PRESENTERS FOR CELT 2010

10:20-11:00 – Concurrent Sessions I

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1. Kitty Purgason

Presentation - Teaching courteous conversation and critical thinking in a world of choices

Kitty trains teachers in the TESOL programs at Biola University. She has lived, studied, served, or taught in India, Russia, Korea, China, Turkey,Turkmenistan, Mauritania & Indonesia. Her professional interests include methodology in local context and professional ethics.  She organized the first CELT conference in Long Beach in 2004.

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9. Christine Lewis

Presentation - Imagine an Integrated Biblical Vocabulary Course in Your Institution

Christine Lewis has taught ESL for over 12 years.  She earned her MA TESOL degree from San Francisco State University and taught in Florida, Tennessee, California, Indonesia, and India.  She is currently a full-time ESL instructor at Howard Community College in Maryland.

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14. Cynthia S. Lozania

Presentation - Explore + Create + Design + Use Authentic Materials = Effective Teaching

Cynthia has been teaching English/ESL for the past 26 years in the Philippines while being actively involved in missions. She has developed materials in the areas of Academic Writing, Business English, English for Science and Engineering and ESL for Indo Chinese Refugees. She holds a Master’s degree in Language Teaching.

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4. Natanael Valenzuela

Presentation - 110 Ways to Use the Bible as an ESL Tool for the 4 Basic Skills.

ESL/EFL/ESOL/ESP teacher and professor for more than 20 years. Graduated from Ministry, Education, TESOL, Marketing and Management. Serves as a professor for Bible Studies and as a Public School Teacher in NYC

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5. Richard Robison

Paper - Toward a Christian view of language learning: Evidence for intelligent design

Richard Robison serves as chair of the Global Studies, Sociology and TESOL Department at Azusa Pacific University, directs On-Campus TESOL Programs, and teaches courses on pronunciation, grammar, language acquisition, and assessment.  He is an alum of MIT (S.B., Mathematics), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and UCLA (M.A., Linguistics; Ph.D., Applied Linguistics).

11:10-11:50– Concurrent Sessions II

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15. Carolyn Kristjánsson

Paper - Re-Imagining Church-Sponsored ESL: Some Tools for Furthering the Discussion

Carolyn teaches in the MA TESOL program at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada.  Her research interests include perceptions of identity, the influence of spiritual beliefs and values in the teaching and learning of English as an additional language, and interpersonal dimensions of learning communities evidenced in discourse.

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7. Elfrieda Lepp-Kaethler

Presentation/ workshop - The Inner Rainbow: Motivation, Identity, Imagination and the Bible in Language Learning

Elfrieda, M.A TTESOL, teaches TESOL at Providence College & Seminary in Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada. She has trained and supervised language teachers in community, workplace and academic settings in Paraguay, Ukraine and Canada. She is co-author of Faith Series, a Bible-based English Language Curriculum Series and a doctoral student in Psycholinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK with Zoltan Dornyei.

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13. Katherine Barker

Presentation - Using literature in the interactive classroom to create dialog about beliefs and morals

Katherine Barker, M.Ed. TESOL, Regent University, has taught students from 56 countries in refugee, immigrant, and international student programs. Her research interests include acculturation and second language acquisition. Outside the classroom, Katie enjoys using her creative side to scrapbook and blog about her everyday activities as well as her travels.

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11. Grace Monorama Moses

Presentation - Assessing language and values acquired by nursing students through role play and its relevance

Grace Moses has taught ESL for nearly 18years. She has an M.Ed & M.Phil degree from India and M.A in Applied Linguistic & TESOL from Leicester University, UK. She Taught in India and Brunei Darussalam. Currently a full- time English lecturer at College of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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10. Mary Shepard Wong & Dreah Jin

Paper - From Accomplices to Advocates: A Plan to Reduce Discrimination of Non-Native Speakers in Missions Agencies

Mary Shepard Wong, Ph.D., is professor and director of field-based and online TESOL at Azusa Pacific University. She has taught ESL and TESOL for three decades in the US and abroad. Her co-edited book with Suresh Canagarajah, Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue came out with Routledge, 2009.

Dreah Jin taught EFL for two years in China, and is currently a graduate student in the MA TESOL program at Azusa Pacific University. As a NNEST, she has been researching effective and appropriate methods of
teaching EFL in order to be a qualified English teacher.

1:20-2:00 – Concurrent Sessions III

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2. Cheri Pierson

Presentations - Using Storytelling To Enhance Cross-Cultural Communication

Cheri Pierson is an associate professor of Intercultural Studies and TESOL at Wheaton College Graduate School. She specializes in teacher education, methodology and gender and leadership. She is the author of Dictionary of Theological Terms in Simplified English Student Workbook, Women Crossing Borders, co-author of Exploring Theological English and numerous articles. She served with her husband Steve with Greater Europe Mission in Sweden for 17 years. She has two sons, Jonathan and David.

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8. Jennifer Canillas Stein

Presentation - “How are you, Mr.Smith?” or “Yo, dude, what’s up?” – Strategies for Teaching Language Registers

Jenna Canillas Stein draws on twenty years of experience with K-12 and adult English learners inpublic and private schools as teacher, ELD Coach, professional development provider, and overseer of district EL programs. She holds a M.A. in Applied Linguistics/ Certificate in TESOL from Biola’s Cook School of Intercultural Studies.

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12. Margreta “Peggy” Arendt

Presentation - Everyone wins! A model for training English speaking volunteers for global service.

Margreta “Peggy” Arendt is an ESL instructor at Mukogowa Fort Wright Institute in Spokane, WA. A recent graduate of Gonzaga University's MA/TESL program, she has served in Christian ministry as a pastor’s wife and cross-cultural missionary for 30 years and is currently preparing volunteers to teach English in Indonesia.

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6. Iris Devadason

Paper - Adapting ELT to EFL for the Chinese in India: Challenges and Solutions

Iris Devadason holds an M.A. (India), an M.Sc. in applied linguistics (England), and a Ph.D. (Mysore University, in India) and has taught ESP theology at the United Theological College, Bangalore, South India, for 26 years. She has done pioneer work and published in this exclusive ESP field and has presented at international conferences.

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3. Michael Pasquale

Paper - Strategies to Develop your Cultural Intelligence

Michael Pasquale earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Michigan State University and is the Director of the M.A. TESOL program at Cornerstone University (Grand Rapids, MI).  He has served as President/Chair of the Christian English Language Educators Association/Forum from 2008-2010.