Saturday
Jun042011
Plenary Speakers
- Stephen Krashen is best known for developing the first comprehensive theory of second language acquisition, introducing the concept of sheltered subject matter teaching, and as the co-inventor of the Natural Approach to second and foreign language teaching. Dr. Krashen has also contributed to theory and application in the areas of bilingual education and reading. He was the 1977 Incline Bench Press champion of Venice Beach (California) and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. His current books are Summer Reading: Program and Evidence (with Fay Shin, published by Allyn and Bacon), English Learners in American Classrooms (with Jim Crawford, published by Scholastic), and Free Voluntary Reading (Libraries Unlimited, 2011).
- B. Kumaravadivelu was educated at the Universities of Madras in India, Lancaster in England, and Michigan in the USA. He is currently Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at San Jose State University, California. His areas of research include language teaching methods, teacher education, classroom discourse analysis, postmethod pedagogy, and cultural globalization. He is the author of Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching, (Yale University Press, 2003), Understanding Language Teaching: From Method to Postmethod (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006), and Cultural Globalization and Language Education (Yale University Press, 2008). He is currently working on a book titled Language Teacher Education for a Global Society (Routledge). In addition to books, Professor Kumaravadivelu has published several research articles in journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, English Language Teaching Journal, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Applied Language Learning, RELC Journal, and ITL Review. He has also served as a member of the Editorial Board of several internationally reputed journals such as TESOL Quarterly. He has delivered invited keynote/plenary addresses in international conferences held in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, England, Finland, Hong Kong, Mexico, Singapore and the USA. His book Cultural Globalization and Language Education was awarded the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize (2008) for Outstanding Research Publication by Modern Language Association, New York.
- Keith Folse is professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida, where he teaches in the MATESOL, PhD in TESOL, and undergraduate TEFL programs. He has taught languages for more than 30 years in the U.S., Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. He is the author 55 textbooks, including the successful GREATs writing series by Cengage. His research interests are in types of written exercises, grammar, and vocabulary, and his most recent article dealing with teaching vocabulary appeared in the June 2011 issue of TESOL Quarterly. Dr. Folse has won many teaching and research awards, including Graduate Professor of the Year at his university as well as the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award from International TESOL. Dr. Folse's participation in KOTESOL 2011 is sponsored in full by Cengage Learning.
