Browse our past events for information on previous TasTESOL conferences and forums. Access PowerPoint presentations, programs, worksheets and other resources shared during the events.
Generating authentic ‘real’ language practice for your students: two motivating projects
10 August 2017
Derwent Sailing Squadron, Sandy Bay, Hobart
Leah Rosebrock and Suzie Han from Collegiate School, Hobart, present their language enrichment programme (English and Chinese). Lisa Stautmeister from ‘joiningthedots’ discusses ‘The Welcome Dinner Project.’
Inspire and transform
3 June 2017
C Block, TasTAFE, Launceston
The forum focuses on the themes of creating classrooms that inspire EAL/D learners and transforming learning into skills for work and life.
TasTESOL Winter Forum June 2017 Launceston – Flier
TasTESOL Winter Forum June 2017 Launceston – Program
TasTESOL Winter Forum June 2017 Launceston – Certificate of Attendance
A demonstration of locally produced literacy resources
18 May 2017
Derwent Sailing Squadron, Sandy Bay, Hobart
Jeanne Wherret, former EAL/D and special education teacher, presents and demonstrates literacy resources she has developed for her students over 30 years.
Teaching matters: hearts and minds
1 April 2017
Sacred Heart College, New Town, Hobart
Keynote presentation by Bronwyn Custance, EAL/D and literary consultant, author, educator and course/curriculum designer: ‘Developing metalinguistic understandings through functional grammar: a possible fast-track to language learning.’
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TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Program
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Flier
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Keynote – Meta-linguistic understandings – Bronwyn Custance
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 1 – A Song a Day – Urban Lyrebirds
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 2 – Teaching Sp, Wr using pictures – Anna Kingston
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 3 – Paragraph cohesion 1 – Bill McCann
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 3 – Paragraph cohesion 2 – Bill McCann
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 4 – Cognitive Behav. Therapy & Mindfulness – Barbara Rose
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 7 – Vocab: prefixes & suffixes 1 – Marlene Chesney
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 7 – Vocab: prefixes & suffixes 2 – Marlene Chesney
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 7 – Vocab: prefixes & suffixes 3 – Marlene Chesney
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 7 – Vocab: prefixes & suffixes 4 – Marlene Chesney
TasTESOL Conference 2017 – Workshop 7 – ‘Unlocking Literacy’ Chp 7 – Marlene Chesney
English spelling with a focus on helping Arabic speakers
27 October 2016
Derwent Sailing Squadron, Sandy Bay, Hobart
Dr Giovanna MacFarlane, UTAS English Language Centre, discusses how English spelling patterns can be found and presented to speakers of Arabic and other languages to help them overcome difficulties with spelling.
Dyslexia: a troubled past but brighter future
25 August 2016
Derwent Sailing Squadron, Sandy Bay, Hobart
Rosie Martin, speech pathologist, Speech Pathology Tasmania and Chatter Matters, examines dyslexia’s past, present and future, and how knowledge gained puts us in a better position to respond to mainstream & EAL/D students with dyslexia.
Inspire and aspire
6 August 2016
C Block, TasTAFE, Launceston
Dr Paul Kebble, UTAS, discusses how teachers’ resilience towards second-hand trauma can be developed in situations where students who have arrived in Australia as humanitarian migrants begin to share their stories of violence, persecution and displacement with teachers they trust.
TasTESOL Winter Forum Aug 2016 Launceston – Program
TasTESOL Winter Forum Aug 2016 Launceston – Certificate of attendance
Spoken and written language: the whole kit and kaboodle
23 June 2016
Derwent Sailing Squadron, Sandy Bay, Hobart
Karen Lucas, speech pathologist, Department of Education, discusses the overlap between the work of speech pathologists and TESOL teachers in both spoken and written language.
TasTESOL Winter Forum June 2016 – Flier
Talk About Languages
21 May 2016
Sacred Heart College, New Town, Hobart
Keynote presentations:
Dr Russel Cross, Senior Lecturer, Languages and Literacy Education, Melbourne University. ‘Content based language teaching, Topic based language teaching, Communicative language teaching and now, Content & Language Integrated Learning – what’s new that CLIL could possibly tell us that we don’t already know?!’
Dr Shem Macdonald, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Language Education, School of Education, La Trobe University, Melbourne. ‘Creating a culture for pronunciation learning in and out of the classroom.’
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TasTESOL Conference 2016 – Program
TasTESOL Conference 2016 – Flier