CATESOL 2025 State Conference - Exhibitors, Advertisers, Sponsors10/16/2025 - 10/18/2025
Information:
Registration:
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See button on the bottom left.
Location: Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
Note to Exhibitors:
Before beginning this registration process, please be ready with the names, email addresses and phone numbers of all booth personnel.
Set up time:
Thursday, October 16, 2-5 PM Pacific time
8/8/2025
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
8/15/2025
Pronunciation Practice Made Easy:
Designing Web-Based Exercises for Self-Paced Learning
Description
In this practical webinar, participants will learn how to create interactive, web-based pronunciation activities that can be easily embedded into LMS platforms, Google Sites, or Pressbooks. The session will cover exercises focused on listening discrimination, script highlighting, quizzes, speech recognition with automated feedback, speech-to-text, and dictation, using tools like H5P and reusable HTML code. The presenter will demonstrate how to build and upload different exercise types, and will share links to free, embeddable activities for immediate classroom use. Additionally, attendees will learn about findings from a quantitative study at Portland Community College, showing how these tools improved students’ pronunciation skills.
By attending, you will:
✔️ Learn how to create and embed interactive pronunciation tasks into various online platforms.
✔️ Explore exercise types that develop segmental and suprasegmental skills through self-paced practice.
✔️ Gain access to free, embeddable resources created by the presenter and others.
✔️ Understand research evidence supporting the effectiveness of web-based tools in pronunciation instruction.
H5P is a free and open-source content collaboration framework based on JavaScript. H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package, and aims to make it easy for everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content.
Presenter
Patryk Mrozek is a graduate of Cal State’s LA’s M.A. in TESOL program and an ESOL instructor at Portland Community College and Clackamas Community College, specializing in pronunciation instruction and digital learning tools. His work focuses on developing tools to support autonomous pronunciation practice, with research interests in speech recognition, suprasegmental training, shadowing and NNEST advocacy.
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, August 15, 2025, 12:00 -1:00 PM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesoltop
Location: CATESOL Zoom room
8/15/2025
ExCom Meetings (Fridays 2PM-4PM)
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January 17, 2025
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March 14, 2025
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May 9, 2025
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August 15, 2025
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
8/22/2025
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 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
Merve Beyazit Taner
Chapter Council Chair
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
8/23/2025
ELT Academic Publishing: Pathways, Insights & Reflections
Download flyer (coming soon)Description
In this session, the speakers will share insights into the often challenging but rewarding world of academic publishing in ELT. Drawing on their scholarly experiences across Japan, Korea, and the United States, the speakers will offer practical strategies for navigating the publication process—from critically reading the aims and scope of a journal to making sense of journal metrics and managing submissions (and, of course, rejections!). They will also reflect on how they balance scholarly ambitions with the professional realities of their local contexts.Presenters
Hyun-Sook Kang (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA) is an associate professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She studies language practices in relation to global mobility, such as immigration and study abroad, and the internationalization of education. Originally from South Korea, she has extensive research and teaching experience in U.S. higher education. Her work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as American Journal of Distance Education, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, European Journal of Engineering Education, and International Journal of Applied Linguistics. In addition to serving as Co-Editor of Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, she is a member of the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Education, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Language and Assessment, and Language-Related Research.Nathanael’s research explores themes including teacher and student negotiations of being, becoming and belonging within and transcending (language) education, and transdisciplinary, community-based approaches to identity, experience and (in)justice. His most recent work is Transcending language education in Japan: Borderland accounts of being, becoming and belonging (Bloomsbury), a forthcoming volume co-edited with Madoka Hammine. Nathanael is a managing editor for Asian Englishes (Routledge) and an associate editor for the Journal of Language, Identity and Education (Taylor & Francis). He is serving on journal boards including TESOL Quarterly.
Meerbek Kudaibergenov, PhD, is an assistant professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech). His research explores EFL teacher identity, student agency, transnationalism, and legitimacy in education. Apart from SeoulTech, he also serves as a regional editor for Journal of International Students and is a member of the editorial boards of Sage Open and Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia.
RW-IG Host
Kara Mac DonaldDate and Time
Saturday, August 23, 2025, 9:00-10:30AM California Time
Cost
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00
#catesolrw
Location: CATESOL Zoom
8/29/2025
This is an official CATESOL Board Meeting. All 2024-2025 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.
CATESOL President, Song Hong
CATESOL President-Elect, Dr. Sedique Popal
Location: CATESOL Zoom Room
9/5/2025
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
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
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