Keynote /Plenary Speeches:

Opening plenary speaker “Teaching and Learning to Speak the Same Language in the Global English Language Teaching (ELT) Field: Trends, Issues and Challenges for Non-Native English Speaking Educators.” at the 15^th International NATE Conference- Learning to Speak the Same Language,  jointly organized by NATE and the TATELTA in Kazan, Russia.  June 25^th, 2009

“Opportunities and Challenges for Non-Native Speaking ELT Educators in the Changing Global Society” Plenary session at

Yakut TESOL 2009 Summer Institute-Opportunities and Challenges for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language. Yakutsk, Russia. June 2009.

“TESOL Educators in the Changing Global Community.”  Invited opening keynote speaker at TESOL Peru 2007  National   Convention. Tacna, Peru. Aug. 2007.

Symposia/Colloquium Presentations:

“Adult Education in the 21^st Century- Successes, Strategies, and Challenges”. Featured Session at TESOL 2009 Convention, Denver, 2009

“Classroom-Based Action Research-Trends, Successes and Debate” TESOL 2008, NewYork, 2008

“Professional Development for TESOL Educators.” Colloquium presentation at TESOL 2007. Seattle WA.2007

“Standards, Equity and Advocacy: Challenges and Issues that Adult ESOL Educators Face in 21^st Century” TESOL 2006

                Convention, Tampa FL. U.S.A. March 15, 2006.

“Tools for Change: Survey of ESOL Teachers in Adult Basic Education and Literacy Systems” AEIS Panel Presentation at

TESOL 05, San Antonio March 30, 2005.

 “Immigration Issues for IEPIS(Intensive English Programs), AEIS (ESOL in Adult Education, and HEIS (ESL in Higher

 Education) ” TESOL 03 Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, March 28, 2003.

“ Teaching and Learning Resources on Sept 11^th event and its aftermath.” TESOL ’02 Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah,

                April 9-13, 2002.

“Scholarship of Teaching –Theory-to-Practice-to-Theory.” Panel presentation at Washington TLC Network Retreat, Port

                Ludlow, WA, March 2002.

"Social Justice Issues" Panel Discussion at Washington Association for Education to Speakers of Other Languages Annual

                Conference Seattle University, Seattle, WA, Nov. 4^th, 2000.

“Asian Pacific American Cultures and the Process of Learning” Washington Center for Improving the Quality of

                Undergraduate Education Workshop for Community and Technical College Faculty and Staff.  Panel Speaker. 

                Nov. 19, 1999.

“Colloquium on Sociopolitical Issues and Concerns.” Panel presentation at TESOL ’99 Convention, New York,

                March  9- 13, 1999.

“Colloquium on Employment Issues and Concerns for ESL Professionals” Panel presentation at TESOL ’98

                Convention, Seattle WA, March  17-21, 1998.

Co-present with Drs. Willows, Segalowitz, Lukatela, Turvey, and Dr.Venezky “Methodological Issues in Cross

                Linguistics Reading Research”  at  1994 AERA  (American Educational Research Association) Conference,

New Orleans Conference, U.S.A., April  1994.

"Draft LINC Curriculum Guidelines: Project and Product.”  TESL Ontario 93 Conference, Toronto, November 1993.

Presentations/Workshops at National and International Conferences:

“Effective Questioning Techniques and Critical Thinking” the 15^th International NATE Conference- Learning to Speak the Same Language  in Kazan, Russia.  June 27^th, 2009.

“Building Association, Leadership and Community of Professionals -What Activities Make an Association Strong?” co-presented with the RELO Director David Fay and Elena Lubnina at the 15^th International NATE Conference- Learning to Speak the Same Language  in Kazan, Russia.  June 27^th, 2009.

“Transition to College Success – ESL Financial English, Accounting and Quantitative Reasoning - Pathways to Business and Financial World" Workshop presentation at Rendezvous, the WA Adult Basic Education 2008 Conference. Seattle University, June 30 – July 2, 2008.

"Effective Questioning Techniques" TESOL Peru 2008 Conference, Trujillo, Peru, July 31^st- August 2nd, 2008

“Vocabulary Learning Strategies for English Learners”.  TESOL Peru 2008 Conference, Trujillo, Peru, August 2nd, 2008.

“Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum: a Method for Quantitative Reasoning. (a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded initiative” Co-presenter at Pacific Northwest Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference, Spokane, WA, April 30- May 2^nd, 2008

 “Critical Ethnography as Action Research: Successes and Challenges of Immigrant Students Studying at an urban U.S. Higher Education Institution” Paper presentation at Asia TEFL 2006 International Conference. Fukuoka, Japan. Aug.2006

“Pursuing Social Justice through Sacred Relationships among People of Color to Move the Agenda” Panel presentation at Faculty and Staff of Color in Higher Education Annual Conference. WA. Nov. 2005.

“Thinking with F.I.R.E.- Critical Questioning Techniques” Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) National Conference 2005. May 6,2005, Anaheim, California.

“Tools of Engagement: Demystify the myths on immigrant staff, faculty and student, A Continued Dialogue.” Workshop presentation at Faculty and Staff of Color in Higher Education 2004 Annual Conference. Vancouver, WA. Oct.28, 2004

“Standardized Testing vs. Authentic Assessment:  Where do they meet?”  Paper presentation at The 25^th Annual TESOL Greece Convention Looking Back and Looking Forward: 25 Years of TESOL Greece. Athens, March 13,2004.

“Critical Thinking and Language Learning” WAESOL 2004, Green River Com. College, WA  Oct. 23, 2004.

“Voices from Learners and Educators” TESOL 2004 Convention, Long Beach, CA. March 31^st, 2004.

“What Can WAESOL Do for You?” WAESOL 2003 Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. Nov. 1^st  2003.

“Affirming Diversity – Working with Immigrant Faculty and Students” Washington State Faculty and Staff of Color in

Higher Education Annual Conference. Bellingham, WA Oct. 30^th, 2003.

“Successes and Challenges in Promoting ABE/ESL Awareness in Washington State" Panel presentation at COABE (The

Commission on Adult Basic Education) National Conference. Tuesday, April 28, 2003. Portland, Oregon.

“Providing Support to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Network” Panel presentation at League of Innovation 2002

                Conference, Boston, March 16-19, 2002

“Critical Moments- Creating a diversity learning community on students retention.”  Panel presentation at The Association

                Summer Conference, WACTC. Vancouver, WA, July31-Aug 2,2001.

“Empowering Students with Active Reading Strategies”. Workshop presentation at XVI National Conference for Teachers of

                English - A New Era: New Directions and Challenges.  January 26,27, & 28, 2000, San Jose, Costa Rica

" Issues and Strategies of  Using State Mandated Assessment Instruments" Panel presentation at Washington Association

                for Education to Speakers of Other Languages Annual Conference Seattle University, Seattle, WA, Nov. 3^th, 2000.

“Choose the Moment: Using Institutional Commitments to Keep Diversity Issues on the Front Burner.” Panel presentation

                at Washington Higher Education Assessment Conference, Vancouver, WA May 4, 2000

“Cultural Stereotypes and Expectations: What Gets In the Way of Student learning?” Opening Panel Presentation at

                Asian Pacific Cultures and the Process of Learning Workshop organized by Washington Center for Improving

                 the Quality of Undergraduate Education. Tacoma,  Jan. 26, 2000

“Do we know them? Untold Success Stories of Students of Color: A project in progress.” Panel presentation at

                Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education 13^th Annual Conference:

                Improving Undergraduate Education: Teaching and Learning in the Context of Cultural Differences.

                Seattle, Friday, Feb. 25, 2000

“Empowering Students with Active Reading Strategies.” Workshop presentation at XVI National Conference for

                Teachers of English “A New Era: New Directions and Challenges”. Jan. 26, 2000

“Issues and Strategies in Using State Mandated Testing” Panel presentation at WAESOL 99 Conference. Issaquah,

WA, Nov. 12-13, 1999.

“Writing assignments and expectations of college”  Panel presentation at TESOL’99 Convention. New York,

                March 9- 13, 1999.

“WAC: Writing Tool and Writing Competencies”. Co-presented with Carl Waluconis at 3^rd Annual Lilly

Conference on College and University Teaching, Northwest, Portland, Oct. 28-30, 1999

“Writing Toolbox and writing competencies” co-presented with C. Howe. WAESOL 98 Conference. Tacoma, WA.

 Nov. 13-14, 1998.

“Issues and Concerns of Adult ESL Learning.” Alternatives 98. 1^st International and 5^th National Conference Prague,

                Czech Republic, Sept.18-20, 1998

“The Slow and Difficult Process of creating and sustaining a diverse Community of Faculty: A case study.”  Panel

                presentation at  Embracing Community, Diversity and Change: Higher Education in the 21^st Century

Conference. Seattle, WA Feb. 26-28, 1998

“Employment Surveys: Tools for Change, Action and Equity.” Panel presentation at  Embracing Community,

                Diversity and Change: Higher Education in the 21^st Century Conference. Seattle, WA Feb. 26-28, 1998.

“Fun with Foreign Language Teaching!” Lilly Conference on College Teaching - Atlantic, Baltimore, April 3-5,1998

“Social-Political Concerns of Eastern Washington.” Panel Discussion. Eastern Washington Regional Conference       

                (WAESOL), Oct. 4, 1997.

 “Who’s Writing Across Whose Curriculum?” Panel presentation at 8th Annual Higher Education Assessment

Conference “Next Century Learning and Assessment”, Spokane, May 8, 1997.

“Listening in and speaking out.” 15th Annual Conference, Tacoma Community House Training Project. May 10,  1997

“ESL employment surveys as tools for change, action, equity.” Panel presentation at TESOL 97, Orlando, March 13, 1997

 “Impact of Social-cultural, Social-economical Factors on Adult ESL Learning” Tri-TESOL Conference’ 96. Seattle,

Nov. 8, 1996

 “Washington State Employment Survey: Tools for Change, Action, Equity.”  Tri-TESOL Conference’ 96. Seattle,

 Nov. 8, 1996

“Journey to Success: L2 Literacy Students at an Urban Community College” 1996 American Association for Applied

Linguistics Conference in Chicago. March. 21, 1996.

“Five-year Survey of  ESL Students at Seattle Central Community College: Retention and Achievement”

                WAESOL Conference’ 95. Nov. 8, 1995.

“What should we know about our ESL learners? ESL Students’ retention and achievement at a community college. 

                NAFSA Workshop, Denver, Oct. 1995.

“Methodological Issues in L1 and L2 Reading Research.” Paper Presented at International Congress of First,  Second and

                Foreign Language Reading at Universities.  Toulouse, France, Sept. 1995.

" Interactive Approaches to ESL Reading"  Paper Presented at TESOL  Canada '94 Conference, Toronto, Canada. Nov.

                 25, 1994.

" Word frequency and structure complexity effects on L1 and L2 word recognition” ILEC 93 Conference, Hong Kong,

                December 1993.

" Needs assessment activities in ESL classroom”  ILEC 93 Conference, Hong Kong, December 1993.

"Second Language Word Recognition Processes in a Non-Alphabetic Language-- Chinese”   presented at the 13th Annual

                Second Language Research Forum (SLRF’93), Pittsburgh,  U.S.A., March 1993.

"Interactive Approaches to ESL Reading.” workshop presentation at  Adult ESL Administration Center, Toronto      

                Board of Education, Toronto, Canada, February 1994.

"Cheese or Tofu: EFL (English as a foreign language) Language Planning in P.R.China" II  International Congress of

                Educational Philosophy, Madrid, Spain,  December 1992.

Session Chair Paper Session: Reading in Non-alphabetic Languages.  42nd National Reading Conference, Texas.

"Word Recognition Processes of  First and Second Language Readers of Chinese" National Reading Conference(NRC) 

                41st Annual Meeting,  Palm Spring, California, U.S.A. December 1991.

"Word  recognition strategies used by second language readers of Chinese." The International Conference of Second

                  Language Acquisition in Chinese Context, Hong Kong,  July 1991.

"The Influence of Language and Thinking on Chinese/English Speakers Dealing with Counterfactual Problems"  The

                IVth International  Comparative Education Conference:  Development, Communication and Language, 

                Montreal, June 1989.

"Chinese Trainees in Canadian Placements: An Approach to Understanding Cross-cultural Issues within Specific Fields"

                The  IVth International  Comparative Education Conference:  Development, Communication and Language,

                Montreal, June 1989.

"Same or Different? EFL and ESL Language Teaching"  TESL Ontario 88 Conference, Toronto, November 1988.

 "Beyond Language: Approaches to Understanding Cross-cultural ESP Processes"   The Fourth ILE  International

                Conferences on "Teaching and Learning Styles within and across Cultures: Implications for Language Pedagogy.  

                 Hong Kong, December 13-15. 1988.

 "Process Writing and Computer: CSL(Chinese as a Second Language) Students Learning Chinese Composition"  The 

                Fourth ILE International Conference on "Teaching and Learning Styles within and across Cultures: Implications

                for Language Pedagogy.   Hong Kong, Dec. 13-15, 1988.

"On saying Thank You - Gratitude Expressions in English and Chinese” The SPEAQ/ TESL Canada ‘88. Quebec City,

                Canada, June 1988.

"Thanks -- a speech act:  a comparative study of English and Chinese  gratitude expressions."  The 12th Annual Congress

                of Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics. Ottawa,  May 25-27, 1989. (Invited Presentation)

 "An EFL Needs Assessment at a Canadian University"  The  Conference of TESL Canada '87 Pacific Perspectives.

                Vancouver, Canada,  March 14, 1987.

"English Teaching in China: Problems and Perspectives"   The  Seventh Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning in

                 Higher Education. Kingston, Canada, June 23, 1987.

"Chinese Trainees  in Canadian Placements: Approaches to Understanding Cross-cultural  ESP Processes"   Co-presenter, 

                The TESL Ontario 87 Conference. Toronto, Nov. 14, 1987.

Sample Presentations/Trainings at the College and State Workshops and Retreats

Trainer for Peer Observation Program- Faculty Learning Community at SCCD.  Feb. 2009, March 2008.

“China – The Untold Stories” The Global Education Design Team Workshop, May 2005.

“Paradise Lost?- China in Transition.”  Panel presentation with Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Title 6 Seattle Community College District Workshop. Feb. 2004.

“Affirming Diversity- Working with Immigrant faculty and students at community colleges”  Feb. 2004

“ China: Breaking the Stereotype”. The Global Education  Design Team workshop. SCCC. May 26, 1999.

“ Chinese Calligraphy.” World Language and Cultural program workshop at Mercer Middle School. April 1999.

“Writing Toolbox at SCCC” Outcome Assessment Forum.  SCCC. April 1998.

“Language and Power: Chinese: What is in the Language?  The Global Education Design Team Workshop, SCCC.  May

                 22, 1998

“Exploring Fascinating Chinese.” China Workshop, SCCD and East-West Center of Univ. of Hawaii, March 6-7, 1998.

“English as a Second Language: Transitions to Vocational and Transfer  Programs” The Myth of the Open Door.      Multicultural Efforts Project Retreat Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate

Program, Nov. 14, 1996

“The students Don’t Do What I Ask”. Writing Across the Curriculum Week, Seattle Central Community College,

April 28, 1997.

The 6th Annual Conference of the Pacific NW Association of Instructional Research and Planning (PNAIRP) Oct.15, 95.

Outcome Assessment Forum on Issues of Grade Inflation.  Seattle Central Community College, February, 1995.

Sample Articles published at WAESOL Newsletter

“Standards, Equity and Advocacy: Challenges and Issues that Adult ESOL Educators Face in the 21^st Century Preliminary Survey Results of ESOL Teachers in Adult Basic Education and Literacy Systems” Spring, 2007 Vol. 32 (3).

“What Makes a Good Leader and a Strong Board?  A Reflection on the Keynote Speech:  Four Useful “Scopes” for a Leader  by Dr. Neil Anderson, at TESOL 2006 Affiliate Leadership Workshop” Fall 2006. Vol. 31 (4).

“Authority, Authenticity and Autonomy –Issues and Strategies in Using State Mandated testing.” Winter 1999 Vol.

XXIV(4)

 “Tools for Change, Action, Equity:  Washington State ESL Employment Survey.”  (Co-author)  Fall 1997.