CATESOL Board of Directors
All
5:00-6:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Ballroom C

At this meeting, reports will be given by 2007-08 board members detailing what they have accomplished in the past year, service awards and certificates will be presented, and newly elected board members for the year 2007-08 will be installed. ALL CATESOL members are welcome to attend.

CATESOL Members
4:30-5:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Ballroom C

Come meet and greet CATESOL Board Members and share in an open forum to discuss matters of importance to CATESOL Members. This is your opportunity as a member to meet and talk with the CATESOL leadership and to learn how to become involved with the organization. Light refreshments provided.

Kevin Donnelly, TELL ME MORE® by Auralog    
All    
8:00 -8:45 am    
Hyatt Regency B    
 

Is technology your teaching partner? Discover and practice ways to utilize technology in everyday language learning from the innovators at Auralog. See how to put technology to work for you and your students – it’s easy.

Emily Wright – Christy Pan – Irene Lee – Liane Wang

 USC TESOL Program
Sheraton  Bondi

 This presentation explores how, by applying theories of teaching and learning, a student organization can better connect students to each other, their professors, and their community, and aid in students’ academic, professional, and social development.  The presenters will describe their own student-run organization, USC TESOL/TEFL Society, share what they have learned from their experiences in the organization, and suggest a model for an effective student organization.

Gwendolyn Williams, University of Nevada, Reno
Paper: C/U
Sheraton Compagno
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
The presentation explores what international teaching assistants (ITAs) view as the most effective forms of departmental mentoring. After a description of this narrative study, the participants can share their ideas for mentoring cross-cultural teachers. The session would benefit ITA practitioners and international educators.

Yi-Chia Lin - Hui-Wen Chen
Demonstration: All
Hyatt Carmel B
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
How can we use SMART Board as classroom teaching equipment to teach lessons in English language classrooms? SMART Board can help students engage in and participate in class activities.  This demonstration will show a way of teaching summary writing with SMART Board technology.

Convention Center 203
Presenters:
Ellen Lange, UC Davis & College and University Level Chair, CATESOL
John Liang, Biola University & Assistant College and University Level Chair, CATESOL
Scott Forrest, Escondido High School & Assistant Secondary Level Chair, CATESOL
Sarah Nielsen, California State University East Bay
Mary Smith, UC Merced
Elena Vestri Solomon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, & Assistant Nevada Representative, CATESOL

As ESL instructors in the academic track, we work with a diverse population of pre-college and college students: Generation 1.5, international, and recent immigrants. With students from more and more diverse backgrounds and with varying levels of linguistic preparation, instructors are finding it challenging to meet these students’ needs as they strive to improve their academic language skills to meet college-level writing standards. This panel, composed of instructors from UC, CSU, UNLV, a private university, and a secondary school, will analyze their student populations and discuss various approaches their programs are using to prepare their ESL populations for “mainstreaming.” Emphasis will be placed not only on success but also on obstacles to boosting ESL students’ level of academic English so that they can meet the demands of college work.

Ellen Lange, College/University Level Chair
John Liang, Assistant College/University Level Chair
Convention Center 203
Please join your college/university level colleagues to eat lunch and discuss how we are integrating diverse levels of students into our ESL programs. We will be discussing different instructional strategies to serve the needs of international graduate students, education abroad exchange students, recently-arrived undergraduate immigrant students, and Generation 1.5 students. In this informative session, we will get the opportunity to network and learn about each other’s programs and how we are addressing the needs of a wide range of ESL undergraduate and graduate students.