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Sep 12, 2026: Voices of Multilingual Educators: Stories of Growth (RW-IG)

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:45 -0400

Description

The session brings together multilingual educators to share personal stories of identity, belonging, and professional growth across diverse teaching contexts. Panelists discuss challenges, transitions, and resilience in their professional journeys. The session concludes with research approaches for documenting teacher narratives, including common qualitative methods presented by the IG co-coordinators.

Moderator

Kara Mac Donald, Research Writers Interest Group Coordinator

Cost:

$0 members
$5 nonmembers

Sep 18, 2026: Vibe Coding for Student Engagement, an AI Tool for the ESL Classroom #CATESOLIEP

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:16 -0400

Description:

Pete Torrez is an assistant professor of Non-Credit ESL in the Department of Global Languages and Society and the Unity Pride Center Coordinator at Los Angeles Mission College. He is back with another workshop on AI advocacy and the importance of its utility in the classroom. AI has swept society very quickly, and many educators fear it, especially when it comes to students using it to cheat on exams or write papers. Our guest believes we must integrate AI as part of the classroom experience so students and teachers can utilize it as a tool for learning. Join us this session to learn about another tool Pete uses in his classes to enhance students’ language learning and minimize the fear surrounding this technology. Leave the session with new tools for your classroom.

Hosts:

Sean Saly and Edgar Zardaryan

Date and Time:

September 18th
11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Location:

CATESOL Zoom Room

Cost:

CATESOL Members: Free
Guests: $5

#CATESOLIEP

Sep 18, 2026: Coffee, Citizenship, Canvas, and more! (CIV-IG)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:47 -0400

Description:

Join CIV-IG for our monthly Coffee Talks. This month, Song Hong, past CATESOL President, will demonstrate her Citizenship Prep Canvas course, followed by a discussion about curriculum planning, course content delivery, and appropriate CASAS COAAPs. Also, how are you preparing your students for the 2026 mideterms? By sharing our experiences and resources, we can better prepare our students during their naturalization and civic participation. We look forward to seeing you!

Hosts:

CATESOL CIV Co-coordinators: Jennifer Gagliardi and Dr. Patricia Hernandez

Date and Time:

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
CATESOL Zoom Room

Cost:

Free to Members and Non-members

#catesolciv

Sep 18, 2026: Interest Group Council (IGC) Meeting - Sep

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:33 -0400

Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:

Join the Interest Group Council for our bimonthly online meeting via Zoom. Engage in an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for getting members involved, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues.
We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 3:30-4:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.

If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC Chair to share your information.

IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair: David O'Leary.
#catesoligc

Members Free. Register to get the Zoom link.

Sep 25, 2026: Fast Reading Aloud and Shadowing: Bottom-Up Processing in L2 Listening (TOP-IG)

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:31 -0400

Description

The speed of aural input is commonly reported as one of the greatest challenges that L2 learners face when listening. A primary cause of this challenge lies in learners’ bottom-up processing, during which they identify the phonological information, convert it into lexical items, and organize these based on their syntactic knowledge.

To enhance learners’ bottom-up processing, two activities can be recommended: shadowing and fast reading aloud. In this presentation, the presenter will share the research findings on the effects of these activities on learners’ bottom-up processing. Although previous research has found shadowing to be effective in improving learners’ bottom-up processing in L2 listening, the speaker’s recent study, conducted at a Japanese university in Tokyo, found that fast reading aloud is significantly more effective than shadowing. The possible reasons for these inconsistent findings on the effects of shadowing will be discussed.

In the talk, the presenter will also demonstrate how easily fast reading aloud can be implemented, both in and outside the classroom, allowing participants to experience the immediate effects of the process.

Presenter

Dr. Katsuya Yokomoto is an Associate Professor at the Center for Language Education and Research at Sophia University in Tokyo. He has been teaching English for over 25 years in various contexts, including in the United States, China, and Japan. As a Japanese learner of English as a foreign language, he has long been fascinated by the learning and teaching of English pronunciation. His research interests include pronunciation teaching, World Englishes, teacher cognition, and the teaching of neurodivergent learners.

Hosts

Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek. Co-coordinators
Donna Brinton, Assistant Coordinator

Date and Time

Friday, September 25, 2026, 3:00-4:00 PM California Time (September 26, 7:00 AM Tokyo time)

Cost

Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00

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Sep 25, 2026: Chapter Council Meeting - Sep

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:33 -0400

Chapter Council Meeting

Welcome to the Chapter Council monthly meetings. All Chapter Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other Chapter leaders are encouraged to attend Chapter Council Meetings to build connect with chapters, strategize to build membership, and discuss ways to promote their events.

Check the calender for the upcoming meeting date and time: www.catesol.org

Jennifer Guillen
Chapter Council Chair

Oct 2, 2026: Canvas in Adult Education: Tips, Tricks & Shared Solutions (Adult )

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:16 -0400

Presenter Talley Caruso will share practical Canvas tips that make teaching easier, including using rubrics for faster grading, modules to organize course content, and announcements to improve communication. Participants will add their own ideas, and together we'll create a shared list of Canvas strategies everyone can use.

Talley Caruso is an Adult ESL educator and materials writer who helps people build language and digital skills through guided experimentation. She holds an M.A. in TESOL from the University of San Francisco, founded Os Dedicados, a virtual Brazil-U.S. exchange, and created Digital ESL, a research-based Open Educational Resource (OER) recognized by the British Council. She loves collaborating with other passionate educators and guiding the CATESOL organization as an active board member.

Date & Time
Friday, October 2, 2006
2:00pm - 3:00pm

This event will take place on Zoom.

Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: Free

Hosted by the Adult Education Level Chairs

Oct 16, 2026: Suprasegmentals: A Look at English Compared to Other Languages (TOP-IG)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:06 -0400

Description

Suprasegmentals in English include such aspects of sound as intonation, stress and rhythm. However, there exist numerous other aspects of suprasegmentals as we survey the diverse languages of the world. This talk will provide a brief overview of English suprasegmentals. It will then segue to a discussion of the fascinating aspects of suprasegmentals in a select sampling of other world languages. The presentation will provide listeners with new perspectives on English while also providing a new appreciation for the interesting ways that suprasegmentals differ across languages and pose unique problems for humans learning new languages.

Presenter

Brian Teaman has taught and conducted research for more than 40 years in K-12 schools, universities and graduate schools in the U.S., Spain, Canada and Japan. He has done research on speaking, suprasegmentals and technology for education. He retired from his professorship at Osaka Jogakuin University a few years ago, but keeps himself occupied with continued linguistic research, along with working with botany, growing vegetables, rice, and grapes for wine. In his free time, he is doing triathlon training, hiking and making music.

Hosts

Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek. Co-coordinators
Donna Brinton, Assistant Coordinator

Date and Time

Friday, October 16, 2026, 12:00-1:00 PM California Time

Cost

Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00

#catesoltop

Oct 30, 2026: Chapter Council Meeting - Oct

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:34 -0400

Chapter Council Meeting

Nov 6, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026: 2026 State Conference November 6-7, Orange, CA

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:17 -0400

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Nov 20, 2026: Interest Group Council (IGC) Meeting - Nov

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:34 -0400

Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:

Join the Interest Group Council for our bimonthly online meeting via Zoom. Engage in an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for getting members involved, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues.
We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 3:30-4:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.

If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC Chair to share your information.

IGC Chair: David O'Leary olearydavidf@gmail.com
#catesoligc

Members Free. Register to get the Zoom link.

Nov 27, 2026: Chapter Council Meeting - Nov

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:35 -0400

Chapter Council Meeting

Jan 15, 2027: Interest Group Council (IGC) Meeting - Jan

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:35 -0400

Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:

Mar 19, 2027: Interest Group Council (IGC) Meeting - Mar

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:36 -0400

Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:

IGC Chair: David O'Leary olearydavidf@gmail.com

#catesoligc

Members Free. Register to get the Zoom link.

May 21, 2027: Interest Group Council (IGC) Meeting - May

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:37 -0400

Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:

IGC Chair: David O'Leary olearydavidf@gmail.com

#catesoligc

Members Free. Register to get the Zoom link.