Oliva Fernandez, Marketing Director, Pearson
Commercial: A, CC
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.

Leopoldo G. Balayon III, Biola University, Convention Center 319
Graduate Student Forum: C/U
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
This paper discusses actual learner perception of the importance of vocabulary in language learning and argues for a more intentional approach to vocabulary teaching in ESL programs. The paper also discusses research in the area of vocabulary that necessitates MA TESOL programs to include the study of lexical acquisition as a required subject.

Anne-York Herjeczki, Santa Monica College, Biola University; Amanda Dago, Cal State Fullerton, Biola University
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Convention Center 319
Graduate Student Forum: CC
Does it matter if we prepare our students in advance for speaking in small conversation groups or are we wasting classroom time by filling the whiteboard with “useful” vocabulary? Findings based on research concerning the quantity and quality of language interaction in two types of discussion groups will be presented.

Glenda Robinson, English Center, Mills College, Oakland
Demonstration: A
Convention Center 202
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Want adult students to participate in community events but afraid they’ll be linguistically overwhelmed? See how this presenter used project-based learning to give adult students schema-, vocabulary-, and context-building tasks so they could attend and respond to a community screening of a TV documentary about hate crimes.

Theresa Roberts, CSU Sacramento
Demonstration: E
Convention Center 318
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
This presentation will discuss how reading storybooks in either primary language or English language is associated with large gains in learning second language vocabulary (English) acquisition. Teaching materials from a study that documents this with preschool children will be featured. Storybook reading occurred both in homes and classrooms.

Catherine McNally, Eureka Adult School
Paper: A
Hyatt Carmel B
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
This workshop is for educators with little or no experience using the interactive whiteboard. We will look at the basic functions such as learning how to write on a digital whiteboard, making changes, using color pens effectively, saving and printing work and using the whiteboard with Internet activities. We will focus on vocabulary development, pronunciation and EL Civics activities..

Attached  Word files are for the presentation. The "notebook" files created with the SmartBoard require the free download from Smartboard. The primary presentation files for this session are linked here:

Introductory Workshop

Sybil Marcus, UC Berkeley
Paper: IEP
Sheraton Tofanelli
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
The presenter will discuss how a student-generated approach to vocabulary learning, as opposed to the traditional textbook approach, increases advanced students’ vocabulary acquisition, interest, and acculturation. She will describe the method she uses and show how to implement it. An extensive handout will include suggestions, exercises, and tests.

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.

Jim Anderson, Cambridge University Press, National Sales Manager
Demonstration: S, A, CC
Convention Center 313
4:00 – 5:30 p.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.

Joan Ashkenas, JAG Publications
Paper: A
Sheraton Carr
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Stories by internationally famous writers such as Kipling, Poe, Tolstoy, and O.Henry are adapted for ESL and beautifully illustrated. About four hours of listening includes story readings and a great variety of exercises for pronunciation and vocabulary practice. Male and female voices alternate throughout, speaking casual American English.