They came and they conquered: raising awareness about the challenges faced by students from ethnically mixed homes -  and stimulating the conversation. Well done Yongin Chapter and well done KOTESOL. 

Tell your friends and colleagues: #igotitfromKOTESOL

Intro/Outro Music by Transstar

The noise of busy KOTESOL folks is your introduction to a private conversation between a few people navigating the rigors of organizing the 2023 KOTESOL National Conference and meeting deadlines.

A special thanks to our voice actors who each took time out from their busy lives to support the 2023 KOTESOL National Conference. Please click on the links to each name for information on their other valuable contributions to our multicultural world and the people in it .

Voices (in order of appearance)

Leonie Overbook, Rhett Burton, Brad Curtin

koreatesol.org/nc2023 

Music: 

Grief And Despair by Steven OBrien

The Longbeards Beneath The Mountains by Justin Allan Arnold

Jazzi by Frank Schroeter

Hero In The Shadows by Steven OBrien

Epic Intro 2015 (Non Percussive Short) by Sascha Ende

Epic Intro 2016 (light version) by Sascha Ende

Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/497-epic-intro-2016-light-version

Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 

Intro/Outro Music by Transstar

Here at the Yongin-Kotesol chapter we are full swing into National Conference mode and specifically focused on calls for proposals. What is a conference presentation? What is a proposal? Excellent questions! Let's get into it.

2023 KOTESOL National Conference

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How would you describe your summer? - In this brief update your host gives you a peek behind the curtain at what ISN’T happening and at what IS happening. Hold on to your whiteboard markers!

LINKS

Aug. 17-20:  AsiaTEFL Int’l Conference, Daejeon 

Oct. 28: Gwangju-Jeonnam Reg. Conference: Undead ELT?, Gwangju

Nov. 11: 2023 Kotesol Nat’l Conference: Multiculturalism Celebration, Yongin

Nov. 18: DCC Reg. Conference: Building Student Cultural Awareness, Daejeon

For more Fall conferences and events: Kotesol

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This is the second interview I conducted while attending the 2023 DCC Summer Picnic in Daejeon on June 24th. In this episode, I continue the conversation with DCC chapter Vice president Andrew Griffiths.

Comments, ideas, suggestiopns? - don't be shy!

Daejeon-Chungcheong Chapter page

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It was a hot day when the DCC-Kotesol chapter held their 2023 Summer Picnic, but everyone there was cool.

In this epsidoe I chat with Michael Peacock about the opportunities and chllanges that face Kotesol chapters as they emerge form the Covid pandemic.

It was a fun day and this is a fun episode. It's a little self-indulgent but I figure a lot of people held the mic, so a lot of people deserve to be heard. Find a comfortable spot to settle into and enjoy the next 30 minutes of Yoko chatter.

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In this second part of an earlier interview, I bring up some of my own experiences using VC and get Jose's thoughts on how I could adjust my application of his approach to get better results.

Practice Oriented Paper: ‘Verbal Classrooms: Fluency Activities Through Structure Control Practice’

Goldfish365 Website

Goldfish365 Facebook page

Goldfish 365 Youtube  

OTJ tv  

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This is the first of a two part interview with Jose. In this episode we are introduced to Jose’s Verbal Classrooms approach to fluency practice and some of the resources he has readily available online.. In part 2 we get into how VC worked during the pandemic and what the future holds.

Practice Oriented Paper: ‘Verbal Classrooms: Fluency Activities Through Structure Control Practice’

Goldfish365 Website

Goldfish365 Facebook page

Goldfish 365 Youtube

OTJ tv on Youtube 

Music by Transstar

If you missed it, you really missed it! This was the first Kotesol face-to-face International Conference since 2019. People were hungry to feel the energy that only a live conference of this size and calibre can generate. In this episode I share an interview with Conference Chair Garth Elzerman, as well as an impromptu interview with two college students from Taiwan who stepped up and allowed me to interview them.