodology Thursday 2:30PM-3:30PM TPT Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies Thursday 2:30PM-4:30PM TPU Why Doncha Juspea Kinglish Thursday 2:30PM-4:30PM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPY Rubrics and Feedback in a Diverse Classroom Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQB The Value of Project-based Learning in ESL Classrooms Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQD The CAEL Assessment and the Canadian Language Benchmarks: A concordance study Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQE Games in the Classroom Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM FAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAF Top 10 TOEFL Tips (You’ve Never Heard Of) Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a Thousand Hills Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAH Lessons We Learned: GBC/GLIT Partnership in Guilin, China Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAI Laughter Yoga Ice Breaking in ESL Classroom Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAN Improving Communication and Comprehension with Have Your Say Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAO Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop Friday 8:30AM-4:30PM FAS Language Education at a Distance: LINC Home Study Friday 10:00AM-12:00PM FAT International Academic Credential Recognition in Canada: Innovative Online Tools Friday 10:00AM-11:30AM FAW Digital Word Power Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FBD English Through Film Adaptation Across Cultures Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FBE Solving Two Big Challenges for TESL Students Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBH The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBI Vocabulary Acquisition and Dictionary Use Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBJ TESL Ontario Accreditation Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBL Literacy and Essential Skills Tools Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FPA Interactive ESL Tasks For Your Students’ Mobile Devices Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPC Employer Reactions to Non-Native Speaker High-Stakes Requests Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPD Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPE Publishing ESL Materials Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPG Placement Testing in ESL Programs Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPH Maximizing the Team in Team Presentations Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPK Online Resources for TESL Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPL What’s New at the CCLB? Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPN Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPR Introduction to TESL Canada’s Teacher Resource Centre Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM


FPS Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPT Games To Liven Up The Grammar Lesson Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPV Computers In ESL: Tools/Approaches You Can Use Today Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPW Increasing Motivation Through Incorporating Coaching In The Classroom Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPZ Genre Analysis Of Research Article Introductions Across ESP, Psycholinguistics And Sociolinguistics Friday 4:00PM-5:00PM FQB “What’s that word…?”: Strategic Oral Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQE Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQF Crucial Lessons Learned In Corporate ESL Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAD Teaching Vocabulary Strategies Using the Academic Word List Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAF English Collocations in an ESL Classroom Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAG Specialized Vocabulary: To Teach Or Not To Teach? Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAI Dictionary Activities for the ESL Classroom Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAJ Using Choral Repitition to Enhance Memory of Language Chunks Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAK Two Sheets and a Rubber Band – Classroom Exercises Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAN Increasing Post-Secondary Preparedness Using the Academic Word List Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAQ TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training Saturday 10:00AM-11:30AM SAR How do you teach Pedagogical Grammar in a TESL program? Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAS Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAT How Pronunciation Works: What Every Teacher Should Know Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAU Curriculum Evaluation as a Research Strategy Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAV Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SBB Culture in the ESL Classroom: A Collaborative Approach Saturday 11:30AM-12:30PM SBC The University Library’s Role in Recreational Reading Saturday 11:30AM-12:30PM SBD CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update Saturday 11:30AM-12:30PM SBE Teaching Intonation Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SPB Are we multicultural? Teacher training for cultural diversity! Saturday 1:00PM-2:00PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPF Hit the Ground Running: Tips for New Teachers Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPJ Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPK Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPL The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPM A More Collaborative Approach to Serving Immigrant Professionals - Let's Talk Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPN Multiliteracies and Cultural Diversity Through Collaborative Wiki Creation Saturday 2:30PM-3:30PM SPR Cohesion in Writing and the Role of Culture Saturday 2:30PM-3:30PM ELEMENTARY TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBA Pedagogical Approach to Clickers in the Classroom Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBH Online Resources for TESL Thursday 10:00AM-11:30AM TPB Technology Tools that Support Vocabulary Instruction Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQE Games in the Classroom Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQH Who Is NOBODY?: A Program Celebrating EVERYBODY’s Strengths Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a Thousand Hills Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAK Cultural Implications of EFL Textbooks: Teaching for Equality Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBJ TESL Ontario Accreditation Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM


FPB Symbols in ESL Teaching — Beyond Snapshots of Nouns Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPE Publishing ESL Materials Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPK Online Resources for TESL Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPP Reducing Learners’ Language Anxiety: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQD Your Student CAN Achieve ESL Fluency with AIM Friday 4:00PM-5:00PM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAH ESL Classics - Songs for Learning English Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAV Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPI ESL Play Day Activities for Enrichment and Review Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPJ Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM ELT/SLT TAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAB Going Online with Azar Grammar! Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAD Development Of A Standardized CLB Based Milestone Test Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAE Key Factors in ESL College Student Success Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAN The CLARS Initiative – An Update and Look Ahead Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAR Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop Thursday 8:30AM-4:30PM TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TAU Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBA Pedagogical Approach to Clickers in the Classroom Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBB A Day in the Life of a Language Assessor Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBC Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBD TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBE Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBH Online Resources for TESL Thursday 10:00AM-11:30AM TPC Achieving Success with ESL Software Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPF Humour and ESL: Building a Humour Module Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPJ You're Hired...Now What? Memory and Classroom Application Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPL Mind Your Manners…Please… Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPM Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPO Enhancing Assessment and Building Communities of Practice: Priority Projects at CIC Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPS Impact of ‘Mission Creep’ Using Mixed Methods Methodology Thursday 2:30PM-3:30PM TPU Why Doncha Juspea Kinglish Thursday 2:30PM-4:30PM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQD The CAEL Assessment and the Canadian Language Benchmarks: A concordance study Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQE Games in the Classroom Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM FAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAB Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAC What Do Soft Skills Have To Do With Language? Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a Thousand Hills Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAI Laughter Yoga Ice Breaking in ESL Classroom Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAK Cultural Implications of EFL Textbooks: Teaching for Equality Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAO Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop Friday 8:30AM-4:30PM FAT International Academic Credential Recognition in Canada: Innovative Online Tools Friday 10:00AM-11:30AM FAW Digital Word Power Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM


FAZ Culture Shock - Strategies to Recognize & Overcome It Friday 10:00AM-11:30AM FBE Solving Two Big Challenges for TESL Students Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBI Vocabulary Acquisition and Dictionary Use Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBJ TESL Ontario Accreditation Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBL Literacy and Essential Skills Tools Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FPA Interactive ESL Tasks For Your Students’ Mobile Devices Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPD Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPE Publishing ESL Materials Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPK Online Resources for TESL Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPL What’s New at the CCLB? Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPN Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPP Reducing Learners’ Language Anxiety: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPR Introduction to TESL Canada’s Teacher Resource Centre Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPV Computers In ESL: Tools/Approaches You Can Use Today Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPW Increasing Motivation Through Incorporating Coaching In The Classroom Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQE Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQF Crucial Lessons Learned In Corporate ESL Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAJ Using Choral Repitition to Enhance Memory of Language Chunks Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAK Two Sheets and a Rubber Band – Classroom Exercises Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAN Increasing Post-Secondary Preparedness Using the Academic Word List Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAQ TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training Saturday 10:00AM-11:30AM SAT How Pronunciation Works: What Every Teacher Should Know Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SBA Utilizing Social Networking & Other Internet Sites in TESL Saturday 11:30AM-1:00PM SBB Culture in the ESL Classroom: A Collaborative Approach Saturday 11:30AM-12:30PM SBE Teaching Intonation Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SPA Integrated Solution: HARTs - History of Assessments, Referrals, Training System Saturday 1:00PM-2:30PM SPB Are we multicultural? Teacher training for cultural diversity! Saturday 1:00PM-2:00PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPM A More Collaborative Approach to Serving Immigrant Professionals - Let's Talk Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPR Cohesion in Writing and the Role of Culture Saturday 2:30PM-3:30PM SECONDARY TAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAB Going Online with Azar Grammar! Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Thursday 8:30AM-11:00AM TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Thursday 8:30AM-9:30AM TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TAW Towards Standardization: Developing Exit Tests for All Levels Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBA Pedagogical Approach to Clickers in the Classroom Thursday 10:00AM-11:00AM TBH Online Resources for TESL Thursday 10:00AM-11:30AM TPB Technology Tools that Support Vocabulary Instruction Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPC Achieving Success with ESL Software Thursday 1:00PM-2:00PM TPM Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Thursday 1:00PM-2:30PM TPQ Ideas and Materials for a Fun Environment Unit Thursday 2:30PM-4:00PM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQE Games in the Classroom Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM FAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM


FAF Top 10 TOEFL Tips (You’ve Never Heard Of) Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a Thousand Hills Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAK Cultural Implications of EFL Textbooks: Teaching for Equality Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAN Improving Communication and Comprehension with Have Your Say Friday 8:30AM-9:30AM FAV Literature Circles: Read, Think, Discuss, Collaborate Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FAW Digital Word Power Friday 10:00AM-11:00AM FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM FBE Solving Two Big Challenges for TESL Students Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FBH The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! Friday 11:30AM-1:30PM FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM FPA Interactive ESL Tasks For Your Students’ Mobile Devices Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPE Publishing ESL Materials Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPH Maximizing the Team in Team Presentations Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM FPK Online Resources for TESL Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPP Reducing Learners’ Language Anxiety: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPS Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! Friday 2:30PM-4:00PM FPT Games To Liven Up The Grammar Lesson Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio Friday 2:30PM-3:30PM FPV Computers In ESL: Tools/Approaches You Can Use Today Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQB “What’s that word…?”: Strategic Oral Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM FQE Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! Friday 4:00PM-5:30PM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAB The Oxford Picture Dictionary: A Multi-Level Program Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAE Picture That! Great Writing Prompts for Students Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAI Dictionary Activities for the ESL Classroom Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAJ Using Choral Repitition to Enhance Memory of Language Chunks Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAK Two Sheets and a Rubber Band – Classroom Exercises Saturday 8:30AM-9:30AM SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAV Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist Saturday 10:00AM-12:00PM SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation Saturday 10:00AM-11:00AM SBE Teaching Intonation Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People Saturday 11:30AM-1:30PM SPB Are we multicultural? Teacher training for cultural diversity! Saturday 1:00PM-2:00PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPF Hit the Ground Running: Tips for New Teachers Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPI ESL Play Day Activities for Enrichment and Review Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPJ Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPK Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM SPL The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM


Thursday Presentation Descriptions

8:30AM-9:30AM TAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules (This session is repeated on Friday morning) Vincent Halford - Interactive JobPrep Real-time feedback on responses to open-ended questions promotes independent reading and writing. See how an e-learning platform lets you create modules that guide the learner towards more complete answers with question-specific hints and error-specific prompts. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TAB Going Online with Azar Grammar! David Coombes – Pearson Longman Azar grammar is the most successful grammar series in the world. This workshop will show teachers and students how easy it is to go online with this much loved series. Teachers will learn how to set up a class, organize the syllabus according to their own objectives, view students’ grades and track students’ progress. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Administrators, Teachers with Experience TAD Development Of A Standardized CLB Based Milestone Test Jennifer McKay - CCLB Gail Stewart - Assessment Consulting Services TBA - CIC The Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks is developing a CLB milestone test for Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The test is intended to pinpoint achievement at several key milestones of language proficiency. The presentation will outline the purpose of the test, as well as the process of development, piloting and validation.

Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants TAE Key Factors in ESL College Student Success Dmitri Priven, Bernice Klassen and Doris Kelly - Algonguin College Presentation of the results of a survey on ESL students needs in post-secondary programs at Algonquin College. Interactive discussion of the college system-wide curricular implications, which may address such topics as oral communication, reading, writing, evaluation and placement, management of Communications courses and programs, and professional development of faculty. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Administrators, Researchers, Teachers with

Experience TAF Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Building on Teacher Expertise (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Joanne Pettis - Citizenship and Immigration/Manitoba Labour & Immigration Participants in this introduction to Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA) will hear about the training, resources and supports that make up CIC’s PBLA Implementation Plan, learn about the Ottawa field test, view and discuss various PBLA tools, resources and sample portfolios. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants


TAI Embedding Essential Skills in Adult EAL Clea Schmidt - University of Manitoba Dayna Graham - Winnipeg School Division Adult EAL Program Attendees will learn about the impact of an initiative to embed Essential Skills in Adult EAL classes from both a researcher’s and a teacher’s perspective. In particular, teachers’ and learners’ voices will be represented through interview excerpts. The implications for classroom practices will be discussed among presenters and the audience. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants TAJ Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation (This session is repeated on Saturday morning) Danny Tan and Johanathan Woodworth - York University English Language Institute This presentation is to help instructors Teach Integrated Pronunciation Strategies (TIPS) which will help learners develop their perception and production skills. This workshop will include interactive activities to stimulate skills management and scaffolding. Altogether, the workshop will focus on the development of learners' segmentals within suprasegmentals. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers without Experience TAK English Pronunciation for Chinese Speakers Linan Shi - The Cross-cultural Community Services Association Shasha Shi - TCCSA Scarborough Centre The presenter will let the audience know that the best way and the newest way to learn the English pronunciation. The audience will read this book (This book was published in April, 2010). Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with Experience

TAL Citizenship Resource – A Classroom Resource For Teaching Citizenship Topics To Adult ESL Learners CLB 1-8 (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Margaret Stasiak - TCDSB Carol Olson - TDSB Citizenship Resource is a new classroom resource for teaching citizenship topics to adult ESL learners CLB 1-8, based on Discover Canada, the citizenship study guide. The presenters will demonstrate major components of the resource including a framework for lesson planning and sample reproducible activities with audio material. They will discuss strategies and ideas for teaching topics such as Canada’s geography, history, symbols, or citizenship rights and responsibilities. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants TAP A Support and Supervision Model for LINC/ESL Instructors Eileen Paulsen, Sharon Rajabi and Joanne Hincks - Toronto Catholic District School Board The Support and Supervision Model document describes the existing support and supervision practices used by the Adult Education Program of the TCDSB. Its purpose is to ensure the credibility and accountability of the Adult Education Program and to enable the LINC/ESL instructors and the supervisiors to achieve the highest standards in providing consistent and quality educational programs. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Program Administration Audience: Administrators TAQ Success with English for Specific Academic Studies Tania Iveson - English Central The development of critical thinking and key academic skills through carefully-scaffolded activities and authentic texts is crucial to student success. This session shows how to help your EAP students succeed in their chosen field, with English for Specific Academic Study, an innovative series from Garnet Education and distributed by English Central. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


8:30AM-11:00AM TAG Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Ron Lavoie - OCISO/Ottawa After experiencing the classic intercultural simulation, Barnga, participants will discuss how simulations can enrich the ESL classroom and exchange ideas about simulations in ESL. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants TAN The CLARS Initiative – An Update and Look Ahead Lyle Makosky – Consultant Sheila McMullin – CIC Mourad Mardikian - MCI The model and approach for a new Coordinated Language Assessment and Referral System (CLARS) has been in development by the CLARS Advisory Committee for a year, providing advice to CIC and MCI. We will provide: an update on progress to date; how the key challenges and feedback to date are being addressed; an outline of the pilots to be started this fall; and a broad look ahead at the plan and general timetable for the phased implementation. Comments and suggestions will be welcome. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Audience: All Participants

8:30AM-4:30PM TAR Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop (This session is repeated on Friday) Herman De Souza - Equity 2000 This full day workshop focuses on exploring the participant’s own value systems and cultural experiences. This perspective will serve as the starting point for delving into issues in cross cultural communication, participants’ cultural values and beliefs, and the impact that they have on their students’ learning experiences. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Administrators, Teachers with/without

Experience

10:00AM-11:00AM TAS PLENARY: Dr. Ken Beatty Breaking Barriers to CALL in the Classroom Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has been in use in the classroom in one form or another since the 1950s. During this time, a dominant model for its use in teaching and learning has failed to emerge. This is partly because of the lack of a research agenda that could identify measurable gains in learning based on empirical evidence; we simply have not found the perfect way or ways to learn language with computers and integrate it with classroom teaching and learning practices. Instead, a series of approaches, based on disparate technologies and software, have been introduced, often dependent on the interest and dedication of the individual teacher. Beyond these problems, there is a wide range of reasons why CALL has not been more widely adopted, including: • teachers’ reluctance to adopt new approaches,

particularly considering the cognitive overhead of learning new (and frequently undependable) hardware and software

• a lack of support at the administrative level, both in training and funding; funding is often provided for hardware without commitment to maintenance or software upgrades

• evolving and incompatible platforms for CALL, from various generations of desktop and laptop computers to personal digital assistants, mobile telephones, iPods and iPads and web-based applications

The focus of this talk is identifying and examining some of these barriers and imagining how they can be addressed to make better use of computers in the classroom for language teaching and learning. Approaches include: • making teachers more aware of a spectrum of CALL

solutions to problems in teaching and learning • identifying ways in which the computer can be used

both as a teacher and a tool • tailoring CALL to locally-relevant materials that

appeal to teachers and learners • building an awareness of what is already available

from textbook publishers as peripheral teaching and learning materials

• working with software publishers in feedback loops to create improved materials, making them aware of holes in the curriculum and any shortcomings in materials

• involving teachers and learners in research • using Web 2.0 to break down barriers between

producers and consumers This presentation addresses these issues and suggests ways in which CALL in the classroom can be more effective and efficient for both teachers and learners.


TAT Can Virtual Language Tutors Teach ESL Grammar? Faith Marcel - Niagara College This presentation will explore three types of virtual language tutors (VLTs) and examples of each will be provided. Pedagogical applications of VLTs in a Communicative Language Teaching-based grammar class will be discussed, and we will examine some effective uses for the ESL classroom based on research in this area. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TAU Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) (This session is repeated on Friday morning) Jim Edgar, Kevin O'Brien, Robert McBride, John Allan, Matthias Sturm and Kathleen Johnson - New Media Language Training Inc. This presentation introduces ROLLR.ca, the new LINC Ontario learning object and digital resource repository, which complements the learnIT2teach project. The presentation gives an overview of this site. It highlights its benefits to the LINC/ESL/ELT community and demonstrates its features, e.g. searching and browsing for resources, viewing learning objects, downloading, uploading, giving feedback on resources, and community-building capabilities. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TAW Towards Standardization: Developing Exit Tests for All Levels Huan Zhou - York University English Language Institute This presentation will demonstrate how to apply the principles of language testing to developing exit tests in an intensive EAP Program to ensure that uniform standards are applied when promoting students to the next level. Caveats will also be given about using exit tests in the effort of standardization. Category: Presentation Level: College/University, Secondary Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants

TAX Library Volunteerism: Learn How to Create a Student Lending Library Maureen O'Reilly - Durham District School Board: Durham Continuing Education Learn how to build a student library, run by student volunteers with little space and a small budget! The presenter will demonstrate how students can run a library. The whole language program benefits from weekly library visits and the student librarians learn new skills and feel an integral part of the school! Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Audience: All Participants TAZ Canadian Language Basics Level 2 Oxford Picture Dictionary Companion Lucy Sanford and Heather Davis - Durham District School Board Tired of spending hours searching through books to find ideas? Tired of writing your own material to fit a theme? Love the Oxford Picture Dictionary? Following the CLBs, the new Canadian Language Basics introduces vocabulary, conversation, spelling, pronunciation, reading, writing and listening activities, unit tests and games on task-based themes. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience TBA Pedagogical Approach to Clickers in the Classroom Kate Nicoll and Patrick Abram - Turning Technologies Student Response System - Change your lecture and student interaction forever with Turning Technologies industry leading software, TurningPoint! Complete PowerPoint integration and simple “point and click” functionality allow instructors to transform traditional PowerPoint presentations into active learning and student assessment tools. Students submit real-time responses using ResponseCards, laptops or PDAs. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Elementary, ELT/SLT,

Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants


TBB A Day in the Life of a Language Assessor Erin O'Neil - YMCA of Greater Toronto Lorraine Hudson Participants will receive an overview of the assessment tools currently in use at the YMCA of Greater Toronto; they will gain insight into the daily work of assessors implementing these tools; and they will have the opportunity to ask questions about the assessment tools and the referral process. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: Administrators, Teachers with/without

Experience

TBC Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication (This session is repeated on Friday afternoon) James McMullan and Lillian Mak Intermediate ESL learners commonly use expressions indicating total non-comprehension (e.g. Sorry, what did you say? Could you repeat that?) even when they understand most of the message in question. In this workshop, participant groups will identify, practice and develop strategies to maintain more effective communication by indicating focused non-comprehension. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience TBD TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Carolyn Cohen, Antonella Valeo, Anouchka Plumb Colette Peters and Sheila Dermer Applebaum - TESL Ontario Post Certificate Training Project Participants will learn about TESL Ontario's new Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training. Presenters will describe how the framework was developed based on research findings and stakeholder feedback. Participants will discuss key elements of the framework and how it can provide them with additional qualifications as LINC and ESL instructors. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teacher Training Audience: All Participants

TBE Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities (This session is repeated on Friday afternoon) Joan Bartel - Humber College Surveys on daily life and business practices reflect current cultural trends and are a great source of class activities. Sources of useful Canadian information are suggested and sample activities involving language and critical thinking skills are demonstrated. Activity topics are: Halloween customs, punctuality at work and personal appearance. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience TBF Bridges for Rural Immigrants: Inspiring Voices through Video Conferencing Hana Taleb Imai and Diane Hardy - Bow Valley College Come and hear about an innovative approach to ESL delivery. Bridges for Rural Immigrants is a provincially funded project with the goal of increasing access for rural Albertan ELLs to language classes. The presenters will give an overview of the project, discuss lessons learned and share ideas for urban rural partnerships. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants

10:00AM-11:30AM TBH Online Resources for TESL (This session is repeated on Friday afternoon) Rachel Fourny - Upper Canada District School Board Discover the wealth of resources available on the internet, ranging from forms to grammar activities. Preview some of the resources and receive a categorized list of resources you can use in your classroom, as well as sample lesson plans. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Materials Audience: All Participants

11:30AM-12:30PM AGM Annual General Meeting


1:00PM-2:00PM TPC Achieving Success with ESL Software Samuel Sheinberg - NAS Software Inc. The workshop will be used to introduce software and focus on using new technology to help teachers incorporate ESL, EAP and career related software programs along with Pronunciation software into their lessons. The software programs can be used independently, in classroom or lab settings and are available online. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TPE CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update (This session is repeated on Saturday morning) Marianne Kayed - CCLB This workshop will provide an update on recent research in the area of occupational benchmarking and applications of the data. Recent benchmarking of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and additional Occupational Language Analyses which provide information for the development of curriculum, assessments, and skills identification for bridging programs and workplace training. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants TPG Lights! Camera! English! Margaret Holec - WWWWIW/MCC Take ESL teaching to another level by involving the students with fun filled activities and ideas. How to incorporate multiple aspects of language, theatre and read-a-thon into a meaningful block of ESL lessons. This presentation will showcase the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach to language acquisition Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

TPO Enhancing Assessment and Building Communities of Practice: Priority Projects at CIC Yves Saint-Germain - Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC will provide an overview of the Department’s ongoing efforts to introduce new tools for progress and outcomes assessment, as well as a collaborative project with provincial governments to create a single national repository of language training resources, including social media applications to facilitate exchanges among practitioners. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants TPP Integrating Research into ESL Teaching: The CIEL Method Dana Di Pardo Leon-Henri - University of Paris IV - La Sorbonne France The aim of this presentation is to illustrate how research can easily be integrated into ESL (or any other second language) teaching with the objective of improving individual student proficiency levels. Participants will learn about an innovative, standardized, diagnostic evaluation method designed to detail language proficiency skills, as well as underscore problem areas. Category: Presentation Level: College/University Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants POSTER Declines and Strengths of Older Learners: Classroom Implications Joan Brodie This poster presentation will cover what cognitive declines older learners may experience as well AS age effects that can occur in their first language that may impact learning a second. Next, strengths that may emerge during the lifespan will be considered. Finally, optimal classroom approaches and tasks will be discussed. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.


POSTER Getting on Track Shirley Hill - Thames Valley District School Board Teaching ESL involves a two way process involving the learner and the instructor. This poster will feature a practical approach, for involving the learner and tracking learner progress, using the Canadian Language Benchmarks related framework. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Opening New Worlds Through Pleasure Reading Anne MacGregor-O'Neill - Toronto Catholic District School Board Build a library and they will come….. Through photos, letters, newspaper articles and art work you will see how a small ESL lending library was established in 2003 and how it has grown to be an integral part of the centre and the students’ lives. On display you will see the weekly book report templates, examples of special library events and the support material created to help students participate in the monthly book club. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Personalized Vocabulary Testing in Large Classroom Settings Daragh Hayes - Fanshawe College This poster will outline an individualized vocabulary study and testing model applicable for use in large heterogeneous classroom settings. When used in conjunction with vocabulary journals, this testing model will enable learners to tailor their vocabulary study according to their individual interests and foster greater responsibility for their own learning. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Culturemania: Building Student Ability With Games About Culture Frank Maringola Attendees will observe realia in the form of a board game. They will see the game, dice and game props. They will listen and observe modeling of the game. They are welcome to practice playing and finally teaching it to assess their ability. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.

POSTER The Great Divide: The Literacies Of Mennonite Children Wendy Crocker - UWO My poster presents the dichotomy that exists between what conservative colony Mennonite children experience as literacy in public school classrooms as opposed to their “out of school” literacy practices. Using a sociocultural /multiliteracies perspective, this work considers how Mennonite children as a “minoritized culture” (McCarty, 2002) mediate this contested space. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.

1:00PM-2:30PM TPB Technology Tools that Support Vocabulary Instruction Janet Ragan - Bridges Canada Technology tools are currently used in educational settings to support the instruction of new vocabulary. In this presentation we will create a topic dictionary in Kurzweil 3000. This vocabulary will be used in a model lesson which will demonstrate teaching strategies using text to speech, visual strategies, and word prediction. This presentation will look at how technology tools commonly found in schools -- Co:Writer, Smart Ideas, Kurzweil 3000 -- can support the instruction of new vocabulary. Drawing on real classroom examples we will model a lesson using visual strategies, word prediction, topic dictionaries, text to speech and word lists. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TPF Humour and ESL: Building a Humour Module Marilyn (Peg) Deaton - TESL Kingston Exec., Keys-Kingston, Volunteer Want to become a humour expert? Learn the eight types of British humour and how to classify them. Learn about your own humour style, funny movies, books, magazines and the best comedians. Build a module for your students; come and tell jokes! Participation is encouraged, and handouts provided. Practical jokers, please desist! Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants, Teachers with/without

Experience


TPH Emergency Situation Lesson Plans for the Understanding of “Threats to School and Fire Safety Procedures” Julia Chemali - TCDSB This presentation introduces lesson plans that were designed by TCDSB Adult Education program to provide orientation and language training for learners regarding the different types of emergencies that could occur in ESL Centres/Schools, and action that needs to be taken when an emergency response procedure is initiated. Participants will understand the rational behind creating those lesson plans, what information they were based on, and what CLB competencies they target. They will also have the chance to participate in activities that are designed around the topics, competencies and tasks for a better understanding of the lessons. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants TPJ You're Hired...Now What? Memory and Classroom Application Beverley Payne and Terry Webb - Thames Valley District School Board This workshop will feature some of the brain based learning theory about memory that was employed to create the exercises in the "You're Hired...Now What?" workbook published by Oxford Press. Relevant considerations for optimizing classroom application and learning will also be presented. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore, discuss and apply theory to the challenges of workplace learning. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants TPK I Can't Believe I Learned Grammar! Andrew Taylor - Newcomer Centre of Peel This workshop focuses on teaching and learning grammar communicatively while engaging in various communicative grammar activities that are natural, dynamic, practical, interesting, and effective. There is absolutely no writing - just speaking. Using these authentic and highly interactive ideas in your classroom will make your students exclaim, "I can't believe I learned grammar!". Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

TPL Mind Your Manners…Please… Melissa Pedersen and Peter Cory - The Centre Skills Development & Training HDSB For Canada to achieve the economic, social and cultural benefits of immigration, newcomers must successfully integrate into Canadian society. As part of this process, it is important that newcomers recognize, understand, learn, and adapt to social and workplace etiquette in Canada. This interactive workshop will provide tips and strategies for classroom instruction in terms of social norms and values underlying various behaviours, manners, and attitudes considered appropriate in Canadian society and the Canadian workplace. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience TPM Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! (This session is repeated on Friday afternoon) Kate Cushing - The Centre for Skills Development & Training I will show you how to use strips of paper and Who What Where When Why/How to teach students simple sentence structure, and then how to expand each of these segments to turn simple sentences into adult sentences. I have used this technique effectively with students from Beginner to Advanced. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants TPN My Own Little Dictionary & 10 Vocabulary Games (This session is repeated on Friday morning) Navpreet Arora - Muslim Community Services / PHE TESL affiliate The workshop will provide fantastic ideas for making vocabulary learning effective, easy and fun filled with zero prep time for teachers. Participants will do some hands on activities (handouts for 15 games provided) and will receive ready to use photocopiable dictionary pages separately created for each level( Literacy - intermediate). Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


1:00PM-3:00PM TPA LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) (This session is repeated on Friday / Saturday morning) Jim Edgar, Kevin O'Brien, Robert McBride, John Allan and Kathleen Johnson - New Media Language Training Inc. This workshop introduces online resources and professional development opportunities available to the LINC community through the learnIT2teach.ca project. This session is the first of four stages of training. After completing this and the second stage, which is delivered online, LINC instructors will be able to use the LINC courseware on edlinc.ca. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TPI Interactive Environmental Learning Enhancing ESL Vocabulary And Curricula Shintu Cherian - Toronto and Region Conservation Authority This workshop will demonstrate how to incorporate hands-on environmental learning into adult ESL/LINC curricula. Besides enhancing the ESL vocabulary, these sessions are designed to create awareness about environmental issues that affect our daily lives and choices. Teachers will receive a comprehensive package of vocabulary, lesson plans, activities and reference materials. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

1:00PM-4:00PM TPD RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CLASSROOM TEACHING Teaching As Listening Barbara Graves – University of Ottawa The Significance Of Investing In Sociocultural Approaches For Language Learning And Policy In A Globalized World Julie Byrd Clark - University of Western Ontario

Identity, Language Learning, and Sociocultural Theory Bonny Norton - University of British Columbia

SEE PAGE 27 FOR DETAILED INFORMATION

2:30PM-3:30PM TPR Pre-service Education: Preparing All Teachers for English-Language Learners Nina Lee - Ryerson University - School of Early Childhood Education With escalating immigration trends, English language learners are a common demographic in Southwestern Ontario’s classrooms. This influx pressures classroom teachers who encounter barriers and inadequate training for linguistically diverse needs. A qualitative [ethnographic case study] that explores teacher preparation practices and teaching competence through the perspectives of six pre-service teachers Category: Paper Level: College/University Focus: Certification Audience: Administrators, Researchers, Teachers

without Experience TPS Impact of ‘Mission Creep’ Using Mixed Methods Methodology Anne Mullen - Laval University The methodological choice to employ qualitative and quantitative methods within one study is still largely unexplored, but was utilized in this study investigating test impact. Particularly, the impact on stakeholders arising from ‘mission creep’ i.e. when test use deviates from its original design parameters. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants


2:30PM-4:00PM TPQ Ideas and Materials for a Fun Environment Unit Nancy Callan - Vancouver Formosa Academy From garage sales to recycling, this workshop will suggest a structure for an environment unit and demonstrate some fun, cooperative learning activities. Participants will have time to brainstorm other activities suited to their level. Lots of free materials will be shared. Suitable for teachers of benchmarks 1-4. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience

2:30PM-4:30PM TPT Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies (This session is repeated on Saturday morning) Marijke Wertheim - School of Continuing Studies/UT, Woodsworth College/UT This workshop is designed to provide new or experienced teachers with the opportunity to develop materials for introducing listening strategies to their students (minimum level: low intermediate). A brief overview of the rationale for strategy training and the available listening strategies will precede the hands-on activities. Participants should be prepared to work in small groups according to student level and context. This workshop complements the Teaching Listening Strategies presentation given at previous conferences, but attendance at the previous session is not a prerequisite. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience TPU Why Doncha Juspea Kinglish Judy Thompson - Thompson Language Center Speaking isn’t writing said out loud. Venture into the world of the ESL learner and experience how English occurs for them. The presentation includes practical tips to bridge the gap between the language taught in school and the language students meet in the real world. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants

4:00PM-5:00PM TPV Create Online Activities for Your Students Samuel Sheinberg – NAS Software Inc. In this hands-on workshop we will be using the Author Plus online tool to develop new exercises and activities. As well as learning to use this tool, this session will provide teachers with the opportunity to create units and exercises to use with their students. Participants will learn to incorporate video clips, sound files and picture into the exercises. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TPW Teaching Using a Computer and a Projector Carolyn Flores - The Centre for Skills Development and Training Do you have access to a computer and projector? Then learn how to use them in your everyday teaching. See how lessons can be more interactive, effective and efficient. If you have access to the internet, you can have even more fun. It’s an easy and practical way to teach! Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants TPY Rubrics and Feedback in a Diverse Classroom Jessica King - York University This presentation will discuss the results of a research project on teacher perceptions of rubrics and feedback in a large college writing classroom containing both native and non-native speakers of English. Attendees will also hear about current research in rubric use and feedback for ESL writers. Category: Paper Level: College/University Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: Teachers with/without Experience


TPZ What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? (This session is repeated on Friday morning) Fozia Jamal - College of the North Atlantic-Qatar Great instructional skills are essential, but what really makes teaching ‘collaborative’ and students eager to achieve without resistance? This workshop will explore and discuss your ideas on what makes an effective teacher, then hear students’ opinions, and finally practice communication to build strong rapport in the teacher-student relationship. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Thursday 4:00PM-5:00PM Michael Simpson – CCLCS (Toronto) An introduction to tools and sites like WordPress and YouTube. Learn how to create your own site and materials and how to take advantage of Web 2.0 tools for text, photos, discussion and collaboration (rss feeds, posts, comments), and multimedia (audio, video, podcasts). Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom Audience: All Participants TQC The Revisions to the Canadian Language Benchmarks (This session is repeated on Friday morning) Carmen Chaman - Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks Following the National Consultation on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB), the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks was funded to carry out revisions to the CLB. This workshop will provide participants with an update on the revisions. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants

TQD The CAEL Assessment and the Canadian Language Benchmarks: A concordance study Wendy Fraser - Carleton University This presentation reports the findings of a study designed to define a concordance between the band scores of the CAEL Assessment, a standardized academic English proficiency test, and the Canadian Language Benchmarks, by first equating CAEL and CLB Exit tasks, and then using CLB rubrics to rate CAEL task performances. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants TQE Games in the Classroom Rachel Fourny - Upper Canada District School Board Should games be used in the ESL classroom? Can games be used in the ESL classroom? The answer is yes. Games can be used in the classroom to teach everything from literacy and numeracy to vocabulary and grammar as well as providing conversation practice. Discover how games can become an integral part of the ESL classroom. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning TQF Learning for LIFE: Tools for ESL Literacy Instruction Diane Hardy and Hana Taleb Imai - Bow Valley College Learners with Interrupted Formal Education are a unique group, with diverse needs. Bow Valley College, in Calgary, has invested nine years researching promising practices and developing materials to address learners’ needs. Come and learn about the new resources that are we are developing, including a website, a financial ESL literacy toolbox, and ESL literacy reading materials. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


TQG TESL Association Health & Dental Benefit Plan Michael Owen and Alex Kalotinis An overview of the TESL Association benefits offered; Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Disability Insurance, Travel Insurance, Out of Country / Province Health and Dental Insurance, etc. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Insurance Audience: All Participants TQH Who Is NOBODY?: A Program Celebrating EVERYBODY’s Strengths Kelly Clark and Alex Seymour - Who Is Nobody? Who Is NOBODY? is a flexible program that engages participants in learning English by building on EVERYBODY’s personal interests and abilities. Each English language learner exercises reading, writing, oral communication and media literacy by documenting, sharing and celebrating their strengths. This reusable program is easy to implement and self-tailors to every age and ability. www.whoisnobody. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: Elementary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

SPECIAL EVENTS

Plenary Presentations

Ken Beatty Breaking Barriers to CALL in the Classroom

Thursday, 10:00-11:00 am

Bonny Norton Identity and Digital Literacy Across Time and

Space Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm

Ron Carter

What is Fluency? From Corpus to Classroom Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am

Research Symposium

Sociocultural Theory and Its Relevance to

Classroom Teaching Thursday, 1:00-4:00 pm

How Research Informs Language Learning

and Classroom Management Friday, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

The Influence of Research and Second

Language Acquisition Theory on Teaching and Teaching Materials

Friday, 2:30-5:30 pm

Annual General Meeting Thursday, 11:30 am-12:30 pm

President’s Reception Thursday, 5:00-6:30 pm

Fifth Annual Panel Discussion

Friday, 9:30-11:45 am

Friday Night Dinner and Entertainment Friday, 6:00-9:00 pm


Friday Presentation Descriptions

8:30AM-9:30AM FAA Elicit Reactions to a Text In Online Modules (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Vincent Halford - Interactive JobPrep Real-time feedback on responses to open-ended questions promotes independent reading and writing. See how an e-learning platform lets you create modules that guide the learner towards more complete answers with question-specific hints and error-specific prompts. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants FAB Introducing ROLLR.ca (Repository of Online Language Learning Resources) (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Jim Edgar, Kevin O'Brien, Robert McBride, John Allan, Matthias Sturm and Kathleen Johnson - New Media Language Training Inc. This presentation introduces ROLLR.ca, the new LINC Ontario learning object and digital resource repository, which complements the learnIT2teach project. The presentation gives an overview of this site. It highlights its benefits to the LINC/ESL/ELT community and demonstrates its features, e.g. searching and browsing for resources, viewing learning objects, downloading, uploading, giving feedback on resources, and community-building capabilities. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants

FAC What Do Soft Skills Have To Do With Language? Tuula Lindholm - Algonquin College The 60-minute presentation will focus on background research and the design of Occupation Specific Language (OSL) curriculum in career bridging programs that target Internationally Educated Professionals (IEP). Using examples from her own curriculum and tasks, the presentation will show that it is absolutely necessary to combine soft skills with language learning at the higher levels of ESL/OSL teaching. Employers who hire IEP often identify gaps between what newcomers have learned in career bridging/ language training and the communicative competencies employers expect them to have. Category: Presentation Level: ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Administrators, Researchers, Teachers with

Experience FAD Thank You for Speaking English! Andrew Taylor - Newcomer Centre of Peel Thank you for speaking English is a highly interactive and very dynamic workshop designed to provide the teachers with some innovative ideas and techniques that they can utilize as a tool in teaching listening/speaking in the lower levels and at the same time promote camaradie and sense of comfort in an ESL/LINC classroom. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


FAE What? My Teacher’s a Human Being Too? (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon) Fozia Jamal - College of the North Atlantic-Qatar Great instructional skills are essential, but what really makes teaching ‘collaborative’ and students eager to achieve without resistance? This workshop will explore and discuss your ideas on what makes an effective teacher, then hear students’ opinions, and finally practice communication to build strong rapport in the teacher-student relationship. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FAF Top 10 TOEFL Tips (You’ve Never Heard Of) Doug Ronson - ETS Canada Ensure that your students succeed on the TOEFL test. You’ve heard tips about grammar and vocabulary – now find out how you can really help your students. This will be a hands-on session with the presenter discussing examples of student work from the TOEFL test and how test-takers could improve to get better scores. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants FAG ESL in Rwanda: The Collaborative Process of Embracing English in the Land of a Thousand Hills Kim Cechetto - Fanshawe College Kim Cechetto spent a sabbatical year in Rwanda (2009-2010) working with the Ministry of Education and the National University of Rwanda on several different ESL initiatives: teacher training, materials development, and course design. This presentation describes the challenges and rewards encountered, and lessons learned, as she collaborated with colleagues from Rwanda and other countries to meet the government's ambitious 2012 deadline for English to become the medium of instruction for all education. There will be opportunity during this session for active engagement of participants through questions, discussion, and case studies. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Audience: All Participants

FAH Lessons We Learned: GBC/GLIT Partnership in Guilin, China Brigid Kelso, Maria Glass and Jessica Brenders - GBC/GLIT Project Attendees will learn strategies that were used to teach monolingual, multi-level groups during a 6-week intensive English program in Guilin, China, to prepare Chinese students for core courses in GBC's Hospitality Program. They will also learn strategies for getting Chinese students to speak while remaining sensitive to their culture. Category: Presentation Level: College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FAI Laughter Yoga Ice Breaking in ESL Classroom Pankaj Sachdeva - Dufferin Peel Catholic Board Ravi Handa – India Rainbow Community Services The workshop will highlight Laughter Yoga as an ice breaker in the first introductory ESL class The presenters would demonstrate different exercises and activities with active participation of attendees. The major components of Laughter Yoga - clapping, childlike playfulness, breathing and stretches could be used during the first class to make learners feel at ease with each other in a multicultural environment. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FAJ Using Short Stories to Develop Critical ESL Reading Shaheen Meraj - PHE The presenter after sharing how to evaluate the pedagogical potential of a short story demonstrates how a two-level short story-based Reading model which she has developed can be used to develop critical ESL reading and thinking skills , raise cross cultural awareness ,activate and further build ESL learners’ schematic knowledge. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


FAK Cultural Implications of EFL Textbooks: Teaching for Equality Heejin Song - OISE/UT This presentation uses critical discourse analysis to explore biases in EFL textbooks. The discussion that follows focuses on how such textbooks can be used in ELT classrooms. The implications of this study emphasize the need for ELT professionals to develop critical linguistic and cultural awareness. Category: Paper Level: Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FAL Innovation in today’s Adult Classes with Ventures Rob Edelmann – Cambridge University Press Teaching adult newcomers often means teaching multi-level, continuous intake classes, missed classes, finding engaging, and relevant content consistent with CLBs, while still controlling your prep time. Come explore how Ventures helps you and your Adult/LINC students succeed. New components of this comprehensive, five-level series address the complexities of the classroom while increasing flexibility and support. This innovative program is taking Canadian classrooms by storm. Fresh ideas for Teachers and Administrators. http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/venturesadulted/ Category: Publisher’s Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FAN Improving Communication and Comprehension with Have Your Say Irene McKay - George Brown College Do your intermediate and advanced students need more speaking and listening practice? The presenter demonstrates features of the second edition of Have Your Say. Have fun exploring the high interest topics, the communication strategies, vocabulary and pronunciation activities which encourage interaction and promote fluency and language learning. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

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FAM Using Models to Develop Competent Writers Kaleigh Quinn – The University of Winnipeg Using a formulaic modeling procedure, this presentation will introduce strategies to help instructors facilitate the development of students' writing skills throughout a range of English competency levels. Three writing tasks – for learners at low, intermediate, and high levels – will be used to demonstrate the progression and use of this in-class modeling procedure. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: Teachers with/without Experience

8:30AM-4:30PM FAO Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence: A Cross Cultural Sensitivity Workshop (This session is repeated on Thursday) Herman De Souza - Equity 2000 This full day workshop focuses on exploring the participant’s own value systems and cultural experiences. This perspective will serve as the starting point for delving into issues in cross cultural communication, participants’ cultural values and beliefs, and the impact that they have on their students’ learning experiences. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Administrators, Teachers with/without

Experience

9:30AM-11:45AM FAQ Panel Discussion TESL Ontario will be hosting our fifth annual Panel Discussion to be held at our 38th TESL Ontario Conference. The aim of this panel discussion is to identify current trends, updating of initiatives, sharing of recommendations, and it is designed to bring stakeholders together. The panel discussion presentations have proven to be very successful and continue to be fully booked each year. This year’s theme is The Future is Now: The New Era of Language Training.

The panel members represent the following Ministries: Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, and the Ministry of Education.


9:30AM-12:30PM FAP HOW RESEARCH INFORMS LANGUAGE LEARNING AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT Worthwhile Language Research with Computers Ken Beatty, Anaheim University Intersections among Research, Theory, Policy, and Classroom Practice in the Education of English Language Learners Jim Cummins, The University of Toronto Second Language Socialization for Language Learning and Classroom Management Jeremie Seror, University of Ottawa


10:00AM-11:00AM FAU Quick and Dirty Lesson Planning Greg Pedwell - The Centre for Skills Development and Training Does lesson planning feel like a chore? Do you have trouble integrating all four skills? Learn how to make stimulating, communicative and interactive lessons in 5 minutes! Free yourself from static resources, maximize student talk time and pack the classroom! Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FAV Literature Circles: Read, Think, Discuss, Collaborate Mary Anne Peters and Julianne Burgess - Mohawk College Literature Circles offer so much to all ESL learners: extensive reading, critical thinking, small group discussion, and learning group work skills. We will discuss the value of Literature Circles and strategies for success, drawing on theory and the experience of LINC 3-7 and LINC for Youth classes at Mohawk College. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience

FAW Digital Word Power Kimeiko Hotta Dover and Kosta Dimeropoulos - Seneca College English Language Learners are frequently overwhelmed by the volume of new words they encounter. Seneca College faculty will model several easy and effective vocabulary acquisition strategies and tools that teachers and students can draw upon to design customized approaches for their unique needs, preferences, and environments. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FBB LINC Volunteer Tutor Program Conrad Dippel - South Essex Community Council Jane Nicholls and Diane Ramanathan - ELTOC (English Language Tutoring for the Ottawa Community) Using trained volunteers, the LINC Volunteer Tutor Program in Leamington, Ontario provides one-on-one instruction tailored to the specific individual needs (pronunciation, academic English, classroom support, writing, etc.) of the ESL student. The presenter will share first-hand experience on how to set up and maintain such a program. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FBD English Through Film Adaptation Across Cultures Huan Zhou - York University English Language Institute This presentation demonstrates how to use Hollywood remakes of films from other cultures to practice language skills, develop critical thinking skills, and promote cultural awareness. The presenter will use the Japanese film "Shall We Dance?" and the Hollywood remake as examples to introduce exercises designed to achieve the purpose. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience


FBL Literacy and Essential Skills Tools Shareef Korah - HRSDC - Office of Literacy and Essential Skills The workshop will provide an overview of the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, the concept of Literacy and Essential skills and how they apply to the Canadian labour market, and the various tools OLES has developed for employers, learners and practitioners. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants

10:00AM-11:30AM FAT International Academic Credential Recognition in Canada: Innovative Online Tools Kevin Kamal - World Education Services (WES) The recognition of international academic credentials is key to access and integration of immigrants to Canada’s Labour market. This workshop will focus on the role academic evaluation services play in facilitating the recognition of international academic credentials. The session will introduce innovative self-directed online tools launched by World Education Services. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants FAX Sustainability & Literacy: Teach to Save Our Planet Khaled Islaih Our planet is undergoing unprecedented crisis at many level, above all environmental degradation. This presentation will focus on building sustainability literacy and skills within English language educators and learners to live and work meaningfully in today’s turbulent world. It will enable new ways of thinking among language professionals to enhance their teaching practices and turn their classrooms into a sustainable learning environment. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

FAZ Culture Shock - Strategies to Recognize & Overcome It Melissa Pedersen and Maria Brzeska - The Centre Skills Development & Training HDSB The presentation will define Culture Shock and its different stages, and look at practical ways to deal effectively with various aspects of culture shock in the classroom and the community. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Community/Equity Issues Audience: All Participants FBA My Own Little Dictionary & 10 Vocabulary Games (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon) Navpreet Arora - Muslim Community Services / PHE TESL affiliate The workshop will provide fantastic ideas for making vocabulary learning effective, easy and fun filled with zero prep time for teachers. Participants will do some hands on activities (handouts for 15 games provided) and will receive ready to use photocopiable dictionary pages separately created for each level( Literacy - intermediate). Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

10:00AM-12:00PM FAR LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon / Friday morning) Jim Edgar, Kevin O'Brien, Robert McBride, John Allan and Kathleen Johnson - New Media Language Training Inc. This workshop introduces online resources and professional development opportunities available to the LINC community through the learnIT2teach.ca project. This session is the first of four stages of training. After completing this and the second stage, which is delivered online, LINC instructors will be able to use the LINC courseware on edlinc.ca. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants


FAS Language Education at a Distance: LINC Home Study Subhadra Ramachandran, Elena Maggioand Igor Rosic - Centre for Education and Training LEAD (Language Education at a Distance) department of the Centre for Education and Training is the home of the LINC Home Study program in Ontario, as well as other language education programs for newcomers. This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of LEAD programs, website and resources available to students and teachers. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FAY The Literacy Project….a Work in Progress! Patricia Maya and Christy Ermers - Waterloo Catholic School Board Hands-on workshop presenting activities for literacy students. Learn ways to create your own materials based on research done exclusively for literacy students. Themes and activities for each with outcomes and objectives based on the CLB. Participants will take home ready-made activities as well as some created during the workshop. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience

11:30AM-12:30PM FBG The Revisions to the Canadian Language Benchmarks (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon) Carmen Chaman - Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks Following the National Consultation on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB), the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks was funded to carry out revisions to the CLB. This workshop will provide participants with an update on the revisions. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants

FBI Vocabulary Acquisition and Dictionary Use Rita Leithead - Pearson Longman Vocabulary Acquisition and Dictionary Use is a workshop that looks at the benefits of using dictionaries to assist students in learning vocabulary, and suggests ways a teacher can use dictionaries in a classroom setting. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FBK Talking Sticks Teaching Technique LoraLee Vince - Brock University Tatiana Young - Niagara College All teachers struggle with balancing the needs and the personalities of their students. Some students have a pick-me-hand-waving attitude, while others can barely make eye contact. The Talking Sticks Teaching Technique ensures that students have equal opportunities to participate in class regardless of their gender, cultural background, age, or personality. This presentation will give teachers the opportunity to learn, practice and develop this technique to meet the needs of their class. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants POSTER Declines and Strengths of Older Learners: Classroom Implications Joan Brodie This poster presentation will cover what cognitive declines older learners may experience as well AS age effects that can occur in their first language that may impact learning a second. Next, strengths that may emerge during the lifespan will be considered. Finally, optimal classroom approaches and tasks will be discussed. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.


POSTER Opening New Worlds Through Pleasure Reading Anne MacGregor-O'Neill - Toronto Catholic District School Board Build a library and they will come….. Through photos, letters, newspaper articles and art work you will see how a small ESL lending library was established in 2003 and how it has grown to be an integral part of the centre and the students’ lives. On display you will see the weekly book report templates, examples of special library events and the support material created to help students participate in the monthly book club. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Culturemania: Building Student Ability With Games About Culture Frank Maringola Attendees will observe realia in the form of a board game. They will see the game, dice and game props. They will listen and observe modeling of the game. They are welcome to practice playing and finally teaching it to assess their ability. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Teaching English Abroad: Goals, Attitudes and Motivation Jordana Garbati - The University of Western Ontario This poster presentation presents a study which investigated the goals, attitudes and motivating factors of a small group of teachers working at a summer camp in Switzerland. The study was developed in light of previous research in the fields of study abroad and English language education worldwide. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER The Great Divide: The Literacies Of Mennonite Children Wendy Crocker - UWO

My poster presents the dichotomy that exists between what conservative colony Mennonite children experience as literacy in public school classrooms as opposed to their “out of school” literacy practices. Using a sociocultural /multiliteracies perspective, this work considers how Mennonite children as a “minoritized culture” (McCarty, 2002) mediate this contested space.

Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.

POSTER Researching Teachers’ And Students’ Learning Nayibe Rosado - Universidad Del Norte This research reports an on-going study on the interaction between EFL high school students’ and their teachers’ learning. Although they seem to be related; very little is known about the nature of the relationship between the two. Methodology, preliminary results and insights gained during the process will be discussed.

Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Teaching Mapping, Orientating and Direction Skills Toni Lynn Cassidy and Eva Dlouhy - TVDSB London The use of realia and role play in the classroom to help students find their way around their new community. This activity introduces electronic and paper maps. The use of a compass is practiced. Local destinations important to the students' life are highlighted. Historic and vacation spots are viewed at the end of the unit. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.

11:30AM-1:00PM FBF Teaching about and Appreciating Nature Radmila Rakas - SAFSS As the world celebrates the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, this workshop will focus on integrating the topic of nature in the LINC/ESL curriculum. Extensive visuals, including slides, video clips, posters and maps, as well as easily accessible on-line handouts, will be presented. Field trip ideas and experiences will be shared. Participation of the attendees will be encouraged. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


11:30AM-1:30PM FBE Solving Two Big Challenges for TESL Students Laura Stoutenburg and Kathryn Billinger - Conestoga College This workshop will interest both teacher trainers and teachers themselves. Its goal is to highlight ways of presenting challenging TESL concepts. Each presenter will share a challenging area in learning to be an effective ESL teacher: one in pronunciation and one in the delivery of teaching. Participants will be presented with the challenge, some theory, useful examples, and work through interactive exercises illustrating ways of gaining strength with each challenge. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FBH The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Darlene MacInnis - ISIS Sohail Khan – Skills International A lot of students will ask their ESL teach or tutor to help them prepare for job interviews and to assess their interview skills. In this workshop, we will talk about best practices related to practice interviews, assessment, feedback and free technology available to prepare students and assist busy teachers and tutors. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FBJ TESL Ontario Accreditation Reza Mazloom-Farzaghy - TESL Ontario Participants will learn about the requirements for TESL Ontario ESL Instructor Accreditation and TESL Trainer Accreditation.Participants will learn about the requirements for TESL Ontario ESL Instructor Accreditation and TESL Trainer Accreditation. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Certification Audience: All Participants

1:00PM-2:00PM FPB Symbols in ESL Teaching — Beyond Snapshots of Nouns Bogdan Pospielovsky - Bridges Visual representations can help teach more than just concrete nouns. Applying symbols to teaching sentence structure, word families and grammar engages new learners and solidifies skills. We'll present multi-lingual Boardmaker, and the new bilingual Communicate:Symwriter in a research context to create a framework for choosing the most appropriate visuals. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Elementary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FPC Employer Reactions to Non-Native Speaker High-Stakes Requests Brigid Kelso - University of Toronto Engineering Communications Program Attendees with be presented with results of a research paper for a Master's Sociolinguistics course (approved by U of T's Ethics Review Board) that looked into the likelihood of employers to grant high-stakes requests from non-native-speaking employees. Implications for teaching, based on results of the study, will also be discussed. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FPD Researching Surveys and Business News for Class Activities (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Joan Bartel - Humber College Surveys on daily life and business practices reflect current cultural trends and are a great source of class activities. Sources of useful Canadian information are suggested and sample activities involving language and critical thinking skills are demonstrated. Activity topics are: Halloween customs, punctuality at work and personal appearance. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience


FPI Factors, Meaning and Values in Teachers’ Grading Practices Youyi Sun and Liying Cheng - Queen's University This study investigated Chinese secondary school English language teachers’ grading practices using a questionnaire. The results revealed the meaning these teachers associated with their grades and the value judgments they made when assigning their grades. The findings have implications for the key issues involved with grading for teachers of English. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants FPJ PLENARY: Identity and Digital Literacy Across Time and Space Bonny Norton - University of British Columbia This presentation explores how, and to what extent, digital literacy impacts the identities of language teachers and students in diverse sites of learning. In previous work, I have made the case that the conditions under which language learners speak, read, or write is best explained with reference to the multiple identities they negotiate in classrooms and communities. Developments in digital technology and research on multiliteracies have now reframed debates on what it means to be literate in the 21st Century. With reference to my prior work on identity and investment, I draw on my ongoing digital research in the African context to make the case that digital literacy offers unique opportunities for language teachers and students in poorly resourced communities to claim identities as global citizens.

1:00PM-2:30PM FPA Interactive ESL Tasks For Your Students’ Mobile Devices Aga Palalas - George Brown College In this hands-on workshop practical applications of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) solutions will be presented. Following a demonstration of interactive MALL tasks, participants will create their own basic mobile tasks using free Internet-based tools. Participants will author innovative solutions which they will be able to test on their students’ mobile devices. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: Researchers, Teachers with Experience

FPE Publishing ESL Materials Lucia Engkent - Seneca College This presentation explains the publishing process from idea to book. Topics include preparing a proposal, co-authoring, understanding the market, dealing with financial aspects, and self-publishing. This is for those teachers who have a potential manuscript in their desk drawer as well as those just interested in learning more about publishing. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Materials Development Audience: All Participants FPF Music for ESL Neurons Jane Batterink and Susan Vogl Blakelock - Durham District School Board This presentation will include a brief summary of the latest neuroscience research into music and language, to be followed by practical suggestions on how to use music in the ESL classroom. It will be essentially the same as the session we presented in December, 2009. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FPG Placement Testing in ESL Programs David Cooper, Vera Beletzan and Brett Reynolds - Humber College Two placement tests recently designed for college-level L2 programs will be outlined. After presenting the components, procedures, and specific purpose of each test, we will facilitate and lead an open forum discussion on placement testing in L2 programs. Attendees will be encouraged to share ideas and thoughts on current issues and future directions on the topic. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants


FPH Maximizing the Team in Team Presentations Daragh Hayes - Fanshawe College This workshop will present a team presentation model designed to ensure optimal levels of individual accountability, team synergy, and communication in the target language. Participants will collaborate on an extended team project process utilizing a variety of Cooperative Learning Structures that maximize learner engagement. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,


2:30PM-3:30PM FPN Developing Focused Non-Comprehension Strategies To Improve Communication (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) James McMullan and Lillian Mak Intermediate ESL learners commonly use expressions indicating total non-comprehension (e.g. Sorry, what did you say? Could you repeat that?) even when they understand most of the message in question. In this workshop, participant groups will identify, practice and develop strategies to maintain more effective communication by indicating focused non-comprehension. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FPP Reducing Learners’ Language Anxiety: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice Angelica Galante - Brock University This workshop will explore findings on language anxiety among L2 learners and will bridge the gap between research and practice. Participants will be exposed to a set of strategies to reduce learners’ language anxiety, analyze case studies, and discuss how to apply such strategies into practice. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Elementary, ELT/SLT,

Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Researchers, Teachers with/without

Experience

FPQ Digital Materials Preparation Course Overview John Allan - Consultant This session will provide a description of a course developed for the international TESOL community. The course, featuring only web-based, free resources web-based platforms, endeavors to improve the materials production skills of TESOL professionals in five areas. These are audio, screen capturing, image editing, harvesting web resources, and document production. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants FPR Introduction to TESL Canada’s Teacher Resource Centre John Sivell – Brock University Overview of resources available on the TESL Canada Teacher Resource Centre site; ways to use the material; how you can contribute in enriching the site, either by making contributions yourself or by engaging students in the process. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ESL/SLT, College/University Focus: Materials Audience: All Participants FPT Games To Liven Up The Grammar Lesson Tina Intini and Irene McKay - George Brown College Are you looking for engaging games to liven up your grammar classes? The presenters demonstrate motivating games and activities to provide hours of grammar practice for students at the intermediate level. Bring your sense of humour! The presenters share ready to implement materials and resources. A comprehensive handout is available. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,



FPU The CEFR And A Canadian ESL Language Portfolio Farahnaz Faez and Shelley Taylor - University of Western Ontario We discuss the process of developing a three-tier framework and language portfolio for teachers working with English language learners in K-12 classrooms. The presentation focuses on the CEFR, its implications for mainstream classrooms, and the adaptation of its companion piece, the language portfolio, in which ELLs document their learning successes. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary

Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

2:30PM-4:00PM FPK Online Resources for TESL (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Rachel Fourny - Upper Canada District School Board Discover the wealth of resources available on the internet, ranging from forms to grammar activities. Preview some of the resources and receive a categorized list of resources you can use in your classroom, as well as sample lesson plans. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Materials Audience: All Participants FPL What’s New at the CCLB? Marianne Kayed and Francois Belisle - CCLB This session will provide an update on the various activities and resources being developed by the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks in Ottawa. This will include an update on assessments, occupation-specific CLB resources/research, training and professional development resources, and publications. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants

FPO Link LINC Software to Classroom Pratima Singh and Kashmira Irani - India Rainbow Community Services Have you always wondered how to use the LINC software to the max? Then this workshop is for you. Our workshop focuses on integrating the LINC software activities/information into motivational, interactive classroom lessons and vice-versa. Participants will be inspired by the ideas on how to adapt materials to suit different themes and levels. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants FPS Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Fran Marshall - Independent Resource Consultant Those of us who are passionate about ESL realize that our learners become part of our life histories - and we of theirs. The workshop comprises techniques for using personal story units to inspire learners to create and share their life experiences. Storywork effectively integrates the four skills. It provides tangible evidence of achievement. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,


2:30PM-5:30PM FPM RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: THE INFLUENCE OF RESEARCH AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORY ON TEACHING AND TEACHING MATERIALS The Effects of Theory and Research on Grammar Course Book Activities Philippa Bell - Concordia University Describing Spoken English: From Research to Classroom Materials Ronald Carter - University of Nottingham Improving the Effectiveness of Grammar Instruction: Ideas from SLA Research Leila Ranta - University of Alberta



4:00PM-5:00PM FPZ Genre Analysis Of Research Article Introductions Across ESP, Psycholinguistics And Sociolinguistics Pejman Habibie This presentation reports an analysis of research article introductions from three related fields, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics, using Swales’ CARS model. The corpus consisted of 90 RAs drawn from a wide range of refereed journals in the corresponding disciplines. Category: Paper Level: College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Administrators, Researchers, Teachers with

Experience

4:00PM-5:30PM FPV Computers In ESL: Tools/Approaches You Can Use Today Mike Barker - Carleton University Computers can be a great resource to support your teaching. They can also be a black hole for time, energy and good moods. Join us as we explore the use of computers to support your teaching and some of the ongoing trends in the field of online language learning. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FPW Increasing Motivation Through Incorporating Coaching In The Classroom Andrea Griggs - Catalyst Communication Learn how coaching can increase students’ motivation. Coaching, a creative and thought-provoking process, helps individuals reach goals and maximize potential. You will learn what coaching is, get a chance to coach each other, and try some coaching activities. Led by certified coach and TESL teacher. Better for intermediate plus levels. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

FPX Special Needs Students in ESL Classrooms (This session is repeated on Saturday morning) Suzanna Kotilehti - YMCA of Western Ontario This interactive workshop will address how to include special needs students in ESL classrooms. Categories pertaining to special needs will be discussed as well as practical classroom strategies for instructors. An online discussion group will follow to enable participants the opportunity of continuance of the workshop. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FPY Leveraging Social Capital for Improving Language Learning John-Paul Hatala - Flowork International Levaraging social capital is the process of teaching students to systematically explore their social networks for resources which may help them reach their language learning goals. For this to occur, students need to know who is in thier network and how they can help them. This session will introduce a systematic way for students to explore their network. The process involves four steps: (1) Assessing network accessibility, (2) Setting learning goals, (3) Linking network members to goals, and (4) Mobilizing network resources around goals. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FQA Teacher Performance Evaluation (This session is repeated on Saturday morning) Margaret Banaszkiewicz - Quantum Education Inc. During the Teacher Performance Evaluation workshop, the participants will focus on the benefits of having their classroom performance observed and evaluated. We will also discuss how the teacher's personality, behaviour and skills affect the student learning experience. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience


FQB “What’s that word…?”: Strategic Oral Communication Angela Meyer Sterzik - York University/Fanshawe College We all ‘forget’ words and use strategies to overcome the forgetfulness. Research has demonstrated, however, adult L2 speakers, especially beginners and intermediates, do not often transfer these strategies. This workshop will provide effective and FUN games to include the instruction and practice of communication strategies to improve communicative abilities. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience FQC Approaching ‘Others’: Exploring and Applying Principles of Intercultural Communication Derek Martin - Cultureworks ESL Inc. This workshop will use experiential learning to help participants to identify some of the fundamental principles of intercultural communication and some ways that these can be applied by teachers, as well as students, host families, administrators, and anyone involved in working with different ‘others’. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Community/Equity Issues Audience: All Participants FQD Your Student CAN Achieve ESL Fluency with AIM Mardi Michels, AIM Language Learning The Accelerative Integrated Method is an intensive second language methodology which initially teaches target vocabulary through gesture and contextualizes it in a way that allows for rapid internalization. An exciting new direction in L2 pedagogy. Category: Publisher’s Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Elementary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

FQE Use the 5 Ws to Teach Sentence Structure! (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon) Kate Cushing - The Centre for Skills Development & Training I will show you how to use strips of paper and Who What Where When Why/How to teach students simple sentence structure, and then how to expand each of these segments to turn simple sentences into adult sentences. I have used this technique effectively with students from Beginner to Advanced. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants FQF Crucial Lessons Learned In Corporate ESL Teresa McGill and Jayne Edmonds - Gandy Associates In this interactive workshop, we will share stories from 20 years in the corporate ESL training field, revealing the special challenges and opportunities this sector presents. Workshop participants will hear insights about delivering ESL training to corporate clients, and they will have opportunities to share their own experiences and perspectives. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Program Administration Audience: Administrators, Teachers with Experience

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Saturday Presentation Descriptions

8:30AM-9:30AM SAA TurningPoint Hands-On Demonstration Kate Nicoll and Patrick Abram - Turning Technologies Are you interested in engaging your audience? Would you like to take your PowerPoint presentations from interesting to WOW? Join us for this Technology Lab to explore the versatile and exciting features of TurningPoint – hands-on! No computer? No problem! Our technology allows you to offer an interactive presentation anywhere in the world – in the classroom, in the library, in the field, or at the Zoo – complete with polling features, and paperless graphs and reports. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants SAB The Oxford Picture Dictionary: A Multi-Level Program Carrie Purcell - Oxford University Press Bring The Oxford Picture Dictionary to life for your students. Developed for use with projectors and interactive whiteboards, the OPD Classroom Presentation Tool and Interactive components create a student-centered, interactive teaching environment. Through this workshop and a multitude of OPD components you will be equipped to customize your multilevel program. Category: Technology Presentation/Publisher's

Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: Administrators, Teachers with/without

Experience

SAC Step Forward Canada: Towards Canadian Content & CLB Sharon Rajabi - Toronto Catholic District School Board This presentation is an overview of Step Forward Canada 1 & 2 published by Oxford University Press. Step Forward Canada supports an integrated approach to language teaching by bringing together Canadian Language Benchmarks, Communicative Competence, critical thinking and math skills, and Employability Skills through a variety of tasks and activities using Canadian content. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience SAD Teaching Vocabulary Strategies Using the Academic Word List Maggie Heeney and Pat Skinner - Renison University College, University of Waterloo For EAP learners, there is a direct link between vocabulary acquisition and academic success. Rich word knowledge facilitates comprehending texts and writing effective essays. Knowledge of the Academic Word List (AWL) increases the likelihood for academic success when vocabulary is contextualized. This workshop offers strategies for effectively teaching AWL vocabulary. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SAE Picture That! Great Writing Prompts for Students Tim Westhead Enjoy discovering vivid suggestions from found (and free!) materials, and increase your students’ excitement for writing. Make your courses’ written projects more palatable to everyone while strengthening students’ literacy skills. Includes tested methodologies for secondary teachers of English and ESL. Website: www.timwesthead.com Category: Workshop Level: Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience


SAF English Collocations in an ESL Classroom Amer Ahmed and Iryna Lenchuk - York University This presentation addresses the linguistic phenomenon of collocation in English. As they do not seem to be rule-governed, collocations pose a major difficulty for second language learners. The presenters will provide some suggestions as to how collocations could best be approached in the field of second language acquisition. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience SAG Specialized Vocabulary: To Teach Or Not To Teach? Nataliya Borkovska - University of Guelph English language practitioners involved in teaching ESP are increasingly aware of the need to expand students’ inventory of specialized vocabulary. The presentation will focus on developing strategies for specialized vocabulary learning and creating engaging classroom activities that will scaffold students’ specialized vocabulary learning. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience SAH ESL Classics - Songs for Learning English Maureen Stewart - Toronto Catholic District School Board ESL Classics and More ESL Classics are multi-level songbooks combining classical music and illustrated verses. This workshop will demonstrate how these grammar and theme based songs can be easily integrated into lesson planning. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Elementary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

SAI Dictionary Activities for the ESL Classroom Jeff Gulley - Oxford University Press Knowing how to use a dictionary is a skill in itself. Yet most students are unaware of what information is contained in a learner’s dictionary. This workshop will present classroom activities to help students navigate one of the most important, interesting and essential English language resources. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SAJ Using Choral Repetition to Enhance Memory of Language Chunks Kathryn Brillinger - Conestoga College Do you want to help your learners retain key language items and templates for pronunciation and grammar? This hands-on session will lead teachers through 4 examples (grammar, vocabulary, speaking, and pronunciation) demonstrating how the ancient art of choral repetition can be used to help learners master useful chunks of language. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SAK Two Sheets and a Rubber Band – Classroom Exercises Judy Thompson - Thompson Language Center Showcases Two Sheets and a Rubber Band, a collection of photocopiable L/S exercises to complement English is Stupid. The framework for transforming students’ ability to speak English outside the classroom plus a unique collection of copy-and-go activities that makes teaching easier for instructors and speaking easier for students. Category: Publisher's Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


10:00AM-11:00AM SAM Second Language Learner's Perceptions of English Email Communication Jia Ma - Queen's University / Harbin Normal University (China) With its distinctive features, email communications have been employed in language instructions. Based on the positive effects of email communications on language learning, the paper is an empirical study investigating how English as a second language learners (ESL) perceive their regular email communication in English on their English learning. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SAN Increasing Post-Secondary Preparedness Using the Academic Word List Marina Engelking and Gloria McPherson - Seneca College Learn about the Academic Word List and how it can be used to prepare students for success in post-secondary studies. This session will cover the background and applications of the AWL. Using examples from the Breakthroughs ESL series, participants will explore strategies for developing student competency in the AWL. Category: Presentation Level: College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with Experience SAT How Pronunciation Works: What Every Teacher Should Know Ron Thomson - Brock University This presentation will provide an overview of recent research examining how second language pronunciation of vowels and consonants develops from a cognitive perspective. It will then assess a range of pronunciation materials in light of this research, and propose teacher-friendly approaches to effective pronunciation instruction. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

SAU Curriculum Evaluation as a Research Strategy Nayibe Rosado - Universidad Del Norte This paper reports the process by which a Colombian University evaluated its EFL curriculum to align objectives, program structure, methodology, and resources to the changing needs of students. Mehodology, results, decisions and insights gained will be shared.Reflection about the importance of keeping pace with students’ needs will be encouraged. Category: Paper Level: College/University Focus: Program Administration Audience: Administrators, Researchers SAW Articulating Accurately: Steps to Integrated Pronunciation (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Danny Tan and Johanathan Woodworth - York University English Language Institute This presentation is to help instructors Teach Integrated Pronunciation Strategies (TIPS) which will help learners develop their perception and production skills. This workshop will include interactive activities to stimulate skills management and scaffolding. Altogether, the workshop will focus on the development of learners' segmentals within suprasegmentals. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers without Experience


SAZ PLENARY: What is Fluency? From Corpus to Classroom Dr. Ronald Carter - School of English Studies, University of Nottingham This paper reviews a range of recent work defining and exemplifying the notion of fluency and explores insights from corpus linguistic research into some major differences and distinctions between speech and writing for what it means to be a fluent speaker of another language. Using corpus data on lexical and phraseological frequency I then work towards a definition of fluency based on the metaphor of confluence - which suggests a consideration of fluency as co-created interaction. Confluence embraces the roles of speakers and listeners in everyday conversational exchanges, the part played by listenership, the central importance of small words, formulaic language and gestures and has relevance for the ways in which such insights might be embedded in classroom language teaching and learning. In terms of relevance to the language classroom among the topics considered are: drills and automaticity, the part played by fixedness and creativity in language learning, the political issues involved in modelling on native speaker fluent performance and the complexities inherent in developing appropriate tests for fluent speaking. This paper reviews a range of recent work defining and exemplifying the notion of fluency and explores insights from corpus linguistic research into some major differences and distinctions between speech and writing for what it means to be a fluent speaker of another language. Using corpus data on lexical and phraseological frequency I then work towards a definition of fluency based on the metaphor of confluence - which suggests a consideration of fluency as co-created interaction. Confluence embraces the roles of speakers and listeners in everyday conversational exchanges, the part played by listenership, the central importance of small words, formulaic language and gestures and has relevance for the ways in which such insights might be embedded in classroom language teaching and learning. In terms of relevance to the language classroom among the topics considered are: drills and automaticity, the part played by fixedness and creativity in language learning, the political issues involved in modelling on native speaker fluent performance and the complexities inherent in developing appropriate tests for fluent speaking.

POSTER Opening New Worlds Through Pleasure Reading Anne MacGregor-O'Neill - Toronto Catholic District School Board Build a library and they will come….. Through photos, letters, newspaper articles and art work you will see how a small ESL lending library was established in 2003 and how it has grown to be an integral part of the centre and the students’ lives. On display you will see the weekly book report templates, examples of special library events and the support material created to help students participate in the monthly book club. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Personalized Vocabulary Testing in Large Classroom Settings Daragh Hayes - Fanshawe College This poster will outline an individualized vocabulary study and testing model applicable for use in large heterogeneous classroom settings. When used in conjunction with vocabulary journals, this testing model will enable learners to tailor their vocabulary study according to their individual interests and foster greater responsibility for their own learning. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Culturemania: Building Student Ability With Games About Culture Frank Maringola Attendees will observe realia in the form of a board game. They will see the game, dice and game props. They will listen and observe modeling of the game. They are welcome to practice playing and finally teaching it to assess their ability. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.


POSTER Student Teachers’ Comments on ESL Compositions Hedy McGarrell and Rachel Adair - Brock University The poster summarizes the findings of a study that explored the comments student teachers offered ESL writers on their compositions. Findings from this study suggest that inexperienced writing teachers' comments promote revisions that focus on linguistic accuracy in ESL writers' compositions. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER ESL Writers’ Revisions Following Teacher Commentary Hedy McGarrell and Carla Tancredi - Brock University What teacher comments motive ESL writers to revise their draft compositions? Findings from a recent study suggest that student writers were most likely to act on direct comments that focused on specific grammar, vocabulary or mechanics issues; they were likely to ignore indirect comments that suggested the addition of detail. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour. POSTER Effect of Language Differences on Arab Learners’ ESL Writing Mary Lawless and Naglaa Salem - University of Toronto

In this poster presentation, attendees will be familiarized with the difference between Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic. Writing samples from an Academic English classroom will illustrate the salient features of written Arabic, at the word-level, the sentence-level and the discourse-level, which result in patterns of common errors in Arab learners’ writing in English.

Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.

POSTER A Comparative Study of Phrasal Verb Use Donna Peace and Ron L. Thomson This poster documents a study comparing the phrasal verb use of native and nonnative English speakers. It also explores the effect of grammatical person on speakers’ use of these structures and the role of the nonnative speakers’ L1. Finally, it examines the compensatory strategies reflected in nonnative speakers’. Churchill Room – Second Floor; presenter available for discussion for one hour.

10:00AM-11:30AM SAQ TESL Ontario Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Carolyn Cohen, Antonella Valeo, Anouchka Plumb Colette Peters and Sheila Dermer Applebaum - TESL Ontario Post Certificate Training Project Participants will learn about TESL Ontario's new Framework for Post TESL Certificate Training. Presenters will describe how the framework was developed based on research findings and stakeholder feedback. Participants will discuss key elements of the framework and how it can provide them with additional qualifications as LINC and ESL instructors. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teacher Training Audience: All Participants SAX Special Needs Students in ESL Classrooms (This session is repeated on Friday afternoon) Suzanna Kotilehti - YMCA of Western Ontario This interactive workshop will address how to include special needs students in ESL classrooms. Categories pertaining to special needs will be discussed as well as practical classroom strategies for instructors. An online discussion group will follow to enable participants the opportunity of continuance of the workshop. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


SAY Teacher Performance Evaluation (This session is repeated on Friday afternoon) Margaret Banaszkiewicz - Quantum Education Inc. During the Teacher Performance Evaluation workshop, the participants will focus on the benefits of having their classroom performance observed and evaluated. We will also discuss how the teacher's personality, behaviour and skills affect the student learning experience. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience

10:00AM-12:00PM SAL LearnIT2teach.ca: LINC Instructor PD (Stage 1) (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon / Friday / morning) Jim Edgar, Kevin O'Brien, Robert McBride, John Allan and Kathleen Johnson - New Media Language Training Inc. This workshop introduces online resources and professional development opportunities available to the LINC community through the learnIT2teach.ca project. This session is the first of four stages of training. After completing this and the second stage, which is delivered online, LINC instructors will be able to use the LINC courseware on edlinc.ca. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants SAO Bridging the Divide: Mental Health and Your Students Monica Abdelkader - Cross Cultural Learner Centre Whether working with little kids or seniors, research has shown the importance of addressing mental health concerns among newcomers. Gaining their trust, ESL teachers are often the first point of contact and can encounter a diversity of experiences of migration from their students. Working together, we will examine best practices among participants and explore how to better serve the needs of our students using a community-based collaborative approach. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Community/Equity Issues Audience: All Participants

SAP ATESL Best Practices for ESL & LINC Programming Justine Light - ATESL ATESL has recently embarked on a comprehensive process to renew and revitalize its Best Practices document. The emerging document is now in high demand across Canada as a comprehensive statement of beliefs about what effective ESL programming looks like. The presentation will introduce the 67 statements of best practice and an implementation guide, giving suggestions for using the document to encourage reflective practice, and for program self evaluation. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Program Administration Audience: All Participants SAR How do you teach Pedagogical Grammar in a TESL program? Brett Reynolds - Humber College ITAL Attendees will describe their own Pedagogical Grammar (PG) classes (as students or teachers), highlighting stengths and weaknesses. An active chair will facilitate whole-group or small-group discussions (numbers allowing). Potential topics: curriculum, textbook, format, activities, assignments, online components, and practica. Participants should bring course outlines, schedules, textbooks, websites, materials, and completed assignments. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with Experience SAS Designing Activities For Teaching Listening Strategies (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon) Marijke Wertheim - School of Continuing Studies/UT, Woodsworth College/UT This workshop is designed to provide new or experienced teachers with the opportunity to develop materials for introducing listening strategies to their students (minimum level: low intermediate). A brief overview of the rationale for strategy training and the available listening strategies will precede the hands-on activities. Participants should be prepared to work in small groups according to student level and context. This workshop complements the Teaching Listening Strategies presentation given at previous conferences, but attendance at the previous session is not a prerequisite. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience


SAV Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Adam Kertesz - Dynamix Bringing teamwork into your organization will create an environment with more FUN and less conflict. Join us for the "Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist!" workshop to play and learn some fun, hands-on, interactive and teambuiling games that will help you bring teambuilding values back to your organization! Category: Workshop Level: College/University, Elementary, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

11:30AM-12:30PM SBB Culture in the ESL Classroom: A Collaborative Approach Xuemei Li - Memorial University of Newfoundland The presenter draws on personal experience and stories of ESL learners to elaborate on issues of cultural difference and culture shock. She discusses cultural learning in and outside of the classroom and appeals to a "potluck" approach that emphasizes collaboration, sharing, and mutual learning among the teacher and learners. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SBC The University Library’s Role in Recreational Reading Karen Bordonaro - Brock University Library Attendees will hear how international students use university libraries for recreational reading purposes and will hear how students think that recreational reading through the university library improves their language learning. University libraries offer an authentic language learning environment and can play a role in promoting language learning outside the classroom. Category: Paper Level: College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

SBD CLB Benchmarks and Occupations: Update (This session is repeated on Thursday afternoon) Marianne Kayed - CCLB This workshop will provide an update on recent research in the area of occupational benchmarking and applications of the data. Recent benchmarking of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and additional Occupational Language Analyses which provide information for the development of curriculum, assessments, and skills identification for bridging programs and workplace training. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants

11:30AM-1:00PM SBA Utilizing Social Networking & Other Internet Sites in TESL Tyson Seburn - Coursetree This workshop demonstrates how social networking sites (Facebook & Twitter) and other internet applications (Wordle, Compleat Lexical Tutor & blogs) are a rich source of material for preparation and practice of language skills for the classroom, ongoing professional development and networking opportunities with enthusiastic educators in the broader ESL/EFL community. Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience

11:30AM-1:30PM SBE Teaching Intonation Kathryn Brillinger - Conestoga College Effective use of intonation patterns helps speakers ensure that messages are received by listeners as intended. Working with language functions (praising, complaining, advising etc) helps to highlight the importance of intonation. Learners can quickly grasp 4 common patterns (high-rise, low-rise, rise-fall, and fall-fall) and apply them to appropriate language functions. Key teaching points will be explained, practice techniques demonstrated, and common challenges discussed. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


SBF How to Communicate With Difficult People Bhupinder Gill - CAMH Be introduced to a technique to help you connect in person or by telephone with people whom you perceive to be “difficult.” These people may be your co-workers or students or family members. You will learn how move to a place of compassion for people when you come to realize that everything that anyone does or says is to meet a specific need they have, and not just because they want to give you a “hard time”. This technique is based on Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s life’s work developing non-violent communication (NVC), also known as compassionate communication (www.cnvc.org). Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants

1:00PM-2:00PM SPB Are we multicultural? Teacher training for cultural diversity! Jeremie Seror, Nico Paluzzi and Amanda Hennessey - University of Ottawa This paper explores the preparation of language educators to teach in multicultural/multilingual contexts. Pre-service teachers’ evolving understanding of what it takes to be a language teacher in today’s society are discussed and illustrated through the viewing of a class project exploring the multifaceted meanings attributed to multiculturalism in Canadian society. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Community/Equity Issues Audience: All Participants

1:00PM-2:30PM SPA Integrated Solution: HARTs - History of Assessments, Referrals, Training System Grace Scire and Susan Gracey - TCET

• Learn how this innovative application can assist with “real-time” information about client demographics • Learn how the system tracks client progression throughout many settlement programs HARTs will change the way you think and work.Introducing….....An Integrated Solution........HARTs- History of Assessments, Referrals and Training system. Category: Technology Lab Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ELT/SLT Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: All Participants SPD Best Practices in the Literacy Classroom Barb Andrews, Pascale Vigani and Tracy-Lynne Ahier - Conestoga College Looking for more ideas in your literacy classroom? Join three enthusiastic literacy teachers as they each share straightforward activities they have found effective with their learners. The activities relate directly to the LINC curriculum and encompass the four skills as well as numeracy. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience

1:00PM-3:00PM SPC Classroom Games from Corpora Ken Lackman A collection of original classroom games that get students to work together to learn words, collocations and expressions based on frequency lists and concordance printouts from free corpora websites. Though based on authentic language, most games can be used with all levels. Materials are prepared beforehand so computers are not required during the lessons. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,



SPE Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Building on Teacher Expertise (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Joanne Pettis - Citizenship and Immigration/Manitoba Labour & Immigration Participants in this introduction to Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA) will hear about the training, resources and supports that make up CIC’s PBLA Implementation Plan, learn about the Ottawa field test, view and discuss various PBLA tools, resources and sample portfolios. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants SPF Hit the Ground Running: Tips for New Teachers Ellen Servinis - College Sessional Tracy Manning - York University English Language Institute This practical, hands-on workshop provides new teachers with a tried and true assortment of adaptable activities suited to communicative classrooms, as well as the skills to easily tailor them to various levels, time constraints, and themes. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers without Experience SPG Teach Vowel Sounds Using Colour Words! Kate Cushing - The Centre for Skills Development & Training I will show you how we make each of the 17 different vowel sounds in North American English (Jaw, Tongue & Lip positions), and then how to use colour words to teach these sounds. This appeals to visual learners, and offers Phonics rules for reading and spelling. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,


SPH Barnga and Other Games Simulators Play (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Ron Lavoie - OCISO/Ottawa After experiencing the classic intercultural simulation, Barnga, participants will discuss how simulations can enrich the ESL classroom and exchange ideas about simulations in ESL. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SPI ESL Play Day Activities for Enrichment and Review Coralee Mathews and Jennifer Culligan - Avon Maitland District School Board This presentation will provide participants with a plan they can implement in their setting to engage groups of students in a 100 minute language play event. The plan can be adapted for different age groups and made shorter or longer depending on your timeframe. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, Elementary, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with/without Experience SPJ Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Adam Kertesz - Dynamix Bringing teamwork into your organization will create an environment with more FUN and less conflict. Join us for the "Dynamix: Teambuilding with a Twist!" workshop to play and learn some fun, hands-on, interactive and teambuiling games that will help you bring teambuilding values back to your organization! Category: Workshop Level: College/University, Elementary, Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants


SPK Our ESL Stories - Yours, Mine - and Theirs! (This session is repeated on Friday afternoon) Fran Marshall - Independent Resource Consultant Those of us who are passionate about ESL realize that our learners become part of our life histories - and we of theirs. The workshop comprises techniques for using personal story units to inspire learners to create and share their life experiences. Storywork effectively integrates the four skills. It provides tangible evidence of achievement. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SPL The Magic of Interview Success: Practice! Practice! Practice! (This session is repeated on Friday morning) Darlene MacInnis - ISIS Sohail Khan – Skills International A lot of students will ask their ESL teach or tutor to help them prepare for job interviews and to assess their interview skills. In this workshop, we will talk about best practices related to practice interviews, assessment, feedback and free technology available to prepare students and assist busy teachers and tutors. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Secondary Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: Teachers with/without Experience SPM A More Collaborative Approach to Serving Immigrant Professionals - Let's Talk Teresa McGill and Jayne Edmonds - Gandy Associates This facilitated think-tank connects ESL practitioners who serve Internationally Educated Professionals. If your programs help professionals succeed in the workplace, we want to hear your voice. Come ready to openly share ideas on best practices and to actively look for ways to collaborate for the benefit of our shared client group. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Program Administration Audience: Administrators, Researchers, Teachers with

Experience

2:30PM-3:30PM SPN Multiliteracies and Cultural Diversity Through Collaborative Wiki Creation John McGaughey - York University The presentation discusses a project in which seven adult language learners created a collaborative wiki consisting of multilingual and multimodal identity pages. The analysis of the pages and interview data highlights how identity pages helped facilitate second language learning and cultural awareness. Applicability to the LINC program will also be discussed. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University Focus: Electronic Classroom/Technology Audience: Researchers, Teachers with/without

Experience SPQ Citizenship Resource – A Classroom Resource For Teaching Citizenship Topics To Adult ESL Learners CLB 1-8 (This session is repeated on Thursday morning) Margaret Stasiak - TCDSB Carol Olson - TDSB Citizenship Resource is a new classroom resource for teaching citizenship topics to adult ESL learners CLB 1-8, based on Discover Canada, the citizenship study guide. The presenters will demonstrate major components of the resource including a framework for lesson planning and sample reproducible activities with audio material. They will discuss strategies and ideas for teaching topics such as Canada’s geography, history, symbols, or citizenship rights and responsibilities. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: All Participants SPR Cohesion in Writing and the Role of Culture Aisha Sayidina - American University of Sharjah This is a paper presentation with power point. The attendees will listen to the presentation while text, diagram and table slides emphasize and highlight the important points of the talk. There will also be a question, answer, and a discussion session at the end of the presentation. Category: Paper Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Teaching and Learning Audience: Teachers with Experience


Presenter Biographies RACHEL ADAIR RACHEL ADAIR HAS RECENTLY COMPLETED HER UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS/TESL (HONOURS) AT BROCK UNIVERSITY AND IS CURRENTLY AN ESL TEACHER IN THE INTENSIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM AT BROCK UNIVERSITY. TRACY-LYNNE AHIER TRACY-LYNNE AHIER HAS YEARS OF HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE TEACHING LITERACY. SHE IS A TEACHER AT THE CONESTOGA LINC PROGRAMME IN WATERLOO AND CAMBRIDGE. AMER AHMED AMER IS PURSUING HIS GRADUATE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND LINGUISTICS, YORK UNIVERSITY JOHN ALLAN JOHN RUNS THE SOCIALESL.COM COMMUNITY THAT HELPS OPEN ESL TEACHERS BLEND TECHNOLOGY WITH THEIR TEACHING. BARB ANDREWS BARB ANDREWS HAS YEARS OF HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE TEACHING LITERACY. SHE IS A TEACHER AT THE CONESTOGA LINC PROGRAMME IN WATERLOO AND CAMBRIDGE. SHEILA APPLEBAUM SHEILA APPLEBAUM IS A RESEARCH CONSULTANT WITH THE TESL ONTARIO FRAMEWORK FOR POST TESL CERTIFICATE TRAINING PROJECT. NAVPREET ARORA 10 YEARS TEACHING ESL EXPERIENCE-ALL LEVELS PRESENTATIONS – MY OWN LITTLE DICTIONARY, CALL (CO PRESENTER MARTA LEE) , CLB’S. PHE TESL AFFILIATE - BOARD MEMBER FOR 4 YEARS. MA, (ENGLISH) BA, TESL MARGARET BANASZKIEWICZ 20 YEARS OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE IN SECOND LANGUAGE TRAINING, LANGUAGE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, AND TEACHER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. SHE HAS TAUGHT ADULT LEARNERS IN THE NON-PROFIT, PRIVATE, AND COLLEGE LANGUAGE SCHOOLS. MIKE BARKER MIKE BARKER IS THE CALL CONSULTING ANALYST IN THE SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE STUDIES AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY. HE HOLDS A BED AND MA (APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES) .

JOAN BARTEL JOAN BARTEL HAS BEEN USING SURVEYS AND BUSINESS NEWS IN ELT/OSLT COURSES FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF OFFICE SOFT SKILLS 1 & 2 AND TEACHES AT HUMBER COLLEGE. JANE BATTERINK JANE BATTERINK HAS TAUGHT ALL LEVELS OF LINC AND ADULT ESL FOR THE DURHAM DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD. SHE HAS AN AMATEUR'S INTEREST IN NEUROSCIENCE. DR. KEN BEATTY DR. KEN BEATTY IS THE AUTHOR/CO-AUTHOR OF 128 TEXTBOOKS USED WORLDWIDE FROM THE PRIMARY TO TERTIARY LEVELS. ALTHOUGH MOST OF HIS PUBLICATIONS FOCUS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, HE ALSO WRITES AND REVIEWS ON THE TOPIC OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; HIS GRADUATE LEVEL TEXTBOOK, TEACHING AND RESEARCHING COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IS NOW IN ITS SECOND EDITION. IT IS SOLD WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING A SPECIAL EDITION PUBLISHED IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. HE HAS GIVEN MORE THAN 100 TEACHER TRAINING PRESENTATIONS THROUGHOUT ASIA AND WAS THE RECIPIENT OF A 2007 CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EDUCATORS AWARD. DR. BEATTY HAS WORKED AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA, HONG KONG AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. VERA BELETZAN VERA IS THE MANAGER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE AT HUMBER COLLEGE. FRANCOIS BELISLE FRANCOIS IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT THE CCLB AND HAS BEEN INVOLVED OVER THE YEARS IN THE AREAS OF TRADES, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH. PHILIPPA BELL PHILIPPA BELL IS A PHD STUDENT AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, AND A PART-TIME LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS FOCUS ON MORPHOSYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT IN SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS, AND THE POTENTIAL ROLES OF EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE ON THE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN ACQUIRING A SECOND LANGUAGE. SUSAN VOGL BLAKELOCK SUSAN VOGL BLAKELOCK HAS TAUGHT MOST LEVELS OF ESL SINCE BEGINNING AS A VOLUNTEER WITH DURHAM DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD MORE THAN 25 YEARS AGO. SONGS FORM A VITAL PART OF HER CLASSES.


KAREN BORDONARO KAREN IS A LIAISON LIBRARIAN ATTHE BROCK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. HER LIAISION AREAS INCLUDEAPPLIED LINGUISTICS, MODERN LANGUAGES, AND THE INTENSIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM. SHE TEACHES AS A PART TIME ESL INSTRUCTOR. NATALIYA BORKOVSKA NATALIYA BORKOVSKA HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE FIELD OF ESL/EFL FOR OVER TEN YEARS TEACHING IN UKRAINE, RUSSIA, USA AND CANADA. JESSICA BRENDERS JESSICA BRENDERS IS AN ESL INSTRUCTOR AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN TORONTO. SHE HOLDS A TESL CERTIFICATE AND A MASTER'S IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY. KATHRYN BRILLINGER KATHRYN BRILLINGER HAS TAUGHT ESL/LINC TO NEWCOMERS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS. SHE IS A PROFESSOR OF TESL AND ESL AT CONESTOGA COLLEGE. JOAN BRODIE JOAN OBTAINED HER M.A. IN APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES FROM CARLETON UNIVERSITY. SHE WORKS IN COLLABORATION WITH A CONSULTING FIRM AND TEACHES ESL IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND LANGUAGE SCHOOL SETTINGS. MARIA BRZESKA MARIA BRZESKA IS CURRENTLY A SETTLEMENT INFORMATION SPECIALIST AT THE CENTRE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING AND HAS OVER 12 YEARS EXPERIENCE WORKING IN VARIOUS AREAS OF SETTLEMENT. JULIANNE BURGESS JULIANNE BURGESS CO-TEACHES MOHAWK COLLEGE’S LINC FOR YOUTH VIDEO PROJECT WITH MARY ANNE PETERS AND HELPED INITIATE LITERATURE CIRCLES IN THE LINC FOR YOUTH PROGRAM. JULIE BYRD CLARK JULIE BYRD CLARK IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF MULTILINGUALISM, CITIZENSHIP, AND IDENTITY: VOICES OF YOUTH AND SYMBOLIC INVESTMENTS IN AN URBAN, GLOBALIZED WORLD (2009), WITH CONTINUUM, AND HAS SUBSTANTIAL PUBLICATIONS IN BOTH ENGLISH AND FRENCH. NANCY CALLAN NANCY CALLAN--B.A., B.ED. (WESTERN), T.E.S.L. (UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA)-- AUTHOR OF 10 ESL JIGSAW BOOKS, CURRENTLY TEACHES ADULT LINC AND TEENAGERS AT VANCOUVER FORMOSA ACADEMY. DR. RONALD CARTER RONALD CARTER IS PROFESSOR OF MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM. HE HAS

WRITTEN AND EDITED MORE THAN 50 BOOKS AND HAS PUBLISHED OVER 100 ACADEMIC PAPERS IN THE FIELDS OF LITERARY-LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION, APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH. HE HAS TAUGHT, LECTURED AND GIVEN CONSULTANCIES TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND MINISTRIES IN THE FIELD OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION, IN OVER THIRTY COUNTRIES WORLD-WIDE. IN THE UK HE HAS WORKED AS LINGUISTIC ADVISOR TO THE UK MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TO QCA ON ENGLISH IN THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND THE ADULT ESOL CORE CURRICULUM. RECENT BOOKS INCLUDE: THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO TEACHING ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES (ED WITH DAVID NUNAN) (CUP) LANGUAGE AND CREATIVITY: THE ART OF COMMON TALK (ROUTLEDGE), FROM CORPUS TO CLASSROOM (CUP) AND CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SPOKEN AND WRITTEN GRAMMAR AND USAGE (WITH MICHAEL MCCARTHY) (CUP) WHICH WON THE 2007 BRITISH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE INNOVATION AWARD. HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON ENGLISH GRAMMAR TODAY: AN A-Z OF SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH GRAMMAR (CUP, 2011) PROFESSOR CARTER IS A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, A FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES AND WAS CHAIR OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (2003-2006). TONI LYNN CASSIDY ESL INSTRUCTOR, TVDSB, LONDON, ONTARIO, 12 YEARS, LANGUAGE TUTOR, 24 YEARS. KIM CECHETTO KIM CECHETTO, M.ED.,COORDINATOR, ESL PROGRAM, FANSHAWE COLLEGE, HAS TAUGHT ESL FOR 25+ YEARS, IN CANADA, THE U.S., AND CHINA. CARMEN CHAMAN CARMEN CHAMAN IS THE CCLB PROJECT MANAGER IN CHARGE OF THE REVISIONS PROJECT. THE CENTRE FOR CANADIAN LANGUAGE BENCHMARKS (CCLB). JULIA CHEMALI JULIA CHEMALI OBTAINS A MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE TORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD FOR TWENTY YEARS. LIYING CHENG DR. LIYING CHENG IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT FACULTY OF EDUCATION, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE THE IMPACT OF LARGE-SCALE TESTING ON INSTRUCTION AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASSESSMENT AND INSTRUCTION. SHINTU CHERIAN SHINTU CHERIAN IS THE COORDINATOR OF MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM AT THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION. SHE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR 14 YEARS.


KELLY CLARK KELLY IS THE DIRECTOR OF WHO IS NOBODY? - OVERSEEING 25 000+ PARTICIPANTS CANADA-WIDE. CAROLYN COHEN CAROLYN COHEN IS PROJECT LEAD FOR THE TESL ONTARIO FRAMEWORK FOR POST TESL CERTIFICATE TRAINING PROJECT. DAVID COOMBES DAVID COOMBES HAS OVER 10 YEARS EXPEROIENCE TEACHING ENGLISH IN EUROPE AND CANADA. FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS HE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR PEARSON LONGMAN IN THE POSITION OF SALES MANAGER FOR CANADA. DAVID COOPER DAVID TEACHES EAP AND TESL AT HUMBER COLLEGE. PETER CORY PETER IS CURRENTLY A SETTLEMENT INFORMATION SPECIALIST; HE HAS INSTRUCTED IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AND IS THE AUTHOR OF “THE LINC COMPANION” AND “THE NEWCOMER COMPANION.” DARA COWPER DARA COWPER TEACHES IN THE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES PROGRAM AT CENTENNIAL COLLEGE. WENDY CROCKER MY 27 YEARS AS TEACHER, CONSULTANT & ADMINISTRATOR HEIGTHENED MY INTEREST IN CHILDREN ‘S RELATIONSHIPS TO LITERACY. AS A UWO DOCTORAL STUDENT, I USE SOCIOCULTURAL/ MULTILITERACIES LENS TO EXPLORE THIS TOPIC. JENNIFER CULLIGAN JENNIFER CULLIGAN IS A TESL INSTRUCTOR; AFTER WORKING IN CHINA AND JAPAN TEACHING ESL, SHE NOW WORKS WITH THE AVON MAITLAND DSB SUPPORTING CLASSROOM TEACHERS AS AN ESL EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANT. JIM CUMMINS JIM CUMMINS IS A CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CURRICULUM, TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. HIS RESEARCH FOCUSES ON LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN MULTILINGUAL SCHOOL CONTEXTS. KATE CUSHING KATE CUSHING HAS A MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH, HAS TAUGHT ALL LEVELS OF ADULT LINC, WORKPLACE ESL, AND COMPUTERS SINCE 1980, AND HAS CREATED MORE THAN 700 ESL LESSONS. HEATHER DAVIS FOLLOWING A FIFTEEN YEAR CAREER AS A HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER AND GUIDANCE COUNSELOR, HEATHER STARTED TEACHING ESL/LINC IN 2000. SHE HAS TAUGHT ADULTS FROM PRE-LINC TO LINC 8.

HERMAN DE SOUZA HERMAN DE SOUZA IS THE PRESIDENT OF EQUITY 2000, A CROSS CULTURAL SENSITIVITY, WORKING WITH DIVERSITY TRAINING COMPANY WITH OVER 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. MARILYN (PEG) DEATON PEG DEATON, M.ED., A VOLUNTEER AT KEYS-KINGSTON, TAUGHT IN A QUEBEC FRENCH SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR 29 YEARS. SHE HAS DONE MUCH WORK WITH REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, BOTH ADULTS AND YOUTH. DANA DI PARDO LEON-HENRI ORIGINALLY FROM ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO DANA DI PARDO LÉON-HENRI HAS MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ADULT AND HIGHER EDUCATION ESL TEACHING EXPERIENCE. KOSTA DIMEROPOULOS KOSTA DIMEROPOULOS HAS BEEN TEACHING ESL AT SENECA COLLEGE’S ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE SINCE 2000. HE IS ALSO THE DEPARTMENT’S CALL COORDINATOR AND TESTING COORDINATOR. CONRAD DIPPEL COORDINATOR, LINC VOLUNTEER TUTOR PROGRAM, SOUTH ESSEX COMMUNITY COUNCIL. BACKGROUND IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, ADULT EDUCATION, WORKER EDUCATION B.A., B.ED., M.DIV. EVA DLOUHY ESL INSTRUCTOR, TVDSB, LONDON, ONTARIO, 16 YEARS KIMEIKO HOTTA DOVER TENURED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE AT SENECA COLLEGE, KIMEIKO HAS BEEN TEACHING SINCE 1989. HER CREDENTIALS INCLUDE AN M.ED. AND CERTIFICATES IN TESL AND TEACHING & LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY. ROB EDELMANN ROB EDELMANN HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN THE ESL COMMUNITY FOR OVER 20 YEARS. HIS DYNAMIC PRESENTATIONS HAVE INTRODUCED NEW MATERIALS TO THOUSANDS OF ESL TEACHERS. JIM EDGAR JIM EDGAR HAS WORKED IN TESL IN OTTAWA, DUBAI, AND THE CANADIAN ARCTIC. HIS AREAS OF INTEREST ARE E-LEARNING AND CALL. JAYNE EDMONDS JAYNE EDMONDS, GANDY ASSOCIATES PROGRAM DIRECTOR, OFFERS DECADES OF EXPERIENCE DESIGING, DELIVERING AND DIRECTING ESL PROGRAMS. SHE HOLDS A B.A. FROM YORK UNIVERSITY AND M.ED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO.


MARINA ENGELKING AN EAP PROFESSOR AT SENECA’ COLLEGE SINCE 1990, MARINA HOLDS AN MA DEGREE IN SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. SHE IS CO-AUTHOR OF BREAKTHROUGHS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS) ESL SERIES. LUCIA ENGKENT LUCIA ENGKENT TEACHES ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING AT SENECA COLLEGE. SHE HAS WRITTEN 5 TEXTBOOKS, INCLUDING TAKE PART AND SKILL SET. CHRISTY ERMERS CHRISTY HAS BEEN TEACHING ESL SINCE 2007. SHE HAS TAUGHT EAP-LISTENING/SPEAKING, GRAMMAR AND WRITING. CHRISTY IS CURRENTLY TEACHING LITERACY CLASSES AT ST. LOUIS IN KITCHENER, ON. FARAHNAZ FAEZ AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS INLCUDE PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE ESL TEACHER EDUCATION, INTERNATIONALLY EDUCATED TEACHERS, WORLD ENGLISHES, LINGUISTIC & CULTURAL DEVERSITY. CAROLYN FLORES CAROLYN FLORES, ESL/LINC INSTRUCTOR, HAS BEEN AN EDUCATOR FOR OVER 20 YEARS. SHE HAS 10 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE AND CURRENTLY OPERATES A TUTORING BUSINESS IN THE OAKVILLE AREA. RACHEL FOURNY EMPLOYED AS AN ESL INSTRUCTOR WITH THE UPPER CANADA DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD IN CORNWALL, ONTARIO, RACHEL HAS 6 YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE, BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE ESL CLASSROOM. WENDY FRASER WENDY FRASER IS THE MANAGER OF CAEL ASSESSMENT, A STANDARDIZED ACADEMIC ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST. SHE ALSO TEACHES ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES AND LANGUAGE TESTING AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY, OTTAWA. ANGELICA GALANTE ANGELICA GALANTE IS AN ESL AND DRAMA TEACHER WITH 16 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE BOTH OVERSEAS AND IN CANADA. SHE IS CURRENTLY COMPLETING HER M.A. IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS/TESL AT BROCK UNIVERSITY. JORDANA GARBATI JORDANA GARBATI IS A PHD CANDIDATE IN THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AT UWO. SHE IS INTERESTED IN ISSUES IN SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING. BHUPINDER GILL BHUPINDER GILL, M.SC., M. ED., R.N. WORKS IN THE EARLY PSYCHOSIS UNIT AT THE CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH (CAMH). SHE HAS BEEN STUDYING NVC FOR OVER 5 YEARS.

MARIA GLASS MARIA GLASS IS A FULL-TIME ESL PROFESSOR WITH GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE IN TORONTO, ONTARIO. SHE HOLDS A TESL CERTIFICATE, A PH.D. IN PRAGMATICS AND A MASTER'S IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS. SUSAN GRACEY SUSAN GRACEY IS THE COORDINATOR FOR THE HARTS SYSTEM. SHE HAS WORKED AT TCET SINCE 2006. SUSAN GRACEY HAS ENSURED STABILITY AS WELL AS FUNCTIONALITY FOR THE SYSTEM. BARBARA GRAVES BARBARA GRAVES IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, CANADA. HER MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS THEORIES OF MIND INFORMED BY SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY, EMBODIED COGNITION, AND COMPLEXITY SCIENCE. ANDREA GRIGGS ANDREA GRIGGS, COACH AND TEACHER, IS THE PRESIDENT OF CATALYST COMMUNICATION, WHICH HELPS PROFESSIONALS HONE THEIR COMMUNICATION SKILLS. SHE HAS OVER 20 YEARS TEACHING/COACHING EXPERIENCE IN VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. WWW.CATALYSTCOMMUNICATION.CA JEFF GULLEY JEFF GULLEY IS THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ESL CONSULTANT FOR WESTERN ONTARIO AND MANITOBA. HE HAS TAUGHT ESL OVERSEAS TO CLASSROOMS, BUSINESSES, AND INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES AND LEVELS. PEJMAN HABIBIE BA IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION. MA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING. EFL/ESL TEACHER FOR OVER 15 YEARS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE SCHOOLS, HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES, AND UNIVERSITIES. VINCENT HALFORD AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER FOR INTERACTIVE JOBPREP, VINCENT HALFORD CREATES E-LEARNING MODULES OF UNCOMMON DEPTH AND FLEXIBILITY. A MEMBER OF THE ONTARIO COLLEGE OF TEACHERS. RAVI HANDA LINC INSTRUCTOR, INDIA RAINBOW COMMUNITY SERVICES DIANE HARDY DIANE HARDY IS A PROGRAM COORDINATOR IN THE ESL AND LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT AT BOW VALLEY COLLEGE IN CALGARY, ALBERTA. SHE HAS WORKED IN THE FIELD OF ESL/EFL SINCE THE 1990’S. JOHN-PAUL HATALA DR. HATALA IS CURRENTLY A VISITING PROFESSOR AT LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE SCHOOL OF HUMAN RESOURCE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, BATON ROUGE.


DARAGH HAYES DARAGH HAS TAUGHT IN JAPAN, AUSTRALIA AND CANADA. HE HOLDS A MA IN TESOL (COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE) AND A B.ED. (OISE). HE IS AN ESL PROFESSOR AT FANSHAWE COLLEGE. MAGGIE HEENEY MAGGIE IS A CREDIT/NON-CREDIT EAP INSTRUCTOR AT RENISON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO. SHE IS CURRENTLY COMPLETING HER PH.D, AND HER RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE READING AND WRITING DEVELOPMENT. AMANDA HENNESSEY AMANDA HENESSEY IS A UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA STUDENT, MAJORING IN SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND WORKING AS A LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA. HER INTERESTS INCLUDE ANTIRACIST EDUCATION. SHIRLEY HILL SHIRLEY IS AN INSTRUCTOR WITH TVDSB, TEACHING ADULT ESL FOR THE PAST 21 YEARS. SHE HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WITH TEACHING, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATING STAGE ONE & TWO CLB. JOANNE HINCKS JOANNE WORKS AS A PROGRAM CONSULTANT WITH THE TORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD AND PART OF HER JOB ENTAILS PROVIDING SUPPORT AND SUPERVISION TO ADULT ESL/LINC INSTRUCTORS USING THIS MODEL. MARGARET HOLEC MARGARET HOLEC IS A PASSIONATE ESL TEACHER WHO HAS TAUGHT NEWCOMERS AT THE GRASS ROOTS LEVEL FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS. SHE COMBINES EXPERIENCE WITH INNOVATION IN HER TEACHING. LORRAINE HUDSON LORRAINE HUDSON (BA, TESL, MED IN PROGRESS) IS A LANGUAGE ASSESSOR AT THE YMCA OF GREATER TORONTO. SHE HAS EXPERIENCE IN EFL AND LINC (BOTH TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION). TINA INTINI TINA INTINI TEACHES ESL IN THE INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM AND IS INVOLVED IN TEACHER TRAINING IN THE TESL PROGRAM AT GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE. KASHMIRA IRANI KASHMIRA IRANI HAS TAUGHT LINC FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS AT INDIA RAINBOW COMMUNITY SERVICES. SHE WISHES TO SHARE HER ENTHUSIASM, EXPERIENCE, TRIED AND TESTED IDEAS & ACTIVITIES WITH THE PARTICIPANTS.

KHALED ISLAIH KHALED IS AN INDEPENENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPER AND FREELANCE WRITER. IN HIS COMMUNITY WORK, HE ADVOCATES THE USE OF TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES TO FACILITATE SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. TANIA IVESON TANIA BEGAN HER TEACHING CAREER IN TAIWAN IN 1990. SINCE THEN SHE HAS TAUGHT AND TRAINED IN SPAIN, CANADA, ENGLAND, BRAZIL AND MYANMAR. TANIA IS PASSIONATE ABOUT TEACHING AND TRAINING. FOZIA JAMAL FACULTY - COLLEGE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC-QATAR - 4 YEARS. INSTRUCTOR, COACH - COLLEGES & UNIVERSITY IN VANCOUVER - 11 YEARS. EFL/ESL ACADEMIC PROGRAMS TEACHING EAP/ESP. KATHLEEN JOHNSON KATHLEEN JOHNSON BEGAN HER ESL CAREER AS A LAB MONITOR IN CARLETON UNIVERSITY’S FIRST ESL COMPUTER LAB, BACK IN THE HEYDAY OF MS-DOS, WORDSTAR AND COMMODORE. ALEX KALOTINIS AN INSIDE CLIENT SERVICE SPECIALIST, ALEX WORKS WITH OUR CLIENTS TO ENSURE THEIR SERVICING REQUIREMENTS ARE MET. HER FOCUS AND ENTHUSIASM DEVELOPS SOLID RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR CLIENTS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES. KEVIN KAMAL KEVIN KAMAL IS THE CLIENT SERVICES MANAGER AT WORLD EDUCATION SERVICES (WES). HE LIAISES WITH SECONDARY SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, OCCUPATIONAL REGULATORY BODIES, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND AGENCIES SERVING IMMIGRANTS. MARIANNE KAYED MARIANNE HAS WORKED AT CCLB SINCE 2002 AND IS THE SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER. SHE HAS MANAGED SEVERAL INNOVATIVE PROJECTS. SHE ALSO HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WORKING AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE. DORIS KELLY ESL PROFESSOR AT ALGONQUIN COLLEGE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE. HAS TAUGHT AND COORDINATED VARIOUS ESL PROGRAMS AT ALGONQUIN FOR 30 YEARS. BRIGID KELSO BRIGID KELSO IS A FULL-TIME PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AT GEORGE BROWN. SHE HAS A MASTER'S DEGREE IN SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION, IS TESL-CERTIFIED AND HAS BEEN TEACHING FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS.


ADAM KERTESZ ADAM KERTESZ IS PART OWNER OF DYNAMIX TORONTO AND A PREVIOUSLY A SR EMPLOYEE OF DYNAMIX IN MONTREAL. HE GRADUATED FROM CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WITH A MARKETING DEGREE. SOHAIL KHAN SOHAIL KHAN HAS 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN IT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT. SOHAIL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SKILLS INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION. JESSICA KING PHD STUDENT IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT YORK UNIVERSITY FOCUSING ON LANGUAGE POLICY; MA IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS FROM YORK UNIVERSITY; TEACHER OF ESL AND POST-SECONDARY WRITING COURSES AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL. BERNICE KLASSEN CIITE COORDINATOR - ALGONQUIN COLLEGE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE. IN SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR OVER 20 YEARS AS TEACHER, PROGRAM COORDINATOR, PROJECT MANAGER, TRAINER, FACILITATOR AND MENTOR - CANADA AND ABROAD. SUZANNA KOTILEHTI SUZANNA KOTILEHTI ( M. ED.) HAS WORKED IN THE EDUCATION FIELD FOR 15 YEARS AND IS EXPERIENCED INTERNATIONALLY, SPECIALIZING IN SPECIAL EDUCATION. PRESENTLY SHE IS WORKING IN LONDON, ONTARIO. SHAREEF KORAH SHAREEF KORAH IS AN ANALYST WITH THE OFFICE OF LITERACY AND ESSENTIAL SKILLS. HIS MAIN FILE IS IMMIGRANT LITERACY AND ESSENTIAL SKILLS. HE HOLDS A B.A AND AN M.A. KEN LACKMAN KEN LACKMAN TAUGHT IN PRAGUE FROM 1996-2002 BEFORE SPENDING FIVE YEARS AS DIRECTOR OF STUDIES AT EF TORONTO. HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING AS A COURSEBOOK WRITER AND FREELANCE TEACHER TRAINER. RON LAVOIE RON LAVOIE HAS BEEN THE LINC MANAGER AT OTTAWA COMMUNITY IMMIGRANT SERVICES ORGANIZATION FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS. BEFORE THAT, HE WORKED AT THE CCLB AND THE YMCA ASSESSMENT CENTRE-TORONTO. MARY LAWLESS MARY LAWLESS TEACHES ACADEMIC ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. SHE HAS A TESL CERTIFICATE AND IS CURRENTLY SEEKING HER MASTER IN EDUCATION AT U OF T.

NINA LEE NINA IS A RESEARCH COORDINATOR AND INSTRUCTOR AT RYERSON UNIVERSITY AND A PH.D. STUDENT AT BROCK UNIVERSITY. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: PRE-SERVICE TEACHER DEVELOPMENT, ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, AND TEACHER COMPETENCE. RITA LEITHEAD RITA LEITHEAD, FORMER TESL INSTRUCTOR AND SUPERVISOR OF TECHNICAL TRAINING, IS NOW THE SENIOR SALES CONSULTANT IN ONTARIO FOR PEARSON LONGMAN. RITA HAS BEEN WITH PEARSON LONGMAN FOR SIX YEARS. IRYNA LENCHUK IRYNA IS A PH.D. STUDENT IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND LINGUISTICS, YORK UNIVERSITY. XUEMEI LI XUEMEI LI IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND. SHE HAS HAD EXTENDED EXPERIENCE TEACHING AND RESEARCHING ON ESL/TESL. SHE OBTAINED HER PHD IN EDUCATION FROM QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY. JUSTINE LIGHT AN ESL CONSULTANT MANAGING A VARIETY OF PROJECTS FOR ATESL & ALBERTA EMPLOYMENT & IMMIGRATION. A FORMER INSTRUCTOR, SHE CURRENTLY SHARES HER PASSION THROUGH SESSIONAL INSTRUCTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA. TUULA LINDHOLM 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN ADULT EDUCATION AND CORPORATE TRAINING. IN THE LAST 10 YEARS HAVE DESIGNED BOTH ELT AND OCCUPATION-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE (OSL) CURRICULUM AND LEARNING PROGRAMS. JIA MA I AM A LECTURER TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSES TO ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT A UNIVERSITY IN CHINA. I WILL BEGIN MY PHD PROGRAM AT QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY IN SEPTEMBER, 2010. ANNE MACGREGOR-O'NEILL TAUGHT ESL WITH TCDSB FOR 18 YEARS. SHE HAS TAUGHT LITERACY TO HIGH INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS PLUS AN ESL PRENATAL CLASS. SHE HAS PRESENTED AT BOTH TESL TORONTO AND TESL ONTARIO. DARLENE MACINNIS DARLENE MACINNIS HAS BEEN A PRACTICE INTERVIEW PROGRAM CO-ORDINATOR FOR 8+ YEARS WITH ISIS AND IS A CERTIFIED CLB, CLBA, ELTPA ASSESSOR . ELENA MAGGIO ELENA MAGGIO IS A COORDINATOR WITH THE LINC HOME STUDY PROGRAM AT THE CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING.


LILLIAN MAK WITH A PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND IN BANKING AND FINANCE, LILLIAN RECENTLY MOVED INTO THE FIELD OF ADULT ESL. SHE HAS A B.A. IN ECONOMICS AND A TESL CERTIFICATE FROM CENTENNIAL COLLEGE. TRACY MANNING A CONTRACT EAP INSTRUCTOR AT YORK UNIVERSITY ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (YUELI). SHE TAUGHT AT A UNIVERSITY IN BANGKOK, THAILAND AND AN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM IN PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA. FAITH MARCEL FAITH MARCEL HAS TAUGHT ESL, FRENCH AND LANGUAGE INTERPRETING, BOTH ABROAD AND IN CANADA FOR 15 YEARS. SHE IS COMPLETING A MASTER’S DEGREE IN LINGUISTICS (TESL) FROM BROCK UNIVERSITY. FRANK MARINGOLA ESL INSTRUCTOR IN JAPAN FROM 2000-2004. I NOW HAVE A B.ED. FROM QUEEN'S AND WILL BE WORKING AS A COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TEACHER. I HAVE A TESL CERTIFICATE FROM T.D.S.B. FRAN MARSHALL FRAN MARSHALL HAS MANY YEARS OF ESL EXPERIENCE. SHE IS A FREQUENT PRESENTER AT TESL ONTARIO, TESL CANADA, AFFILIATES, TESL TRAINING PROGRAMS, AUTHOR OF READER-WORKBOOKS, TEACHER MANUALS AND CD. DEREK MARTIN DEREK TEACHES EAP AND COORDINATES CAMP AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS IN JAPAN AND CANADA. HE IS AN INTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INVENTORY QUALIFIED ADMINISTRATOR AND AN M.ED CANDIDATE AT OISE. CORALEE MATHEWS THE ESL/ELD COORDINATOR FOR THE AVON MAITLAND DSB FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS, CORALEE MATHEWS ENJOYS TEACHING ESL AQS FOR BROCK UNIVERSITY AND OECTA AND GIVING ACTIVITY BASED ESL/ELD WORKSHOPS. PATRICIA MAYA PATRICIA HAS BEEN TEACHING ESL/LINC SINCE 1999. SHE HAS TAUGHT ALL LEVELS FROM LITERACY TO LINC6/7, INCLUDING TSE, TOEIC, CITIZENSHIP CLASSES, ADVANCED CONVERSATION CLASSES & ELT FOR SECRETARIAL WORKERS AND ENGINEERS. REZA MAZLOOM-FARZAGHY REZA IS THE TESL ONTARIO ACCREDITATION ADMINISTRATOR. HE HOLDS AN MA IN TEFL AND HAS TAUGHT EFL/ESL AND TESL FOR MANY YEARS.

ROBERT MCBRIDE MR. MCBRIDE IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA LANGUAGE TRAINING. SINCE THE EARLY 1980’S, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. MCBRIDE AND A VOLUNTARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS. HEDY MCGARRELL HEDY MCGARRELL TEACHES GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT BROCK UNIVERSITY. SHE HAS TAUGHT ESL AND PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE LEARNING/TEACHING ALL OVER THE WORLD. JOHN MCGAUGHEY A PHD CANDIDATE IN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT YORK UNIVERSITY. HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY, BILINGUAL/MULTILINGUAL PEDAGOGY, CLASSROOM-BASED RESEARCH FOCUSING ON INTERACTION AND COMPUTER-MEDIATED LANGUAGE TRAINING. TERESA MCGILL GANDY ASSOCIATES PRESIDENT, TERESA MCGILL, HAS ENJOYED OVER 20 YEARS SERVING THE CORPORATE ESL SECTOR. SHE IS A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO WHERE SHE STUDIED LINGUSITCS AND TESL. IRENE MCKAY IRENE MCKAY TEACHES IN THE INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM AND TRAINS TEACHERS IN THE TESL PROGRAM AT GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE. JENNIFER MCKAY JENNIFER MCKAY IS THE CLB PROGRAM MANAGER AT THE CCLB AND HAS WORKED ON VARIOUS PROJECTS INCLUDING ASSESSOR AND INSTRUCTOR TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND CLB ASSESSMENT RESOURCES. JAMES MCMULLAN JAMES IS A TESL ONTARIO-ACCREDITED ESL TEACHER WITH AN MA IN LINGUISTICS & ELT AND EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE TEACHING ADULTS IN NORTH AMERICA, GERMANY, NIGERIA, OMAN, QATAR, SUDAN AND YEMEN. GLORIA MCPHERSON AN EAP PROFESSOR AT SENECA’ COLLEGE SINCE 1989, GLORIA IS A PHD CANDIDATE IN CURRICULUM, TEACHING & LEARNING. SHE IS CO-AUTHOR OF BREAKTHROUGHS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS) ESL SERIES. SHAHEEN MERAJ SHAHEEN MERAJ HAS AN M.A IN TESOL AND AN M.A IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. SHE HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY INVOLVED IN THE ESL PROFESSION AS TEACHER, TEACHER EDUCATOR, PRESENTER AND MATERIAL DEVELOPER. JANE MERIVALE JANE MERIVALE TEACHES IN THE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES PROGRAM AT CENTENNIAL COLLEGE


ANGELA MEYER STERZIK ANGELA IS A PHD CANDIDATE AT YORK UNIVERSITY, HAS AN MA (APPLIED LINGUISTICS), HAS TAUGHT EFL (AUSTRIA), AND HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT ESL, BUT SHE FOCUSES ON EAP AT FANSHAWE COLLEGE. MARDI MICHELS MARDI MICHELS SPENT FIVE YEARS IN PARIS TRAINING/WORKING IN ESL, NOTABLY AT THE BRITISH COUNCIL’S YOUNG LEARNERS CENTRE. SHE HAS PRESENTED TEACHER TRAINING WORKSHOPS ACROSS CANADA, US, EUROPE AND ENGLAND. ANNE MULLEN FULL TIME LECTURER IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AT LAVAL UNIVERSITY, QUEBEC, QUEBEC. PHD IN LINGUISTICS (TESTING AND ASSESSMENT). JANE NICHOLLS JANE HAS BEEN AN ESL EDUCATION COUNSELLOR AT ELTOC SINCE JUNE 2007. SHE HAS ALSO WORKED AS A LINC INSTRUCTOR, LANGUAGE ASSESSOR AND WORKPLACE/DISTANCE LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR IN OTTAWA/GATINEAU. BONNY NORTON DR. BONNY NORTON IS PROFESSOR AND DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. HER AWARD-WINNING RESEARCH ADDRESSES IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE LEARNING, EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND CRITICAL LITERACY. RECENT PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE LEARNING (LONGMAN/PEARSON, 2000); CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004, W. K. TOOHEY); GENDER AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (TESOL, 2004, W. A. PAVLENKO); AND LANGUAGE AND HIV/AIDS (MULTILINGUAL MATTERS, 2010, W. C. HIGGINS). HER WEBSITE CAN BE FOUND AT HTTP://LERC.EDUC.UBC.CA/FAC/NORTON/. KEVIN O'BRIEN AN ESL,LINC AND CALL INSTRUCTOR SINCE 1985. HE HAS HAD EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND IN PRESENTING TO ESL LINC INSTRUCTORS ON THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM. ERIN O'NEIL ERIN O’NEIL (BA, TESL) IS A TEAM LEADER WITH THE YMCA OF GREATER TORONTO LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT AND REFERRAL CENTRE. SHE HAS 8 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN ESL/EFL TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT. MAUREEN O'REILLY A FORMER ESL/LINC TEACHER WHO CURRENTLY WORKS AS THE RESOURCE AND VOLUNTEER WITH DURHAM CONTINUING EDUCATION. HER DEGREE IN LINGUISTICS AND EXPERIENCE IN PUBLISHING ADD TO HER BREADTH OF KNOWLEDGE.

CAROL OLSON CAROL OLSON WAS ON THE CITIZENSHIP RESOURCE WRITING TEAM. SHE TEACHES LINC AND ADULT ESL CLASSES WITH THE TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD. MICHAEL OWEN MICHAEL IS FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY AND BENEFIT CONSULTANT TO TESL ONTARIO, ALBERTA TESL AND LITERACY ORGANIZATIONS NATIONWIDE. HE HAS OVER THIRTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE INDUSTRY. AGA PALALAS A COMPREHENSIVE BACKGROUND IN ESL, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY. AGA HAS LED SEVERAL ESL/ESP LANGUAGE RESEARCH PROJECTS INCLUDING MOBILE LEARNING STUDIES. A DOCTORAL CANDIDATE AT ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY. NICO PALUZZI NICO PALUZZI IS A UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA STUDENT, MAJORING IN SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND WORKING AS A LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA. HIS INTERESTS INCLUDE MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION. EILEEN PAULSEN EILEEN IS A PROGRAM CONSULTANT AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE SUPPORT AND SUPERVISION MODEL. SHE HAS EXPERIENCE DELIVERING THIS MODEL BOTH WITH TCDSB INSTRUCTORS AND THOSE OF EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS. BEVERLEY PAYNE BEVERLEY PAYNE, B.A., B.R.E., M.S.W. B.ED., HAS A BACKGROUND IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND IS A WORKPLACE LEAD INSTRUCTOR FOR THE THAMES VALLEY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD IN LONDON, ONTARIO. DONNA PEARCE CURRENTLY A 4TH YEAR STUDENT MAJORING IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS/TESL. I AM ALSO A RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR DR. RON THOMSON AND A TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR COURSES IN PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY. MELISSA PEDERSEN MELISSA IS THE ISAP COORDINATOR AT THE CENTRE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING AND HAS OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION. SHE IS A FREQUENT PRESENTER. GREG PEDWELL LINC/ESL/EFL INSTRUCTOR WITH 5 YEARS EXPERIENCE TEACHING STUDENTS OF ALL LEVELS AND AGES IN CANADA AND VIETNAM COLETTE PETERS COLETTE PETERS IS A RESEARCH CONSULTANT WITH THE TESL ONTARIO FRAMEWORK FOR POST TESL CERTIFICATE TRAINING PROJECT.


MARY ANNE PETERS MARY ANNE PETERS TEACHES IN THE LINC PROGRAM AT MOHAWK COLLEGE, IN THE LINC FOR YOUTH VIDEO PROJECT AND IN LINC 6/7. SHE HELPED TO INITIATE THE LITERATURE CIRCLE PROGRAM FOR MOHAWK’S LINC CLASSES. JOANNE PETTIS JOANNE PETTIS (M.ED. TESL) IS THE COORDINATOR OF ADULT EAL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION FOR MANITOBA LABOUR & IMMIGRATION. SHE WAS SECONDED TO CIC O DEVELOP PBLA FOR LINC PROGRAMS. ANOUCHKA PLUMB ANOUCHKA PLUMB IS A RESEARCH CONSULTANT WITH THE TESL ONTARIO FRAMEWORK FOR POST TESL CERTIFICATE TRAINING PROJECT. BOGDAN POSPIELOVSKY SINCE BECOMING A TEACHER IN 1994 I'VE TAUGHT ESL IN MOSCOW, LITERACY IN THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND CONSULTED ON TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS CANADA FOR BRIDGES. DMITRI PRIVEN HAS TAUGHT ESL FOR 15 YEARS IN LINC PROGRAMS, SENECA COLLEGE, ALGONQUIN COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA. TESL FOR 7 YEARS AT SENECA COLLEGE AND CURRENTLY AT ALGONQUIN COLLEGE. CARRIE PURCELL CARRIE PURCELL IS A LANGUAGE CONSULTANT WITH OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. SHE HAS A MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH AND HAS TAUGHT ENGLISH AND ESL AT ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY AND POST SECONDARY LEVELS. KALEIGH QUINN KALEIGH QUINN IS THE PROGRAM COORDINATOR OF THE ESL TEACHER CERTIFICATE PROGRAM AT THE UNMIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG. CURRENTLY, SHE’S ALSO PURSUING HER MASTERS IN EDUCATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA. JANET RAGAN A TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTOR WITH BRIDGES CANADA. IN HER FORMERLY, SHE TAUGHT HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TO MANY LEARNED CHALLENGED STUDENTS. HER STRUGGLING STUDENTS LED HER TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN HER LESSONS. SHARON RAJABI SHARON’S INTEREST IS IN THE IMPACT OF COMMUNICATION IN SLA. SHE CO-AUTHORED LINC 4-5 CURRICULUM GUIDELINES, CALL: A SOFTWARE GUIDE FOR THE LINC CLASSROOM, AND STEP FORWARD CANADA BOOKS 1&2.

RADMILA RAKAS AN EXPERIENCED ESL/EFL TEACHER, NATURE LOVER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATE. PRESENTED AT TESL CONFERENCES AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND ESL MATERIAL ON-LINE. CAN BE CONTACTED AT: [email protected]. SUBHADRA RAMACHANDRAN SENIOR MANAGER FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT THE CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING. SHE IS INTERESTED IN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED TEACHING, MULTILITERACIES AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT. DIANE RAMANATHAN DIANE HAS BEEN AN ESL EDUCATION COUNSELLOR AT ELTOC SINCE JUNE 2007. SHE HAS ALSO WORKED AS A TEACHER TRAINER AND LINC/ESL INSTRUCTOR SINCE 1996. LEILA RANTA LEILA RANTA IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE TESL PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA. SHE HAS BEEN A PRESIDENT OF THE ALBERTA TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. BRETT REYNOLDS BRETT TEACHES EAP AND TESL AT HUMBER COLLEGE. DOUG RONSON DOUG RONSON IS COUNTRY MANAGER OF EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE CANADA. ETS IS THE DEVELOPER OF THE TOEFL TEST AND ETS CANDA PROVIDES TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS AND TEST-TAKER PREPARATION MATERIALS. NAYIBE ROSADO NAYIBE ROSADO IS AN EFL TEACHER AND RESEARCHER AT UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE IN COLOMBIA. HER RESEARCH INTEREST INCLUDE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT, TECCHNOLOGY IN LANGUAGE TEACHNG AND TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. IGOR ROSIC IGOR ROSIC IS A COORDINATOR WITH THE LINC HOME STUDY PROGRAM AT THE CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING. PANKAJ SACHDEVA LINC AND FSL INSTRUTOR, DUFFERIN PEELCATHOLIC BOARD, FRENCH INSTRUCTOR AT SHERIDAN COLLEGE, CAREER SPECIALIST, CENTRE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING. YVES SAINT-GERMAIN DIRECTOR -- INFORMATION, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAM POLICY, CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CANADA (NHQ).


NAGLAA SALEM TEACHES ACADEMIC ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. SHE HAS A TESL CERTIFICATE AND A MASTER IN TEACHING. SHE HAS TAUGHT EFL TO ARAB STUDENTS FOR SEVERAL YEARS. LUCY SANFORD FOR 25 YEARS LUCY TAUGHT CHILDREN FROM KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 9. OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS SHE HAS DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED CURRICULUM FOR ADULT STUDENTS FROM PRE-LINC TO ELT. AISHA SAYIDINA I HAVE BEEN TEACHING ESL, EAP, ESP, LINGUISTICS, TRANSLATION AND TESL IN CANADA, USA, UK, SAUDI ARABIA, UAE AND SUDAN SINCE 1985. CURRENTLY, I AM ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS. CLEA SCHMIDT CLEA SCHMIDT IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TEAL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA. SHE HAS CONDUCTED PROGRAM EVALUATION AND RESEARCH FOR WINNIPEG SCHOOL DIVISION’S ESSENTIAL SKILLS PROJECT. GRACE SCIRE GRACE SCIRE IS THE MANAGER FOR THE HARTS SYSTEM. SHE HAS WORKED AT TCET SINCE 1999. SHE HAS PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM. TYSON SEBURN TYSON SEBURN HAS BEEN AN ESL TEACHER, DIRECTOR OF A PRIVATE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND MANAGER OF AN INDUSTRY BOOK DISTRIBUTOR. HE CURRENTLY RUNS COURSETREE, SPECIALIZING IN PROGRAM AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. JEREMIE SEROR JEREMIE SEROR IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES AND BILINGUALISM INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA. HIS RESEARCH EXPLORES LITERACY DEVELOPMENT AND MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENT. ELLEN SERVINIS A SESSIONAL ESL INSTRUCTOR AND HAS TAUGHT IN A NUMBER OF SCHOOLS IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC, INCLUDING GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, JOHN ABBOT COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL. ALEX SEYMOUR ALEX COLLECTS PROGRAM RESEARCH AND MANAGES ALL OF WHO IS NOBODY?’S IT REQUIREMENTS. HE HOLDS A COMPUTER SCIENCE DEGREE FROM MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND.

SAMUEL SHEINBERG ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE LANGUAGE SOFTWARE MARKET FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS. PARTICIPATED IN NUMEROUS PROJECTS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING PROGRAMS AND ONLINE COURSES IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND OTHER LANGUAGES. LINAN SHI LINC/ESL TEACHER AT THE CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION, UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT CENTRE & TDSB ADVANCED TRANSLATOR OF TRANLATION BUREAU CANADA, TDSB AND MULTI-LINGUAL COMMUNITY INTERPRETER SERVICES ONTARIO MANDARIN TEACHER OF TDSB. SHASHA SHI LINC/ESL TEACHER AT TCCSA SCARBOROUGH CENTRE. MANDARIN TEACHER OF TDSB. PRATIMA SINGH PRATIMA SINGH HAS MORE THAN 3 DECADES OF ESL TEACHING EXPERIENCE. SHE HAS TAUGHT IN INDIA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND IS NOW TEACHING IN CANADA. SHE HAS PRESENTED SEVERAL WORKSHOPS. PAT SKINNER PAT IS A CREDIT EAP INSTRUCTOR AT RENISON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO. SHE HOLDS A MASTERS IN ENGLISH AND HER INTERESTS INCLUDE ACADEMIC WRITING DEVELOPMENT. HEEJIN SONG HEEJIN SONG IS A PHD STUDENT IN SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION AT OISE/UT. PRIOR TO BEGINNING HER GRADUATE STUDIES, SHE WAS A FULL-TIME ENGLISH TEACHER IN SOUTH KOREA. MARGARET STASIAK MARGARET STASIAK: HAS BEEN TEACHING LINC AND ESL FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SHE IS A CURRICULUM AND CLASSROOM MATERIALS DEVELOPER AS WELL AS A TESL INSTRUCTOR. GAIL STEWART AN ESL ASSESSMENT SPECIALIST AND CONSULTANT. SHE HAS WORKED ON THE CLBA, CLBLA, CLBPT, AND CLB-OSA. GAIL HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN VARIOUS CCLB INITIATIVES AS A DEVELOPER AND AN ADVISOR. MAUREEN STEWART AUTHOR OF ESL CLASSICS & MORE ESL CLASSICS. SHE HAS TAUGHT ESL IN CANADA AND ABROAD FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS. CURRENTLY TEACHES ADULTS AT THE EGLINTON LINC CENTRE IN TORONTO. LAURA STOUTENBURG LAURA HAS BEEN WITH CONESTOGA COLLEGE FOR 9 YEARS AND INVOLVED WITH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION FOR 13 YEARS. PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR THE CONESTOGA CERTIFICATE PROGRAM.


MATTHIAS STURM MATTHIAS IS THE RESEARCHER AND EVALUATOR FOR THE LEARNIT2TEACH PD PROJECT. HE HAS WORKED IN THE AREA OF ONLINE AND BLENDED LEARNING FOR LITERACY AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION FOR MANY YEARS. YOUYI SUN YOUYI SUN IS CURRENTLY A PH.D. CANDIDATE AT FACULTY OF EDUCATION, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY. HIS MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE LARGE-SCALE LANGUAGE TESTING AND CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT. HANA TALEB IMAI HANA TALEB IMAI IS A PROGRAM COORDINATOR IN THE ESL AND LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT AT BOW VALLEY COLLEGE IN CALGARY, ALBERTA. SHE HAS WORKED IN THE FIELD OF ESL/EFL SINCE THE 1990’S. DANNY TAN DANNY HAS BEEN TEACHING FOR 15 YEARS. WITH AN MA IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS, HE CREATED MULTIPLE SPEAKING PROGRAMS. NOW AT YUELI, HE IS DEVELOPING A SKILLS FOR EVERYDAY ENGLISH PROGRAM. CARLA TANCREDI CARLA TANCREDI IS COMPLETING HER FOURTH YEAR IN THE APPLIED LINGUISTICS (HONOURS) PROGRAM AT BROCK UNIVERSITY. ANDREW TAYLOR AN ESL/LINC TEACHER FOR OVER TWO DECADES. HE HAS PRESENTED MANY VERY SUCCESSFUL WORKSHOPS AT VARIOUS TESL CONFERENCES IN ONTARIO AND HAS PUBLISHED TEN WELL-RECEIVED LINC AND ESL BOOKS. SHELLEY TAYLOR SHELLEY TAYLOR IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO. HER RESEARCH AREAS INCLUDE CHILD/BI/MULTILINGUALISM, CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND VARIOUS MODELS OF ESL PROGRAMMING. JUDY THOMPSON B.A. IN ENGLISH FROM UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH. LINC TEACHER, TEACHER AT PEEL BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR 10 YEARS, CLB ASSESSOR. TEACH ESSENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS AND ESL AT SHERIDAN COLLEGE. RON THOMSON RON THOMSON IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT BROCK UNIVERSITY. HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE SECOND LANGUAGE ACCENT, AND THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN PRONUNCIATION INSTRUCTION.

ANTONELLA VALEO ANTONELLA VALEO IS RESEARCH LEAD FOR THE TESL ONTARIO FRAMEWORK FOR POST TESL CERTIFICATE TRAINING PROJECT. PASCALE VIGANI PASCALE VIGANI HAS YEARS OF HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE TEACHING LITERACY. HE IS A TEACHER AT THE CONESTOGA LINC PROGRAMME IN WATERLOO AND CAMBRIDGE. LORALEE VINCE LORALEE VINCE WORKS AS AN INSTRUCTOR AT BROCK UNIVERSITY WHERE SHE HAS TAUGHT IN AN INTENSIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM AS WELL AS IN SPECIAL PROJECTS INCLUDING TEACHER-MENTORING. TERRY WEBB TERRY WEBB, B.A., M.A.,. B.ED., IS AN ADULT ESL LEAD INSTRUCTOR WITH THE TDVSB'S G.A. WHEABLE CENTRE. TERRY IS A LECTURER IN ANTHROPOLOGY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO. MARIJKE WERTHEIM MARIJKE WERTHEIM TEACHES METHODOLOGY OF TESOL IN THE TESOL CERTIFICATE PROGRAM AT WOODSWORTH COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, AND A VARIETY OF ESOL COURSES AT THE SCHOOL OF CONTINUING STUDIES, UT. TIM WESTHEAD TIM WESTHEAD TAUGHT ESL STUDENTS FOR 20 YEARS. NOMINATED FOR PRIME MINISTER’S AWARDS FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE, HE RECEIVED OPSBA’S AWARD IN 2003 FOR “OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION THROUGHOUT ONTARIO.” WWW.TIMWESTHEAD.COM JOHANATHAN WOODWORTH JOHANATHAN WOODWORTH IS A KOREAN-CANADIAN WITH COMBINED DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND PACIFIC ASIAN STUDIES, AS WELL AS A MA IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS. TATIANA YOUNG BA IN FINE ARTS/ TEACHING FINE ARTS FROM A BELORUSSIAN UNIVERSITY, TESL CERTIFICATION FROM NIAGARA COLLEGE HUAN ZHOU HUAN ZHOU HAS TAUGHT FILM STUDIES AND ESL/EFL IN POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES AND HAS BEEN TEACHING AT YORK UNIVERSITY ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE SINCE 2001.


Hotel Information ACCOMMODATION – Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON Accommodations are available at the Sheraton Centre Toronto at a discounted group rate of $209.00 plus taxes, per night. Please reserve your room online at http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/TESL2010 or contact the hotel directly at 416-947-4955 ext. 4440 or 1-888-627-7175 and indicate that you are attending the TESL Ontario Conference. To receive the group rate, please make your reservation before September 27, 2010. NOTE: the group rate is available 3 days before and 3 days after the conference, if you wish to arrive early or depart late and enjoy the City of Toronto! The Sheraton Centre Toronto is in the center of Toronto’s financial and entertainment districts. It is connected via the PATH to Union Station and the bus station (via the Dundas entrance of the Atrium on Bay - walk South through the Eaton Centre). There are many restaurants in and around the hotel. The Eaton Centre is accessed by the Underground PATH from the Concourse Level and is open until 9:00 pm. The city’s preeminent destination hotel for business or leisure for over 30 years, the Sheraton Centre Toronto boasts Toronto’s largest year-round pool, a 24-hour fitness centre, Business Centre, Senses Spa and two levels of shops, services, restaurants and lounges. The Link @ Sheraton-The Sheraton link has a sense of community, connectedness, and belonging while on the road. This keeps with Sheraton’s core value of providing Warm, Comforting, Connections. The Link provides a place within our hotel where guests can keep up with what’s important to them, where they can relax, belong and feel a part of a community. More than just lobby space, The Link @ Sheraton invites guests to come out of their room to enjoy the energy and social opportunities of being on the road. During your stay, you'll receive 24/7 access to 7 PC workstations (30-minute limit, per use), free Wi-Fi and printing. There are also comfy chairs to relax in while you watch TV to keep up on the latest news.

Standard Hotel Amenities Check in: 3:00 PM Check out: 12:00 PM

Entertainment • Cable Television • In-Room Movies • In-Room Video Games Bed Features • The Sheraton Sweet Sleeperô Bed Bathroom • Carrera Marble Vanity • Curved Shower Rod • Hairdryer • Deluxe Bath Amenities • Koehler Fixtures Office/Telecom • Data Port Line • Dual-Line Telephone • High Speed Internet Access (Charge) • Radio/Alarm Clock • Voicemail

Dining • 24 Hour Room Service • Coffee Maker Room Features • Oversized Desk • Non-Smoking Guestrooms • Mahogany Desk • Rollaway Bed • Ergonomic Desk Chair • Mahogany Furniture • Individual Climate Control • Undermount Sinks • Leather Furniture Room Amenities & Services • Wake-up Service • Ironing Board • The Sheraton Sweet Sleeper Crib • Iron • Maid Service • Video Check-Out


Directions and Maps Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

By Car

From East Take Highway 401 to Don Valley Parkway, go south to Richmond Street. Exit and go west on Richmond Street to York Street.†Turn right on York Street and then right on Queen Street.

From North Take Highway 400 to Highway 401, go east to Don Valley Parkway and then south and exit at Richmond Street. Head west on Richmond Street to York Street.† Turn right on York Street and then right onto Queen Street.

From Lester B. Pearson International Airport Take Highway 401 East to Highway 427 South. Proceed to Queen Elizabeth Way and then head east to Gardner Expressway. Exit at York Street and proceed north to Queen Street.

From South Take Queen Elizabeth Way to Gardner Expressway, and exit onto York Street. Then go north to Queen Street. Parking Valet parking is available at the Sheraton Centre Toronto and can be accessed from Queen Street or Richmond Street. The current cost is $45 plus taxes for 24 hours with in/out privileges. An alternate parking option is the “Green P” parking at Nathan Phillips Square Garage - 110 Queen Street West (across the street connected to the hotel via the PATH). Cost is $2.00 per half hour. Monday - Friday Day Max (7am-6pm): $14.00 Night Max (6pm-7am): $6.00

Saturday Day Max (7am-6pm): $6.00 Night Max (6pm-7am): $6.00 Sunday & Holidays Maximum (7am-7am): $6.00

VIA Rail Trains arrive at Union Station on Front Street, 1 block west of Yonge Street, opposite the Fairmont Royal York hotel. If you are planning to travel by VIA rail, please call 1-888-VIA-RAIL and quote the Event ID #11989 to receive 10% off best available fares in all available classes. Online booking tips: You have to log in to your profile, or create one prior to booking. On the Passenger information screen, select "Convention fare" from the “Discount Type” drop-down menu, and enter discount code 11989 in the “Discount code” field. The conference fare will be shown on the next page. From Union Subway Station or GO Transit Take the Yonge-University-Spadina Line to Queen Station. From Queen Station, take the PATH (West) to reach the Sheraton Centre OR walk west on Queen Street for one block. From Toronto Coach Terminal (bus) The Toronto Coach Terminal is located on the northwest side of Bay Street and Dundas Street West (south of Edward Street, east of Elizabeth Street). You can walk underground from the bus station to the hotel by entering the Dundas Street entrance of the Atrium on Bay. Enter the Eaton Centre close to the subway entrance and walk across to The Bay, take the escalator to the basement and there is a walkway which will lead you directly to the hotel. From Toronto City Centre Airport Porter Airlines flies from its own dedicated terminal at Toronto City Centre Airport, one of the most convenient urban airports in the world, situated just minutes from downtown. Complimentary Porter shuttle buses offer passengers a short transfer to the financial and entertainment districts. Visit www.flyporter.com or call 888-619-8622 for more information. From Pearson International Airport Airport Express bus travels between the airport, the bus terminal, and major downtown hotels including The Sheraton Centre Toronto. Accessible, scheduled service operates 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year; every 20 minutes during peak periods and every 30 minutes during off-peak periods. The adult fare is C$21.95 one-way, C$36.25 round-trip (save 10% by booking online at http://www.torontoairportexpress.com/). Bus and Subway from Pearson International Airport The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) runs transportation to and from Pearson International. Travel between the Sheraton Center and Pearson International via the TTC requires taking both a bus and a subway for a total of two transfers. From the airport take the TTC - 192 Airport Rocket (bus) to Kipling Station on the Bloor-Danforth Subway. Then take the Bloor-Danforth Subway East to St George station and transfer to the Young-University-Spadina Subway South to Queen St Station. From Queen St Station walk west on Queen St for 1 block. The Sheraton Center is located at 123 Queen St West. The total travel time from the airport to the hotel is approximately one hour and the cost is $3.00. Please Note* When you pay your fare, you will need to ask the driver for a "Transfer" which will allow you to switch to the subway at Kipling Station. Be sure to sit on the right side of the bus for the best views! More information can be found at: http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/index.htm Taxis from the airport have zoned fares. To get from the airport to the downtown area will cost approx $50.00.


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English As A Second Language Week

The growing role of English as a Second Language (ESL) education for new Canadians is celebrated annually across the province during ESL Week, a celebration of ESL education that has the support of several Ontario communities, thousands of ESL teachers, students, and many learning institutions and school boards. ESL Week is taking place October 24th - 30th, 2010, and has been declared in the following participating communities across Ontario:

Town of Ajax Town of Amherstburg

City of Barrie Town of Caledon

Municipality of Clarington City of Cornwall City of Dryden

City of Elliot Lake Town of Fort Erie

Town of Milton City of North Bay Town of Oakville

City of Orillia City of Oshawa

City of Peterborough City of Port Colborne Township of Scugog City of St. Thomas

City of Stratford City of Temiskaming

City of Toronto

SEE THE DISPLAY OF ALL ESL WEEK POSTER ENTRIES AT THE SHERATON CENTRE HOTEL TORONTO


Membership Benefits TESL Ontario is comprised of 4400 members in both the public and private sectors of the elementary, secondary and adult systems. We serve our members in a variety of ways, through professional development and research activities and through advocacy. In all we do, we strive raise the profile of our profession and be a voice for our members through our representation on various government and advisory groups. Member benefits include: Three for the Price of One! When you join TESL Ontario, you automatically become a member of: TESL Ontario, TESL Canada, Your Local TESL Affiliate Professional Development TESL Ontario Annual Conference - embers enjoy reduced fees for the annual conference featuring three exciting days of ESL workshops, presentations, symposia, well-known speakers, networking with a range of ESL colleagues and a huge publishers' display of new ESL materials. 50 hours of TESL Ontario Conference 2009 webcasting is available free of charge to all TESL Ontario members. Webcasting of previous years conferences are also available for 50% discount price. 20% discount at Indigo stores TESL Ontario members are entitled to a discount of 20% on regularly priced books at all branches of Indigo, Chapters, Coles and World Biggest Bookstore within Ontario. 30% discount at Royal Ontario Museum As a member of TESL Ontario, the ROM offers you a special discount on tickets to the Royal Ontario Museum. Visit www.rom.on.ca , order tickets and use your promo code: TESL. Offers expires: December 31, 2010 Group Insurance Discounted Group rates on Individual health and Disability Insurance. Plan designed to meet the needs of your group:

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Staples Easy Rewards Program We are delighted to announce that STAPLES has agreed to extend their Teacher Easy Rewards Program to all TESL Ontario Members. Staples TEACHER EASY REWARDS Program is a FREE rewards card that TESL Ontario members can register for online. This rewards card will enable our members to receive $5.00 back for every $100 spent on qualifying purchases up to $50.00 per calendar quarter. Members can then use the rewards cheques on just about anything in the store, catalogue or online. In addition - STAPLES holds events and exclusive offers just for Teachers. For more information, visit http://www.teslontario.org/uploads/membership/benefits/staples.html. Free Museum Admissions Several museums in the Ottawa region have offered TESL Ontario Members FREE admission by simply showing a valid TESL Ontario membership card at the admission desk. TESL Ontario Members can now enjoy FREE admission to the following Ottawa area Museums. • Canada Agriculture Museum • Canadian Museum of Civilization • Canada Science and Technology Museum

• Canadian War Museum

Publications Contact - TESL Ontario's ESL Newsletter (3 issues annually) highlights professional topics and current research, conferences, association news, book reviews, and teaching suggestions. TESL Ontario Conference Proceedings (1 issue annually) - summarizes conference proceedings. TESL Canada Journal - the national organization's scholarly journal (2 issues annually) includes refereed articles on ESL theory and practice. Forum Communicate with members and other ESL professionals. You can ask questions or share your success and information about the field of ESL. Networking Meet and keep in touch with a wide range of ESL colleagues. Exchange information, ideas, and teaching techniques. Discuss current issues and concerns. Find out what's new on the ESL scene. Involvement • Membership in TESL Ontario is an opportunity to get involved, volunteer, and participate in the direction of your

profession. • Add your voice to discussions on important ESL issues by joining focus groups or giving a conference

presentation. • You may choose to expand your management skills and experience by serving on Executive Boards and

committees. Through membership, you gain professional recognition for awards and grants. This is your forum to be an advocate for ESL. For more information on our programs, visit http://www.teslontario.org/membership/membership-benefits/.

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CHANGES TO THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM NEW SESSIONS: THURSDAY - 8:30-9:30 AM TAF Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Building on Teacher Expertise (This session is repeated on Saturday afternoon) Joanne Pettis - Citizenship and Immigration/Manitoba Labour & Immigration Participants in this introduction to Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA) will hear about the training, resources and supports that make up CIC’s PBLA Implementation Plan, learn about the Ottawa field test, view and discuss various PBLA tools, resources and sample portfolios. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants THURSDAY - 4:00-5:00PM TQA Websites and Blogs - Content Creation and Management Tools for Teachers Michael Simpson – CCLCS (Toronto) An introduction to tools and sites like WordPress and YouTube. Learn how to create your own site and materials and how to take advantage of Web 2.0 tools for text, photos, discussion and collaboration (rss feeds, posts, comments), and multimedia (audio, video, podcasts). Category: Technology Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University,

Elementary, ELT/SLT, Secondary Focus: Electronic Classroom Audience: All Participants

FRIDAY - 10:00-11:00AM FBL Literacy and Essential Skills Tools Shareef Korah - HRSDC - Office of Literacy and Essential Skills The workshop will provide an overview of the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, the concept of Literacy and Essential skills and how they apply to the Canadian labour market, and the various tools OLES has developed for employers, learners and practitioners. Category: Workshop Level: Adult ESL/LINC, College/University, ELT/SLT Focus: Assessment/Evaluation Audience: All Participants FRIDAY - 2:30-3:30 PM FPR Introduction to TESL Canada’s Teacher Resource Centre John Sivell – Brock University Overview of resources available on the TESL Canada Teacher Resource Centre site; ways to use the material; how you can contribute in enriching the site, either by making contributions yourself or by engaging students in the process. Category: Presentation Level: Adult ESL/LINC, ESL/SLT,

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM - teslontario.ca · of Training, Colleges and Universities participating in our fifth annual panel discussion entitled “The Future is Now: The New Era of Language