Presidents' Weekly Meeting (Hidden Event)
12/5/2025

Every Friday 7:30:00 AM - 8:15:00 AM
Song Hong and Sedique Popal
This weekly meeting will serve the President and the President-Elect to collaborate and train for 2024-2025
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room

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Presidents' Weekly Meeting (Hidden Event)
1/2/2026

Every Friday 7:30:00 AM - 8:15:00 AM
Song Hong and Sedique Popal
This weekly meeting will serve the President and the President-Elect to collaborate and train for 2024-2025
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room

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Interest Group Council (IGC) Meeting - JAN
1/16/2026

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.
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IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair: David O'Leary.
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Members Free. Register to get the Zoom link.

Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting

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Using spoken corpora in pronunciation teaching TBA (TOP-IG)
1/16/2026

TBA

Description TBA

Using spoken corpora in pronunciation teaching, and how corpus data can help illustrate the interaction between prominence placement, [...] including a presentation of corpus-based classroom activities for teaching prosodic features

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

Cost

Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00

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Location: CATESOL Zoom room


Registration is Coming Soon for this event

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Using Spoken Corpora to Teach Pronunciation (TOP-IG)
1/16/2026

Using Spoken Corpora to Teach Pronunciation

Exploring Prominence, Pausing, and Information Structure with CoTACS

This webinar explores how spoken corpus data can inform and enhance pronunciation teaching. Using the Corpus of Teaching Assistant Classroom Speech (CoTACS), the session demonstrates how audio excerpts can be used along with transcriptions and visualized annotations to teach prosodic features of English. Participants will be introduced to classroom activities targeting both perception and production, with a focus on prominence, pausing, and information structure. These activities support discussions of how prosodic patterns—such as placing prominence on new information and marking given information as non-prominent—can influence speaker intelligibility and listener comprehension. The session will also provide step-by-step guidelines for designing additional corpus-based tasks, enabling teachers to develop new activities for a range of pronunciation features and instructional goals.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify key prosodic features (prominence, pausing, information structure) in spoken corpus data.
• Use audio recordings, transcripts, and annotations from CoTACS to design pronunciation lessons.
• Implement perception and production activities that highlight prosodic patterns and their role in intelligibility.
• Explain how new vs. given information affects prominence patterns in classroom discourse.
• Develop customized, corpus-based tasks to target additional pronunciation features aligned with specific teaching goals.

Presenter

Idée Edalatishams works at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pronunciation, focusing on L2 speech and multilingual speakers’ intelligibility. She earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University, where she developed the Corpus of Teaching Assistant Classroom Speech (CoTACS) to examine prosodic features in academic spoken English. Her research has also addressed learner identities, ITA speech, and the use of ASR tools for pronunciation practice. She has supported multilingual learners’ oral and written communication at George Mason University and Iowa State University and has taught composition and ESL/EFL courses in the United States and Iran.

Hosts

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

Moderator

Patryk Mrozek

Date and Time

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

Cost

Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00

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Location: CATESOL Zoom

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CATESOL Board Meeting
1/30/2026

This is an official CATESOL Board Meeting. All 2025-2026 Board members (including Voting and non-voting members of Leadership) should be in attendance. Other members of the CATESOL Leadership Team are also welcome to attend.

Date: January 30, 2026
Time: 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Leaders : Free


CATESOL President, Dr. Sedique Popal
CATESOL Past President, Song Hong
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room

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Phonemic Symbols and Hand Gestures for Beginning Learners (TOP-IG)
2/20/2026

 

Description TBA

Using spoken corpora in pronunciation teaching, and how corpus data can help illustrate the interaction between prominence placement, [...] including a presentation of corpus-based classroom activities for teaching prosodic features

Friday, February 20, 2026, 1:00 -2:00 PM California Time =
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 8:00 AM Melbourne, Australia Time

Cost

Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00

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Location: CATESOL Zoom room


Registration is Coming Soon for this event

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Interest Group Council (IGC) Meeting - MAR
3/13/2026

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.

Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting

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