Jee-Eun Oh - Roger Dupuy, UC Irvine Extension
Demonstration: IEP
Hyatt Big Sur B
TIME CHANGE: 8:00-9:30
Achieving a more authentic and valid assessment and feedback is possible through the use of simple new recording software called Audacity. Two different balanced techniques will be introduced and demonstrated – one for practicing iBT speaking and one for giving feedback to writing tasks. Handouts.

Stephanie Levin, San Francisco City College, CATESOL
Paper: CC
Convention Center 318
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
The presenter will briefly discuss improvisation, its principals in a linguistic environment, and how it works in a classroom setting. Participants will have the opportunity to use all the conversation sprinters and practice the improvisation techniques within the group. A handout of conversation sprinters and techniques will be distributed.

Melody Noll, Ameritalk
Commercial: CC
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.

John De Mado, Author
Commercial: S
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.”

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.

Beth Kusar, Wesleyan College
Paper: E
Sheraton Compagno
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between fluency and oral reading activities such as choral reading and paired reading through poetry and reader’s theatre. Poetry through choral and paired reading was used to measure fluency in third grade students. Reader’s theatre was also used to measure fluency in the same group of students. Fluency often gets pushed to the side with reading curriculum in today’s classroom and this study shows the effects fluency has on all other elements of reading. This study focuses on accuracy, reading rate, and expression all being essential parts of reading fluency. The findings conclude that with the implementation of these reading activities in the classroom, fluency does increase.

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.

Lisa Leopold, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Demonstration: C/U
Hyatt Big Sur B
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
How do you help your business English students master the nuance of language so they avoid cross-cultural misunderstandings in the workplace? Learn how videotaped interactive role-plays among native speakers enhance learners’ sociolinguistic and linguistic competence.

Lorraine Segal, Napa Valley College
Demonstration CC
Hyatt Regency C
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Well-informed citizens are the heartbeat of democracy. But in today’s disinformation environment, filled with propaganda, stereotypes, and consumerism, our students need skills to think critically about media and advertisements. Lorraine Segal will introduce media literacy concepts and present multi-media clips, resources, and projects to help our ESL composition and speech students become effective local/global citizens.

Marsha Chan, Mission College; Santa Clara, California, Sunburst Media for Language Learners
Hyatt Golden State B
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The presenter will demonstrate Audacity, a free, cross-platform, downloadable audio editor-recorder. She’ll broadcast model narratives, dialogs, instructions, songs; recordings to provide students personalized audio feedback and correction on their speaking; and podcasts. She’ll record samples, present teaching tips for speaking and pronunciation, give practical advice, and provide hands-on practice.