Hello Everyone,

We at BG-Kotesol are pleased to present Mr. Theron Muller, of Nagano, Japan.  Theron will be presenting on:

 

Writing for publication in TEFL/TESL: Negotiating the language of the discipline

 

This interactive workshop will be divided into two parts. The first part will discuss the practices of teacher-researchers as research-practitioners writing for academic publication in TEFL/TESL, paying particular attention to the obstacles they encounter and strategies for successfully overcoming those obstacles. One of the objectives will be to share with participants the importance for forming networks of support for facilitating the planning, execution, and writing up of practitioner-research. This will be accomplished through uncovering the often hidden practices and expectations behind writing for publication, helping participants to better understand their own experiences of pursuing academic publication and to facilitate success in getting their work published.

 

The second part of the workshop will turn to examining examples of the process of negotiating publication, discussing samples of writing submitted for review alongside the comments of editors and reviewers. Discussion will center around how the writing requires transformation as part of the dialog of academic review and editing. The dual objective of this part of the presentation will be to offer more specific details of the process of writing for academic publication and to prepare participants for the kinds of things that require attention as papers go through review and editing. Participants interested in preparing their own manuscripts for submission to academic publications will learn more about the process they should expect their papers to undergo once sent to academic journals and how to go about selecting potential publications for their work.

 

Bio-sketch

 

Theron Muller is a teacher and researcher based in Japan. He is lead editor of Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan) and has served as editor of various regionally-based journals, and written a number of articles. He teaches the online MASH Academic Publishing course. He is interested in academic literacy and TEFL/TESL classroom-based research. He is a member of the Liberal Arts faculty at Toyama University in Japan.

 

Where: Busan University of Foreign Studies (directions below)

 

When: May 11 at 2 pm

 

Who: All members and non-members invited.

 

Special Note: As Theron is being flown in from Japan to do this talk, and as he is being put up at a hotel, all non members will be asked to please pay 10,000w.

 

Yours BG-Kotesol

 

 

 

Directions to the event:

 

Pusan University of Foreign Studies. Language Lab Building (The second building on the right after entering the university) Room 201. 

 

The closest subway station is Daeyeon on line 2 (the green line). 

 

From there it’s a 3,000w (approx) 5 minute cab ride to the university. Leave the subway station via exit 5 and hail a cab. Tell the cab driver "Busan way day" and he/she should take you right there. 

 

Alternatively, if you're feeling adventurous you can walk from the subway station in approximately 20-25 minutes. Leave the subway station via exit 5, then head south down the street that runs perpendicular to the main street that the subway follows. When you get to the UN Rotary continue on straight ahead and simply follow the road up the hill, then down the hill, until you get see the main gate of PUFS on your right hand side.

 

Once on campus, head up the steep hill past the soccer field (on your left) and tell the driver to stop as soon as the hill flattens out, just past a crosswalk with a concrete set of stairs on your right. When you get out of the cab go up the stairs on your right, then into the building to the right of the top of the stairs (the Language Lab building). Go up the first set of stairs in that building to the second floor. The room is on the second floor, in room 201. 

 

If you have any difficulty finding the event, or getting the cab driver to go where you want him/her to, please contact our chapter president (Brad) at 010-2717-1402, he’ll be happy to give you directions or talk to the cabbie for you.