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An Introduction
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| Welcome to the third annual
Pusan KOTESOL Regional Chapter Conference at
Dong Eui University! Established in 1992, KOTESOL, Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, is a non-profit, professional organisation whose mission is “to promote scholarship, disseminate information, and facilitate cross-cultural understanding among persons concerned with the teaching and learning of English in Korea.” KOTESOL is, moreover, an independent national affiliate of a growing international movement of teachers. It is closely associated with TESOL Inc., JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching), ThaiTESOL (Thailand TESOL), IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), TESL Canada, and ETA-ROC (The Republic of China English Teachers’ Association). The 700+ membership of KOTESOL includes Korean and native-English-speaking elementary, middle, and high school, and university-level English teachers as well as teachers-in-training, administrators, researchers, materials writers, curriculum developers, and other interested persons. It is distinct in being an English organisation with a multi-cultural membership. KOTESOL’s membership just keeps on growing! There are now eight chapters: Cheju, Cholla, Chongju, Kyong-gi (Suwon), Pusan, Seoul, Taegu, and Taejon. Why not become a member if you’re not already one? Annual individual membership in KOTESOL costs 40,000 won (20,000 won for students), and includes the following benefits: 1) Free entry to regular
chapter meetings at all eight chapters;
Again, welcome! If you are not already a member, we hope you’ll become one soon! We look forward to your participation in future KOTESOL events, particularly PAC2 (Pan Asian Conference) at the Olympic Parktel in Seoul, October 1-3, 1999. A Message from the Pusan KOTESOL Chapter Greetings and a warm welcome from the Pusan KOTESOL Chapter; it’s a pleasure to have you here at this conference! Today’s carefully selected presentations run the gamut from elementary to advanced, and topics, too, are diverse: from music to methodology, research to writing, games to graphics, there’s something here for everyone! At our conference, we are striving to meet the varied needs of our Pusan Chapter members and the greater community of English teachers; we strive to do the same at our monthly meetings. Thus, we typically alternate Korean and non-Korean main speakers and What Works activity presenters at each meeting. Further, one presenter usually addresses elementary and middle school teachers while the other addresses high school and university ones or makes a presentation suitable for the entire audience. Pusan KOTESOL monthly meetings are held the last Saturday of every month in room 606 of ESS Language Institute (Nonghyup bank building) in Kwangbokdong, just five minutes from the Nampodong subway stop. Meetings run from 3:00 – 5:00 pm; come early (2:30) for coffee, cookies, and a chat! Today’s conference replaces our regular chapter meeting for May, so we look forward to seeing you instead at our next meeting June 26th. A special thank you to ESS for kindly hosting us, and to “The Exit” for advertising our conference and monthly meetings. Without a COMMITtee – that
is, a dedicated, COMMITted team – this conference would not have been possible.
Heartfelt thanks go out to the hard-working Pusan KOTESOL officers, Dr.
Park Oksook and others, notably student volunteers, at Dong-Eui university,
our plenary speakers Dr. Park Joo Kyung and Andrew Todd, Jeff Lebow for
his invaluable support in program-making, and many other KOTESOL and non-KOTESOL
folks too numerous to mention, all of whom have generously given of their
time and expertise. Our gratitude also goes out to Oxford University Press
for its assistance in publicising the conference, David English House and
Kyobo for generous door prize donations, Young Kwang bookstore, Kim and
Johnson, and other commercial organisations for their financial support.
President: Terri-Jo Everest;
I.L.E.C.; Pusan University of Foreign Studies
1st Vice President: Jin-Hee
Baek; Daepyung Elementary School
2nd Vice President: Shelby
Largay; Korea Maritime University
Treasurer: Kim Kyung Mi;
Gu-nam Elementary School
Secretary: Regina Oakland,
Pusan Teacher Training Centre
Membership Coordinator:
Patrick Guilfoyle; Seogu Teacher Training District
Web Manager: Jeff Lebow;
Pusan University of Foreign Studies
Conference Display Coordinator:
William Tweedie; Korea Maritime University
Member at Large: Jerry Foley;
Dong-eui University
Member at Large: Darlene
Heiman; Inje University
Member at Large: Sook Eun
Cho; KOTESOL National 2nd Vice President
E-mail us all: [email protected] |
