Chapter Council Meeting

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Join us for a 50-minute Zoom session where expert presenters will spotlight the no-cost legal services available to San Diego County’s higher education staff and students. Provided through Jewish Family Services and funded by the State of California, these resources are here to support you — whether you’re navigating immigration, housing, employment issues, or more.

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Hosted by San Diego Chapter
Christina Kaufmann
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Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:

Accent Listening Training for Partners in Oral Communication

In today’s linguistically diverse classrooms, effective communication is a two-way street—and strong listening skills are just as critical as clear speaking. This engaging webinar empowers educators and students to become better oral communication partners through focused listener training. Discover how training listeners to understand a wider range of accents and speech patterns can lead to faster cognitive processing, deeper comprehension, and more inclusive attitudes toward different varieties of English.

• Drawing from cutting-edge research in applied linguistics, communications, and social psychology, this session will explore:

• How the brain processes unfamiliar speech
• Why we might struggle to understand speakers with different accents

Key Takeaways

Presenter

Katherine (Kate) Yaw is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL, USA). She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University. She has worked in language education since 2007, with experience in English language teaching, teacher training, and program administration. Her research interests include perception and production of speech, language attitudes, cognitive processing of L2-accented speech, and the role of listeners in successful communication, along with quantitative research ethics.

Hosts

Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek

Moderator

Marsha Chan

Date and Time

Cost

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Precision through Poetry: A Path to Pronunciation Proficiency

Looking for ways to spice up pronunciation practice in your speaking courses? Discover the Sound-Pattern-Inflection (SPI) coding method, a powerful oral fluency approach developed and refined through years of teaching pronunciation in both domestic and international contexts. Learn how the authentic, yet often overlooked, texts of poetry can help students discover and unlock more accurate speech production. In this session, participants will learn to evaluate and select rich, authentic poetic texts, code in sequenced layers of prosody, and apply these methods to their classrooms, transforming pronunciation practice into a precise and engaging experience for your language learners.

Friday, July 11, 11:00 AM-12 noon California Time 

Cost

Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00

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

ExCom Meetings (Fridays 2PM-4PM)

• January 17, 2025

• March 14, 2025

• May 9, 2025

• August 15, 2025

Chapter Council Meeting

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