CATESOL 2016: Full Schedule

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You can view the whole conference schedule by the day and also search for sessions and events by speaker, title, session type, level, and even room! Maps of the Town & Country and the Exhibit Hall are in the menu. You can create and save your personalized conference schedule by creating a free login in sched.org, but you do not need to create a login to use this site! This site - and uploaded materials - will remain available long after the conference.

8:50am PST

Engaging Multilingual Students to Write beyond the Two-Page Essay

Before arriving in the U.S., many international students have had little experience writing extensively in their L2. As a result, they often feel underprepared to write at the college level. Drawing on interview data from L2 writing courses, this presentation offers pedagogical insights to engage students in extensive writing tasks.

Speakers

Lina Jurkunas, San Francisco State University

Friday November 18, 2016 8:50am - 9:05am PST
Crescent

Graduate student forum, C/U, IEP

11:00am PST

Fun Proofreading with Pinterest

Although proofreading is an important step of the writing process, many L2 writers find it daunting, baffling, and boring. In order to raise learners' awareness about the importance of proofreading and to make the activity more interesting, the presenter introduces Pinterest as a device to create engaging (audio-)visual teaching materials.

Speakers

Ayaka Ihara

ESL Instructor, The American Language Institute

PinterestPresentation Ayaka Ihara pptx

PinterestHO AyakaIhara docx

Friday November 18, 2016 11:00am - 11:15am PST
Crescent

Graduate student forum, C/U, CC, IEP, ML, S, TELL

11:40am PST

Breaking through the Digital Landscape: Second Language Acquisition through the Use of Video Game Technology

The use of gaming platforms are altering the ways in which students look at and understand the world, problem-solve, and communicate. This session examines secondary research on the use of 1stGen (single player), 2ndGen (multiplayer) and 3rdGen (massively multiplayer online games) video games to support second language acquisition.

Speakers

Bentley Cavazzi, CSUF

Friday November 18, 2016 11:40am - 11:55am PST
Crescent

Graduate student forum, A, Admin, C/U, CC, IEP, NT, S, TEW

8:30am PST

Clarification Requests in the ESL Classroom

Do you struggle to get your students to use clarification strategies in your academic ESL classroom? This project provides practical suggestions and sample teaching materials that are based on a needs analysis and current research on teaching pragmatics.

Speakers

Douglas Cronyn, San Francisco State University

Doug has been a teacher of second language learners for 15 years in various capacities and places, including China and West Africa, as well as across the U.S. His current interests include: ESL composition curriculum construction, teaching abroad, classroom research techniques, teaching... Read More →

CATESOL QuestioningTheQuestioning3 pptx

SsHandout ProjectPresentation 738 docx

Saturday November 19, 2016 8:30am - 8:45am PST
Crescent

Graduate student forum, C/U, CC, IC, IEP

8:50am PST

A Holistic Framework for Evaluating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Business English Textbooks

English for Specific Business Purposes (ESBP) is a continuously maturing sub-field of ESP. In an effort to illuminate where and how current ESBP pedagogy addresses Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in BE contexts, this presentation will explicate a preliminary holistic framework for analyzing the intercultural components found in recent BE textbooks.

Speakers

Ian Baecht, San Diego State University

CATESOLHOLISTIC pptx

Saturday November 19, 2016 8:50am - 9:05am PST
Crescent

Graduate student forum, C/U, CC, IC, IEP, TEW