All sessions are scheduled into rooms at the Convention Center unless otherwise noted. The presenter demonstrates techniques that make listening to authentic radio broadcasts more accessible to ESL learners.
Participants assess a variety of prelistening, during-listening, and post listening activities.
The presenters explain the creation of a reading lab and its evolution over 4 years into a four-semester, multiskill seminar sequence in an EAP program at a university in Japan. They discuss the rationale behind the decision-making process, focusing on needs, goals, opportunities, and constraints. Presenters share a comprehensive approach to explicit vocabulary teaching. They demonstrate techniques for showing the meaning of new vocabulary, and helping students use and apply the vocabulary. Participants develop explicit vocabulary activities.