CATESOL 2025 State Conference - Exhibitors, Advertisers, Sponsors10/16/2025 - 10/18/2025
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Location: Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
Note to Exhibitors:
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Set up time:
Thursday, October 16, 2-5 PM Pacific time
CATESOL 2025 State Conference - Attendee Registration10/17/2025 - 10/18/2025
CATESOL25 - Attendee Registration
CATESOL's Annual State Conference
October 17-18 at Chabot College in Hayward, CA
Theme: Stronger Together
Please note: In order to register for this year's conference, you must be or become a CATESOL member.
If you are not already a CATESOL member, you will need to add a membership during the registration process. You will be prompted with directions.
This $30 membership will also grant you access to many online and in-person professional development activities throughout the year!
Location: Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd
Hayward, CA 94545
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Remember: If you are not yet a CATESOL member, please click on "Yes, I would like to join" when prompted during the registration process.
9/19/2025
Dispelling Pronunciation Myths: Best Practices for Teachers
Description
Isn’t it a losing battle to try changing students’ fossilized pronunciation? Wouldn’t students make more progress if they just practiced more? Don’t you need to be a native speaker to teach pronunciation? Isn’t the best way to teach pronunciation having students listen and repeat? The field of pronunciation teaching abounds with myths that derive from lay beliefs about acquiring the sound system of a second language. Unfortunately, without adequate teacher preparation, teachers often buy into these myths and remain hesitant to teach pronunciation. In this webinar, Donna Brinton presents an overview of recent research in practical phonetics that helps to dispel some of the most popularly-held misconceptions about teaching pronunciation. Based on the research findings, she proposes best practices for ESL/EFL pronunciation teaching.
Presenter
Donna M. Brinton is an author and educational consultant in the field of Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. She has worked as a teacher educator in over 40 countries and is the co-author and co-editor of numerous professional volumes, including Teaching Pronunciation (Cambridge University Press). She is currently serving as the CATESOL TOP-IG Assistant Coordinator.
Hosts
Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek. Co-coordinators
Donna Brinton, Assistant Coordinator
Moderator
Marsha Chan
Date and Time
Friday, September 19, 2025, 12:00 -1:00 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesoltop
Location: CATESOL Zoom room
9/19/2025
Calling all Interest Group (IG) Coordinators, Co-coordinators, Assistant Coordinators, and other IG leaders:
Please join us in our monthly check-in and update session for IGC. This IG Council meeting is an opportunity to connect and support one another as we share ways to invite participation from members and promote events.IGC Chair: Kelly Metz-Matthews
IGC Assistant Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks
Members Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting
9/26/2025
TELL-IG: Refresh & Reset: Tech Updates for a New Semester
The CATESOL Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) Interest Group is kicking off the semester with a warm welcome to our new assistant coordinator, Gina de Anda! We’re thrilled to have her on board and even more excited to welcome you back.
By the time of our event, we hope you’ll be settling into the rhythm of the semester and getting to know your students better.
We’ll cover the essentials to get you back on track:
- Zoom & Canvas updates you’ll actually use
- The latest buzz on Generative AI in education
- A roundup of free and low-cost AI courses designed just for teachers ready to dive deeper
Come ready to explore, connect, and leave inspired with new tools to power your teaching. See you soon!
Date and Time
Friday, September 26, 2:00 - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5
Hosted by TELL-IG Coordinator Jennie Kim
& Assistant Coordinator Gina de Anda
#catesoltell
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
10/3/2025
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
10/10/2025
Welcome to the Intensive English Program (IEP) Level!
This meeting is open to all who are interested in language learning. Join us as we discuss issues related to teaching and learning and share resources we've used in the classroom.
Nina Dellona, IEP Level Chair
Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
10/24/2025
As both an ESL teacher and immigration lawyer, California Attorney Marc Santamaria will share the latest immigration updates, legal strategies, and rights under the current administration, presented in a way that teachers can bring back to their students.
This session is designed not only to inform, but also to provide legal strategies that students may be able to use given the current political climate.
Free to Members
Non-members $5
#catesolrc
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/7/2025
CIRT-IG: Assessing videogames for CALL classrooms using corpora
Applied linguistics research within the domain of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has given much attention to videogames and assessing their efficacy as tools for second language (L2) learning and development. This efficacy is synthesized in Dixon et al.’s (2022) meta-analysis reporting that videogames tended to have a medium-sized positive effect (d=0.65) on L2 development compared to learners receiving traditional instruction. Although encouraging, Reinhardt (2021) reminds us that not all games “are created equal” in terms of their affordances for L2 learning (p. 69). That is, the linguistic richness of videogames can vary wildly from games like Tetris that present virtually no language to the linguistically rich virtual worlds of games like Baldur’s Gate 3 which engage players with hundreds of hours of recorded speech and thousands of texts including millions of words. With millions of words in a single game, L2 educators taking a CALL-informed pedagogic approach may struggle assessing or identifying an appropriate title for their specific population of learners. In making this assessment, corpus linguistics tools and methods can yield valuable insight into the linguistic environments of videogames.
With a focus on corpus design and representativeness, in this talk, Dr. Dixon discusses the compilation of the Single Player Offline Game Corpus (SPOC; see Dixon, 2024). SPOC is a 3.7-million-word corpus compiled through a process that began by extracting the language files from the directories of four popular single player role-playing games: Divinity Original Sin II, Fallout 4, the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Following Biber and Conrad’s (2019) Register Analysis Framework as well as methods outlined by Egbert, Biber, and Gray (2022), the language files were parsed into meaningful units of observations and placed into one of seven registers identified from a situational analysis. Findings from empirical research investigating the linguistic similarity of the SPOC to real-world registers will be discussed along with implications for CALL classrooms and direction for future research outlined.
Presenter:
Dr. Daniel Dixon (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL at Georgia State University (GSU). Broadly, his research focuses on language and technology and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in which he has investigated the characteristics of language use in technologies like Generative AI and videogames. Drawing on natural language processing as well as corpus linguistics tools and methods, he has compared linguistic variation across a number of digital and real-world domains while also exploring the effectiveness of targeted technologies for promoting second language development. He uses the programming language Python extensively in his work and has developed a number of digital tools for applied linguistics teaching and research. At GSU, he teaches Python programming for linguistic analysis to graduate (M.A., Ph.D.) and undergraduate students. He also teaches graduate courses related to research methods, language and technology, corpus linguistics, among other topics in applied linguistics.
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/danielhdixon/home
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sMLKjksAAAAJ&hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ALESLatGSU
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/danielhdixon.bsky.social
Date & Time:
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm PT (3:00-4:00 pm ET)
Hosted by CIRT-IG:
Elizaveta (Ellie) Kuznetsova & Margi Wald
#catesolcirt
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
11/7/2025
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
11/14/2025
Teaching Pronunciation to Young Learners Using Emopron
Description
Pronunciation is a key pillar of second language acquisition, yet literature on teaching this skill to young learners is sorely lacking. This lack of a solid teaching approach is a challenge to both teachers and learners alike. We do know that optimal teaching environments for these learners involve highly interactive, visually appealing, multisensory activities. While many learners thrive under these conditions, others continue to struggle—often due to unaddressed learning differences. Indeed, traditional pronunciation-teaching methods have often failed to include learners who process language differently, including those with ADHD, dyslexia, or autism.
This webinar will draw on the speaker’s Emopron approach, which is an inclusive, multisensory, story-based method that builds phonological awareness through narrative, movement, visual support, and emotion. Participants will:
- Reflect on the challenges of teaching pronunciation and literacy to young learners.
- Explore sensory-rich activities that foster phonological awareness.
- Experience pronunciation instruction for all young learners (including those who are neurodiverse) through Emopron stories.
- Discover low-prep strategies to integrate pronunciation, speech, and literacy into playful, accessible English language lessons.
Presenter
Prof. & Lic. Stella Palavecino, Master in TEFL, is a graduate teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer, and author based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds postgraduate degrees in Phonetics and Phonology, Higher Education, and Information and Communications Technology. She has published extensively and presented at international conferences on topics including phonology, pronunciation, phonics, tools for pronunciation teaching, language laboratories, and phonetics pedagogy. Prof. Palavecino runs EmoPron Stories, a teacher training and resource hub where she shares her approach to teaching pronunciation to young learners through phonics storybooks. https://emopronstories.com.ar/
Hosts
Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group (TOP-IG)
Marsha Chan and Patryk Mrozek. Co-coordinators
Donna Brinton, Assistant Coordinator
Moderator
Marsha Chan
Date and Time
Friday, September 19, 2025, 12:00 -1:00 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesoltop
Location: CATESOL Zoom room
11/21/2025
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. The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for engagement, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues. We look forward to seeing you every month. (If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC coordinator and provide an update.)We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 1:30-2:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair pending.
#catesoligc
Members Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting
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. The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for engagement, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues. We look forward to seeing you every month. (If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC coordinator and provide an update.)We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 1:30-2:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair pending.
#catesoligc
Members Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting
3/20/2026
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. The purpose of this gathering is to facilitate an open and collaborative discussion among interest group coordinators, share ideas for engagement, collaborate on workshops, and address interest group issues. We look forward to seeing you every month. (If you are unable to attend, please email the IGC coordinator and provide an update.)We aim to hold our IGC in alternating months, on the third Friday from 1:30-2:30pm but the date and time may vary due to other CATESOL events, so check the CATESOL calendar to be sure.
IGC Chair: Tamara Collins-Parks (TCollins-Parks@sdsu.edu), Asst Chair pending.
#catesoligc
Members Free
Location: CATESOL Zoom Meeting