KOTESOL (Korea TESOL) International Conference is taking place this year on the 28th and 29th of October at Sookmyung Women's University. The theme for this year's conference is "Advancing ELT: Empowering Teachers, Empowering Learners." Compass Media will have a booth, so please come along and visit us! Three Compass Media writers and editors will also be presenting this year. For details of each presentation look below. Saturday 16:00 – 17:00 How to Increase Speaking through Debate David Harrington, Compass Media Room M106 Tired of the same old lessons? Looking for something new? Want to give your students a challenge? Why don't you... Discover Debate! "Discover Debate" is a systematic step by step approach for teaching the critical thinking skills necessary for debate. This workshop will offer practical ideas on teaching debate in an EFL environment. Participants will be introduced to the "house" metaphor for debate. The house metaphor is a graphic organizer that gives students a framework for organizing their affirmative arguement using the building blocks of Opinion, Reason, and Support. Participants will then look at a simple decision tree method of analyzing the affirmative points and offering refutations. Come join us and Discover Debate as an exciting, fun, active classroom experience. A free copy of Discover Debate will be given to attendees. Sunday 12:00 - 13:00 Improving iBT TOEFL Skills – Speaking and Writing Garrett Byrne, Compass Media Room M106 In the iBT TOEFL, speaking and writing account for 50 percent of the test. There are a number of valuable strategies and techniques for helping students improve their speaking and writing. This presentation includes useful classroom activities and strategies that improve both fluency in speech and writing techniques. We will examine the skills and qualities required to complete the test successfully and also look at a number of common questions from teachers regarding methods of instruction and course outlines. A free copy of Mastering Skills for the TOEFL iBT Speaking and Writing will be given to attendees. Sunday 13:00 - 14:00 Teaching Writing to Young Learners Liana Robinson, Compass Media Room M106 There are many things that we can do as teachers to make writing interesting and rewarding. This presentation will include ideas on how to interest students in writing, and how to structure a lesson around a writing passage. It will introduce communicative, interpretive, and creative activities suitable for the classroom. These activities will be based on different learning types, and will train students to become stronger writers. For more information on Korea TESOL please look at the site below. http://www.kotesol.org/conference/2006/ |