TESOLANZ Branch Newsletters

AKTESOL Newsletter February 2005

Two for the price of one!

AGM as well as an Exciting Speaker

(Actually it is free for members and for non-members it is $10.00)

New Members Welcome

AKTESOL seminar evening: Did I Say What You Heard?

Date:	Wednesday March 16
Time:	6.30-9.00pm
Venue:	Kohia Teachers' Centre (Park in the car park at gate 2 Epsom Avenue.)
Programme:	6.30 pm: Delicious Easter nibbles and networking /socialising 7.15:pm: AGM 7.45 - 8.50 pm: Maree Jeurissen

SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES

In 2004 Maree carried out research in a multicultural central Auckland primary school investigating student initiated interactions between teachers and students of the same and different cultural backgrounds. The findings have implications for policy makers, principals, and classroom teachers of all levels.

Email Jenni Bedford to book your seat.

New edition of our much-used genre book by Knapp and Watkins. It is now called Genre, Text and Grammar. Helen Nicholls has had input into this latest edition.

International Conference at AIS

The theme of the June 2005 conference is Reflective Practice: The key to innovation in international education. Neil Anderson, Andrew Cohen, Rod Ellis and Rebecca Oxford are key speakers.

Resource Bank Survey

As part of an Export Education Levy-funded project managed by the TESOL/TEFL Professional Development Levy Group and Education New Zealand, your views are sought on the feasibility of an online web resource bank.
An online questionnaire which takes only a couple of minutes to complete is available until February 25th at: http://resourcebank.unitecnology.ac.nz/ResourceBank.html. For more information please contact:
Jenny Barrett, Project Director
Email jbarrett@unitec.ac.nz
Phone: 815 4321 ext. 8122.

From ESOL Online

Teaching and Learning Strategies
Disappearing Definition
Vanishing cloze or disappearing definition, this strategy works well and takes minimal preparation.

Professional reading for teachers
Formal grammar is 'ineffective'
Researchers suggest that sentence combining may be one of the more effective approaches to the teaching of writing. (A short article.)

Advance Notice of Interesting Speaker for the Next AKTESOL Meeting Tuesday May 24

Your chance to hear Dr Andrew Cohen, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Minnesota speak about the importance of:
Enhancing Learner Awareness of their Style Preferences, Strategy
Repertoire, and Motivation in Language Learning

If you have any questions or queries regarding the newsletter, please email Jenni Bedford.