Kevin Donnelly, TELL ME MORE® by Auralog    
All    
8:00 -8:45 am    
Hyatt Regency B    
 

Is technology your teaching partner? Discover and practice ways to utilize technology in everyday language learning from the innovators at Auralog. See how to put technology to work for you and your students – it’s easy.

Melody Noll, Ameritalk
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Sheraton Beavis
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
“Why don’t my students talk?!” A paradigm exists that will get students to do just that! Borrowed from the field of facilitation, the “Focused Conversation” will move learners through four levels of thinking, promote meaningful interaction, and facilitate learning. Teachers will come away with simple tools for sparking successful conversations.

Oliva Fernandez, Marketing Director, Pearson
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Hyatt Santa Barbara
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Lower- and higher-proficiency students are often ignored by available learner dictionaries. Beginning learners need as much support as possible, and their advanced colleagues have their own unique needs. This session illustrates how Longman meets these needs with 4 new learner dictionaries. Materials will be distributed.

John De Mado, Author
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Convention Center 201
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
In order to close the student achievement gap, educators should focus not only on what we are doing instructionally, but also what we might not be doing. Current research suggests that we incorporate more oral language into the classroom and to develop what is known as “the language-rich schoolhouse.”

Jennifer Frazier, Rosetta Stone LTD
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Sheraton Bataglieri
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
With recent developments in technology-based instruction, computers provide effective language-learning solutions. But how do you successfully implement solutions that build value for both language learners and teachers, in the lab and in the classroom? Based on case studies using Rosetta Stone, this session discusses strategies for implementing technology-based language learning.

Monique Jackson, Oxford University Press
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Sheraton Carr
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Effectively navigating U.S. systems requires that our learners be able to “do the math,” interpret forms and documents, and problem-solve. Discover how Step Forward links these skills to linguistic goals and civics content, allowing learners to readily apply what they learn in the classroom to their real-life needs.

Annette Acosta - Tom Dare - Betty Longfellow, McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT
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Sheraton Compagno
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The next generation of Interactions/Mosaic – the world’s most popular and comprehensive academic skills series – is here! Ideal for classroom presentation, lab work, or distance learning, Digital Interactions brings the series to life, embedding a host of audio, video, and animations into this Web-delivered product for interactive teaching and learning.

Jim Anderson, Cambridge University Press, National Sales Manager
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Convention Center 313
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American English, second edition (CDAE2), and the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary (CACD) are new corpus-based dictionaries for ELLs. Both offer up-to-date coverage of American English. CDAE2 is designed for the general learner, while CACD offers content-area and general academic vocabulary. Both are available with CD-ROMs.

Bernard Seal, Cambridge University Press, Commissioning Editor
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Convention Center 311
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Academic Encounters is a content-based series that teaches academic English skills. This presentation introduces two new titles that teach important reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills while introducing students to important events and ideas in American history and culture relevant to life today.

Mary Louise Baez, Cambridge University Press, ESL Senior Specialist
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Sheraton Beavis
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
How can high-intermediate and advanced learners reach the next level? Cambridge’s second edition of Passages, by Jack C. Richards, offers a range of solutions in a two-level, four-skills course, including an academic writing syllabus, dictionary skills exercises, and stimulating discussion activities, plus expanded grammar practice to help students master high-level structures.