Buttons for stimulating speech I collect old buttons. Here’s a lesson I did using my buttons. Students selected one (and many of them are fascinating.) They had to draw and describe the garment it came from say who was wearing it where that person was how they came to lose […]
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Help Migori Education Centre in Western Kenya
A message from Deryn Hardie Boys (former treasurer, TESOLANZ) One of my former Victoria University colleagues is trying to raise money over the next two months for rebuilding the boys dormitory at a high school in Kenya. Have a look at the following link. The video explains it all. https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/dormitory-needs-urgent-replacement-to-save-school […]
Simon Crosby: The Road Less Travelled
The Road Less Travelled Presentation by Simon Crosby The presentation is about Simon’s doctoral research into translanguaging told through the eyes of a Syrian refugee and her language learning experience in Aotearoa. Watch Simon’s presentation.
CLESOL 2020 call for abstracts open now
Abstracts are being invited for CLESOL 2020, to be held on the 2nd to 4th October 2020, at St. Cuthbert’s, Auckland. We welcome abstracts reflecting the theme of the conference, Whiria te reo, whiria te tāngata / Weave the language, weave the people. The aim of this conference is to […]
EAP Symposium 2019 presentations
Available now to TESOLANZ members are the presentations and video recordings from the 2019 symposium Building the knowledge base: Connecting research to practice in assessment & EAP, which was held at Wintec, Hamilton on 13 July 2019. Current TESOLANZ members can log in and access the presentations in the Members’ […]
Our statement on the Review of Achievement Standards
In October, 2019, the Ministry of Education called for expressions of interest for service on Subject Expert Groups (SEGs) for the upcoming Review of Achievement Standards. In response, TESOLANZ issued a statement calling for establishment of an ESOL/EAP SEG (or something similar) to speak to the needs of learners who […]