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ELT Conference Presentations
by Compelling Conversations Authors
Three Steps to Finding Joy in Learning English – by Teresa X. Nguyen
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Begin your transformative journey to gaining English fluency with this 2024 TEDx talk presented to students at FPT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Teresa X. Nguyen discusses moving from transactional to transformational learning, emphasizing the shift from routine, checklist-style learning to an impactful educational experience. This transformation is achieved through three key strategies: Engage, Immerse, and Sustain.
“Engage with Your Passion” explores how integrating English into your favorite hobbies, such as music or gaming, can significantly enhance your enjoyment of learning.
“Cultural Immersion” encourages delving into English-speaking cultures, where cooking traditional dishes and understanding cultural idioms deepen language skills and cultural understanding.
“Sustain Your Learning” provides practical tips on maintaining motivation and resilience, offering strategies to navigate challenges and sustain progress toward fluency. Teresa X. Nguyen shares methods that transform the learning experience, making it both educational and thoroughly enjoyable for all learners. Join Teresa X. Nguyen, Department Chair, Professor, and Author in Orange County, California, for a transformative TEDx talk to FPT University students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on mastering English.
Chalkboards to Chatbots: Exploring Edtech Technologies for English Teachers and Sharing Some Emerging Best Practices
This plenary presentation at the 2023 Defense Language Institute attracted almost 200 English teachers at their annual English Language Conference. Eric reviewed his 25 years of teaching English in different technological environments, and argued that generative AI tools were both evolutionary and revolutionary. The hour-long keynote presentation showed how English teachers can use generative AI to fulfill the TESOL Six Principles and ISTE Best Practices.
Creating Compelling Conversations: Giving Students a Choice and a Voice
This 2019 professional development workshop at Intercultural Communication College in Hawaii reviewed a variety of search and share communicative activities for multilevel ESL classes. This Powerpoint includes 10 exercises from Creating Compelling Conversations: Reproducible Search and Share Activities for English Teachers.
14 Steps to Building Your Research Paper: Transforming Tentative Ideas
This 2025 Virtual ELT Summit Presentation guided conference participants in developing their tentative topics into specific research projects. Eric demonstrated how he adapted a midterm writing exam to include generative AI prompts to help students brainstorm and narrow their topics. Approximately 160 English teachers from over a dozen countries participated in this hands-on presentation turned workshop.
Ten Popular Activities and Microlessons to Engage English Students Via Zoom | Teresa X Nguyen
Watch Teresa X. Nguyen’s session covers ten popular activities and microlessons to engage English students online. Her engaging 2023 Virtual ELT Summit presentation attracted over 150 English teachers and graduate students from over a dozen countries.
Teresa is Department Chair and full-time faculty of ESL/ELL at Golden West College located in surf-city Huntington Beach, California. After receiving her Master’s in Linguistics, she became committed to teaching English both abroad and in the United States.
Her YouTube education projects, materials writing, and classrooms reflect over 15 years of learning and teaching experience. The experiential foundations for her communicative creative projects are her own struggles and successes as an international student studying abroad in Korea, Spain, and China as well as the depth and breadth of her teaching experience. Nguyen has taught specialized English to immigrant adults in corporate America and to Vietnamese programmers in corporate Vietnam. She has taught academic English to elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, and re-entry students from over 30 different countries. Yet her most rewarding teaching experience thus far is with immigrants and refugees.
Finding the Fun in Feedback by Brent G. Warner
Professor Brent Warner from Irvine Valley College, USA delivered the opening keynote presentation on ‘Finding Fun in Feedback’ at the Virtual ELT Summit 2022. Brent candidly reviews the struggles facing many English teachers in providing meaning feedback with large classes and limited time. Advocating a more flexible, learn by doing approach, Brent shows how redesigning assignments and edtech tools provide more opportunities to “find the fun in feedback.”
2020 Virtual ELT Summit: Deploying Search and Share Activities on Zoom (PowerPoint)
This professional development workshop for ICC faculty emphasized giving English students a choice and a voice in communicative activities. The starch and share approach can easily be adapted for many intermediate and advanced ESL courses.
