Bryan Hale
Yeongam High School
Bryan Hale teaches at Yeongam High School in Jeollanamdo. He has worked with all age groups, but especially tweens and teenagers, and previously spent several years teaching elementary and middle school students in both public and hagwon settings. He has recently completed a Master of Applied Linguistics (TESOL) research project exploring the relationship between learners’ experiences of playfulness and language production during speaking games. Bryan is currently serving as Korea TESOL president.
Sessions
Opening Ceremony
We begin KOTESOL 2021 with some of the traditional pomp and circumstance, but also with a few twists. Your hosts will be Bryan Hale (President) and Rhea Metituk (1st Vice-President). They will welcome everyone, including our special guests. Maybe they'll do something else, as well. International Conference Chair Michael Free will muse and amuse (he hopes) with a preamble to the main event, entitled "Love and Messes" We'll also be asking how you are feeling. The Zoom room will open at 6:00, and we'll also be welcoming people on our Discord server as well!
Closing Ceremony and Conference Retrospective
Join us one last time, where we say 'thank you' to the people who made this conference possible, recognize some people whose work for KOTESOL has been exceptional over the past year, and say goodbye until next year! Before we go, though, we'll have a chance to ask ourselves: "Where do we go from here?" To answer that question, we're going to: *Bring back Gerd Leonhard - live and in person! Have a question for Gerd? Let us know what it is! He'll only be with us for 15 minutes, though, so you'd better be quick! *Look back on some highlights from the conference. *Discuss what your takeaways are: What inspired you? Motivated you? Challenged you?