Ron Darvin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Literacy Education of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research examines issues of digital literacy, language learning investment, identity and critical pedagogy. He has published in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching and Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, and recently served as a …
Ms. Ixchell Reyes MA TESOL, Teacher Trainer, Educational Technology Podcaster, and Language Teacher. She will deliver a plenary talk on ‘Insights from the Field: Maintaining Motivation in the Language Classroom’. Abstract Learners face many challenges studying a mandated additional language, and the issues instructors face on their daily approach to teaching can also weaken motivation …
Richard Jones is a Lecturer of English as a Second Language at the University of Southern California. He holds an M.Ed. in TESOL from Temple University and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from UCLA. Richard taught academic and business English for ten years in Japan, working in both Tokyo and Osaka. In addition to …