Brother Ivers Speaks to TESOL on March 1st 2012

Last Thursday TESOL Society had the wonderful opportunity to hear from Brother Ivers! Brother Ivers is the Dean of the Language and Letters department here at BYU-I. Brother Ivers actually brought us the TESOL program and so he has a unique perspective on what we are doing and how beneficial it is for us.

Brother Ivers taught us the origin of the English Language. He talked about English being a German Spanish mix. We also talked about how many English words there are and how many we actually use. He said that someone with a bachelors degree knows 15,000-20,000 words and in a normal week will use about 2000 of those words. Did you know that a southern accent is the closest American dialect to original English?

Brother Ivers told us more than once on Thursday how lucky we are to be part of this program and how great it will be for us when we are looking for jobs. He reminded us how much we will be able to bless the children we teach because we know what TESOL has taught us.

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See you at our next meeting!

TESOL meeting January 19th 2012

Chelsea introduced what TESOL is and what TESOL society’s goals are. We went over some of the bigger events from past semesters of TESOL, mainly the ITESOL conference and our mini conference. Meg talked about public relations and asked how people found out about TESOL, answers included Chelsea talking to TESOL 200 classes, Meg talking to Ed 200 class, and student update.

Sister Cheeny talked to us about the Pathway Program on campus and we should be receiving an email with more information about that soon.

We ended the meeting by electing and reelecting offices for TESOL society.

Chelsea was nominated by MIchelle. She was voted in.

Heidi nominated herself as 1st vice president and was voted in.

Andrea Pierce nominated herself to be our Under Graduate Researcher and was voted in.

Garrett Bedford and Meg Rumbaugh were reelected as secretary and public relations officer, respectively.

Someone brought up volunteering in the high school with Eric, who is teaching an ELL class there, we hope to get more information on that soon.

Thanks for coming to the meeting! If you weren't there we missed you and we'd love to see you next time!

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