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. The presentation demonstrates the process of creating a successful language-exchange project between ESL and Spanish learners in a community college setting. The audience sees how the project is incorporated into the course requirement for ESL and Spanish classrooms. The goal of this workshop is to increase teachers' and administrators' awareness of the values underlying the job evaluation process at their institutions, the variety of practices and documents used for conducting evaluations and the practices that teacher and administrators find most rewarding in the review process.