8th FEELTA conference “From Broadcasting to Narrowcasting: Global Englishes, Local Contexts”

8th FEELTA conference “From Broadcasting to Narrowcasting: Global Englishes, Local Contexts”

The Far Eastern English Language Teachers’ Association invites proposals for their conference on language teaching and learning to be held

June 28 - 30, 2010

at The Far Eastern State University of Humanities, Khabarovsk, Russia

Hosted by: The Far Eastern State University of Humanities

More information at http://feelta.wl.dvgu.ru/File%201.htm

TESOL Electronic Village Online 2010 announcement

Dear colleagues,

The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association is pleased to offer the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2010 sessions. This is a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2010 Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2010 participants and those who can participate only virtually.

You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in a free, six-week, wholly online session of the EVO, Jan 11 -Feb 21, 2010.

Please visit our Announcement Web page to select one among the various offerings.

http://evosessions. pbworks.com/ Call_for_ Participation201 0

Yours in TESOL,

Dafne Gonzalez
On behalf of
The EVO coordination team

My Summer Vacation by Elizabeth Smith, Secondary Education Representative

I’d like to share how I spent part of my summer teaching English at a summer school in Yakutsk, Russia for two weeks...

(to read more go to http://www.textesolv.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=56&MMN_position=72:72)

Larissa Olesova, Past President of Yakut TESOL

E-Teacher Courses 2009-2010 Nominations from Yakut TESOL

Yakut TESOL has nominated the following members to E-Teacher 2009-2010 through English Language Office (US Embassy in Moscow):

Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web - Lidiya Scrybina (Yakutsk Calssic Gymnasiym)
Critical Thinking in the EFL Curriculum - Alexandra Popova (Pedagogical College of Yakutsk)
English for Specific Purposes Best Practices - Eugeniya Yadrikhinskaya (YSU)
English as a Foreign Language Assessment -Elena Zakharova (YSU)
Survey of Best Practices in TESOL - Irina Ptitsina (YSU)
Developing EFL Literacy through Project-Based Learning - Zarmena Emelyanova (YSU)
Teaching English to Young Learners - Vera Semenova (IPKRO)

Yakut TESOL nominees are responsible for conducting training sessions for members of Yakut TESOL upon completion the courses in 2009-2010. The first training sessions through Yakut TESOL is coming in May, 2010. We wish good luck to our nominees and keep our fingers crossed!

Larissa Olesova, Past President of Yakut TESOL

E-Teacher Courses 2009-2010 Nominations

If you are interested to apply your nomination to participate in E-Teacher Training Courses in fall and spring 2009-2010, please, send your information to lolesova@yahoo.com to Larissa Olesova with the subject "E-Teacher Nomination" by August 25, 2009. The courses are:
Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web
Critical Thinking in the EFL Curriculum
English for Specific Purposes Best Practices
English as a Foreign Language Assessment
Survey of Best Practices in TESOL
Developing EFL Literacy through Project-Based Learning
Teaching English to Young Learners

You should be teachers' trainer or a teacher to be nominated to the courses through Yakut TESOL Association. Your responsibility includes conducting training during Yakut TESOL activities next year in 2010. In addition, you should have easy Internet access, 10 hours per a week during 10 weeks to work on the course assignments and Advanced English proficiency level.

Send the following information:
First Name
Last Name
Insitution Name
City
Mailing Address
E-Mail
Phone
Course Choice
Why are you interested in taking the course and how will it help you and Yakut TESOL?
Are you willing to sharethe knowledge and skills acquired as a result of the course? Are you going to conduct training during Yakut TESOL Conferences in 2010?

Summer School 2009 for Children

The first Summer School for Children was organized under mutual agreement signed by Yakut TESOL and Tex-TESOLV. It was from the 23rd of July to the 4th of August, 2009 in Yakutsk. The Summer School was attended by 31 boys and girls ages 10 – 16. Children were divided into two groups.
American teacher Elizabeth Smith from the Hockaday School was invited. She came to Yakutsk together with her family (husband – David Smith and two daughters).
Classes began at 9 o’clock and lasted four hours till 12.30. Rest time was provided.
At the lessons students worked with native speakers to develop the fundamental four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Teachers focused on common topics such as greetings, food, weather, shopping, fashion, mass media, holidays, hobbies and others. Students also were immersed in the American culture with projects including American movies. Children had an opportunity to practice their language skills, advancing spoken language in a Russian-free class-room environment. Atmosphere was relaxed and informal. All the participants of the first Summer School got Certificates. Both teachers and children were satisfied with the work. The first experience was successful!

Summer School 2009 starts working

Yakut TESOL organized Summer School for teachers and students and it was held at Yakutsk State University. We hosted key speakers from TESOL Board of Directors Dr. Yilin Sun, US Department Senior English Language Fellows Allyson Kellum from Vladivostok and Todd Vidamour from Novosibirsk. Different guests were invited with speech of welcome: Rector of Ya-kutsk State University Alexeev A.N.,Director of Yakut Pedagogical Col-lege #2 Glezer V.A..Director of Yakut Pedagogical College #1 Kopylova K.I..Head of the Department of Ministry of Education, Head of Ministry of For-eign Affairs RF in Yakutsk Dyakonov N.V., Teachers‘ Re-Training Institute – Semenova V.D.
photo: Dr. Yilin Sun (center) meeting with the Vice-President of Yakutsk State University and Yakut TESOL Board of Directors
Dr. Yilin Sun made presentation at a plenary meeting Trends, Issues, Opportunities and Challenges for Non- Native Speaking ELT Educators in the Changing Global Society and conducted workshop Action Research for Classroom teachers for three groups. Dr. Yilin Sun gave a presentation about TESOL and some teachers joined it right there with her help. Yakut TESOL appreciates very much the books with TESOL publications brought by Yilin Sun.
Senior English Language Fellow Allyson Kellum presented a number of very interesting and valuable range of topics during plenary and workshops sessions: Internet Resources: Broading Exposure to English; Pronunciation, Multiple Intelligence. She really worked very hard, and teachers highly evaluated her work.

Senior English Language Fellow Todd Vidamour was a plenary speaker with Perfomance - based teaching, and workshops: Blooms Taxonomy, Exploring Culture and Sociolinguistics in ESOL, Developing Learning Strategies. Participants appreciated his topics as useful for their further work, they were admired by his level of techni-cal knowledge and also his Russsian.
Yakut TESOL also tried to meet teachers‘ wish to be involved in videoconference with the US which was possible with the support of our past president Larissa Olessova and sister-partners from Dallas TexTESOLV.

Every morning started with videoconference with Purdue University, Indiana, Califonia. Our participants had an opportunity to know how other TESOL affiliates work which is very important for the future development of Yakut TESOL. Topics of videoconfrences are TESOL Afiliate in Indiana (USA) INTESOL by Dr. Lucianna C.de Oliveira; Computer Assisted Language Learning Issues by Dr. Jennifer C. Richardson; Administrative Support of Technology Implementation in classroom by Dr. James Lehman; Web 2.0 Technologies Project for teachers by Dr. Timothy J. Newby; ―Welcome Yakut TESOL by Dr. Christine F.Meloni; TESOL Affiliate in California(USA) CATESOL by Dr. Belinda Braunstein; TexTESOLV and Yakut TESOL Partnership Agreement by Dr. Donald Weasenforth. Concurrent workshops were also done by teachers of both high school and university.Yakut TESOL tried to invite speakers who have any kind of experience to share with, among them are Lidia Scryabina and Aleksandra Borisova who shared web-collaboration with the class in Dalass,TX (USA); Aleksandra Popova participated in Michael Krauss online course and presented WEB2.0 technologies in teaching English; Elena Zakharova a plenary speaker with Opportunities for ELT; Vera Semenova shared the idea of Dynamic Education. Recursive Hierarchical Recognition (RHR) Theory and Practice. A range of different workshops was very succesful and will be surely used in future work of participants: Tuyara Yegorova Note taking in the Academic Writing; Anna Sivtseva Teaching Narrative Writing; Nadya Tulasynova Topic: Mind Mirror Projects in EFL Teaching; Elena Nelunova Implementation of Interactive Technologies into EFL classroom; Alexandra Popova Ideas for creating your own Ning‘; Ludmila Sidorova Blogs in language teaching; Varya Nazarova, Natalya Archakhova Opportunities in Taching Reding and Grammar; Lidia Scryabina APEC: e-learning Training Program. 81 teachers (40- teachers from high schools, 13-from city schools and 27 from rural schools; 14 – teachers from colleges; 4- university teachers; and 10- students) took part in Yakut TESOL Summer School. All participants got folders with Summer School Handbook, magazine FORUM, pens and copybooks for notes, Yakut TESOL newsletter, and CD with all speakers‘ presentations. In the end participants filled qustionaries. The responses of teachers were very positive and they wanted all our key speakers to come again in spring 2010.
Guests were given access to our national culture and traditions through differ-ent excursions and exhibitions: the Perma-frost Instituite, Museum of Local Culture and History named after Yaroslavsky, Museum of Khomus, Ethnic Centres Ytyk Haya and Chochur Muran, Handcraft centre Staryi Gorod and others. Dr Yilin Sun had some official meetings with Vice - Rector of Ya-kutsk State University, with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and an interview at the Press Center with several local newspapers and TV companies. Senior English Language Fellow Todd Vidamour from Novosibirsk gave an interview in popular program It is Interest-ing. The level of interest for sharing and exploring opportunities and challenges in teaching and learning English was very high. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the English Language Office, Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy, Moscow and TESOL, USA for providing support for Yakut TESOL.