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TABLE OF CONTENTS The 25th Korea TESOL International Conference Sookmyung Women's University October 21-22, 2017 Welcome Messages p. 2 Lindsay Herron, KOTESOL President Sean O’Connor, International Conference Chair Finding the Right Presentations p. 4 Conference Committee Organization Chart p. 6 Map of the Conference Venue p. 7 Conference at-a-Glance p. 8 Plenary Speakers and Featured Speakers and Talks p. 10 ABSTRACTS AND SCHEDULE (Concurrent Sessions) Saturday 9:00 ~ 10:45 Presentations p. 39 Saturday 1:30 ~ 3:15 Presentations p. 50 Saturday 3:30 ~ 5:15 Presentations p. 63 Saturday 5:30 ~ 6:15 Presentations p. 77 Sunday 9:00 ~ 10:45 Presentations p. 85 Sunday 12:00 ~ 1:45 Presentations p. 100 Sunday 2:00 ~ 3:45 Presentations p. 112 Presenters’ Biographical Statements p. 123 Topic Index p. 157 101 Presentations p. 170 KOTESOL ABM Agenda, Bylaws, and more ` p. 171 Sookmyung Women's University. Oct. 21-22, 2017 Page 1 The 25th Korea TESOL International Conference President’s Message Lindsay Herron This is my favorite time of year—and one of my favorite places to be! There’s truly nothing like the KOTESOL International Conference, a great place to find support, encouragement, and inspiration. This is not just another international conference, though; I’m delighted to be welcoming you to a celebration of Korea TESOL’s 25th year. Anniversaries are a wonderful time for reflecting on the past, celebrating the present, and looking forward to the future—and this conference encourages all three! In honor of the organization’s silver anniversary, our conference committee has curated a collection of remembrances, presented under the banner “Korea TESOL at 25 Years.” As part of this program, attendees are invited to peruse images from the past two and a half decades; enjoy anecdotes and memories from some of the organization’s foundational “movers and shakers”; and, in exploring the manifold influences KOTESOL has had on the past, present, and future of current members, consider how the organization has influenced their own lives. Our identities—our beliefs, values, even our ways of understanding and existing in the world—are shaped by our context, contacts, and communities; I wonder, what elements of your own life have been inflected by involvement with KOTESOL? As you attend the presentations and expand your professional and personal networks during the conference, please don’t miss the “Avenue of History” video and poster exhibit in the lobby outside Gemma Hall, the “Looking Back, Moving Forward: KOTESOL at 25” panel featuring seven past presidents, or the retrospective pecha kucha during the opening ceremony. KOTESOL members are also invited to a silver anniversary wine-and-cheese social event on Saturday night. I hope you’ll help us celebrate in style! It’s no coincidence that this year’s conference is also a PAC conference. We wanted to make this event truly special by celebrating with our international partners from the Pan-Asian Language Consortium of Language Teaching Societies (PAC). I’d like to welcome the presenters from our PAC partners, as well as from our other wonderful international and domestic sister organizations. Also joining us this year is the Asia Youth Forum (AYF), which brings together university students from across Asia for a week of intercultural connections and events. The AYF students will be offering two presentations this weekend; please check the program book for further details, and please join me in warmly welcoming them. Finally, I’d like to thank Sookmyung Women’s University for their gracious hosting, our partner organizations for their support, the presenters for providing the meat of the conference, the attendees for making it all worthwhile, and the conference committee for their sorcery behind the scenes to make everything happen! I hope you enjoy this anniversary conference to the fullest. Who we are tomorrow, what we become in the future, is grounded in our past and in this present—so I encourage you to make the most of the moment! This conference is an opportunity for each of us to build on past experiences; to open ourselves to new perspectives while respecting and refining our own respective lenses; to incorporate new nuances that can shape us now and in the future. To all of you, and to KOTESOL, I wish a past seeded with lessons but no regrets; a present filled with growth, meaning, and discovery; and a future blossoming with promise and possibility. Here’s to the next 25 amazing years! Page 2 Sookmyung Women's University. Oct. 21-22, 2017 The 25th Korea TESOL International Conference Chair’s Welcome Sean O’Connor Welcome to the 25th annual Korea TESOL International Conference. Korea TESOL has been organizing professional development activities in Korea for 25 years. It is time to celebrate. Let’s celebrate the work done at the local chapter level; the symposiums, workshops, drama festivals, speech contests, and other events, academic and social, that have provided teachers with the opportunity to network with peers and broaden KOTESOL involvement in the community. Let’s celebrate the work done at the national level; KOTESOL Teacher Training provides presenters and tailored events in support of our mission statement, and SIGs provide a forum for teachers to hone their skills in specific subject areas. The national and international conferences have provided teachers in Korea the opportunity to meet some of the best authors, researchers, and teacher trainers from around the world. We have a lot to celebrate. I will also be celebrating the outstanding job done by the people of my team—the International Conference Committee. Thank you for the hours you have taken from your families to make this event possible. Our theme, “Why are we here? Analogue learning in the digital era,” focuses on the need and relevance of face-to-face conferences. Why do they still exist in a digital world? Why do people want to change their weekend routine and come to an unfamiliar place to hear much of which they could get free on YouTube? I want us to have an open discussion about the value of these events for all the stakeholders. If we can improve our understanding of each other’s needs, we can make this event even better. Please take the opportunity to discuss this. Please don’t just sit and listen; talk. Don’t just send your hundred-forty characters out into the net then wait; talk with real people. Talk with other attendees, talk to the presenters, talk to conference organizers, and talk with our corporate sponsors. Tell everyone what you think. Be sure to attend the panel discussion on this issue where you, the audience, will have a chance to pose your questions to four of our invited speakers. The face to face context is important, but we need to be talking about why that is and how KOTESOL should adapt in order to stay relevant. Thank you for joining us. I look forward to your active participation in this event. Sookmyung Women's University. Oct. 21-22, 2017 Page 3 The 25th Korea TESOL International Conference Finding the Right Presentations By Allison Bill, Program Director It can be intimidating looking at all the presentation titles and choosing one. Here are some tips. 1. Read the titles, of course, but also, read the abstracts for the sessions you are interested in. The abstract should give you an idea of what will be covered – whether it’s new or old information for you and whether the topic is something you are interested in. 2. We have a few changes to presentation types this year. Dialogues have been added, and Poster Presentations have returned to our conference this year. You can view the posters in the Gemma Hall Lobby, with different displays each day. Check the chart on pp.31-32 for an explanation of the different presentation types. 3. We continue the “101” series of presentations. If you are new to teaching, or new to teaching English, or just need to brush up on basic skills, check the “101” sessions. This year’s topics are Assessment/Testing, Classroom Management, and Curriculum/Materials Development/Lesson Planning. You can see the full list of “101” presentations in the 101 index (pp.157-170). 4. Different folks, different strokes. Some people come looking for techniques and ideas to take back to their classrooms. Others might be interested in the latest thought and research in our field. We can help with both! The 45- and 80-minute sessions will talk more about classroom ideas. The 20-minute sessions will more likely discuss current research findings. Of course, you can’t have one without the other, so consider mixing it up. You may notice that there are more 20-minute sessions this year. This reflects a sharp increase in submissions from teacher-researchers. Maybe they will inspire you to try some action research in your own classes. 5. Thanks to the vetters! We recognize your colleagues who read the hundreds of presentation proposals. They helped us select the 225 presentations you have to choose from this weekend. This is the dedicated team of vetters: Krista Brusky, Sara Cuthbert, Andrea Dennison, Ian Done Ramos, Michael Free, Amy Lee, Stafford Lumsden, Elizabeth May, Eric Reynolds, David Shaffer, Tory Thorkelson, Jeff Walter, and Ingrid Zwaal. We ALL owe these folks a BIG “Thank you!” We hope you will enjoy the conference! With 14 presentation rooms going for 13 hours over two days, in addition to our Plenary Presentations, I am sure you can find something to help you return to school on Monday with an answer to the question, Why are we here? Analogue Learning in the Digital Era.