BC TEAL 2025 Annual Conference

BC TEAL is proud to present our 2025 Annual Conference: Disruptive Educational Practices: Strategies for Transformation.

Please note that the Friday evening event, the TEAL Charitable Foundation Awards & Fundraiser, requires an additional ticket purchase. Please register here to secure your spot and join us in celebrating the awardees while fundraising for a better cause in TEAL.

Educators shine in times of change to face unexpected challenges. This is when creativity flourishes by combining proven practices with fresh and innovative ideas. These times call for transformation which can be rooted in tradition or experience, or it can arise through unexplored approaches. The synthesis of old and new ideas drives meaningful progress. Join other insightful and creative educators as we flourish within the power of our community.

8:30am PDT

Integrating dynamic assessment in LINC classes writing assessment

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am PDT

TBA

Researchers have suggested that interactional feedback which is between teacher and learner during their writing is associated with L2 learning because it prompts learners to notice L2 forms. Giving corrective feedback in a procedural stage and starting from implicit and moving to explicit one by a teacher can help learners internalize the form. This feedback in the writing can be with specific grammar point, choice of vocabularies, tenses, articles, subject-verb agreement, countable and uncountable. Also, in the online classes some computerized feedback can help learners to focus more and find out their mistakes. This kind of feedback can be in the form of prefabricated comments by using Artificial Intelligence(AI). For giving feedback the typology of corrective feedback can be used.
Typology of corrective feedback in writing adapted from Ellis (2009)
●Direct: The teacher crossing out the mistakes
●Indirect : the teacher just mentioned the students made some mistakes
●Metalinguistic: the teacher comments on mistakes
●The focus of feedback: the teacher selectively
●Electronic: The teacher provides hyperlink to the learners that provides some correct examples
●Reformulation: the teacher rewrites student’s writing.
One type of giving feedback can be :
1.Metalinguistic implicit corrective feedback: The teacher provided some kind of metalinguistic clues at the bottom of the writings and provided some examples.
2.Metalinguistic implicit-explicit corrective feedback: The teacher highlighted the line which contained the error; she neither underlined the error itself nor provided the corrected form.
3.Explicit corrective feedback: The teacher would directly and explicitly correct the error by writing the correct form for the student

Speakers

Mori Lavasani

LINC INSTRUCTOR, Mosaic

I have been teaching as a LINC instructor for three years. Currently, I am teaching as a casual teacher in Mosaic and regular in ISS BC.

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am PDT
TBA

Writing, LINC

2:00pm PDT

Pre-Writing Skill Building Activities for LINC Classrooms

Saturday May 3, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT

TBA

In this workshop, I will explore three pre-writing strategies rooted in the writing studies discourse: freewriting, inkshedding, and loop-writing. These strategies are designed to help writers generate ideas, overcome writer’s block, and build confidence in articulating their thoughts on paper. Beyond introducing these techniques, I will demonstrate how they can be adapted into engaging, skill-building activities for the LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) classrooms (specifically CLB 4). Using examples drawn from key LINC themes such as Citizenship, Education, and more, I will showcase how these strategies can be seamlessly integrated into lesson plans to enrich learning experiences.
By incorporating these methods into their teaching practice, LINC instructors can provide learners with valuable opportunities to develop their writing fluency, enhance their ability to organize ideas effectively, and foster a more creative and fluid writing process. Participants in this workshop will gain hands-on experience with each strategy and learn practical ways to customize them to meet the diverse needs of LINC students, ultimately creating a more supportive, inclusive, and dynamic classroom environment.

Speakers

Rigvi Kumar

LINC Instructor and PBLA Lead Teacher, ASSIST Community Services Center

I'm a LINC Instructor and a PBLA Lead Teacher at ASSIST Community Services Center. I have experience in various English teaching environments, including EAP, LINC, and Writing Studies. Currently, I'm finishing my Masters in TESL at the University of Alberta. I'm deeply passionate... Read More →

Saturday May 3, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
TBA

Writing, LINC

BC TEAL 2025 Annual Conference

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