A quick look into the TESOL life...
Student TESOL Organization
The Murray State Student TESOL Organization (MSU STO) is a student-run club to promote and organize social and professional events through the academic year. Visit their page on Facebook--you'll like it!
TESOL Organizations
The TESOL organization for the commonwealth of Kentucky. Annual Conference is held each fall.
This US-based organization is the largest in the world--the annual conference each spring must be seen to be believed. This organization also publishes many training books and the TESOL standards for K-12 public schools in the US.
Conventions Attended by MSU TESOL Faculty/Students
Here you will find a quick list of presentations that Murray State TESOL Faculty and Graduate Students have presented at recent TESOL conferences.
AAAL Dallas 2013
Presentations:
Dr. Juyoung Song, Globalization and Teacher Identity: EFL Teachers' Perspectives on Study Abroad Returnees
Dr. Saihua Xia & Zhiyong Zhu (Non-MSU), Acquired Greeting Routines and Emerging Social Stratification in a Changing Metropolitan Context: a Chinese Migrant Workers' Case
TESOL 2013 International Convention & English Language Expo
Presentations:
Mustafa Hersi, Classroom Participation: Focusing on Sociocultural Factors
Van Thanh Phan, The Personalization Effect in Multimedia Message Design on Native and Non-native Preservice ESL Teacher's Intercultural Competence
KYTESOL 2012, "WEAVING THE TAPESTRY: Integrating Language Skills, Standards and Assessment"
Presentations:
Rusnadi Kasan & Isnain Dewi, Kentucky Culture from Indonesian Perspectives
Dr. Mary Sue Sroda & Tuyen Do (Non-MSU), Web-based Teaching Tools Not Named "Google"
Dilin Li & Junhao Zhu (Non-MSU), Obstacles Faced by Chinese Students about Learning English in American Universities
Rusnadi Kasan, Teachers' Perceptions and Use of Types of Speaking Assessment Tasks
Dr. Saihua Xia, Increase ESL Learners' Awareness of Questioning Strategies: An Intervention Study
Xidang Lian, Using Language Games to Assess ESL/EFL Students
Sung Jung, Relationship between Implicit Attitude and Language Teaching
Basim Alamri, The Gap between ESL/EFL Teachers' Beliefs and Their Technology Use
Abdullah R. Alfalagg, The Influence of Reading Strategies on Reading Comprehension for Academic Purposes
Posters Presented:
Mustafa Hersi
Elham Dehghan