Schedule

• 9:00-9:20am - Welcome

NYS TESOL President-Elect, Christine Seebach

NYS TESOL Annual Conference Virtual Day ticket raffle ( Thursday, November 3rd, 2022)

PLENARY SESSION l

• 9:20-10:05am: “Applied Linguistics of Resistance: radical agency, transgressions, and politics for school social transformation”, Dr. Adolfo Tanzi Neto.

This talk reflects upon how language education that seeks to problematize human subjectivity and agency for social change/justice supporting different critical worldviews about systemic and structural economic and political causes can contribute to the development of individuals in the critical transformation process of their social realities.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS (3)

• 10:10 -10:55am: “A Sociolinguistic Approach to Pronunciation Assessment”, Victor Carreão.

Linguistic studies show that language may vary according to a speaker’s place of residence, to natural linguistic processes or even to social status. Our objective is to put pronunciation assessment in ELT under the spotlight and highlight the importance of taking its diverse nature into account in our classrooms.

• 10:10 - 10:55am: “Validating the Voices of Diversity: A Speech Act Approach”, Mary Carpenter.

The value of multicultural voices is important, and so necessary in the world today. Many multilingual students may not have needed to support their culture or values in their first language. The linguistic demands of speech act scenarios for explaining and supporting cultural values will be explored and assessed .

• 10:10-10:55am: “Nonstandard Vernacular among Heritage Language Speakers in Pre-school”, Dr. Yana Shifrina-Piljovin.

While bilingualism is common among the first generation of immigrants, it appears that the heritage language is partially lost by the second generation, and is lost completely by the third one. Parents struggle to preserve the traditional language with the former giving way to the dominant language. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that caregivers are not necessarily aware of the benefits of exposure to multiple languages during the early years. While current research suggests the benefits of bilingualism over monolingualism, it is not much known about levels of Russian language proficiency among young heritage language speakers. The goal of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of heritage language proficiency levels among Russian-American youngsters.

• 10:55-11:10am - Homemade Coffee Break (15 minutes)

PLENARY SESSION ll

• 11:10-11:55am: “Empowering Educators in Limited Resource Communities: Linguistic Opportunities in a Digital World”, Dr. Jennifer McMahon.

During the Covid-19 Pandemic, many schools around the world had to shift their focus from traditional teaching to virtual options. While there is no doubt this crisis limited opportunities for many learners, there was also a renewed focus by governments and education departments on providing access to digital opportunities. This forced shift into the digital world can also be seen as a catalyst that may now provide increased access to language learning and opportunities to apply target languages. Participants will hear how they can use digital tools to provide a pathway to learning for their own students or within their own practice.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS (4)

• 12:00- 12:45pm: “Progress Monitoring with LAS Links Online”, Chelsea Rivera.

Progress Monitoring with LAS Links provides educators the opportunity to enhance their pedagogical practices with just-in-time data to inform instruction at a multi-tiered system level of support. This session will give an overview of LAS Links Online, and how to interpret and analyze student data to support language acquisition.

• 12:00-12:45pm: “Language Learning in the Time of COVID”, Monica Baker and Enrica Anne Suljic.

Faced with unprecedented quarantines over the past two years, many people decided to pursue independent language learning while stuck at home. But were these language pursuits successful? We'll examine the results of an international survey to find out what worked, what didn't, and look at how this data can support language acquisition going forward.

• 12:00-12:45pm: “Teaching Language through Online Platforms: Using Nearpod with English Language Learners”, Asma Syed and Michelle Reese. (Canceled)

Participants will experience first-hand an innovative online platform that they can use in their classrooms: Nearpod. We can use Nearpod to engage students in a variety of activities in order to teach language concepts. Participants will explore these possibilities using vocabulary related to our theme: past, present, and future progressive.

• 12:00-12:45pm: “Covid Blueprint: Practical Strategies for Teachers and Students", Hind Elkhatim Elyas

During the pandemic, educators had to find different ways to cope with the new challenge of teaching online. For many of us, it was an opportunity to attend free top-notch webinars, to learn about how to integrate technology into our classes and to share best practices. Teachers and educators have been more involved with technology, and this helped us learn more about the different online tools that can be used in the classroom. In this session, participants will learn how to harness newly learned resources and tech tools to transform their classrooms.

CLOSURE

• 12:45-1:00pm: Survey and Certificates (CTLE and participation)

Raffle results

Closing remarks, ALWC2022 Chair

Q&A