MANATESOL

Welcome to MANATESOL: The Manawatu Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

MANATESOL is actively involved in promoting second language teaching in the Manawatu. We do this through organising regular workshops and seminars featuring some of New Zealand's premier second language educators.

PALMERSTON NORTH, the home city of MANATESOL, has a large non-native English speaking population and a number of centres for second language teaching, linguistics and TESL, including Massey University, Universal College Of Learning, Education Training Consultants (ETC), Queen Elizabeth College and International Pacific College. In addition the Home Tutor Program and Open Learning Centre have a significant presence in the local TESL environment

Contact:

Gwenna Finnikin (secretary)

See Contacts for full contact details.


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2011



MANATESOL winter meeting at Roma in Palmerston North. A nice evening was had by all and much professional development and contact building occurred.


MANATESOL enjoyed a meet and greet at Halikarnas in Palmerston North. There was much networking and professional discussion as well as overeating and belly dancing.

On June 7 MANATESOL got together to learn about using the phonemic chart to teach pronunciation.

Donna Bliss had us all involved and gave us really good resources.

2010


2010 photos
MANATESOL AGM 2010 member
MANATESOL AGM 2010 Martin McMorrow MANATESOL's AGM was greatly enhanced by Rua, the coffee man, and guest speaker Martin McMorrow talking about vocabulary.
Dennis Whiterod (acting interim chair) and Donal Crawford (Outgoing chair)
Hilary Smith (TESOLANZ president and MANATESOL committee member)
Gwenna Finikin, Secretary

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COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

2010 LECTURE SERIES

SPEAKER: Dr Martin Paviour-Smith, School of Language Studies

Linguistic ecology and encounters: Missionaries, blood and milk in Malekula

STARTS: Wednesday 14 July, 2010 at 3.30pm. Refreshments provided at conclusion of the lecture in Common Room 2.04

WHERE: Sir Geoffrey Peren Building Auditorium SGP 2.17

30 April 2009: Barley Mak talks to MANATESOL

Barley Mak (MAK CHAN Shuk-yin Barley) taught at Palmerston North Girls' High some years ago, and completed her MA SLT at Massey University. She is now Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In her talk to MANATESOL she described a project on collaborative writing using wikis, aimed at improving teaching and learning of English at school level in Hong Kong.

ESOL Day on 19 May 2007

Lyn Groves speaks about her current work in South Auckland on an EHSAS (Extending High Standards Across Schools) project to try to raise writing literacy in Decile One secondary schools.
Dr Pi'ikea Clark explains his research with 'Kauhale theory’, an educational philosophy for visual based research that is grounded in a Kanaka Maoli, or indigenous Hawaiian, cultural metaphor.

Elin King looks at the process of learning language and shares some of her enthusiasm for languages through demonstrating a variety of classroom activities.
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