| Friday | Meeting Room 1 | Meeting Room 2 | Lobby |
| 9:00 | Warm up: Chair Yoga Session, TESL NL faces, Student Videos, Charity Video | ||
| 9:30-9:50 9:50-10:00 | Opening address (Xuemei Li & Martha Trahey) Technical instructions (Deneice Falconer, Dana Murphy, & Khalid Al Hariri) | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | FMK: Keynote– Jim Cummins Educating immigrant and refugee youth: Rethinking the instructional implications of research in the age of Covid-19 Chair: Suzanne Fitzpatrick | ||
| 11-12:30 | FM1: Transitioning and adjustment in different sectors and places Chair: Suzanne Fitzpatrick 1.Martha Trahey Best practices for ELLs during times of transition: Good teaching +… 2. Natalie Penney-Toba Adjusting from a physical face-to-face teaching environment to an international online-platform 3. Glenn Cake Computer assisted language learning- That’s Edutainment ! | FM2: Where prior life and current learning intertwine Chair: Francesca Boschetti 1.Deneice Falconer Social justice and L2 writing workshops for K-6 newcomers 2. Maria Dumitrescu-Millar Using cultural intelligence in the classroom 3.Alana Johnson & Jacky Rivas Working with trauma affected ESL learners | |
| 12:30-1:00 Lunch Break Chair Yoga Session, TESL NL faces, Student Videos, Charity Video | |||
| 1:00-2:00 | FAK: Keynote– Paula Kristmanson Active learning in the time of change : Experiences and insights of TESL pre-service teachers Chair: Xuemei Li | ||
| 2:00-3:30 | FA1: Teacher education and teacher learning Chair: Susanne Drover 1.Anna Burnley Teaching about language endangerment to educators-in-training 2.Danielle Freitas The power of messaging apps to promote peer-learning in language teacher education 3.Justine Jun Migrant women English instructors’ workplace learning experiences in Ontario and insights for adult English learners’ intercultural learning in Canada | FA2: Pandemic impact on language instruction for newcomers to Canada Chair: Dana Murphy 1.Dmitri Detwyler Speaking of the pandemic: Canadian language instructors address impacts on practice 2.John Allan EduLINC & Avenue: The response to the pandemic 3. Paul O’Flaherty & David Neilsen Ready or not, here we are: transitioning lower levels to online learning | |
| 3:30-5:00 | FA3: Developing academic success and social integration of ELLs Chair: Martha Trahey 1. Suzanne Fitzpatrick & Greg Simmons Best practices for educators to facilitate LEARN student academic development and integration 2. Stephanie Wright Preliminary findings of the most frequently used prepositional idioms inAmerican English: A corpus study of three prepositions with pedagogicalsuggestions 3. Fariha Asif & Muhammad Afzal Awan Mapping out low- achievers’ plights in turbulent times and its remedial measures in EFL/ ESL virtual classroom | FA4: E-learning and e-assessment Chair: Francesca Boschetti 1.Trevor Laughlin & Brittany Hack SILC – a framework to assess eLearning effectiveness under covid-19 2. Raja Amer PBLA in the digital context: How to build and maintain an E-portfolio for the different PBLA stages. 3.Helaine Marshall The synchronous online flipped learning approach – SOFLA | |
| 5:00 | Chair Yoga Session, Charity Video | ||
| Saturday | Meeting Room 1 | Meeting Room 2 | Lobby |
| 9:30-10:00 | Chair Yoga Session, TESL NL faces, Student Videos, Charity Video | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | SMK: Keynote–Tony Fang Employer hiring attitudes towards newcomers and international students: Evidence from an employer survey in Atlantic Canada Chair: Xuemei Li | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | SM1: Negotiation of meaning and space Chair: Susanne Drover 1. Beth Kelln, Greg Smith, & Melissa Enns-Delgado A space for change: reconciliation & the EAL classroom 2. Simon Moll Diagramming cognitive and socio-linguistic thresholds 3. Tessa E. Troughton & Cecile Badenhorst “I flick back and forth” or the writing process of multilingual postsecondary students | SM2: Bilingual learners’ opportunities and challenges Chair: Tina Rowe 1. Roger Moore Numeracy in the EAL classroom: excellent strategies 2. Tayebeh Sohrabi & Kimberly Maich A case study of bilingual preschoolers’ social skills development 3. Sana Jamil & Khalid Al Hariri How has Covid-19 changed us? Looking through the lenses of doctoral students | |
| 12:30-1:00 Lunch Break Chair Yoga Session, TESL NL faces, Student Videos, Charity Video | |||
| 1:00-2:00 | TESL NL AGM (all TESL NL members) | ||
| 2:00-3:30 | SA1: Creative ways of teaching in today’s world using technology Chair: Suzanne Fitzpatrick 1. Rita Zuba Prokopetz Electronic portfolios: Pedagogy in a time of change 2. David Clyde Walters Teaching a “hybrid / blended” Citizenship class using Zoom and Whatsapp 3.Toby Ali Gamifying your online course | SA2: Synchronous EAP teaching in the COVID-19 time Chair: Deneice Falconer 1. Reginald D’Silva & Nasrin Kowkabi TESL from a distance: Tips for readapting our teaching strategies online during changing times 2. Francesca Boschetti & Victoria Skanes, Running university-level ESL programs during COVID-19: What we did, what we learnt, and what we recommend 3. Trevor Laughlin & Brittany Hack Synchronous eLearning concerns under covid-19 for ESL EAP students | |
| Closing Ceremony 3:30-4:00 | Newcomer students’ video contest award ceremonyVolunteer appreciationPublication opportunitiesSubmission timelinesClosing remarks | ||
| 4:00-4:30 | Chair Yoga session, TESL NL faces, and TESL NL social |
Acknowledgement
The TESL NL 2020 Conference is supported by Memorial University through a Public Engagement grant, and by TESL Canada through a Conference Sponsorship.
Community Engagement
TESL NL held a video contest among the newcomer students in the LIteracy Enrichment and Academic Readiness for Newcomers (LEARN) program of Newfoundland and Labrador English School District (NLESD), and is raising funds to sponsor newcomer families in collaboration with Single Parent Association of Newfoundland (SPAN).
