Jenny Cogswell - Shelley Chang, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Demonstration: A
Convention Center 103
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Bored by the same old activities? There’s nothing boring about board games! Use them in the classroom! Come find out how you can use and easily adapt board games to promote interaction in the classroom. Focus on communication in teaching grammar forms, negotiation skills, and more! Handouts will be provided.

Mary Louise Baez, Cambridge University Press, ESL Senior Specialist
Commercial: A, CC
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.

Mark Buchholz - Tom Dare - Betty Longfellow, McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT
Demonstration: A
Sheraton Beavis
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
The presenters will use the new Excellent English series to demonstrate how we can use a grammar foundation to build a structure of academic and vocational success for our adult students, which includes writing. This will be done in a demonstration/workshop format. (Complimentary copies provided).

Eunice Cerezo, Edward Harris Middle School; Elk Grove; CA
Demonstration: S
Convention Center 312
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Fresh from the oven, pepperoni and cheese. May I take your order? Grammar if you please, Papa Vinny’s Pizza, Grammar to Go! Designed for SDAIE instruction, attendees will learn up-beat, palatable, fun, and deliciously easy grammar jazz chants written to introduce all of the eight parts of speech. 

Kristan Cavina, De Anza Press
Paper: All
Hyatt Santa Barbara
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Some ESL professionals feel that first-generation speakers cannot learn English articles. Nonnative speakers can, however, come to understand the English system. The presenter discusses ambiguities resulting from incorrect article use, clarifies unhelpful teaching practices regarding articles, and shares strategies that enable nonnative speakers to understand and use articles correctly. Handout.

Cherita W. Stevens, Garden Grove Adult Education
Poster: A
Convention Center 104 & 105
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
The extreme differences in grammar constructions, alphabets, and phonetic structures of languages creates problems for the second language learner. This dilemna presents itself daily to the ESL instructor, both to the experienced and to the novice. This workshop examines specific problem areas and suggests instructional strageties for overcoming each type of pronunciation and grammar problem.

Michelle Ueland - Sarah Young, Center for Applied Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Poster: A
Convention Center 104 & 105
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Participants will view video benchmark examples of adult ESL learners at varying levels of oral proficiency. Links will be made to classroom activities that promote oral communication based on principles of second language acquisition involving interaction, negotiation, vocabulary, listening comprehension, organization and elaboration of thoughts, and comprehensibility.

Cory Messing, UC Davis
Poster: C/U
Convention Center 104 & 105
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
This paper will examine published scientific abstracts written by both native and non-native speakers of English and compare the verb tense conventions followed by each group. Based on the analysis, materials are developed to guide learners in identifying their discipline specific conventions. Handouts will be provided.

John Liang, Biola University
Demonstration: C/U
Hyatt Golden State B
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
This presentation shows how TV and move video clips can be creatively exploited to engage students in both deductive and inductive learning, in teacher-guided learning and self-directed learning, in focused practices and extensive interactions, and in skill-isolated practices and skill-integrated tasks. Video editing techniques will also be discussed.

NOTE: The teaching demo PowerPoint attachment doesn't include the video clips. 

Elizabeth Weal, Sequoia Adult School
Poster: A
Conference Center 104 & 105
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
This session will present a step-by-step approach to teaching English grammar to Spanish-speaking students with little formal education. It will pinpoint those aspects of English grammar that pose a particular challenge to Spanish-speakers and introduce the types of exercises that are most effective for teaching these students.