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Gwangju-Jeonnam KOTESOL Chapter Reports The Archive Contents Chapter Reports 2004 – 2011 KOTESOL in Action, The English Connection (TEC) Chapter Reports 2011 – 2013 KOTESOL Chapter News, TEC News Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter Presidents 2004 Spring – 2005 November Maria Lisak 2005 November – 2006 March Scott Jackson 2006 March – 2008 March 15 Dr. Yeon-seong Park 2008 March 15 – 2009 November Adriane Moser Geronimo 2009 November – 2016 November Dr. David E. Shaffer 2016 November – 2017 November William Mulligan 2017 November – 2018 November Lindsay Herron 2018 November – Bryan Hale regions, and would then spread out to JEOLLA CHAPTER SEOUL CHAPTER those areas without a KOTESOL presence. At a later stage, we will cultivate speaking links with sister organizations and by Allison Bill by Tory Thorkelson governmental entities. To this end Dr. Robert Dickey has expressed interest in Perhaps the title for this section should As winter approaches, The Seoul chapter KTT giving presentations in the southern be Jeonbuk/Jeonnam Chapters (plural). By is gearing up for our regional conference part of the nation, possibly as early as the time you are reading this TEC, a in May, 2004. After a hiatus of 3 months January. Paul Mead has also expressed decision should have been made about for summer vacation, the YL SIG and the interest in doing this for the Pusan area, whether or not to split Jeolla Chapter into 11th KOTESOL International Conference, and Dr. Steve Garrigues will speak under two chapters: a Jeonju-Jeonbuk Chapter our monthly meetings resumed with a the KTT banner to a group in Taegu. So, in the north and a Gwangju-Jeonnam presentation on November 15th by our new we are off to a good start in 2004! Chapter in the south. Please refer to our secretary, Jack Large. Elections and web site at www.kotesol.org/cholla to find nominations for new executive members out our decision. have been ongoing as well, and a number CALL SIG of new faces and talent have been added Jeolla would like to thank Nick Ziegler for to our team. Allow me to mention these his work in organizing the Annual Drama below. by James Trotta Festival, held November 8th in Jeonju. Congratulations to the winning teams, and First, we have the super husband and wife Recently, the KOTESOL CALL SIG see you next year! team of Jack and Ae-Kyoung Large discussion group has centered around handling the dual roles of Secretary and how to use the internet to enhance face to Jeolla’s November meeting is being held Treasurer with aplomb. Ji-yun Kim and face teaching. For example, one teacher on the 15th, in Gwangju. Our Vice- Heather Cabans are co-editing our uses his site, http:// President, Dr. Gyonggu Shin, will speak monthly newsletter, ASK, putting their www.seansclassroom.com/, to provide a about Language Policy. Todd Vercoe will combined skills to good use building on space for students to keep journals. I also visit our chapter to speak about the excellent foundation set by our recently had students post their opinions Student Motivation. Elections will be held previous editors, Park, Eun Young, Kevin about the death penalty to http:// either for the full Jeolla Chapter if we remain Landry, and Asif Siddiqui. Mary-Jane www.eslgo.com/forum/deathp/index.cgi. a single Chapter, or for the new southern Scott and Eowyn Brown are our new Then I printed the posts, corrected them, Chapter if it is created. Workshop coordinators and are active and gave my suggestions to students members and presenters. We anticipate before the class discussion. This way some excellent presentations in the next they could try to incorporate the more GANGWON few months . complex/accurate English suggestions into their discussions. To join the CALL Our newest members are Hae-Jung Ahn discussion group, go to http:// by Ryan Cassidy and John Marchant who will be handling groups.yahoo.com/group/ publicity for our chapter. With their KOTESOLCALLSIG/. You may also want It was nice to see so many members of the connections in the educational community to visit the CALL homepage: http:// Gangwon chapter of KOTESOL at the and innate abilities, we know that Seoul www.kotesol.org/compulearn/ for International Conference last month. Chapter is on track for the future. information about computer assisted Hopefully you found the conference well Remember that meetings are held on the language learning. worth the time and effort you put in to 3rd Saturday of every month at Sookmyung attending. I would also like to warmly Women’s University. We hope to see you welcome all new members to the chapter there! and strongly encourage you to contact our membership coordinators so that we can keep you up to date with chapter KTT events. With winter quickly approaching, we are by Peter Nelson also quickly coming to the end of the school year and the end of another The groundwork for future KTT session of chapter meetings. Keep your operations have been laid in the past two eyes open for the Gangwon KOTESOL months. In September, two position papers cyber-newsletter for more details. The final dealing with our group’s vision and goals meeting of the semester will be on were circulated. The consensus that December 6th at the Sokcho Education emerged was one of starting slowly but in office. I look forward to seeing you all an organized way. Members would at first there. concentrate within their own geographical 19 The English Connection September 2004 Volume 8, Issue 3 discussed in groups how this method might be useful for interrupted this year by an informal gathering in the EFL teachers. countryside. Credit goes to our Vice-President of Chapter Events, Graham Specht, for a well-organized and fun Jason Renshaw presented at our July meeting. He barbeque and camping event at Micheoni-gol Recreational introduced participants to a Computer-Mediated Learning Forest in Yangyang County, a beautiful venue. (CML) program for teaching writing. Jason showed us how he had transitioned a paper-based writing class to a CML Monthly meetings will resume September 11 at 3 pm at program and detailed the benefits of using such a program Hallym University in Chuncheon. To kick start the fall in any composition class. We discussed how CML enhances season, the new chapter executive is working to arrange for the writing process, including peer feedback and revision. an outside speaker. As with last year, our meetings will Jason closed the session with many practical tips for alternate monthly between Chuncheon and Sokcho to implementing a similar program. Afterwards, members better serve our sizeable province. enjoyed a post-workshop get-together for our semi-annual To help maintain interest among members who can’t make galbi dinner. the commute, we also plan to initiate off-month social We took the month of August off for summer vacation. Our gatherings closer to home to keep up connections and members have been busy traveling, teaching summer continuity. We have a nice mix of regular attendees now, classes, and trying to stay cool in the summer heat! We°Øre but we are looking to entice a few more teachers who would looking forward to a new semester filled with great enjoy the benefits of joining our group. meetings. Our next meeting will be held the first Saturday in September at Gyeongbuk National University. If you Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter would like more information about us, go to our chapter homepage at http://www.kotesol.org/daegu/. No report submitted. Daejeon-Chungnam Chapter North Jeolla Chapter By Aaron Jolly Daejeon-Chungnam Chapter is alive and kicking once No report submitted. again, thanks to an injection of new blood to its Executive Committee. We have returned to our old home at Woosong University Language Institute and will meet on the final Seoul Chapter Saturday of each month during the second semester, with By Tory Thorkelson our first meeting being Saturday, September 25th. I hope all of you were able to stay cool during our record- New members of the executive are 1st Vice-President breaking temperatures this summer! We had a very Aaron Jolly from Cheonan's Mirae English Institute, 2nd successful and well-attended meeting in June but had to Vice-President Kim Mi-ra, from Woosong University, cancel our July meeting due to a number of reasons. Secretary Rachel Williams from Woosong University, and August's and September's meetings are expected to be up Member-at-Large Orysia Kiryk from Woosong University. to June's standard, and the October conference is rapidly These new officers are welcomed with open arms as they approaching. We are in the process of compiling our pre- are really keen to see our membership grow. conference issue of ASK so, if you are presenting at the We met and elected the new Executive Committee October conference, you might want to consider submitting members at the end of July. At our August Executive your paper or an expanded summary to encourage our meeting, we made plans to cater to region-wide interests in many members to attend your session. We are bidding KOTESOL. Chungnam is South Chungcheong Province. farewell to both Peter Nelson, our energetic and always Subsequently, we will be holding an introductory enthusiastic Member-at-Large, as well as to our former KOTESOL workshop/symposium on the afternoon of Workshop Coordinator, Eowyn Brown, who is off to foggy September 11th in Cheonan at Korea Nazarene University. London to do her MA. We wish both of these great Guest speakers will include the incoming National individuals all the best in their future endeavors. Both the KOTESOL President Dr.