NEWSLETTER 7-11, OCTOBER
Here
are the upcoming webinars of the week. You can find the details and
registration below. Hope you find them useful for your professional
development.
Webinar 1: American
English Live: " Scaffolding Academic Writing "
Date & Time: October,9 2024 8:00-9:00 am ET / 1:0-2:00 pm ET
Speaker: Hetal Ascher
Session Details:
American
English Live: Teacher Development Series 21 presents a webinar called
“Scaffolding Academic Writing”. If interested, here is the link you can
register.
Register
here: https://forms.office.com/r/H1ifw9HWEe
Webinar 2: TESOL:
" Literacies
Theory and Practice as Expanded Possibilities for our Language Classrooms"
Date
& Time: Friday, 11 October 2024, 12:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Dr.
Raúl Alberto Mora
Session
Details:
Over
the last decade, I’ve advocated for the importance of making theory accessible
to teachers (meaning, letting them read it in the first place) as a source for
inspiration as they look for creative and engaging ways to work with students.
Alternative literacy paradigms (e.g., critical literacy, multimodality,
multiliteracies, etc.) envision these possibilities for conceptual and
practical play, making our classrooms true sites for languaging and learning.
This webinar will share the work that my team of teacher-researchers and I have
done in Colombia using alternative literacies as our way of “reinventing
education”. The webinar will first go into some of the conceptual underpinnings
behind the idea of “literacies in second languages” to then look at specific
case studies/success stories from our teacher-researchers and my own work as a
teacher educator. The goal for this webinar session is to invite teachers to
plot their own course about how to use alternative literacies to devise more
engaging language learning scenarios for their students and themselves.
Presenter
Dr. Raúl Alberto Mora is an associate professor in the Doctorate in Education
at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia (teaching remotely
from Trondheim, Norway), where he also chairs the award-winning Literacies in
Second Languages Project research lab. Dr. Mora has also served as a visiting
professor and scholar at universities in Colombia, Poland, Mexico, and Czechia
and has given guest lectures and keynotes (in person and virtually) at
universities and events in Colombia, Brazil, Spain, Vietnam, India, Indonesia,
Türkiye, Canada, and the United States. He currently serves at the Literacy
Research Association Board of Directors and co-founded the Transnational
Critical Literacies Network (TCLN). He coedited The Handbook of Critical
Literacies (2021) and Translanguaging and Multimodality as Flow, Agency, And A
New Sense of Advocacy in And from The Global South (2024). His research focuses
on the nexus between literacies and city spaces, the second-language literacy
practices in gaming spaces, the use of alternative literacy paradigms in
language education, and the need for socio-critical frameworks to rethink
bi/multi/plurilingualism and the way we describe English as a language
worldwide, topics that he has discussed in publications, conference
presentations, and his teaching.
Register here: https://members.tesol.org/events/event-details/?id=b0433b4e-6970-ef11-a4e6-0022484dbfe9&reload=timezone