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His Excellency provided three doctoral dissertation fellowships per year in 2008, 2009, and 2010. We thank you Your Excellency, for without your support of education, English language teaching and learning, and TESOL Arabia, we could not have become the organization we are today.  The TESOL Arabia Executive Council 5 Acknowledgement of Sponsors TESOL Arabia is a non-profit, volunteer organization, and yet its Annual Conference Committee have put English language teaching and testing in the Middle East on the global map. To provide this high-profile, professionally recognized event, and other professional development opportunities throughout the academic year, we depend on sponsors to help us. It is their help, generosity and support that ensures our continued success. Our sponsors give us financial resources that help TESOL Arabia to provide top quality professional development for teaching professionals throughout the Gulf and around the world. We offer sincere thanks to our sponsors for their most generous, continued support. Platinum Platinum 6 Acknowledgement of Sponsors Gold Gold Silver Silver Silver Silver SSiillvveerr Bronze TESOL Arabia would also like to express sincere thanks to Zayed University, HCT Dubai, and Al Ain Women›s College for their generous support. 7 Letter from the President Dear TESOL Arabia members and conference delegates, It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to the 19th Annual TESOL Arabia Conference. This event, the culmination of thousands of hours of work and the efforts and contributions of hundreds of individuals, has shaped up to be a wonderful opportunity for the region’s professionals to come together, share experiences and to grow as educators. From what I hear from the co-chairs and their committee, the four-day event is packed with a wide variety of workshops, presentations, and distinguished speakers from around the world and promises to be one of the highlights of the region’s professional development event calendar year. I would like to especially acknowledge and thank Les Kirkham and Sandra Oddy and their committee for taking on this project and making it happen. I know they put in countless hours of work to facilitate a dynamic pre-conference course along with three days of cutting edge workshops and presentations. I would also like to thank the presenters, speakers and volunteers that have offered their time and efforts to make this happen. Their crucial support and work makes it possible for volunteer organizations like TESOL Arabia to help move the discipline of ELT forward. AAllll tthhee bbeesstt,, JJames MMcDDonalldd President TESOL Arabia 8 Chairs Sandra Oddy Les Kirkham Welcome to the 19th TESOL Arabia International Conference and Exhibition. For the first time we are holding this year’s conference at the Hyatt Regency, one of the best known, and indeed one of the oldest-established, 5-star hotels in the city of Dubai. We know that all the staff of the hotel are looking forward to making our stay here as enjoyable and comfortable as possible for all conference-goers. We have also, as usual, assembled a stellar range of guest speakers to inform, entertain and generally get you reflecting on the profession and your role within it. The Conference Committee has been working for many months to plan and organize as good an event as we can, so we hope very much that you enjoy it. The theme “From KG to College to Career” embraces the whole range of ELT, “from the cradle to the grave” (an alternative theme that we thought might be too depressing for older members of the profession such as myself, says Les), so we hope there will be something for everyone. You are here to attend one of the most significant ELT events of its kind, and certainly the most important ELT event in the region, but you probably knew that, and it could be why you are here. As conference organizers, what interests the TESOL Arabia Conference Committee is why, and how, such events continue to be held and indeed in many cases continue to flourish and grow. In our case we have seen an increase in attendance over the last few years, and we know this is the case with a number of other conferences with which we are familiar. Not only that, but you may have noticed other organizations in the region establishing new conferences and other major face-to-face events. Surely this trend of more face-to-face events is against the other trend of an increase in virtual meetings made possible by Internet technology? These come in the form of online activities, online events, live streaming, webinars, and a whole range of “techie” events enabling people to communicate with other like-minded professionals either synchronously or asynchronously anywhere in the world. TESOL Arabia, largely led in this direction by its Educational Technology SIG and a couple of tech-savvy Executive Council members, has also been expanding its online activities, but our Annual Conference still continues to grow. It seems that the two varieties of activity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one probably helps the other. Do face-to-face conferences reach the parts that online events fail to reach? What is it that attracts people to spend three days away from home, at some expense? We have our own ideas, but will leave it to everyone to explore this issue and pursue their own reasons for attending over the course of the event. In the meantime, we will be trying to establish what it is that attracts you here – then trying to provide more of that for next year. May you have a rewarding and enjoyable time at TESOL Arabia 2013, and we hope to see you again in 2014! Sandra Oddy Les Kirkham 9 Call for Conference Proceedings The editors of the Proceedings of the 2013 TESOL Arabia Conference would like to invite you to submit a paper based on your presentation at the TESOL Arabia 2013 Conference to be considered for publication in the next volume of the Proceedings. Only those who presented at the conference may submit articles for the Proceedings. Please send your article to Publications Coordinator, Peter McClaren at: [email protected] The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, October 1, 2013. 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