6th Annual VUS-TESOL Conference
AGENDA
| 7:30 am - 8:00 am | Registration | ||||
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Opening Ceremonies | ||||
8:30 am - 9:30 am |
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Morning Plenary: Mr.Bruce Rogers (Cengage), DevelopingSkills for the 21th Century: A New Perspective (Main Hall) | |||
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Morning Break (refreshments served) | ||||
10:00 am - 11:00 am |
Dr. Timothy Farnsworth (CUNY) Designing Rubrics for Classroom Assessment 
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Mr. Paul Grainger (Cengage) A New Perspectiveon Motivating Today’s Students |
Dr. Ian Walkinshaw (Griffith University) Native-Speakerness vs Pedagogical Expertise: Which Do EFL Students Value More Highly? |
Mr. Grant Trew (OUP) Technology in the Classroom: All the Fun, None of the Fear |
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| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Break | ||||
11:10 am - 12:10 pm |
Ms. Heather Barikmo &Ms. Mary Nance-Tager (CUNY) Active Reading Strategies: Putting Thought Into Action |
Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Dao (VUS) Making It Fun for Young Learners to Learn Grammar |
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoai An (VUS) Humanism in Language Teaching – Students’ Faces & Voices |
Dr. Le Thi Anh Phuong (VUS) Turn Frowns into Smiles: Maximizing the Fun in Learnin |
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| 12:10 pm - 1:40 pm | Lunch Break | ||||
1:40 pm – 2:40 pm |
Mr. Bruce Rogers (Cengage) TOEFL vs. TOEIC vs. IELTS |
Ms. Gilly Dempster (Macmillan) High Scores in Young Learner English Exams |
Mr. Ian Bosiak (E-Future) Incorporating Phonics and Meaning-Focused Phonics Activities in the Classroom |
Mr. David Kaye (Pearson Longman) Revitalizing Resources: a Re-Examination of Video in the Language Class |
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| 2:40 pm – 3:10 pm |
AfternoonBreak (refreshments served)
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| 3:10 pm – 4:10 pm |
Afternoon Plenary: Prof. David Nunan (Pearson Longman), Teaching English to Young Learners: Current Issues and Perspectives(Main Hall)
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| 4:10 pm – 4:40 pm | Closing and Raffle (Main Hall) | ||||
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